Here's why BTC is up more suddenly, even though it was about to curve down last night:
1. Kim Jong-un and his faction hold a lot of BTC through offshore purchases, and was concerned about the price decline. He also wants to get more Monero because it is truly anonymous and untraceable. So he wants to spook the South Koreans and Japs, two of the largest buyers of Crypto, into bidding up BTC which drops the XMR price.
2. He launches the missile.
3. BTC price goes up to new ath, and Monero pulls down 10%.
4. He sells his BTC at this high and trades it for XMR.
Kim Jong-un is playing 4D fucking chess and knows the U.S. gov't is impotent to stop him, especially now with the hurricane relief effort as a concern.
It's pretty obvious connecting the dots this way looking back, but was hard to see it looking forward from yesterday since most of us believe NorKorea and Jong-un are buffoons.
I'm ready to debate this with any /biz/bros and if someone can provide a better explanation, I'll send you some Pinkcoin as a reward.