Those of us who have only recently joined this particular MMO would very much appreciate a crash an order of magnitude greater than so far made available so we can dollar cost average in.  

I have a stack of fiat ready to buy but my personal trading rules prevent me from buying any more until the price drops further.  So I sit and do nothing.  Which is boring.  

We will have to disagree there.   In the last crash, everyone was calling for a certain low that "had" to be hit before we could go up.   Consequently, we never hit that low.   Your call is lower than the vast majority, and since it is unlikely we will visit the low they are calling for, it is even less likely that we will test $400.   Barring more bad news of course.   Just don't miss the train!   We won't be resuming a raging bull market for a while, but trying to catch the bottom has ruined at least some.

What's going on with chinese exchanges? Volume dropped to nothing ...

Third-party payment processors banned from dealing with BTC exchanges, uncertainty over whether that includes banks... What do you expect? My guess is, we may finally see what it looks like when users exit an exchange for good.

lol 7:30 is pretty early for me

You know maybe the difference between 2011 and 2013 was the distance we were above the exponential growth trend, so 2011 had to fall further to catch it than 2013. Currently we are at a 2011-like distance. And all these factors you mention: the press, the good events, the investors, combined with China - maybe all it means is that were more and more grossly overbought, and even less able to support this price under less than perfect conditions.

 

Nice one. 

I have, unfortunately. They stopped trading altogether, that's not what I meant. Mt. Gox's withdrawal issues have led to some theories about what happens when cashflow to or from an exchange is cut off, the chinese exchanges look poised to give us some real-world examples.

So you weren't there. About a week before btc24 stopping trading and admitting the seizure of the funds, btc24 troll box started being full of complaints from people that hadn't received their fiat withdrawals for two weeks. Price went up 20% higher than Gox before they stopped processing any withdrawals including btc. I quit at a 10% loss, just a few days before fuckup.

I'm gonna dump about 10k btc by Friday. Hold onto your butts!