Orders can not be routed to Bitstamp! What's hapeening? 

Don't worry, I didn't lose any money because of this.

I just can't believe it's the best they can do.

Incredible....so that's what's with the system of the "second largest and best exchange"?

And thanks for the work and response, Raphael.

Avalon look at what your neighbor in Shenzhen, ASICMiner has achieved with the delivery speed

I forgot to mention that Bitfinex sometimes will show order with completely out of place price in the order list, like this, notice the BSTP ask order at the bottom of the ask list:

Yes, it's basically "fill my order at the price the system is telling me now or cancel it immediately". (Quite often you won't have enough time to do a limit order and input the price point)

I am not sure if the unresponsiveness has more to do with order execution lag or order-list refreshing lag,  as both Bitfinex and exchanges seemed to be under heavy load, so even if I saw an order with a desirable price, when it got executed it's some other completely unpredictable random prices. Yes, it should have been an old topic actually.

Hmmm, what about the FOK order Raphael?

Would be crazy if he also wanted it to imply "We the People".

Majestic plural maybe?

Any chance to introduce a "Fill or Kill" order type? Would be much appreciated. I am losing quite a bit today due to the UI irresponsiveness and volatility. 

Maybe Josh made this bet because he didn't expect BFL to ship a working unit, so the power consumption would be 0W.

Most of the times, "illegal" and "China"can only coexist in a sentence if you are trying to be sarcastic, do you think we really didn't break the "Chinese law" on a daily basis?

The big deal about Tiananmen is: if you openly talk about the bonus army thing in the U.S, most likely nobody will give a damn. If you openly talk about the Tiananmen Massacre in China, mostly like you will be in for some big problems.

This is a really profound issue. E.g., I am not sure what the implications will be for Chinese Bitcoin users If someone includes a link to "the reality of Tiananmen incident" somewhere in the blockchain.

EDIT: On second thought, I think this is essentially a network neutrality problem.

Yup, fixed.

The idea is Bitcoin enables you to either run your own bank or have someone else running it for you.

And running a bank/clearing house is never easy, despite how corrupt a lot of banksters are.

That's exactly the point, the answer is a "No". Bitcoin address are just hashes of the public keys, when people send bitcoins to an address, they just persuade the network to change the amount of bitcoins recorded under that hash in the blockchain(the ledger), you can even "send" your bitcoins to a random string corresponding to an address which doesn't below to anyone, but it's pointless, as the point is the "ownership" of the address, which belongs to whoever has the private key, and it's as difficult(read: infeasibly difficult) to reverse a used public address to find its private key, as it's to reverse a unused one.

Now the only thing you have to do to get people to "send" bitcoins to you, is to generate a public key for which you hold the private key. It's entirely doable if you somehow generate your private/public key on an offline device, which since its birth has never been connected to the internet, and publish the public key's hashed form(the address) on the internet, and keep the private key forever offline(like on a paper), that's about enough what you need to do to "receive" bitcoins. An address whose private key never goes on an online computer is considered an offline address, and an offline wallet is essentially just a  collection of offline addresses.

Here we have a problem, we can receive bitcoins now with our offline address, but how can we "send" them? Now you have to rely on the sneaker net to do that. Armory provide a functionality allowing to you to sign any transaction offline: you create a so called "watch only" address on an online Armory installation, and generate a unsigned transaction which doesn't really move your coins, then copy it through some movable storage to the offline computer where an Armory installation with your private key resides, sign it offline, and then move the signed transaction back and publish it, this way you can "send" bitcoins without your private key ever going online.

Hope that I am clear.

So you managed to come up with 40,000 BTCs to get scammed by Pirate? Wow....

I am not sure if I should call you a winner or a loser.

Yeah sure, but unless I am going to order a LiveCD rather than make my own to install on the offline computer, it can get infected by said malware as well.

Is there any advantage of using a separate offline computer for offline transactions, over a live USB distribution with Armory in an encrypted partition and only booted to sign transactions on the primary computer with all networks turned off? I can't think of any. Anyone care to enlighten me?

A crash is when Bitcoin shows its real strength, you know why a Bitcoin crash has to be so violent? Because the global stock can be moved into an exchange to be sold in a matter of hours. Fiats, on the other hand, takes a long time to arrive. Bitcoin amplifies the panic to sell to an extent that any early adopter who has survived until now probably is not interested in selling at all.