Wow, 1 million is a nice sum.
I said this 18 days ago:
This may (I’m not making predictions, but unlike before, now I dare to make a semi-educated guess) mean that a bottom is behind us (c $195, if I remember correctly?) and with the inevitable raise in the maximum block size and various other privacy and speed-of-transactions improvements, etc. coming next year, bitcoin is not a very risky buy right now.
Since BTC has jumped a fair bit. Might be just a coincidence, but in any case the momentum is there both fiat-wise (now we know that interest rates in US$ and BTC will remain about the same) and crypto-wise (see my quote above) and people are selling other coins* and buying BTC based on momentum. (Other coins meaning other decent non-BTC coins. Ethereum crashed a lot more than MAID, and Bitshares 2.0 are not doing well at all.)
The market is really good for BTC, so almost all other cryptocurrencies are suffering. I would not say this drop in price has to do with MAID per se. Look at top 10 currencies in the past 7 days (I just did): just one cryptocurrency went up in addition to BTC (edit: Ripple also did, but it’s not even a coin, it’s premined cryptofiat).