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here check this out. we both had the right idea more or less, although there was more to it. - https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@sflaherty/bitcoin-alert-why-did-bitcoin-dump-all-of-the-sudden-here-is-the-current-reasons

There's probably something to both the market in general affecting it and DDOSing a big exchange. I'm still uncertain however. Remember MtGox? It used to go down after the price started dropping, but then again that might be because a DDOSer saw his opportunity.

I was also wondering that. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg ~