My conspiracy theory: Criminals have laundered all the money they needed to last christmas when the boom happened. Jobs done, time to go home. They bought a bun

My conspiracy theory: Criminals have laundered all the money they needed to last christmas when the boom happened. Jobs done, time to go home. They bought a bunch of bitcoins from clueless techies using dirty money, the blogsphere amplified the news to the world, and the mob sold the bitcoins to a bunch of blue collar Joes who thought they'd get in on the next gold rush.