I know what you're saying. People need to really think outside of the box. Don't listen to the media. What does your gut tell you about Bitcoin?..I have become successful in many areas of my life through spiritual guidance and mediation. It's not a bloodbath. The price is being pushed down on purpose by a someone or a group of people. They are making It more affordable for everyday people to hop on board. With the Russian ruble collapse and the world on the brink of another war. There is no better time for Bitcoin. Bitcoin is here for a reason. There are much larger forces at work here. We are all apart of the forum because we were guided here by our destiny. For some reason we are more aware of things than everyday people. So in turn I believe we will be very wealthy in the coming years. There are only a handfull of people who will get rich off of Bitcoin. But that wealth will help re stimulate growth into a stale united states economy and help propell us into a new Era much like the Internet did. Most people won't buy into bitcoin until it's too late to get rich. Because they are still stuck in the Matrix to some extent. Stay calm my friends and meditate.

You must meditate my friend. Open your third eye. You'll see. I'm sure you will.

twitter from Bitstamp's CEO

Soooo Vault of Satoshi is closing now?

wow 

Our founders and team of developers began work on a new, non-cryptocurrency project about 6 months ago, which has since become quite successful. We are forced to make a choice on where to expend our efforts, as we simply do not have time to continue operating both businesses. We feel splitting our focus would be a disservice to the customers of Vault, so although our competitors may lack some of the features, currencies, and innovations that Vault brought to the Canadian market, they will serve you well for your basic exchange needs.

How exactly are they going to dump them? The address is marked as hacked Bitstamp coins. The second someone tries to move them into fiat they are going to get nailed.

If 5M in fiat had fallen off a truck, it would be page 6 local news.

1. 1 BTC still worth 1 BTC.
2. Bitcoins transffered to an exchange are not yours.

What on earth is going on with the influx of trolls,  it is beyond a joke.

Thread is totally fucked.

Cannot even see why the trolls bother, they are just trolling eachother.

Absolute freaks.

Well,  it only makes sense under one light, I cannot believe even disturbed mental patients would spend this much time and effort, all I know is that the forum should take control, filter newbie troll accounts etc. There is a market out there to replace this thread with one that is actually readable. Personally I am going to replace this thread with weekly attendance at btc meet-up, like to see one of these trolls turn up there and start behaving like twats to my face, they would receive my boot in their bollox tbh

Freedom of speech is fine, act like a crazy intrusive lunatic,  taking the absolute piss, and basically do not expect anything but a reasoned boot in the bollox... I suggest you go down to the local pub and run around shouting bullshit in people's faces and see where it gets you... But no, it's more you guys style to twat around hiding behind a keyboard like frightened cowards. Absolute numpties.

Try RPIETILAs Wall Observer Thread, a lot less trolling there.

It's not only Bitcoin having problems this Christmas, so are banks and credit cards. Morgan Stanley said an employee stole sensitive data on 350,000 clients; Chick-fil-A confirmed an investigation into a credit card breach.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2864856/microsoft-subnet/beginning-2015-with-a-bang-of-3-breaches-bitstamp-morgan-stanley-chick-fil-a.html

Morgan Stanley fired an employee who stole the account names, numbers and transaction data on 350,000 clients; the insider crook’s plan was allegedly to sell customers’ data.

The breach was discovered and reported to authorities on Dec. 27, after Morgan Stanley discovered sensitive data for over 900 clients on the Internet.

Chick-fil-A -- which operates restaurants in 1,850 locations over 41 states and D.C. -- has confirmed an investigation into a credit card breach. In a public statement, Chick-fil-A said it discovered "unusual activity" on December 19th after being notified of “limited suspicious payment card activity appearing to originate from payment cards used at a few of our restaurants.”

Proof that the internet is just full of keyboard warriors, talking trash, doing nothing!

i call 300 before friday

Um, eyeballing the charts, it seems that they had ~90 kBTC/week of trade volume since Nov/2013; about 60 weeks.  Guessing an average price of 600 $/BTC, that would be 3.2 billion $ of total trades in that period. If they charge 1% trading fees (guessing; what is the right number?), that would be 32 million $ of revenue in that period, or almost 30 million $/year.

That explains why they got the 10 M $ investment.  (It does not explain why they would need such investment.)

But their revenue is falling, now about 60 kBTC/week at less than 300 $/BTC.  That is ~80 M$/month of trade volume, 800'000 $/month of revenue from 1% fees

However, we do not know whether they charge the same fee from all customers.  If their moms trade at Bitstamp, maybe they are exempt from fees.  

