I'm assuming this was all triggered by the DPR/Silk Road bust and subsequent seizure of 30M USD in bitcoins.
Perhaps because it is the first half of another up/down swing?
If this bubble "crashes" into $1000, it's a good news to many people. This spring it went $14->$266->$100, this time it started at $140 and thus can easily go to $1000 or $2000.
Then that would make $2000 the midpoint of an even bigger up/down pattern.
In relative terms it can be the same. If it just repeats history (most probably it won't), the price goes to $2660 and then stabilises around $1000.