I agree as well

Lets just be optimistic.

I know the ride is extremely tough as we will not have a middle ground, either zero or hero.

As gentlemand told me, in 10 years, either people will call us idiots or heroes, but 99% we will be SUPERHEROS.

Market maker is jumping from one extreme to another... Now we can see that most of the trades on finex is from one guy/entity.

... bank-run or crash of the greek bank on MONDAY.

Russia's top officials gave mixed messages over whether the country would be prepared to give financial support to Greece as Europe prepares for Greece to default on its loans.

........ Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich who said that his country would look at the "question" of providing money in order to protect investment projects and trade.

........

Mr Tsipras said in St Petersburg that Russia was "one of the most important partners for us".
Such an alliance would alarm EU leaders, who may see it as undermining solidarity at a time when they are trying to maintain pressure on the Kremlin over the conflict in Ukraine.

Satoshi talked about smallish consumer transactions like vending machines and porn. Did he fall into a math hole??

True, stagning price is good for reliability of btc but I just can't stand it anymore xD

this ===> http://www.zdnet.com/article/new-ransomware-headache-as-crooks-dump-bitcoin-for-rival-cryptocurrencies/

 

told u

No shit! We haven't been this low in... in...

...oh...

...about two months. Nevermind.

Yeah he is definately Satoshi.

Instead of buying a Lambo, he just rents one. Because when you got so much money... why buy when you can rent since it costs more.

New users haven't been able to sign up on Korean exchanges since Jan. 1. Apparently the floodgates will open on the 30th.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7s9e7a/korea_will_now_allow_new_users_to_sign_up_and/

Ugh. Screw this downward momentum.

Got a bad feeling in my gut just now...

Figures. The act of me moving my next batch of coin onto an exchange caused the price to retreat.

That's muh story, and I'm stickin' to it.

Sheeit.

why 11147?

Anyone else unable to access coinbase?  Won't load since yesterday on either of my browsers and cant access the send/receive on my phone.

Apology accepted. All good.
I don't get it, how can they move a mobile phone number? Where I live the number is locked to the sim card. If you want to move your number to another phone you would have to physically move the sim card to that phone. There is no other way.

Gold Coast businesswoman Cynthia Dammerer discovered she had been targeted by criminals after her mobile phone mysteriously went out of service after 9pm one night.

While she initially thought her phone network was down, she later discovered the fraudsters had also broken into her email account and tried to change her password.

“I called Telstra and they said I had moved my number over to Vodafone and I’d have to go into a store to sort it out,” she said. “I had no idea.”

Ms Dammerer said scammers had moved her phone number to an untraceable Vodafone prepaid account so it could be used to verify bank account transactions, and potentially create new accounts.

“They did it all online,” she said. “They didn’t even have to go into a shop.

Ok I checked here and you can move your phone number to another phone company, but they will send you a new sim card with the number. So no magic online stuff. Would that not be a good way to get rid of the scamming in the rest of the world.

Bitcoin is on the move!

If Bitcoin closes above 11147 in 2.75 hours from now, that would be bullish and Boblawblaw should then be able to stick to his retirement plans and sell @ 12500 very soon.

What is that and how does it work?

Contrary to popular belief we are not able to foresee the future in this thread.

Wow, that REALLY sucks. What country are you in? Any ideas on how you are going to work around this shit?

CME first contract closes tommorow, so no doubt the tin-foil hat brigade will be out again.

I'll pre-empt them....

Any large volumes over the next 24 hours can be attributed to Wall Street maniulating the price to profit from this contract closing.
I think we can expect a reversal of this movement once the contract has closed.

"Trading terminates at 4:00 p.m. London time on the last Friday of the contract month"

Strap-in or damp squib?   I dunno.

Edit: I just found out how to find out who my Meritors are by clicking on Merit in my profile. Thanks Dabs, Yefi, Rosewater, Hairy and Jay. Much appreciated!

I added stats pages:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats
And per-user summary pages like:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=35

It will go up. 


And down.


And up.

-- in the next 48 hours, guaranteed!

I am so very, very bored.

Malaise sets in.

... stares out from behind a cold, frosted window. alone in the darkness. all is quiet in the wilderness. the herd is safe and sound. slow exhalations build up condensate on the window. a hand reaches out from beneath a swaddling blanket and aimlessly draws trails. the forefinger begins to chill.

CME first contract closes tommorow....

Strap-in or damp squib?   I dunno.

