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I'd assume that some people are unable to cash out of Auroracoin directly, so they dumped AUR for BTC before people on the crypto markets were aware of what was happening.

This didn't drive the price of BTC up, but when they cashed out into USD it drove the price of BTC down.

Alternatively, the events might not be related. Cryptos are very volatile.

* Apparently the Auroracoin thing was actually a planned fork.

* This Litecoin thing appears to be some random person with no authority trying to make stuff happen.

* Bitcoin price is falling because news is claiming banks in China must close all accounts related to bitcoin-businesses by April 15th. I don't know if it's true or not, but I'm not panic-selling my coins.

Thanks!

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Because I heard no other big news regarding cryptocurrencies, and 10% value loss sounds like a big change to me.

It seems to be related with a leaked, possibly fake, PBOC memo that would ban transfers to exchanges in China on the 15th of April.

Okay, thanks!