Check the ASICMINER thread. They still want to reduce variance some.

Now it's all tied up in hashes.

What will this protocol look like? Less mining pools? Can't we just patch Bitcoin?

You can't keep a good coin down.

I just arrived in Scotland an hour ago with a colleague. We're going to be meeting with Labor at 6am to take part in the campaign during the day and then watch the votes come in at night. I don't really have a strong opinion. It does look like the vote will be 'No', so anything else will be a real shocker. The look of the woman at the front desk of our hostel was priceless when she heard that an Australian and an American had just arrived in town to campaign on the 'No' side.

If anyone is in Glasgow from now until Monday, send me a PM.

Very impressive prediction oda.krell! No, but seriously, I watch your posts carefully.

Just in Mumbai at the moment and I should be out exploring but instead I'm in my room watching the bitcoin price. Sigh.

Thanks... I should. $&*($@&# bitcoin addiction sucks!

Ahh, thanks for the encouragement! My excuse now is that it is after 9pm now and I spent the day trying to find a place to rent for a month which isn't easy here as they all want long term leases. But I should turn off the bitcoin switch for a few weeks. One of my happiest times in India was when I accidentally stayed somewhere with no Internet (in south Goa) and couldn't easily get a good connection for a month. It was annoying at times but overall made life more fun. Oh the food is one of the best parts (mmm, pav bhaji).

420 in progress.

+1

To all the heroes and the hodlers.

Has the great shakeout of 2014 come to an end?

Weak hands go away, the strong hands are here to play.

Bonus points if they do it at the same time.

Even the monkey doesn't know which way we are going to go.

Now's the time to paint the tape boys. Execute all buy orders now as planned.

What does monkey say over the next few months for BTC?

Any updates from the monkey?

7!

The old anticlimax! Should have known.

The orderbook is empty : https://www.bitstamp.net/market/order_book/

I'm trying to get to the exchange from India and I receive the message : "Coinbase Exchange is not yet available in your state."

But I am a US citizen previously based in NC! Oh regulations...

Hovering right around 260... None of us forget 266.

Let's not forget 2/3s of coins will be mined by April 1st.

Less than $700k on bfx needed to get us to $268.

Couldn't be more true, sadly.

Most don't know good advice when they hear it.

I have counseled dozens over the years but most only want to make a few quick USD. Only one has gotten rich. Whereas I am an ideologically motivated hodler.

+1, antifragile.

Long term projection?

Looks like OXI has it in Greece.

375 taken

Is that when bitcoin wakes up and becomes sentient? It was all a scam to seed the world's first distributed AI. If only we had realized that all along the backdoor to the universe was hidden in the fractional parts of the cube roots of the first 64 primes.

(Those are constants used to initialize SHA-256 for use in its compression function -- nothing up my sleeve numbers.)

https://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=SBUX+Income+Statement&annual

Total revenue 19,162,700,000
Cost of revenue 7,787,500,000
Gross profit 11,375,200

"While the Costa Rica Finca Palmilera beans which went on sale at select locations recently are expensive — they come from a relatively rare cherry of the Gesha tree — the 16-ounce cup should cost just one dollar more than a regular cup of coffee, including the company’s overhead, says James Freeman, owner and CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee. (The price of Starbucks’ regular Grande coffee is $2.20 in New York.) Freeman should know: his chain also charges $7 for a similar cup of Gesha coffee. In fact, an 80% markup is standard in the coffee business on the higher-end brews, he says. Joseph Brodsky, founder and president at Ninety Plus Coffee, which supplies beans to coffee shops in 30 countries, says the new coffee only costs Starbucks an extra $1.30 per cup."

Fortunately for us bitcoin is even more addictive than caffeine.

One day the moon kids will rule the world.

I'm currently in Buenos Aires and bitcoin is hot here but most remain skeptical and unaware, although they have 0% trust in the banks or their government's fiat. The new president took his oath of office yesterday and promises to remove the multiple exchange rate system. At the moment cell phones cost 2x more than they do in back in the land of the yankee due to import restrictions as well as other ridiculous policies of Kirchnerism.

We have another ~20% difficulty jump inbound in t-minus 3 days and counting.

I remember hearing he was for free drugs -- guns too?

15000 or 15001? w00t w00t.

Volatility continues to drop over a 30 and 60 day period.

60-day now at 1.488% (32nd lowest day on record) and 30-day at 0.963% (15th lowest day on record).

Due to the way historical volatility is calculated I expect 30-day to remain stable while 60-day drops to near record levels over the next 7-14 days.

And people are fleeing the sinking ETH ship. A fool and his money are soon parted. My congrats to all of the shorts.

August 2014

Nice nod to China with the pic.

Acellular pertussis is much safer than the old whole cell variant which was developed during the first half of the last century. Unfortunately the acellular form is more expensive so it is not used in many countries. The whole cell variant may indeed cause lasting brain damage in some unfortunate cases. I had the whole cell form as a child in the US and I remember being sick. I believe those born after the early 90s in the US have only received the purified "aP" form.

The master has updated us on his vk page,

Updates from masterluc:

If I'm right and went to the exhibitor, bitcoin will reach the indicated levels in 2-4 weeks. And after that there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Well, after the breakdown of the level of $ 3500 on weeks - I do not see any resistance to the level of $ 15,000

You should see how much they think needs to be poured into the cue ball for it to reach 15k.

Given what bitcoin's price will become down the road we may have to make Pluto a planet again.

WTF?! First they laugh at us....

Reminds me of PeterR's work on the network effect with price vs number of addresses years ago.

CHOO CHOO