Yeah.. 

Needed ammo for market order. LOL!

Just a little arbitrage... nothing to see here.

I'm supplementing my BTC count with my unusual luck at SatoshiDICE, and I tend to come out with 0.15BTC every hour of betting on the 73% and 50%.

Lag at 40 seconds. 110 starting to fortify.

-UPDATE (04/24/2013 0714 UTC): "The downtime of the past couple days, and especially the past 24 hours has been confirmed to be due to a deliberate attack from what appears to be an individual. There appears to be no security breach, only disruption of availability. The attack appears to be DoS in nature and is likely an exploit at the Tor network level. The site will be down or very slow until a solution can be found, which we will work tirelessly to find. Thank you for your patience." http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=151563.0

-UPDATE (04/24/2013 1647 UTC): Nothing new to report, but I just thought I'd let everyone know that I am still here and we're doing everything we can to put and end to all of this. I'm really proud to be a part of this community. You all have been showing your class through all of this.

-UPDATE (04/24/2013 1222 UTC): We are starting to get a handle on how the attack is being run. It will likely take many hours to eventually overcome, but we are 100% committed to getting the site running in peak form again. It is still possible to access here and there, so we are leaving the site open for those who want to try to gain access, but it will be tough until we can effectively counter the attack.

Yeah, time to hire a PR guy. I'd say he was quite nervous by the looks of it.

I think that the bid depth can reach $50 million by June 1st 2013.

It doesn't take much interested to add up to $50 million waiting on the exchange to buy bitcoins.

Wish granted:

$140 wall starting to be devoured.

I hope so - I want to get back the Bitcoin I sold for $139

BRINGING BITCOIN TO THE MASSES
Payments - Anytime, Anywhere, by Anyone.

www.paywithbits.com

I just loaded some rocket fuel, we're about to blast off to the moon!

Paul Buchheit is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail.
He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail.
He also suggested the company's now-famous motto "Don't be evil" in a 2000 meeting on company values.

Worth listening to: http://youtu.be/59uTUpO8Dzw?t=19m14s (starts at 19m14s)

Chamath Palihapitiya is the Founder and Managing Partner of The Social+Capital Partnership (Social Capital) – a venture capital fund based in Palo Alto, CA that incubates and invests in breakthrough companies in healthcare, education, financial services, mobile and enterprise software.

Preceding his focus as an investor, Chamath was the longest tenured member of Facebook’s senior executive team and helped drive its ascension to one of the most important companies in the world.
Prior to Facebook, Chamath had leading roles at The Mayfield Fund, AIM and ICQ, and Winamp. In addition to his focus at the fund, Chamath is Owner and Director of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors.

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chamath-palihapitiya

In March 2013, Palihapitiya confirmed that his venture fund had raised over $275 million in its second round of fundraising.[8][9]

WTF was that, lol

500 buy on 140, then 500 sell back to 136 in 5 seconds.

Looks like someone just did a boo boo...


Profit: -36.60 BTC. Ouch. Make sure your buy and sell orders don't overlap, guys...

(This will happen if your orderbook has a limit ask for some low price, and you later enter a bid order for some higher price.)

---

PS: Wadn't me... This time. Also: Mt.Gox, fix this shit!

you missed it buddy...

the market intentionally minimizes your profits.

in other words, not only does it not care what you want, if it knows what you want, you won't get it

Replace 'node' with 'ego' and it will all become clear

Well their site is indeed interesting:

Some medium selloffs to start the morning.

You may be right, as his wall is being nibbled on quite a bit.   I find it surprising that selling pressure is so low that hardly any asks are being placed beneath it.   He has to know if he backed the wall to 105, he would end up with $5k more . . .   Strange not to at this point unless he is trying to manipulate, very odd.

Of course you can eat a manipulation wall, if you do it in one big bite.    This wall was acting different however, and I am pretty sure he just wanted to sell, though he could have made several more thousand if he wanted, not smart.

By the way what's going on with silk road? Any news? Any indication as to when they might be back up?

'UPDATE (05/03/2013 0545 UTC): The attacks have been coming non-stop since my last update.

