i promise you that the current jump in bitcoins is a ''bubble'' injected into the market by people who do not want an anonymous currency. when people buy alot and that bubble 'pops' its going to suck for alot of people everywhere, i like silkroad but it needs to be funded with bits and as well with something else or otherwise it will always be controllable, just my 2cents, later
how coincidental, i did a little digging and found this wonderful article in about 20 seconds that should explain whats happening.
April 3, 2013
In the last 48 hours, the price of the virtual currency has surged by 50% from $94 to $141 as the rate of expansion goes more than parabolic. This leaves us with the question, which line item on the Fed’s Balance Sheet is ‘Virtual Currency Transactions’… what better way to destroy an up and coming currency competitor than to blow a bubble in it and explode it?
That is a 14x rise since the start of the year…
PS. the term is parabolic which is used to explain whats happening with gold and silver.