Sure, i'll confirm it.

Mark Karpeles also, they might be able to repay the Mtgox fiat debt when the 200k bitcoins are worth enough.

I don't get it either, i get the same with a few other users, (i think they are one another's sockpuppets !)

Damn, i think rally season is open! Let's hunt those bears!

I have a feeling that support from a company or one move from a state will change the game.
ETF, Changetip mass adoption, Paypal , i have no clue what will ignite the next growth stage...

In 2014 the network strengthened itself a lot, the number of bitcoin startups is climbing every day, if this is not a growing technology what is. But it takes time, and this year did not break bitcoin as a medium of exchange and payment system. But it was a bad year as a speculative investment if you just bought in.

So yeah, i'm pretty confused about the trend right now, but bottom might have been found. What else can you expect after a year of gradual decline? A new high in a matter of weeks? I would prefer a stable period of growth. More and more people get the bitcoin bug each day.

From the news section :

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Well, today with the Greek April fool's joke i received an internal email from one of the people in my company. It was another april fool joke using bitcoin, it was sent to the whole company.

Mainstream? It's starting, let them laugh, my first reaction was to send the guy a bitcoin Tip. Funny day.

Come on, you can do better if you want people to fear and sell. The only wall i see is around 70 btc.

So 2013, it's not the mtgox era anymore.

Greece is going to default, it has been running for too long.

Hahaha those walls on finex..
Nice try bear, hope you'll get your cheap coins, in that case i'll be buying it in the way down.

Major banks are on this (Yeah i work for one of those), and Bitcoin is on their radar. Sick of having those Bitcoinferences over there with people that think they understand how it works, when they simply don't after a few noteventechnical questions. Seriously I haven't seen people interested like this since a while.

Lets see if your attempt to keep it down will work. Too much good news, too much interest from big players, good luck and have fun.

Yeah well i am used to seeing (but sadly never touching) way bigger amounts of Fiat moving around. Bitcoin is just a drop in the bucket, but you know this. Having just investment banking interested is a huge milestone that we reached a few months ago. Obviously if someone did not get that the 20k buywall we have been seeing since a few days was fake, then they would not get this. Thing is, interest is growing, people are betting on Bitcoin as a whole, bitcoin is included as the first application of this technology. More to come, it is not dying as far as i know, i have never seen it being that "Alive" in my day to day life.

Bitcoin is going up since OXI (no) was said to be the winner by various polls. The small pump started when the first results were given, but it is not settled yet, it can still change.

I laughed, thanks.
Bitcoin has it ups and downs but this thread never disappointed me when I wanted to get some fun.