We've been able to keep the site open more than half the time with only minor issues such as limited image uploading for vendors.
Every hour we are making progress and I am feeling much more confident that we will come out on top within the next few days.

Still, expect some unannounced down-time here and there.'

http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1dm7id/latest_update_from_dpr_05032013_0545_utc/

it seems its the same bot allways trying keeping a level!

that high is very obviously an outlier.

the process of drawing the 'correct' triangle is as follows: identify the possible top and bottom trendlines with the greatest number of points of contact, disregarding outliers. we can even disregard the highs that break robust (multi-point) trendlines because that itself is evidence that they are outliers, based on the theories of triangle consolidation patterns.

in the picture above, there are 4 possible robust lines, all with 2 points of contact (the minimum for a unique line). i've only drawn 3, can you see the other? hint: what if you assume that the lowest price points of the two recent green bottoms are outliers?

as you can see, there are many possible triangles. determining which is the best fit is a messy process that i'm still refining.

these things are like magic

if that was difficult to parse, the idea is that the greater the number of points of contact, the more robust the trendline is.
this is because, as frozen pointed out, any line at all can be drawn across one point, two points is enough to define an arbitrary unique line, but three points is a 'coincidence', or in statistics terms, a correlation.

i admit that the lines above only have 2 points of contact. the evidence for their robustness is in the price movement right now.

But why aren't you taking the high of the $265 candle?
You can make many, many shapes if you can choose any length of candle.

that high is very obviously an outlier.

the process of drawing the 'correct' triangle is as follows: identify the possible top and bottom trendlines with the greatest number of points of contact, disregarding outliers.
we can even disregard the highs that break robust (multi-point) trendlines because that itself is evidence that they are outliers, based on the theories of triangle consolidation patterns.
...
as you can see, there are many possible triangles. determining which is the best fit is a messy process that i'm still refining.

Forget the Chinese news, Bitcoin on btcchina.com is already cheaper than on mtgox again.

Here is yet another news article on Bitcoin, today from xinhuanet - a news media in China directly controlled by the party.
There are clearly pushing Bitcoin to the public

http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/info/2013-05/06/c_132361304.htm

In the Erisian Archives is an old memo from Omar to Mal-2: "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."

I didn't mean just touching it, I meant make the price hover around some lower point than 120.

But yeah its around 117 - 118 now. Still, I sense bear weakness and bulls holding ground.

First China, now this: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/49782323057/coinbase-now-processing-15m-per-month-in-bitcoin-buys

Bullish?

"CFTC head Bart Chilton told the paper Bitcoin “is for sure something we need to explore,” adding, "It's not monopoly money."

Bullish or regulation bad sell? http://www.businessinsider.com/cftc-considering-bitcoin-regulation-2013-5

FT: US regulators eye Bitcoin supervision - http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b810157c-b651-11e2-93ba-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2SXW9UnLr

LOL

Anyone buying now has some big brass balls I tell ya'.

[yet another wallpic]

Google Translate (pretty shitty translation for this language pair, by the way, but better than nothing) gives me the impression that
a) they were defrauded or had their private keys stolen by hotel staff, and
b) rptiela estimates the damage to be in the range of 100k btc (or, as he helpfully points out, about 9M Euro).

Sounds like quite the successful conference, I must say. /snark

I think the probability of staying alive until tomorrow has dramatically increased, as the first 24 hours after the evacuation did not see any violence or threats thereof. Everything else is still uncertain however, but I don't believe that the operative capability of my supernode or the Bitcoin Supernode Network in general have been, will be, or can be endangered. The general comment would be along the lines: "Bitcoin user not affected."

I spent 8 days before the summit in Haikko preparing for it. Then during the 24 hours after it started (opening ceremony was Thursday 14:00, Finland time is used if no otherwise mention), something went seriously wrong so many times that I felt the probability of it having been a coincidence had increased to well above zero.

When I ordered an investigation on the events, I did not have the opportunity of taking adequate care of my summit, my family, my sleeping, my water or my food. After about 40 hours of rather intense events, after which I was fully content to die, since there is nothing in this life that I can think of I would seriously miss (and believe me I can think of things that most of you can not), I had also exhausted my available energy. I did not feel I would have been able to keep my posture for any more time.

