What value are you talking about exactly? Newer designs offer the same service with improvements like scrypt and other algorithms to prevent ASIC attacks which

What value are you talking about exactly? Newer designs offer the same service with improvements like scrypt and other algorithms to prevent ASIC attacks which just centralize control to hardware designers/producers, like these warehouses in China. Exchanges can and have artificially inflated prices: http://www.coindesk.com/bot-named-willy-did-mt-goxs-automated-trading-pump-bitcoin-price/ http://www.coindesk.com/bot-named-willy-did-mt-goxs-automate...