Now now, Maria. Why would an intelligent woman like you go and post something like this? If it was true, you'd be causing a rise in prices, which means your 80,000 and 25,000 BTC just got more expensive than they were a day ago. Why would you shoot yourself in the foot like that?

Then again, if it is true, and you did announce it here for the benefit of the Bitcoin community, we'll change your name to Santa Maria 

You made me cry with that one. lol

I enjoy pain...

Wow if true, that's nearly a million $...

Talking of such, does someone know exactly how MagicalTux calculates the BTC price, How do dark pools come into play?

We don't have dark pools anymore. We are using IOC/iceberg instead.

Can you please explain for us "Non IT" what is IOC/iceberg and how does it work? Is it open source?

Maria is obviously smarter than she looks. She does indeed want to buy bitcoins and she knows how it works.

1) Announce on forums that you are going to buy masses of bitcoins.
2) Bitcoin users respond sceptical and are saying that you probably want to drive the price UP, meaning you most likely want to SELL, not BUY!
3) Bitcoin users panic at someone wanting to sell massive amounts of bitcoins and start selling off their bitcoins before YOU do.
4) Bitcoin price plummets to $0.01 (which is quite close to its actual worth by the way)
5) You buy a ton of bitcoins for $0.01 each
6) ...
7) PROFIT!

@MT: Say hi to bruce

Or... Maria is really, really smart, and wants to sell Bitcoins high. So she makes the original post, which is so childish no one will believe it. Bitcoin users are initially sceptical, but on reading the forum post by The Duke, realise this could well be a double psych, and start to BUY, not SELL.

Hope you have a really big, refrigerator, Maria, because it's turtles all the way down!

No no no, it's a double, double double double bluff. Announce a big buy, prices go up a bit from frontrunners, then down a bit from dumpers then up from deep frontrunners then down from double bluffers then Maria buys and its all sweet from there on in... Everyones a winner

Part of me feels bad for Maria. Perhaps she's serious and wanted to be nice.

But a little part of me thinks Maria might actually be Bruce 

I really have to stop coming here so much, it's playing with my mind.