I am proud fiat baghodler on stamp since 480 levels and I dont feel any urgency to buy all the cheap coins once stamp opens its gates.

dont you worry for me. if bitstamp is done you will have bigger problems, like a crash to 100 $.

Drop your illusoric hopes right now, bears! On Teamspeak Benjamin and his whale friends already talk about to bring on their USDFIAT CANNONS to pump that shit to uranus.

At the horse racing.
300 by the weekend then I'm not sure what direction we'll go.

That means 1am on Friday GMT. Nice if it's true.

It wasn't even hacked. They are doing this to test Bitcoin one last time. This is a mark in history people. Mark my words. The price won't dip below 255. After bit stamp opens the price will remain in the 270s and rise steady from there.

source?

Beyond their statement of reopening in 48 hours at most

You must meditate my friend. Open your third eye. You'll see. I'm sure you will.

Nejc Kodrič
‏@nejc_kodric
Working alongside the team from San Francisco, progress towards redeployment is strong. Huge thank you to for your confidence and patience.

O come on... you really think people who can crash the market would talk there?

The guy who obviously knows something is this guy (he twitted about stamp news 1 day before they stoped with trading).
https://twitter.com/AdamGuerbuez/status/553236379543830529/photo/1

That's where Monero kicks in. the bucket

You really are posting with great vigour and frequency lambchop.

I have waited 2 fucking years for this bullrun

If I miss the party just cuz I deposited my funds right before bitstamp got closed down, I will be fucking pissed.

Definately will be taking some more loans if bitstamp don't open up soon

Go on..

You said you knew what you were talking about. I expected some revelations from you. Who said I don't see a problem with it?

Sorry to hear that.

Obviously borrowing to invest is crazy and not something  I would recommend.

not sure if a bitcoin speculation forum is a healthy environment. i mean here are lots of trolls but the rest are 100% gamblers...  

2015 My Friends.......

The Year Of The Bull.....

speaking of which, anyone knows what happened to goat?

He should have cut his loose much earlier.

Nejc Kodrič
‏@nejc_kodric
Was sorry to miss interacting at CES this week. Our team is all hands on deck focused on the immediate needs of redeploying our site.

This is not my first multi-year bear market. I just got a second job and not only will I not be selling anymore coins, but I will be adding to my position until either after the next ATH or if it never comes, after I retire.

I don't care if it tanks to $10 dollars again. That just gives me the opportunity to buy a whole lot more. How do you hunt bears? Patiently.

lol: https://twitter.com/bitbuck/status/553317002476290048

Man, you could at least translate it. :/ I can speak three languages other than English but if I'm on an English forum, I don't assume everyone else understands e.g. Dutch.

Speaking of Russians, the $255 bottom was actually a true double bottom in Rubles (higher low on higher volume). Russia has the potential to be the next Cypress on steroids.

eat the cat 

The next 12 hours are

Need groundbreaking news

Need renewed purposes

Need clear perspective

Need fiat crisis

Need.

Here's the question- where do I SELL my coins? I've got a significant portion on Bitstamp,but I'm not verified at Kraken yet, and like hell I'm willing to put more coins INTO bitstamp. :-)

anyone notice the crash?

I was busy looking at this:


Performance
YTD         -7.22 (-13.70%)
1 Month    -12.07 (-20.98%)
3 Month    -39.49 (-46.48%)
6 Month    -55.71 (-55.06%)
1 Year    -58.11 (-56.10%)

Oil's going to crash at least another 50%, so why not BTC?  Fuck it, I'm buying all the way down.  I'll be so broke when it hits $10 that I'll have to sell it all 

Hanging by a thread

BTC-E just said "fuck it".

Anyone hodling coins and not panicking now has balls of steel

Stop selling!!! Seriously. If we all stop selling together, everything will be fine again. Why are you hurting yourselves and being so stupid?

Looks like we could hit $210 before we rebound higher?

Bears are fucking ruthless creatures aren't they?

Buy when nobody's buying.

It works both ways as we will discover this year. What has gone down will come back up again!

My 8000 GBP investment is worth about 2000 GBP now.
I was told BTC was the future.
This is bull shit.

Buy a few coins at least, that will really help the cost average.

I've felt what you felt, back in the second crash and I was over exposed at the time. Just buy some more, then wait even though you are underwater. Don't sell unless there is at least a rally to sell into.

