I am enjoying today, that wall burst and the price has soared

That chart is awesome, although realistically it could have done with being a log scale. But I like the fact that it's not to prove a point

If we can see another 900% growth next year I will be a very happy man, and hopefully mortgage free too

Unless he bought when it was like $2 each and then he's laughing because he's now got half a million dollars

BOOM goes the wall

On topic, I think they should default but whether right now is the time I don't know. But their debt is rising at an alarming rate and at some point you have to say "enough is enough" and actually do something about it.

It utterly amazes me how a country cant get something as simple as balancing how much it spends and how much income it gets from taxes. Sure it's done on a huge scale, but mega corporations do their accounts and seem to make profits.

Speaking of corporations making profits, its about time that the USA and other countries like the UK really get to grips with these big companies that are avoiding paying their fair share of taxes by jumping through hoops and exploiting loopholes.

Whats wrong with being reliant on a mega corporation bent on profit at all costs? Also there is certainly nothing wrong with using crops that are infertile or that you legally can't harvest the seeds from for next year without a lawsuit.

/sarcasm

This would be brilliant, much better to scan a QR code and press send than to fumble around with change, especially when drunk!

Wonder if we can break in to the 140's today?

And the wall is now at $140 with price slowly rising through the $136 range...

Looks like some big bites into that $136 wall at the mo

Finally! It's been stuck in a bit of a rut for the last month and then a dip because of Silk Road. It's nice to see a little growth again I'd be happy with 50 cents a day, that's still $180 over a year and a nice steady increase is better than shoots and spurts in my opinion.

They've dropped the voting system now, all requests are on the forums. You should add a comment here:
https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=100353&page=2

Someone should really reddit about this so it gets more attention like the original votes did

I've added my comment to that forum topic, I'm not sure they dropped VoteBox because of Bitcoin. But more because overall they ignored most of the high voted items because they didn't want to / couldn't do them.

Only 600 votes away from the number 2 position now

Will the Ziggap loan be going to arbitration at some point? I am owed 62.044184BTC (£5000 at current exchange rate)

I have a spare copy of the game Space Hulk that can be gifted on Steam.

For sale for 0.15BTC, PM me if interested.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929256.100-bitcoin-sells-out-as-big-business-moves-in.html

IT IS a currency founded by revolutionaries that went on to become the world's dominant payment method. Well, if the US dollar can do it, why can't Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer digital currency? Once little more than the plaything of online libertarians and crypto-anarchists, many Bitcoin advocates are now seeking regulatory and financial legitimacy as an ecosystem of companies springs up to support the currency.

In March, the US government sought to actively regulate Bitcoin by requiring companies classified as "money transmitters" to register with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange, was founded in 2010 but only registered last month, following the seizure of its accounts in May by the Department of Homeland Security.

A new generation of Bitcoiners is taking a different approach. They descended on London last week for a conference to discuss the currency's evolution from internet curio to serious financial instrument. "You need to show the world you're not going to try to overtake the government, you're going to take this global financial system and make it better," BitInstant founder Charlie Shrem told the Bitcoin London conference. He registered his payment system firm with FinCEN in 2011, before it had even heard of Bitcoin.

Topics discussed included cheap and fast global money transfers and even a Bitcoin ATM, with little mention of the drug trade and other illicit sales hitherto associated with Bitcoin on sites like Silk Road. "Most businesses in the Bitcoin world want to comply," says Daniel Friedberg, an attorney with Seattle-based firm Graham & Dunn. Friedberg is helping companies get involved in the currency, though he thinks it won't lose its early reputation. "Bitcoin is never going to be PayPal, and that's going to bother some established industries and create some risks for governments," he says.

Meanwhile, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who famously sued Mark Zuckerberg over the creation of Facebook, announced their plans for a $20-million fund selling shares to invest in the Bitcoin market. Buyer beware, though – the pair's filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission warned that such an investment is not without the risk of Bitcoins being lost, stolen or completely collapsing.

Members of Bitcoin Talk, a forum for supporters, have broadly welcomed the move. "Thank you Winklevii, this is probably the biggest step to financial legitimacy in Bitcoin's brief lifetime," said one, though others are anxious about the increasing centralisation of the currency.

Don't pay too much attention to these complaints about how Bitcoin is changing, says Peter Vessenes, chair of the Bitcoin Foundation advocacy group and Bitcoin entrepreneur. "We took the coin price from 12 to 200, and they were wrong about whether you'd ever have to engage with regulators and lawmakers." Anarchist utopian types will always have a stake, he adds. "It's very important Bitcoin stays decentralised and distributed."

Perhaps we can learn from history. The first attempt at a US currency, the Continental dollar, failed after just a few years due to a collapse in value. It was only after the founding of regulatory body, the Bank of North America, that the US dollar became a success. Maybe Bitcoin will share this fate.

If such entities existed they would already be selling ASICs and raking in tons of cash, no?

Ditto

Because more BTC was bought than sold?