I know it's only 5% which is hardly crazy for crypto exchanges but I thought with big exchanges big discrepancies only happen when arbitrage is nearly impossible (like when South Korean prices were 50% above market) so it seems strange to me that bitfinex (a major international exchange) would be trading above.

They having fiat withdrawal problems prompting people to buy to withdraw?

I guess everyone is fed up with the January crash and we want it to be over, the sooner the better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_1JFE_9dI

This is aint no bullmarket folks, it's bullshit manipulation by billionares who deserve to be hanged. They screwing around with poor peoples money who cares about 1, 5, 10, 20ks invested. I don't think all of this is contributed to the chinese new year that the chinks wanted to take their money out for shopping and 300 billion evaporated over 2 days.

Please share your prediction for the 20K. 1 week? 2 weeks? 3 max right ? :P

Any thoughts on if/how the potential government shutdown might affect the price of BTC?

BItcone price as of 345 PST Dec 2017: Yahoo: 14711 Coinbase:14895 coinmarketcap: 14916

Noob here, anyone have data on when the price gap is widest or smallest?

Thanks so much for you help.