This is opposite of Spring 2013 when it went from $13 to $260

I wonder how many retailers that accept bitcoin held instead of instantly converted btc purchases to fiat, and are MAD as hell that they are getting screwed holding less value that at purchase.

It's going to be a tense night in a lot of houses this week. "Honey, you know about that bitcoin investment I made last year? Yeah, that's right, the one I told you that would allow us to retire by 35. Well..."

If BTC dies they all die.

Please your attention here:


this is for all of you that you write it's the end of bitcoin etc...

if you believe what you write then there is no better way to send me some of your useless bitcoins here:

1G422bCCrZeu8ykqLZsKjCu7XHj1anxChA


Prove how much you believe what you write here!!!

Risto asking Wall Observer for advice !?!?  we must've hit the bottom

bla bla bla

Gobble, gobble! (you are the one who's being gobbled right now. lol.)

Hello World.

Allow me to introduce myself: I am Trolfi; my mission is to protect as many good people as I can from making mistakes in the marketplace. I shall share my superior insight to alert you of pitfalls, scams, and as many possible ways in which anything could go wrong as I can humanly come up with. I shall do it in steady, avuncular tone.

Please do not ignore me.

Main page looks like this:

What the hell is an exchange doing with a "To the Moon!!" website?? If the NYSE or NASDAQ did that, the SEC would shut them down. These guys are not quite ready for prime time yet.

Congratulations.


Still have to pay your debt ^_^

haha. nice one

If the rest of Europe had used an eye for an eye on Germany the borders of France and Poland would meet and we would bitch slap the swiss into speaking french. Austria would be a lake.

So maybe we should cut those greeks some slack.

Actually, it was your banks (including perhaps your central bank) lent to Greek banks (including presumably the Greek central bank) a mountain of euros.  Where that money went, it is not clear; but anyway the Greek government, that had been elected by the banks, decided that each Greek citizen had to fork 500 euros to pay your banks.  Which was the bankers' aim all along: take more wealth from the general public.

Trouble is, the Greek citizens were never asked whether they agreed to any step of that plan, not even told clearly what the plan was.

Guilty as charged. With one correction: Our corrupt politicians did it. One of them (Tsohatzopoulos) is in jail as we speak. This chap could have lead PASOK instead of Papandreou for JUST ONE VOTE! My wish is that others will follow too. There are far too many from both big parties involved. I'm not dreaming though. I just wish.

We also invented Democracy, Medicine, Astronomy, Philosophy... What's your point exactly? Are you a hater? Are you even serious?

Greece is not just a country that is determined by its borders. It's spirit is everywhere. You're a bit Greek yourself since a part of what you studied was created here. A part of your language is Greek. Even a part of your ability to stand tall with your word here, is created here. It's politicians have nothing different from other politicians on other countries. They are as well corrupt. It's very bold to judge a whole country from its politicians.

Either you're not empathetic, or you're ineptly understand what it means for some people to be in a difficult situation. Thus, as an answer to your comment here, which is clearly erroneous, I will leave it as it is for other to judge it. Let me indulge you though, to look up something. Look up in the skies. Try to remember the constellation names. Google them. What language is it?

PS: Don't answer. I won't be reading this.

Wow. The order book at Bitstamp is almost as flat as Coinbase and Bitfinex isn't much better.

This really does seem like the calm after yesterday's storm.

My 2 cents:  We have had the bottom.

For me it's a buy now and - since I think the bottom is in - the risk is maximum $75-ish down (at worst) but the upside is way, way higher.

I am buying and have been accumulating since the dip, sub 200 (with a little day-trading the dip down from 310).

is now a good time to short?

No way we will go below the previous bottom at about $150, man. We'll form a double bottom there and continue to climb with even more buying pressure than before, guys! TA will start to look better as soon as that's accomplished, as well!

With their currencies tanking, why aren't Greeks and Russians buying more bitcoins?

he means the euro. and there has been a massive increase in volume on kraken which suggest they are to a certain extent.

Bitstamp used to be bullish before the hack. Now they seem to be bullish again. Have they simply returned to the norm or is there something else going on?

That makes no sense, but whatever.

I just thought they might be recovering their usual customers, whoever they are.

im in europe, and kraken is the best so far that i have used. normally <36 hour sepa transfers. i think its the most prominent exchange in europe with the most volume, and because of the very nice user experience, zero previous security breaches and large investment its probably the most trust worthy. if kraken wasnt around i wouldnt link my bank with any exchange. if you are in the EU, you will naturally look for the best exchange that deals in euros.