So I ordered a general evacuation of the summit and went fully offline for the time between Sunday 13:00 and roughly now. Since I don't have too much stress now, I think I can work approximately 16-18 hours per day indefinitely, provided that I take about 1 day off every 5 days.

Now I try hard to minimize the risk to the well-being of anyone, and to raise the stakes in the game described as follows: if someone actually copied the private keys there (I had access to over 6000 bitcoins unencrypted, open in my computer browser windows during the time it was compromised), he will have to suffer the fact becoming public in its entirety + all the details, if he spends the bitcoins before I have the time to spend them myself. Due to extensive precautions involved, it will take me approximately a week of calendar time + several thousand dollars, to fully ensure that the bitcoins are safe, by sending them to uncompromised addresses. I plan to concentrate on that during this week.

Update: Here is what Mt. Gox sent us in response to a request for comment:

Thank you for the email. We can see that the Dwolla transactions are not getting processed right now. We will contact Dwolla and post an announcement regarding this. Your patience is appreciated till then.

http://betabeat.com/2013/05/department-of-homeland-security-shuts-down-dwolla-payments-to-and-from-mt-gox/

He was the first outside investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site, with a 10.2% stake acquired in 2004 for $500,000, and sits on the company's board of directors.

Thiel was ranked #293 on the Forbes 400 in 2011, with a net worth of $1.5 billion as of March 2012.[2]

TSUNAMI ALERT.

1) WebMoney adopts bitcoin
2) PayPal founders get into bitcoin
3) Return to upward trend before Dwolla news came out, we were at $119 testing 120 back then.
4) Bitcoin conference

And probably more reasons I'm not thinking about right now.

This morning, Bart Chilton of the Commodity Futures Trading Commision said, about Bitcoin, quote:

"They don't exist. And I didn't want to regulate them. I didn't want to put the government's stamp of approval on Bitcoin."

LINK: http://www.freetalklive.com/listen/live

Reposting what I posted to reddit just now:


...

we are now over 130, i am no longer going to wait to get my under $70 coins.



chooo chooo mother fucker

131...

Dear Mt. Gox Customers and Bitcoiners,

7) The new trading engine is finished, is smokin’ fast, and is currently undergoing bench tests. We’re looking forward to deploying it very soon.

"After great boredom comes great excitement."
—Ancient Bitcoin Proverb.

The price is about to go down... History always repeats itself

Look at the blockchain market price from 2011 compared to 2013, almost identical. The price isn't just going to shoot up out of nowhere.

LOL Wall upped a buck. 

Weekly high, that's nice. I guess it's all the regulation news? Or the 36% difficulty jump?

“The more folks that we talked to related to this issue, it became very clear to us that this is not a sort of technology that’s going away,” a committee aide said. “This isn’t something that’s a flash in the pan. It’s something that’s going to be with us.”

“As with all emerging technologies, the federal government must make sure that potential threats and risks are dealt with swiftly,” the senators said in the letter. “However, we must also ensure that rash or uninformed actions don’t stifle a potentially valuable technology.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/congress-starts-looking-into-bitcoin-95464.html

Spoke to Tim. Planning dinner in September. Tim believes in buyback and is doing one.
What will be discussed is magnitude. 8:34 PM - 22 Aug 2013

https://twitter.com/Carl_C_Icahn/status/370615097963450368

By JEFFREY SPARSHOTT
WASHINGTON—The top U.S. anti-money-laundering regulator on Monday told a Bitcoin trade group that exchanges for the virtual currency must follow the same rules as established financial institutions, highlighting the government's efforts to keep tabs on a small but growing segment of the financial world.

The Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or Fincen, hosted the Bitcoin Foundation and other regulators and law-enforcement officials as the sides grapple with the rise of virtual currencies. Such digital money isn't backed by a central government and often, as with Bitcoin, isn't controlled by any central entity.

"Fincen's recent guidance concerning virtual currencies made clear that virtual currency administrators and exchangers that provide services within the U.S. must register with Fincen as money-services businesses and that they share similar regulatory responsibilities with other financial institutions,"
said Jennifer Shasky-Calvery, director of the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, in a statement after the meeting.

