sarcasm: Well, this is a good time for the Fed to start regulating - just buy some!

Hey, don't do it! Price would go to 0.

Personally, I don't care how low the USD/BTC goes. I am an entrepreneur. I use my knowledge of cryptography, money systems and computer sercurity, and combine it with general knowledge of the world. Yes, I am relatively fearless. Using this competency, and the means and the balls to actually do something, I plan to profit big time on this.

In short, long time bullish short time couldn't be bothered.

The VV twins ETF can only be positive for the price of bitcoins. One - the publicity, and two - the spread of the shares to new users.

The ETF does not represent money supply increase, since the ETF shares are fully backed.

If the twins sell all the shares, keeping none to themselves, they have dollars to buy another 100K coins.

But noone has said what his put price is.

Exactly. You can not be in or out, you are always in, because all assets are priced in a marked. The "being out" in common language must be more precisely defined to mean being in the most safe asset available. Traditionally, that is the fiat currency of the land, but if you believe there is going to be volatility in the fiat, bitcoin is the place to be in when you want to be out.

Speculation: USD will be the last fiat standing, so i expect USD to appreciate (more users and more demand per user). More debt (including bank deposits) will not do, so they will start printing the actual dollar notes. Until they get the presses going fast enough, then the usual inflation again.

While you sleep, the dollar coins collect dust in a vault somewhere, the dollar bills fade, and the gold coins rust (oops that was in another empire sometimes somewhere).

Just look at the fundamentals. The media coverage, innovations like kipochi and buttercoin. It can not go down much from here.

Could it be ... gosh .. end of the world ... someone who wanted 10K coins?

Attach a formula to it, like the double derivative of sin(), through it to the even-toed ungulates, and see what happens.

I hope so too, but why do you have the need to say it out loud as a prediction?

Otherwise I commend you for stating it as a factual prediction, compared to others who might say it's going down in the short to medium term, which is nothing.

If someone aquires 51 % hashpower and continues with the same protocol, it is not really an attack, is it? If that someone changes the protocol to something obviously worse, a real bitcoin fork can continue as before, can it not?

We need a scammer tag for ads. That would be an innovation!

It is hopefully a very long time till last friday.

A new montly high tonight CET would be nice.

Was that a grey candle?

I like to follow this indicator. The mainstream media connects the events randomly, like "Yield rises as car sales surge", without much reasoning. The real reason could be folks starting to distrust the safety of the bonds. We'll see.

I like this indicator. The mainstream still regards the bonds as absolutely safe, so they try to assign reasons for the hike to the prospect of tapering, and the reason for that again the glorious econonomy. I call this reasoning really a stretch. It is not evident that there is a growing economy at all, and the QE logical step in between is heavily influenced by a single person. On the other hand I base my thoughts on that the bonds are not really safe and that the mighty Fed is not mighty enough to in fact regulate those yields, that is, the yield rise may be the result of the market believing less and less that the bonds are safe.

The reaction from the Fed could be anything, remember their actions are based on a flawed economic theory. I would not be surprised if they accelerate the QE. You know, "let's jump start this economy". They could also turn on the dime and decide that QE is too risky. Who knows.

Everyone running around talking about a bubble is a fool until the bubble breaks.

And I might add, he is still the fool after the burst, because he didn't ride the bubble and sell off in time. A bubble burst victim can always put forward that he got in before the bubble started forming, and in the years between he lived in a really nice house.

Look like MtGox have stopped for some minutes - or is it I that is offline?

Ok BTC China - have a go at it.

Good point. If you don't trust the exchange, arrange for a client side stop loss function. At least no one would know exacly your stop loss order.

If you have a fixed stop loss limit, just enter an order before you get to bed. For a normal stop loss, where you want to sell after price is down a certain amount, I guess you can use any of the bots ( I havent tried them). You also need to decide if you want to sell for any price or for a minimum price. Personally I have a buy and hold stragegy, but earlier, when I traded in shares, I did not like stop loss because the suspicion that someone can trigger them for the effect. This can of course be done also without knowing the exact list of the stop loss orders.

It can't even compete with NASDAQ on downtime. 3h15min against nasdaqs 3h.

Yeah, I forgot the sarcasm tag. I see that Gox have problems, but they have also been a trailblazer in uptime.

Bernanke is in panic do nothing mode.

Back above the monthly average - at last. Walls? No walls.

We now have a 16-17 USD diff between stamp and gox. It seems that the "1 BTC several times a minute"-arbitrageur has used all his steam for the time beeing. Awaiting more arbitrage as soon as fiat (deposits) have moved from gox to stamp.

This arbitrage, and more to other exchanges, should provide some damping to the dump/panic buy movements on gox. Maybe the next bubble (entrepreneurs having temporarily too much faith in bitcoins rapid world takeover) will be a tad more leant back.

You have just watched the Great Silk Road Panic of '13