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/nine-awesome-bitcoin-projects-at-princeton/

I think we are well past the 'experiment' stage when the best and brightest are doing bitcoin for final year projects ... this is not beanie babies and tulips we are dealing with here you chumps.

Some really awesome projects in here btw, these guys are doing great work, engaged and excited by it ... go find that on wall st.

You will see  

the difference is that now the entire world is going through mass de-dollarization.. and its picking up speed.

LOL ya ok.. i guess the millions of people who watch RT are also brain washed by "russian propaganda"? and the propaganda is why RT ratings are exploding upwards and US news stations are seeing the worst ratings in decades? ya im sure thats because its russia that is trying to brain wash people... lol

Because in a notice posted on Chinese media yesterday, China is now openly scrambling and on the defensive, when it comes to an ever stronger rush by the locals to get out of their own currency and into the US dollar.  As Want China Times reports, "prompted by the robust performance of the US dollar, growing numbers of Chinese are considering converting renminbi to dollar-denominated assets." It is for those "growing numbers" that China has a polite warning: "experts are advising them to think carefully before making the move."

I was not talking about the dollar.

I would not be surprised if the dollar has probably got still a ways up to go actually... makes sense, it could run up (against other currencies with their own woes)  at least until the next round of in the US QE (4)....

US stock markets though are looking choppy and toppy... and with all that is going on, figures/fed talk global pressures I would not be surprised to see something go down this year, not in the least.

Though that being said with the current global currency wars, and the bond markets I would not be surprised to see some action in the dollar either..

I suspect though that the stock market and housing will probably take a hit first though, (followed by QE4?)

We shall see.

That is correct.... and are there any market watchers that have been around for a few decades that has a good reason to not wait for the next crash, in a cyclical stock market? Is there any reason that there should be an infinite bull run? are there any outside reasons, in this global system we have that there could be external pressures, and internal pressures that could cause the next (inevitable) financial crisis?

Guess not.

True.

Haha.

JUST MADE MY DAY: THE FUTURE OF BITCOIN: http://youtu.be/0QJ_iNkxeLM

he's the guy who is going to post that link 10 times and get people to buy 1 Bitcoin.

It wasn't even hacked. They are doing this to test Bitcoin one last time. This is a mark in history people. Mark my words. The price won't dip below 255. After bit stamp opens the price will remain in the 270s and rise steady from there.

+10000% in 4 years. Yep, hilarious

Good.
I hope it makes all the noobs buy & hodl.
There's enough 'bitcoin is dead trolling' we need some moon trolls too.

Wow this is big news!!!

Back in April 2014, user @BTCat asked people to give their predictions for today's  price price.  As you can imagine, most of the predictions were well above 1000 $/BTC.  So one guy who guessed 135$ had a very easy win.  The same user also posted a second prediction of 266$ on June 2, but it was disqualified for being one day too late.

So now you know who has been manipulating the price all along.

Zule      4150 on stamp
BTCat      My own entree will be US$3,200
master-P   My prediction: $3828.50
hodlmybtc   $6750
bitcoinsrus   Just a guess $5,000
fonzie      135$
the_sunship   4572
af_newbie   $900
Dalmar      $1500
xperiencia   27
Twilight_Sparkle   $52,495.71
rohnearner   3450$
Xpedite      my guess: 1615$
Majormax   On the major fiat exchange (Bitstamp maybe), $650
Wilhelm      Ok let's not do the obvious ... $15k
Evilish      $2400
Paya      $4950
Philj      $50,000 +/- $50,000
BitcoinBaBa   Price prediction:4790$ 
smoothie   $9487.34/BTC
CoinRocka   $4666.66
precrime3   Im predicting $1.75k
bahamapascal   Bitcoin: 2745.89 $
zzojar      $2560
googlemaster1   $1720
gustav      2895$
Carra23      800$
lynn_402   7250$ Cheesy
menno1986   $4125  Smiley
Bit_Happy   3434
chessnut   EDIT 02/04/13 $5001
adsdas      1414
Feri22      13,500 USD
UnDerDoG81   So I say $6.666
koryu      predicting $1337
redwhite037   $3333
SportsBet           950$
Mig-23      $500-$600 (not 1 number)
Toxic2040           $2999.01
BitCoinsLOL   1 BTC = $956.56
marvinrouge   8888
BitchicksHusband   $15986
edok              $1450
BigBoy89           $2448
Acidyo      2350$
pinksheep   $5549
sgbett      $99999.99
matt608      $3800
neilol-real   6745
lyth0s      $6,918
snatchmonkey   9645
Kexkey      $3850 :-)
yayayo      $ 844
railzand   2345
pinksheep   $23456
log2exp      $987.65
hwardman30    BTC750
220Fast      16852 usd
BTCtrader71   $12,412.01
Richard Branson   94$
serenitys   too many numbers not 1 guess
blatchcorn   $80,923
indiemax   $2020
kireinaha   $127,856.17
zimmah      $46,216.34
Cryptocure   $3210
Slingshot   $2444 usd
bitcoinsrus   2500
spndr7      5216.84 USD
elliwilli   $5000 +/- (already guessed)
thewayshegoes   $4163
xDan      $25,000

