I always felt Ned was more of a figure head like the queen of england and most of the executive or technical decisions would have been coming from the guys actually coding the damn thing.. I may be wrong though. Often am.

I guess it may come off as me downplaying his role in all of this.. I very well may be. But my train of thought on the matter is the price is more likely caused by people powering down and exiting the network rather than Ned pulling strings and dumping prices.