Ms. Shasky's comments to the foundation repeat earlier messages. Fincen in March published guidelines that placed virtual-currency exchanges under the same broad anti-money-laundering requirements as traditional money-transmission businesses such as Western Union Co.

The move followed rising concern that the currencies, which allow anonymous transactions, could be used for illicit purposes.

Ms. Shasky described Monday's meeting as part of an "ongoing dialogue" with regulated financial industries and said she looked forward to further communication.

Before the meeting, Patrick Murck, general counsel for the Bitcoin Foundation, said he would make a presentation and answer questions from government officials.

The trade group and some Bitcoin companies say they support efforts to ensure that the industry is operating in compliance with certain laws. They contend that will help legitimize the fledgling industry and keep out bad players who want to use the currency for illegal activities.

Monday's event in part grew out of a June virtual currency conference in Washington, D.C., where Ms. Shasky met with investors and industry officials, and told them that they had nothing to fear from the government as long as they followed U.S. financial rules.

The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service, Securities and Exchange Commission and others joined Monday's session.

—Robin Sidel contributed to this article.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323407104579037301852662422.html

HOLY MOLY!!!

i just woke up to this

 

Millions of Yuan are flowing into btcchina.

If someone can prove that China is somehow a fake pump then I will rest my case.

5:56 pm Nov 7, 2013 | REGULATORY


Judge Orders CoinLab to Pay Up…in Bitcoin


A well-known bitcoin company has been ordered by a judge to produce and deliver the virtual currency to a New York investment firm that accused it of reneging on their contractual agreement.

Judge Robert W. Sweet of U.S. district court for the southern district of New York barred CoinLab Inc. from delivering the virtual currency to any other parties before it meets its obligation to Bitvestment LLC.

The dispute underscores the frenzy surrounding bitcoin, a virtual currency that isn’t backed by a central bank. It is produced electronically using computers, and enthusiasts trade it on exchanges and privately. Some merchants are now accepting bitcoin as a method of payment.

Bitvestment sued CoinLab last week for breach of contract, contending that the Bainbridge, Wash.-based company isn’t living up to its obligation to provide 8,000 bitcoin under an August arrangement between the two firms.
One bitcoin was worth $295 Thursday afternoon on the volatile Tokyo-based Mt. Gox exchange on Thursday, giving the disputed 8,000 bitcoin a value of $2.36 million.

The process of generating bicoin is known in the industry as “mining.”

CoinLab Chief Executive Peter Vessenes has said that the lawsuit was a contributing factor in last week’s bankruptcy filing of CoinLab’s mining unit, which is called Alydian Inc.
Mr. Vessenes is also chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, a nonprofit trade group that promotes the virtual currency.

Mr. Vessenes noted in an email on Thursday that CoinLab itself has no mining operations, but “of course we will comply (with the judge’s order) as well as we’re able.” It isn’t clear if Alydian is still generating bitcoin while it is under bankruptcy protection.

He also said that CoinLab was pleased that the judge denied other requests from BitVestment, such as seeking certain financial data from officers of CoinLab and Alydian.

“We continue to treat this as a simple contract dispute case, and feel confident on the merits of the case,” Mr. Vessenes said.

Bryan Reyhani, a lawyer representing Bitvestment in the case, declined to comment on the judge’s ruling.



http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/11/07/judge-orders-coinlab-to-pay-up-in-bitcoin/

As Bitcoin Plunges 25% On Government Scrutiny, The First BTC "Fair Value" Reco Has A Stunning Price Target

Let’s use a broad guesstimate. One Bitcoin should theoretically be worth 700 ounces of gold or pretty close to $1,000,000, if we adjust existing supply of both to equal eachother. One BTC is currently worth 0.14 ounces of gold. That gives BTC an upside of 5000 times to equal the current price of gold, supply adjusted. Clearly, I and everyone else believes that Gold may well be much higher than here in the next 5 to 10 years, thus versus the US Dollar the upside for BTC could be multiples of that. Now, before you shake your head, simply go back to the chart of Gold versus the US Dollar and just recognise that it has risen 8750% since the 1920s. And just remember that Microsoft rose 61,000% from its IPO to it’s peak. Considering what we know about the world, I personally believe that Bitcoin may well explode in value as more and more people begin to use it. If you stuck $5,000 into Bitcoins and each Bitcoin did go up to a gold equivalent of let’s say, only 100 ounces of gold (not the potential fair value of 700), then at current prices your Bitcoin stash would be worth $3.3m.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-10/bitcoin-plunges-25-government-scrutiny-first-btc-fair-value-reco-has-stunning-price-

+ 1

Like it or not, regulation is what's going to take bitcoin mainstream, and is therefore, very bullish.