Yawn, all this bear hype yet the price remains solid.

I was promised sub 200 2 months ago. I was promised sub 220 1 month ago. I was promised sub 235 a week ago.

The sell off's have been weaker and weaker, time and time again since 290.

The volume remains high with both shorts and longs really high (this doesn't happen)

This is just waiting to explode, if you don't see it yet I don't blame you

Zule      4150 on stamp
BTCat      My own entree will be US$3,200
master-P   My prediction: $3828.50
hodlmybtc   $6750
bitcoinsrus   Just a guess $5,000
fonzie      135$
the_sunship   4572
af_newbie   $900
Dalmar      $1500
xperiencia   27
Twilight_Sparkle   $52,495.71
rohnearner   3450$
Xpedite      my guess: 1615$
Majormax   On the major fiat exchange (Bitstamp maybe), $650
Wilhelm      Ok let's not do the obvious ... $15k
Evilish      $2400
Paya      $4950
Philj      $50,000 +/- $50,000
BitcoinBaBa   Price prediction:4790$  
smoothie   $9487.34/BTC
CoinRocka   $4666.66
precrime3   Im predicting $1.75k
bahamapascal   Bitcoin: 2745.89 $
zzojar      $2560
googlemaster1   $1720
gustav      2895$
Carra23      800$
lynn_402   7250$ Cheesy
menno1986   $4125  Smiley
Bit_Happy   3434
chessnut   EDIT 02/04/13 $5001
adsdas      1414
Feri22      13,500 USD
UnDerDoG81   So I say $6.666
koryu      predicting $1337
redwhite037   $3333
SportsBet           950$
Mig-23      $500-$600 (not 1 number)
Toxic2040           $2999.01
BitCoinsLOL   1 BTC = $956.56
marvinrouge   8888
BitchicksHusband   $15986
edok              $1450
BigBoy89           $2448
Acidyo      2350$
pinksheep   $5549
sgbett      $99999.99
matt608      $3800
neilol-real   6745
lyth0s      $6,918
snatchmonkey   9645
Kexkey      $3850 :-)
yayayo      $ 844
railzand   2345
pinksheep   $23456
log2exp      $987.65
hwardman30    BTC750
220Fast      16852 usd
BTCtrader71   $12,412.01
Richard Branson   94$
serenitys   too many numbers not 1 guess
blatchcorn   $80,923
indiemax   $2020
kireinaha   $127,856.17
zimmah      $46,216.34
Cryptocure   $3210
Slingshot   $2444 usd
bitcoinsrus   2500
spndr7      5216.84 USD
elliwilli   $5000 +/- (already guessed)
thewayshegoes   $4163
xDan      $25,000

OMG, who'll code Bitcoin Core: 0.10.1 nao?!!

Satoshi foretold of the day when our Disruptive Development will be pushed to the Tipping Point by The Dreaded Black Swan of Tyranny.
He spake of Great Sufferinging, of Two Weeks^TM his people shall roam the parched wilderness before the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

...where was I?  Oh, yeah... this is great for Bitcoin.

Alts be a dumping.
2015-04-09 4:30PM EST

Train revving up big time, I feel a big moon rising.

Strongly. Were gonna rally to ~260 in a week, then stabilize above 266 for about a month before the next enormous rally. Thats my call.

Well, if an arbitrager dumps 300 BTC at Bitstamp that he bought at OKCoin, you can be sure that those Chinese coins were real.

Unless most accounts at Bitstamp and OKCoin are NotLambChop sockpuppets, and he is having fun selling to and buying from himself, just to manipulate the price and have fun at the expense of the other traders. 

Want to make a 100:1 bet?

My penny, vs your dollar? If you are actually 99% sure.

