Who knows if it is an actual conspiracy, but there are so many signs of manipulation that it is a forgone conclusion. Although it could still be thousands of individual people that all had the same goal at the same time and none of them actually talked to each other. Same thing... but not technically a conspiracy.

And there are a lot of people who are in control of the old system that know they have to reinvent themselves before the wheels fall off.

These people are just used to doing it in the dark and nobody being the wiser.

Like Rots-child getting news of the Napolean war faster, than going to the stock market and selling everything (to his own cronies) to crash the market, then buy up everything cheap.
Now imagine people knew about that in close to real time? Instead of being the richest man, he would be the most hanged man.

All roads lead to T.H.E.M. destroying the old system to usher in the new system.

I wouldn't be surprised to find out Signature Bank was in on it.
They scuttled their own ship.
Either way, the results are the same.

I'm waiting for shady guys on street corners to be selling satoshis for a $1 a pop.