no its not a pump and dump its something much more compex involivng exchanges needing to buy and hold SBD for thir fiat pairs, and also its a chain reaction dominoe effect where everyone is panic buying, ALSO it is also possible that steemit nc is doing this as a sort of charity, to simply drive SBD price up to give some welfare to steem users who now are being paid in this very very valuable SBD coin that we can ether sell on bittrex for BTC or on internal market for steem to power up with and get a GREAT deal on steem/steempower

Just keep POSTING and making as MUCH as you can, anyone hard working enough last week to have been posting a lot or high quality or just with high payout will be VERY happy with the SBD they are receiving now