About 45 000 to 50 000 euros lost on the track between 2009 and 2011.

Since our Mod (probably Adam) is in heavy-denial-mode, thats the spirit to post if you want your post to stay here.

Disapponting.
Therw hasn't been any great news on big merchants adopting bitcoin for a while.

FUUUU Prices are falling like a stone in the water


Sub 200 this time?

I doubt it.

For a few months this has turned into a pump dump pump dump never ending story.

Holding this level would mean we retest 300 again. See how many shorts fold now.

Who are they, and what are they doing?

Bulgaria

Right off to bed.

Good luck tarmi.

Chinese megaminers have plenty of coins to dump, don't worry about that  

Can anyone vouch for this list? Source?

This thread is so inaccurate that it deserves to be locked, so I will do it.

do none of you click hyperlinks? lol

Erections?

MMDA?

another dump coming soon? look at that ask wall

Is there anybody...

out there?

I see we dropped 3 dollars on low volume.

Bears back in town? Lol

And most of it is extra shorts up to 28400

Actually it is a nice time to buy.

The bears keep trying to dump the price, poor little bears they are desperate.

After 35000 bitcoins burned and guess what? We are still above 230usd.

Im mining 4 hours ago and i only have 12 orphans, lol, with 130 khash/s :S

Can someone help me sending me a few yacoins? YEAoG4zPBHt2npLeyt5fRCNDALPRToiqAR

Im from Argentina and im on a way to be rich.

Stop being an odious little toad.

Ironically this forum is full of millionaires.

try and ... fail.
too big market now.  

Picture here

The question I have is, 'how much more ammo do the sellers have?'.

You can only sell bitcoin once

Ok show is over. I'm back in at a favorable price < 229.

Really why do you think so? I mean yeah, they started that crazy rally the other week and turned up the volume quite a bit, but why would they do anything like that now? - Just trying to follow your train of thoughts here!

Interesting. BTC-e always seems to be the exchange that works according to its own rules, it seems... That's also the reason why all the other exchanges were looking so perplexed at the pump the other week, I guess. It's just not common for them to pull of a stunt with that magnitude on their own.

Down a few dollars. Still just 1400 coins on finex back to 234 lol

Awesome.

1600 coins to 430 on stamp

Such is a protracted bear market. But it cannot go on forever

if country A wants to trade with country B they don't use their local currencies they buy BTC on the open market and use that as the medium of exchange, this is why we call BTC the global reserve currency, investing in BTC is wise and you should start as early as possible.

says economic teachers in the year 2020

i have no idea what you are talking about

yes weed is good too,

but i find it keeps me up at night, i end up smoking joints all night and i have some crazy thoughts! and start to see the world as a matrix! and i'm totally sure i'm in the matrix and most of the people around me are bots!   and then finally at 7:30am i crash, wake up 30mins later go to work, and trip fucking balls because anything anyone says is like woven into my paranoid delusion that we are in the matrix... and its like !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! heart attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

your brain on to much weed   :: OMG WTF HOLY SHIT OMG?|||ASDASD(A*)@!#$I!@J#$)(*!@#(_I!@)# MDSLAK JD~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

your brain on to much Alcohol ::  _______________________________________________________________________________ __________________

holy shit you dug up some pretty good dirt!
how things have changed...
I haven't smoked a joint in over 6 months
its taken me a few years to figure it out, but even the odd joint on the weekend isn't for me...

Has anybody noticed that??

Bollinger Band is narrowing on the 3d and 1week chart.

Some have been around here longer than others and this flirtation w/ JS could be relatively new to yall but some of us have seen the circular, exhaustive and at times, ridiculous commentary coming from the guy which is why he's reached ignore status just like the other main troll round these parts. Keep subjecting your time and mentality to this crap and it's hard to feel sorry for ya. Just sayin but the active time wastes around here these days are JS and lambscrotch and her smelly sox that are born on a daily basis at minimum.

Another 2$ on low volume , poor bears. Is this all you can do?

Thank you bears for your cheap coins , I have bought more , my stash holds 14 millions coins thanks to you

Has falllling hacked his account?

Something's wrong, these posts cannot possibly be by adamstgBit. It's not so long since all our password hashes were stolen, so it makes me wonder.

Ignore list To Da Moon!