This guy makes a good case for why the CME futures expiry tomorrow will be a nonevent: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7syd2c/expiring_futures_tomorrow_not_so_fast/

One account was specifically made in order to trade bitcoin, which they agreed to beforehand. And the money all goes to kraken, plus a few incoming transactions from people who send fiat after which I send bitcoin. There shouldn't be any problem with any of this, except the size of the amounts - which they didn't care about until just now, because the numbers have been growing.

It's just the volume, nothing else.

Maybe just go in and talk to the branch manager and find out what they need from you.

GET OUT OF MY MIIINNNDDDD !!!

EDIT: To be honest, as others have alluded, I'm really starting to stress out, and will be "glad when it's over"

Exhibit A: That's a lot of money to have out there "in play". Makes me real nervous. I apologize in advance for coming off as bragging. Just trying to "keep it real" with you folk.



EDIT2: And yes, IRS, you fine folk are getting a check for just south of $1M end of Q1.

No problems for me (beyond wire routing problems that work for some accounts, but not for others). I have a long established history with my financial institutions.

My banks were used to seeing large deposits and transfers. Yes. Not sure what qualifies as "fairly rich before".

Anecdotally, in my 30s and financially independent on a fraction of the coins Bob has. Not everyone is suited to a life of labor.

https://cryptonews.com/news/coincheck-hacked-more-than-500-million-xem-stolen-1093.htm

"The Biggest Theft in the History of the World"

What about EtherDelta?  I guess they can block them too?

And a better one is...

holy WTF happened to my merit...lol

I decided that the previous allocation was too unfair in this area, so everyone with activity >= 775 got 500 more merit if they didn't already have 1000 merit (and also Lutpin). No extra sMerit, though.

Oh really?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pelikan-Limited-Edition-The-Lighthouse-of-Alexandria-Fountain-Pen-/232316991711

I recently purchased a Pelikan Alexandria. It's my first Pelikan. I've got about 20 Parker fountain pens along with some Mont Blanc pens and some Cross fountain pens. Anyway, the Alexandria is also my first bottled ink pen. Heretofore, I've used ink cartridges in my pens. The Alexandria has not impressed me so far. Even though I purchased a fine replacement nib from Pelikan for it, it puts entirely too much ink on the paper even though I use a light touch when writing. In addition, I have to shake it to get the ink flow started every time I use it. In addition, I can't seem to get the pen to draw any ink into the chamber. I've been filling it myself with an eye dropper by removing the nib.

With Lightning now we got this:

We were burning forests way before we burned coal and oil. In fact, any living creature affects the weather. I understand that at least one american state has legislation regarding cow farts.

1. don't believe anything that call itself "real science", because it ain't.
2. The refutation is the quote from Sarah Kaplan that says that there were more species going extinct in prior events.

Duh! Prior event lasted for hundreds of thousands, even millions of years and
here we have 1% vertebrate extinction in 100 years.

1% in 100 years is a pretty big number IF it continues, but why won't it?

A hamburger made from cow muscle grown in a laboratory was fried, served and eaten in London on Monday in an odd demonstration of one view of the future of food.

Recent studies have shown that producing cultured meat in factories could greatly reduce water, land and energy use, and emissions of methane and other greenhouse gases, compared with conventional meat production using livestock.

Guys get the fuck back to discussing price action, some of you are really making a fool out of yourselves. You don't want to be remembered like this.

I think it's bad karma to talk about Bitcoin in this thread.

The average Aussie bogan is far better off than the average Murican peckerwood.  For starters minimum wage is A$18.29 which is US$14.25.  
 

Which only leaves one of two conclusions. Either he was being an honest guy and just wanted to provide us all with some lulz. Or he's too much of a moron to exploit and cheat. I'm hoping for the former, but given the average forum user I would probably have to put my money on the latter.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I suspect this dump is caused by Venezuelas president Maduro dumping his BTC for $$$

In case you did not know he is desperate for $$ since his state-owned oil company are now in default on about US$1.7 billion.
Todays 738 million pre-ico sale of his petro coin has given him enough money to begin the bail out that will prevent further economic collapse of his government.

For perhaps the first time in history we have the opportunity to form mature, discretionary and fully consensual relationships not based on fear.

When can I trade in my wife for one?

According to Xdolls, an hour with one doll can cost between €89-120.

China’s famous sharing economy plumbed unchartered new depths this week with the launch of a service that allows you to share sex dolls with strangers for around $45.

