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This isn't what is what is happening here at all, but it gave me an idea. What if some person or organization with a lot of influence, like Apple, shorted on bitcoin, then banned it or did something to affect it's price.

This can work the other way around too, encouraging bitcoin use to increase it's value, after buying a bunch of it.

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I'd imagine it'd go the same as the thousand other incidents of people trying to game commodity/currency markets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant_presidential_a...

Looks like Fisk and Gould were relatively unaffected by it, the country at large suffered a great loss, and nobody was punished for it.

My word, history does repeat itself, they were just shy a government handout and a multi-million dollar skiing trip.

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