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Well the DOW just went down 1089 points or something and Gold got an immediate boost, but not so Bitcoin. I just used the last bit of credit on my card to buy some more BTC at 217  USD. Now I've got some BTC, LTC, I even bought some Ripple and Ethereum in the last few days (mostly I diversified a little because of this fork debate). Someone is going to have to take a second look at blockchain tech in the wake of this 'Black Monday': http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2015/08/24/stocks-monday/32254435/

Where are these delusional bulls saying "we will not see 200's again" ??

One 5k market buy and we nearly hit 300.

I think we slowly lurch upwards.

we all know that xt will never prevail.
so why people dumping their bitcoins at these low prices?

Because the fucking sky is falling... Globally.

People are getting out of risky investments.

this morring the news was this http://blog.blockchain.com/2015/08/24/industry-endorses-bigger-blocks-and-bip101/

and the price crashed

the more XT is pushed the more the price will fall?

Good question.  It can't be the realization that Peter Todd and Luke Jr are leading bitcoin developers.  Neither Blockstream' brilliant plan of increasing adoption by limiting the capacity of the network.  Perhaps it is a growing fear that Ethereum, rather than Bitcoin, will become the world's reserve currency?

Not too surprising the price is down a fair distance with China's stock market in freefall. Cash maybe king for a bit. Extremely glad I dumped my stocks last week.

Orderbooks paper thin in both directions. The finex action last week reeks of manipulation. Bitcoin needs US regulated exchanges with serious orderbook volume to prevent such crazy volatility.

Careful bulls!

Bears back to caves. I bought on localbitcoins in the UK near the (hopefully) bottom.

Bought another 3 coins for my cold storage (hopefully near the bottom). Thanks for the inspiration JP.

I REALLY HATE to see you acting like this, Adam 

That is because it is not a technical issue, of course.  The options and consequences are quite clear to everybody who has a little patience and chooses to look at the numbers.

The issue is, first of all, who will be in control of bitcoin's evolution: Blockstream, or other people?

Then there is the question of whether saturation and its consequences ("fee market", long delays) are "good" or "bad".   Blockstream definitely wants saturation and does not seem willing to accept any compromise.  Their motivations are not clear, though.  

I have seen various motivations advanced or hinted to, by them or by others; but they don't make much sense.  Like, the hope that the  fees will go up enough to compensate for loss of revenue of the miners at the next reward halving.  Or the hope that banks and other big players will find bitcoin more attractive.  

Either there is something else, or they are severely misguided...

it is its robustness against human miscalculations, its decentralization, its permission-less-ness and its network's security that matters.

I surely see the momentum.. yet I find it somewhat surprising that bitcoin seems to be gong down at a very similar, if NOT greater rate than fiat markets..


In other words, I would have expected BTC to move somewhat contrary to fiat markets... whether short term or long term...

Fiat markets going down should indicate that BTC is going up... no?

Let miners leave. Let difficulty fall. Others will step up and fill that gap.

End game will probably have laws against hijacking/abusing mining power.

A wobbly Raspberry Pi?

Can someone explain to me why this isn't the dead end I think it is?

“If I could read stuff on the web for a small amount of money, and didn’t have to open myself up for repeated charging or subscriptions I didn’t want? That’s a relatively straightforward application if you have machine-to-machine payments.”

It's quite simple: it enables true micropayments on the Bitcoin blockchain by making access to mining ubiquitous.

Well, there a lot of missing facts that people tends to forget here

1. Bitcoin is high risk / high reward investment.
2. Bitcoin is not MAKE-ME-RICH-TOMORROW-MOTHAF***ER
3. The real bitcoins are here for the long haul (no offense, but this is how it's going to work out)
4. Most of the people I came across here, fall under two three categories : Kids want to get rich quick, people with agendas and losers (most of the bear), permabulls blinded by greed who will never accept they have taken a bet on the wrong horse at the wrong odds
5. People tend to see that the option in investing and holding bitcoins and buying more and more is easy, let them just close their eyes, and manage just to FEEL if they have 2 or 3 figures of BTC and holding them for 5-10 with a journey full of shocks and insanely hard times, this investment requires nerves of steel, a lionheart.

Forget about the bears, read the news, think about it, see the future, believe in BTC, stick with Bulls, and believe me, you will be fine.

 

Why so butthurt?

Tell me genius, how do you send a 2 satoshi transaction on chain right now?

That device is a miner tied to a non negligible mining pool.

Using some payment channel magic and their microtransactions server your 2 satoshi transaction will be aggregated with a bunch of others and settled into the blockchain as they mine blocks.

Hahahahahaha


I don't know if you are addressing your comments towards me or just more broadly to the general SPECULATION thread audience?

