Yeah it's plain and simple insider trading. The bastards should be locked up. It used to be transparent where all the money was flowing (ghost accounts and such)but now it's all been hidden.
I had my suspicions that something like this was being planned when I tried to follow the money trail a few months ago & found I no longer could. They've been pulling bucket loads of steem out of this place for a very long time. Now they are moving into a well planned cash grab. Greedy cunts.