Conversely my inner bum is feeling a fair bit prodded at this time, is that normal?

Yeah she's real. Look at the eyes. Couple veins visible too. But a doll will still look the same in another ten years.

An inflatable sex doll was launched into space in 2013. While Missy didn’t make it beyond the stratosphere, footage shows the doll reaching an altitude of 31,090 metres while suspended from a weather balloon.

Once upon a time Stalin held a speech. People clapped. And kept clapping. For 20 minutes. Eventually one of them stopped, and then everyone else stopped.

The first guy disappeared the next day.

I've lived in Japan for a while and I've never come across a chilled crab machine. Where can you find those? Hokkaido?

Live hairy crabs are displayed in a vending machine at a main subway station in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.

Im scared bullish or bearish?

This message came from darkwebforum. Dont know but its possible:

From the 15th January’ 2018, there have been rumors from forums in the dark web about a possibility of a slump, down to $6000 by February 1st week before prices return to the original consolidation stage at $14K by March 2nd week.

On January 5th, when Bitcoin prices were at $17,000, at a dark web forum which can be accessed through any anonymous browser (like Tor), a forum member by the name Cyberjourno, says: “Guys, there are big players in play, big institutional players who want to bring the price down to $7000, I know it seems impossible now but these guys handle the media and know how to control the market. For the coming couple of months, guys, stay safe, don’t be scared. Brace for FUD FUD FUD!”

On Jan 5th there were two other comments on multiple forums in the Russian and South Korean social sites that suggested a bigger market manipulation in play. Interpreted and translated versions of the comments read: “Waiting for US, South Korea, Indian and Thai markets to break negative stories by February, prices to stoop back to $5000. Big market players waiting to invest millions in Bitcoin and smaller crypto counterparts. It’s easy to guess, find the common corporate entity that controls media houses in these countries. Make your connection”

Kleiman's brother Ira totally lost that thumbdrive.

Biggest chump in history.

Dave Kleiman was known for his extreme "paranoia" using extremely long passwords and encrypting everything. If that guy died without giving out the encryption-password, the coins are gone for good.

Or it's on an exchange/custodial wallet...

If YOU don't hold the keys, YOU don't own it...  Pretty easy work around, really.  Entails some risk, but preserves your oath   

I find it hard to measure strength without one exchange. 10,441 could be a fib level to cap this with 9231 the alternate side.

Oh, there will be a consequence of all this. He will either come out OFFICIALLY as a lier fraudster or a thief fraudster. Or all the above. There's no way out of this for him.

Thanksssss

Holy crap my merits are breaking out. Someone gave me 10 merits for my info on B6 toxicity. Buy buy buy tera merits. Im selling ICO shares for 1BTC each.

Is it just me or is the mood in here turning very #CRAEFULGANG?

Hmmm

OFAC to blacklist Bitcoin addresses.  

https://www.coindesk.com/goodbye-fungibility-ofacs-bitcoin-blacklist-remake-crypto/

Joe Ciccolo is the president of BitAML, Inc., a compliance service provider. Andrew Hinkes is an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and NYU School of Law.

This article is not intended to provide, and should not be taken as, legal advice.

Could this backfire? What's the doomsday scenario?

Sure. Operators of listed digital currency addresses could spray satoshis at any address they can find and essentially "taint" the entire blockchain.

After listing addresses and implementing appropriate tracking software, OFAC may find that all addresses are two or three transactions away from a listed address, and the tool becomes essentially worthless.

I'm going to start a conference called "Steve Jobs' Vision". It's going to be all about how Apple has lost it's way, and the NeXT computer was the perfect desktop computer that people should have been using all along.  I'll manufacture about 5 new NeXT computers, and take pre-orders for the rest.

I'm sure Apple enthusiasts will all trash their Macbooks and iPhones and turn out for my conference by the thousands.  Because "hur dur mah vision".  

Exactly 1K BTC wall on stamp, at $8800.   (yes, I made an on-topic post)

It is on the bid side (and still there)

It's a DEATH CROSS breath holding exercise.  A game of chicken.  Place your bets.  Or.... hold.

Nah. It's just stunned and confused for a little bit. Took a shot in the nuts. Give 'ole Bitcorn a bit to recover and straighten back up.

Keeping it classy in Crocs with paid Asian hookers, lol

Do you remember back on December when they talk about bitcoin 100k on 2018?
What do you think now?

I'm 100% positive that the girl in the middle, with tassels on her nipples, is a ladyboy.