The New York Stock Exchange, located on Wall Street, and the NASDAQ are the world's first and second largest stock exchanges, respectively, when measured by average daily trading volume and overall market capitalization.[21]

Financial services account for more than 35 percent of the city's employment income.[22]

New York City has been a leading center of finance in the world economy since the end of World War I.[23]

 As of August, 2008 the city's financial services industry employs 344,700 workers.[24]

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Manhattan is home to six major stock, commodities and futures exchanges:

American Stock Exchange, International Securities Exchange, NASDAQ, New York Board of Trade, New York Mercantile Exchange, and New York Stock Exchange.

This contributes to New York City being a major financial service exporter, both within the United States and globally.

The 344,700 workers in the finance industry collect more than half of all the wages paid in Manhattan, although they hold fewer than one of every six jobs in the borough.

The pay gap between them and the 1.5 million other workers in Manhattan continues to widen, causing some economists to worry about the city’s growing dependence on their extraordinary incomes.

So Tunstall just said "we" several times speaking about Ripple.

#bitcoin https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/402918026968039425

I love it when people get it 

@Holiday indicated that parity with gold was reached earlier.
Gold is now just 10 cents higher than BTC all time high.

I have absolute proof that bitcoins are worth zero. Just send one or more BTC to my address to receive proof instantly.

best fud yet

what a fucking joke, the last couple of days some of you were crying all around the place about the rounding up and about Bitstamp ripping customers off, and most of you agreed on the $5 min order, in fact most of you said it should minimize the effect, but today you are crying again about them doing what you wished for !!!!! what the heck is wrong with people 

TO DA MOON!

I think it's called 'monotheism'.

Kraken is down...

Nice, but I would just have bought 75k more btc at this point.. (Hopefully Bitpay do)

for the next poll pls also add option

"join Russian federation"

Tell that to the Ripple founder, Jed McCaleb who just decided to SELL SELL SELL.

Hey ya'll. Jesse from Kraken here.
Today I have submitted my resignation from the Board of Ripple Labs. While I care about the people who work there and I wish the company the best, I cannot personally continue to support the business.

I believe that the technology and the protocol hold great promise, and have since the beginning, which is why I was the company’s first investor. Since Jed's departure, the management of the company has taken a different direction. Sadly, the vision Jed and I had for the project in the early days has been lost. I’m no longer confident in the management nor the company’s ability to recover from the founders’ perplexing allocation to themselves of 20% of the XRP, which I had hoped until recently would be returned. Prior to Jed's departure from Ripple, I had asked the founders to return their XRP to the company. Jed agreed but Chris declined—leaving a stalemate. This afternoon, I revisited the allocation discussion with the pair and again, where Jed was open, Chris was hostile.

As an investor, of course, I hope that Ripple Labs will overcome its hurdles and prove my lack of confidence misplaced. Unfortunately, unlike the founders, I don’t have swathes of XRP to dump if I don't think it's working out.

DFS making good progress on virtual currency regs. Sorry for running slightly behind. Should have proposal out in next week or 2.

https://twitter.com/BenLawsky/status/486962799784914944

Ermahgerd  

This is what panic looks like?

By the way bitcoin is not more a store of value than ripple... seriously...

Dear Justcoin user,
 
You are receiving this email because you have a balance of XRP at Justcoin. XRP deposits, withdrawals and trading have been disabled for the last three days. This is an explanation of what has happened and what the status is.
 
