Wall St as in any type of institutional/ professional financiers? There are a few who've taken the plunge, albeit very few.

I think it would have to get considerably bigger for the majority to pay it any attention. Current daily volumes would make real professionals snort with derision. People here get boners when there are buys and sells of half a million dollars. That's sub loose change to them.

If Bitcoin did reach a much higher valuation then I struggle to see how the BTC premiums would hold.

They're great things to own but if you're talking several thousand dollars of premium then that's a little bit of a stretch for me.

If Bitcoin reached $10,000 then I'm not sure the 1 BTC you paid for a 0.1 coin is going to hold. You may end up getting 0.15 or 0.2 and therefore chucked away a significant rise.

Who knows though. Perhaps they'll grow ever more desirable.

Sounds like they're throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. Personally I'm waiting for a blockchain cupcake.

If a bitcoin is enough to buy a house, a more pertinent question is would you let it go for an asset that's less likely to appreciate?

I'd rathet get rid of my fiat. As for answering the actual question I'm going for between 3 and 4 decades in my part of the world.

HSBC is definitely out. There's no british banking available for exchanges.

Why so specific?

I don't recall getting any in school and i would've ignored it anyway.

It's all common sense and best left to parents or one's abuser.

Every personality test I've done tells me i have a female brain.

I also have superb cheekbones, loamy loins - though i don't know what that means - and willowy limbs.

Ergo it's ME.

Poor winklevii. They're constantly beset with frontrunners. Let's hope their etf is lovely too even if it is late to the party.

Articles elsewhere have stated that if it doesn't get the approval for this rule then it probably won't happen at all. If it does then the ETF itself is a step closer to possible approval. If it doesn't then at least we'll know and we can all chip in to make our own. It's progress if nothing else.

This market's like an iceberg. There's an awful lot going on below the surface. I think OTC markets are the dark horse and they might be most affected by less miner availability.

It's going to take a few months to get a sense of what effect it's truly had.

I think it's time this forum had a dedicated Jewish abuse section. It seems to be the pet subject of many a poster here. Then the rest of us can get on with posting rockets and trains in peace.

They can only sell once and they only have enough to make a dent in a few hours of trading. That's it.

I don't think he'd have a hope in hell of getting anywhere near 51% even if he was willing to throw away five or ten times his net worth.

Enough people would never sell. Enough people have a ridiculously high price that they might consider it. Enough people would notice someone buying mountains of it and hold out for even more.

Yes, He Must Be Stopped.

Of course it's possible. Nobody knows how likely it is. Whatever happens there's going to be so much rich reading for people perusing this forum in a decade.

Hello, futurepeople. Either you envy or pity us. Don't judge.

So a 10x and plenty more rise over the course of a few short months isn't enough?

Is not the world's largest buyer of gold China? And they own lots of lovely US debt too.

The Chinese bucket shops need to become an irrelevance. That'll require better exchanges and some actual demand, of which there is little to none in the real world. If and when there is a few sprinkles of it then off it'll go.

I'm sure the average human is bright enough to know that the Chinese trading thing is a mirage but I don't think mining is going anywhere else any time soon.

Warren Buffet is clever. Clever means not buying something you don't understand. It also means not buying 51% of something because it would cost a bleedin' fortune and most people wouldn't be into the idea of buying something majority owned by one person. 

i haven't used that but the password should be - nem

I'll believe it when I see it. I don't believe most of the newly mined coins ever get anywhere near an exchange anyway. And I don't think serious OTC buyers would ever go anywhere near an exchange.

I suppose they have to obtain them somewhere but that might just make the OTC market bigger from people who would otherwise sell on an exchange. Either way it's not gonna hurt.

Is your machine 32 bit? If it is then the wallet won't work. It requires 64 bit Java. Dunno why.

And there is a blockchain download too but it's nothing like as horrifyingly huge as the Bitcoin one. You can download a recent version from the bob.ninja site to save time.