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Title: 2012-07-18 arstechnica.com - Bitcoin price soars above $9 for the first time...
Post by: thomkaufmann on July 18, 2012, 08:37:32 PM
"Bitcoin price soars above $9 for the first time in almost a year
The currency's value has soared 40 percent in the last month."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/bitcoin-price-soars-above-9-for-the-first-time-in-almost-a-year/


Title: Re: 2012-07-18 arstechnica.com - Bitcoin price soars above $9 for the first time...
Post by: koin on July 18, 2012, 09:09:47 PM
tldr: i have no idea why it is rallying either.


Title: Re: 2012-07-18 arstechnica.com - Bitcoin price soars above $9 for the first time...
Post by: Technomage on July 18, 2012, 09:45:03 PM
The fact that there is no clear reason, no clear media hype to blame it on, is actually a good thing. Most likely a big investor just decided it's time he got some of his value into bitcoins.


Title: Re: 2012-07-18 arstechnica.com - Bitcoin price soars above $9 for the first time...
Post by: Serge on July 19, 2012, 01:00:26 AM
nothing changed in the comments section =) some people in 10 years will be saying same thing over and over while rest of the planet moves on to a new form of value exchange


Title: Re: 2012-07-18 arstechnica.com - Bitcoin price soars above $9 for the first time...
Post by: sunnankar on July 19, 2012, 01:54:12 AM
The fact that there is no clear reason, no clear media hype to blame it on, is actually a good thing. Most likely a big investor just decided it's time he got some of his value into bitcoins.

Should have read my post on 9 June 2012 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93839.0).


Title: Re: 2012-07-18 arstechnica.com - Bitcoin price soars above $9 for the first time...
Post by: kiba on July 19, 2012, 11:51:55 AM
nothing changed in the comments section =) some people in 10 years will be saying same thing over and over while rest of the planet moves on to a new form of value exchange

Ten year is enough time to make wikipedia skeptics to go away. We just need ten years for bitcoin skeptics to go away too.


Title: Re: 2012-07-18 arstechnica.com - Bitcoin price soars above $9 for the first time...
Post by: Dusty on July 19, 2012, 02:23:07 PM
The articled has been taken by kurzweilai too:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/bitcoin-price-soars-above-9-for-the-first-time-in-almost-a-year