At the risk of drastically oversimplifying... This seems hauntingly familiar to a pattern I've seen dozens of times in MMO's when the right sort of exploit fal

At the risk of drastically oversimplifying... This seems hauntingly familiar to a pattern I've seen dozens of times in MMO's when the right sort of exploit falls into the hands of the right group of people. Once you've found out about it, the damage is done, and usually now obfuscated in such a way as to be unfixable(e.g. laundering); now a handful of players can control the bulk of currency in a market. "the right people" aspect is the "keep quiet" aspect; and is necessary for the impact to have sufficient time to really grow in magnitude. (right people doesn't have to != normal people) Perhaps I'm just overfantasizing the whole thing in my head; but I like to think (and probably in doing so coloring my perceptions) that there are similarities between certain events in cryptocurrency and game-currency life cycles.