A network-wide weakness in how both Ripple and Stellar communicated transactions was exploited by an unknown third-party to to deposit false IOUs through Ripple/Stellar to Justcoin. These were consequently withdrawn to their own payment networks as native currencies. The result was that our hotwallets were emptied. Most of our customers' funds is in cold storage but the amounts were still significant. Justcoin will not operate as a fractional reserve and therefore we decided to lock down all services affected until we had a solution ready.
 
Justcoin cannot and will not accept taking the responsibility for this weakness in the network. It is caused by a feature that is poorly documented and has been present in both Ripple and Stellar for a long time. Other gateways, exchanges and native transaction explorers have also been affected. There is also documented that the security vulnerability has been known by the network developers for at least 2 months without any kind of explicit and direct warning to affected gateways and other services. A thorough and technical explanation of the weakness can be read here: https://medium.com/@...ld-29aaefd8a7ac .
 
The result is that as of now there will be imposed a partial 'hold' on all XRP balances. This hold will be representing the amount of XRP that is missing. Deposits will be disabled until we are 100% confident that we are no longer affected by this weakness or any other yet undiscovered. Deposits that have been made between the shutdown and now will be credited in full once deposits are opened. Trading and withdrawal of the XRP that is not on hold is now enabled. Please allow delays on withdrawals due to moving of funds from cold storage to hot wallet. The percentage of each XRP balance that is on partial hold is 23.27%.
 
We can assure you that it is our intention that the partial holds will be lifted. We are looking at different options and are having a dialogue with Ripple Labs and Stellar foundation. We will try to figure out a way to solve this, one way or another. Expect regular updates.
 
We are terribly sorry for the situation but are asking for your understanding and patience. If you have any questions that are not answered here please don't hesitate to ask. Allow some time for us to answer as our support is under high pressure at this time.
 
Sincerely,

Mr Poroshenko's ruling says all state companies and institutions should end their work in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions within a week.

It also says Ukraine's central bank is to close down all banking services - including card operations - in some areas within a month.

>The Ukrainian central bank has been ordered to stop servicing all banks operating in the rebel-held areas.
The accounts of individuals living there and companies located there have been frozen.
This will stifle the local economy, as businesses will have to conduct transactions in cash or use a bartering system.

there you go: http://www.coindesk.com/huobis-bitvc-takes-trader-profit-cover-1-million-loss/

GBTC broke its daily volume record already, now at 2,870.

MOON!

when do we want it?

btccharts.com

You wanna cut out the middleman? Don't use Bitcoin then.

Bitcoin: Bob → Bank → Bitcoin exchange → Bitcoin exchange → Bank → Alice

Bank transfer: Bob → Bank → Bank → Alice

Cash: Bob → Alice

Luke doesn't support the block size increase.

If it goes like this, it will be so late to adopt bitcoin by Greek people, or I'm mistaken ?


I want to understand from you man 

What is the probability of Grexit and how it will affect bitcoin ?

Hey Elon, who is zerohedge? 

Zero Hedge[1] is a batshit insane Austrian economics-based finance blog run by a pseudonymous founder who posts articles under the name "Tyler Durden," after the character from Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. It has accurately predicted 200 of the last 2 recessions.

By September 2009, Zero Hedge had begun drawing more traffic than more established financial websites[5] with 333,000 unique visitors a month, impressing even those[who?] who say the news site is full of conspiracy theory and "apocalyptic world view".[4] Durden says two-thirds of its readers are from Wall Street.[2] According to Quantcast, in 2012 Zero Hedge had a monthly global traffic of 1.8 million people.[7]

Breaking:



http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/29/us-greece-banks-westernunion-idUSKCN0P915J20150629

I would be worried to see zee germans going bankrupt. that never ends well.

#Greece's Finance Minister signs off on a 50% reduction in debt for Germany in 1954.



https://twitter.com/ronanburtenshaw/status/615517639448895488

I agree. Everyone knows the bottom is in now. Buying 44k without slippage is going to be a lot more tempting this time 'round.

Damn is Bitcoin fun.... it's simply incredible to be a part of it.

I tipped a friend who works at the biggest Dutch tech-website (90 million pageviews per month), and they published an article:

http://tweakers.net/nieuws/112383/totale-waarde-van-bitcoins-overschrijdt-grens-van-tien-miljard-dollar.html