
You can't run your own effectively-dark-pool exchange and expect others to believe the market cap resultant from your "price discovery".
However, that is exactly what Bitconnect is doing, and I don't know why CoinMarketCap considers it legitimate.
Here you can see that over 91% of BCC trading takes place on the internal BCC exchange:
This is not a normal situation. Even Iota, the most thinly spread of the top cryptocurrencies as far as exchanges are concerned, does not rely on its internal exchange so heavily:
What would happen if the Bitconnect Exchange went off-line, or the website?
My guess would be a flash crash.

Eventually, this is exactly what the Bitconnect chart is going to look like. However, it's not going to stop at $13.
Stay tuned for Part 3, where I make fun of anyone using the term "down-line" un-ironically.