The Internet routes around censorship.
The free market routes around taxation (= theft).
Because theft is to free trade like censorship is to free speech.
Breaking news: coingeek owner and ignorant gullible faketoshi financier doesn't like suffering the consequences of his idiocy. Wants governments to make things go better for him. Is giant loser.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase launches Visa debit card for customers in the U.K. and EU to spend their cryptocurrencies direct from their Coinbase accounts. WOW
Slightly conspiracy. But I think when VeriBlock turned on their service and started to backlog the BTC queue, that some bots took that input as a positive market indicator and bought.