The bad news I heard is US government moving their BTC and I don't know if they are planning to dump these coins on the exchanges. We may see a sell pressure if they decide to sell the BTC they have.
Yeah, recently the US government moved about $1B worth of BTC, but I think this selling force is not enough to negatively affect the growth trend of BTC.
Guys, there is no danger of those coins hitting the exchanges soon!
Those coins are from the Bitfinex hack and the DoJ will not release them nor will they auction it until Bitfinex settles the claims with their clients, after the hack the victims agreed to a plan taking 30% losses and getting paid in tokens, they want now their coins back, and no federal agency will return a seized good or commodity or anything else when there is not clear owner of the funds and no lawsuit regarding it.
So those coins will be stuck there for years to come much as MtGox!
As for miners, I think everyone is tryin hard to find explanations no matter what!
Miners were supposed in January to sell their coins to get gear, now they are selling to take profits, next month I'll be hearing they are selling to pay bills or buy back shares, in reality nobody knows, and I'm pretty sure when the big guys we'll have to produce their Q1 statement we're going to see there was no major out of the usual activity anywhere!