You should give a timescale for this type of questions.

Looking at the last 3 years, I would say a bull market 

Ha ha, nice stat ! Someone should look for GDP revisions, there might be a bias too  


Not only there's a problem with bees, but i wouldn't consider honey fungible. There's an infinity of honeys out there, depending on the strain of bees and the kind of nectar they are collecting. And I'm not talking about honey debasement (cut with syrup, the cheap shit you can find in stores)


To come back on the eternal inflation/deflation debate, I have to admit US administration did a good job so far at keeping stocks from collapsing while keeping oil (and metals) from exploding. Probably not sustainable, but nicely done. We'll see how things evolve after the election, and in which way.
The results will probably don't matter much, though an interesting fact is that Wall Street is clearly rooting for Romney (including the (in)famous Goldman Sachs), and that Obama seems to be in the lead (at least according to InTrade, and looking at campaign contributions).

I still have troubles thinking Goldman Sachs doesn't rule the world, but maybe some things might change in a few months.

Too much "IOU Gold" around. This is going to deflate, and gold value will go up. Quite the same idea as for USD.


I'm not reading him for years (not reading him that much tbh), but according to the rise in the price of PM he's not especially wrong imo.


Care to explain that (and give a timescale ?)
Looks to me like a great long term short

Same here
Thanks guys, I'll buy this dip. Didn't thought I'll see 10.x again
Please feel free to go on selling, I would love to see single digits

Yup, and it looks like the 8PM tick down to 10$ passed through the bids

Great coverage.
Arte is informing a lot these days about how our financial systems sucks, and this report is in this line, presenting bitcoin as a solution.
To be fair, in France it is one of the less watched tv news. But audience is still probably in the 6 low figures

That a good point. I'll have to think more about it (belgian beer is too strong for me to think, but so tasty  )
The first thing which come to mind is : Who is selling USD to buy JPY ? Why ?
Second one is : Is it really sustainable ? How ?

I'll (try to) answer to you when I'll sober up

There is something to this. Namecoin is build to be a database (of DNS primarily, but other things could/will emerge, like a name->btc address).
Litecoin is just an attempt to solve the "slow" confirmation problem, while it doesn't solve the "instant" confirmation problem needed (for which the solution already exist, namely green addresses).
So I agree with jimbobway. Namecoin is much better than Litecoin (imho).

Namecoin is a share in this decentralized database, which will (perhaps) grow.
Litecoin is a solution to a fake problem.

Just my 2 satoshis

No, we like to hear your bearish opinions on PM. I still disagree with it, but it definitely helps to question my reasoning.

I agree with most of what you say, except the fact that they'll avoid cheapening the dollar, to avoid the dangerous consequences of it.
They have a debt to pay back, that doesn't work with a strong dollar policy. If that triggers revolutions in other countries, too bad for the people, but that's a good opportunity to place some puppet as a liberator.

As for the current price action, we still are in this 1750-1800 range. So the action on the last 4 weeks was just noise. Once we have a clear breakout up or down, that'll be a signal.

Thanks for that 


With what seems to happen regarding GLBSE, are you going to speed this up ?

Can you explain the same trade with BTC/USD loosing, say, 20% meanwhile ?

If your margin is denominated is BTC for a trade on EUR/USD, then it has to be affected by BTC/USD (and/or BTC/EUR).
If your margin is not denominated in BTC, say in USD, then it means that your short BTC/USD (because you had to sell btc to get usd margin).

Disclosure : Had an exhausting day, I may be saying crap. Please explain me all the transactions when opening a position, that could work better.

So you think oil exporters don't pile up some USD ? I would think so.
What if they pile up everything in treasuries, what's the effect on USD ?

Yep, but it'll affect your margin. If BTC/USD is up, your margin is increased, and vice-versa. Right ?
So if an event like the pirate default happens, your margin can be cut in half in 3 days.

Ok, got it. So it's a standard forex platform where your account is in BTC.
Thus you are subject to risk from BTC variations, without being able to hedge it.

Is the BTC/USD rate the one from MtGox ?

Anyone knows him ?
Enky1974 > How did you get to be a beta tester ? Did they asked for testers in this forum ?

Would be so nice if it was a quality (with MT4), legit service.

USDX doesn't mean much about the value of the currency (just an indicator to see how USD is doing against EUR, JPY, GBP and others)
Nice comex open so far 

Should we wait for them to do so ?


If there was no foundation, the hammer could have fell on Gavin and other developpers. If there is a development-only foundation, the hammer could also fall on them.
Anyway, this is not enforcable. Everyone is free to choose which blockchain they want to use.

We are waiting for the company to be put into liquidation.
It could have been done quickly if Patrick Strateman (phantomcircuit) was willing to help customers instead of trolling.
But apparently we'll have to wait for the court to force the liquidation.

Keylogger somewhere ? Password shared with a compromised website ?
Sorry for you loss, and good luck with your research. And thanks for doing research on bitcoin