My general BTC investment strategy has been very active and to continue to invest in BTC to accumulate and to HODL

I have been continuing to engage in this strategy since the top of the BTC price market in November 2013.  Actually, I bought less than 2 BTCs near the top of the market and above $1,000, yet surely NOW, in retrospect, many people would assert that buying any BTC above $1,000 was an exercise in bad judgement (retrospect is 20/20, yet I will still say to those people to fuck off because, people cannot judge someone's whole investment strategy based on only one portion of his/her portfolio of investments). 

In any event,  currently and on an ongoing basis there can be some sense that over the past nearly 22 months BTC prices  had continued to go down (and yes have more or less remained fairly flat - largely in the $200s territory for more than 8 months).  Nonetheless, my personal strategy has continued to be to accumulate BTC within this $200s price territory.

Part of my point in my earlier post was that it remains an ongoing point of concern for a lot of people to continue to put money into BTC, but to still be waiting for the day that BTC prices will go up...

There can be questions from many of futility - and even coming from the greatest of bullish folks.

Despite some questionings that I sometimes have had from time to time, I have NOT really lost a lot of confidence in the future of BTC and its infrastructure development, because BTC's infrastructure continues to be developed and to advance in a variety of ways..   I have NOT discontinued with my accumulation strategy, even though there have been times within the past year and in the real world, when my cash flow has NOT allowed me a very large amount of continued investment into BTC.. just because the extra money was NOT there during certain periods, even when the better BTC buying periods seemed to have come about.

Surely there could be reasons to hold on to ones money and to strategically wait for BTC prices to come down, but really, I doubt that very many people really can predict exactly when that is going to be and to what degree.

Actually, for some reasons unrelated to BTC, my personal cash flow matters have been more stressed during 2015 than in 2014, and accordingly, my BTC accumulation in 2015 has only been about 15% of my total BTC portfolio in 2014 and late 2013...  Further my BTC accumulation since about October 2014, has been only about 40% of my total BTC investment portfolio. 

In this regard, from my personal standpoint, it takes a while of continued and ongoing investment into BTC to bring down my average cost per BTC, even though I have accumulated quite a few BTC during the whole period of my BTC investment.  I conclude, sir, that my BTC investment strategy has been anything but lazy.

      

Jammalan the Prophet (JTP)  Why don't you share some of your personal details?  In what are you invested?  Anything?  What is your life view?  Have you come here to denigrate others and to suggest that they are wrong about something or did you want to contribute in some meaningful way?  Are you suggesting that BTC prices are going to continue to go down?  if so, by how much and when?  Will the return up or NOT? 

I don't understand it either.

Raspberri pi:  $38
Avalon Nano3 USB Miner: $35
64GB SD card: $20

21 microcomputer: $400???

For everything else, there's Mastercard_TM

Lets look at what this is,
50$ 128gb sd card
~50$ Pi 2 (including wifi adapter)
~dev board with mining chip  and fan 300$

That 300 dollars isn't just a miner so let's assume the miner part is 100$
200$ makes up the rest for :
Buy digital goods with the constant stream of bitcoin mined by a 21 Bitcoin Chip
Sell anything to anyone for bitcoin with the built-in 21 Micropayments Server
Easily build Bitcoin-payable apps, services, and devices
Operate it as a standalone computer, or connect it to any Mac, Windows, or Linux machine

This seems like pretty neat software and possibilities for 200$, I would love to see.


 
This caught my eye: The 21 Bitcoin Computer was produced with funding from Qualcomm, Cisco, and Andreessen Horowitz.

I think we will start to see some of the very first commercials for Bitcoin miners and mining soon.

How is Gemini failing you goof?
This is one of the most exciting times for BTC ...imo

Crave is gonna shit on the other coins. It's UNO on roids...like finding gold with today's prices so cheap...I bet well see a 10 dollar coin this year

A day is good. Anything less than that is bullshit and distorted. For example if we start isolating time frames, I can show you the last blocks

421405   4 minutes   2775   32,406.06 BTC   BTCC Pool   997.1
421404   28 minutes   782   6,553.55 BTC   Slush   998.18
421403   28 minutes   1759   14,162.17 BTC   BitFury   998.19
421402   34 minutes   1992   18,610.63 BTC   F2Pool   999.81
421401   35 minutes   2027   18,207.23 BTC   F2Pool   999.87
421400   36 minutes   2841   39,982.53 BTC   BW.COM   998.15