Another contender here for the bitcoin press awards headline category.

I love reading the frustrated sceptics. The mental anguish is palpable. The narrative is all planned out in advance but none of the facts they dig up corroborate it. We're left with what colour pants they wore as an argument against the currency.

Nothing will slow Bitcoin's adoption now. It will grow regardless of what people say. The technology is so strong that it will win out by itself. If not Bitcoin, then another cryptocurrency. The idea is here to stay. What is dangerous is how it will grow. If Bitcoin grows completely in white market, becomes totally regulated and everything then we lose any power that we gained with Bitcoin. We have to stress and force its growth in the right direction otherwise the movement will become hijacked and amount to nothing useful whatsoever.

I'll say it one more time: we need to cut Bitcoin's apron strings. We can't trust the US gov with this, it's far too important.

And when you hear them talk it is clear they are just in it for the money. There is no passion in their speech (if you can even call it that). I would be VERY VERY careful of these guys. They have millions and millions tide up. They are looking out for themselves first.

Not saying to get them out (to early for that), but they need to be kept a close eye on, very close.

If the Chinese are smart enough to use Bitcoin they should make money like anyone else will. They would like to destroy the US Dollar but it just isn't going to happen. Bitcoin isn't a replacement. Just another tool to diversify and create wealth from nothing. Only the money doesn't just go to the elite it will go to those that have the coins. It might even save the US from a potential  collapse.

If China buys up Bitcoin it is only good for us as it will make Bitcoin more scarce quicker. Many other countries world wide (like India) are  using it.  Let's say you are working in the US and you want to send money half way around the world to your relatives etc.. The cheapest easiest way is Bitcoin.   

Lobbyists don't do what many people assume they do.

A good lobbyist does not work in ways that are outwardly immoral or illegal.

They are masters of explaining to congressmen how a certain situation is unfair. They appeal to a congressmen's idealism to sometimes persuade them to do the right thing. The argument is always framed so that the desired action is the right and fair thing to do. Through certain manipulations sometimes this system is abused, but the driving force of it remains idealism and not corruption. I hope the foundation is successful because there appears to be a lot of unfairness in government's handling of MtGox up until now.

There is huge majority of engineers, technologists, scientists amongst the Chinese communist party leadership. I think like 8 out of 10 of the top guys are technical.

Maybe they just "get it" so do not feel threatened ... unlike western countries that have leadership riddled with technophobic lawyers, bean counters, humanities, polysci, MBAs, etc?

What I'm really trying to say is that we use Bitcoin under the premise that it was created with noble intentions for use as a currency free from government control and manipulation. We believe that just because we do. BUT - that might just be what the creator WANTS us to think and this could all be part of some secret plan where the endgame hasn't happened yet. What I'm saying is that we accept that bitcoin exists for a good purpose but that might not be so. The REAL truth is unknown.

Call me old-fashioned, but I honestly cannot trust a "modern" company that does not have a twatter account.

Taking images of charts and drawing lines on them? Looks like you're doing exactly what you need to do.

Now just start talking about patterns observed in your cherry picked snippet with any combination of adjective and shape. "That's a Bear Triangle!" "That's a Bull Ellipse!" "That's a Pensive Spheroid!" Don't worry, there's no standard duration, axis transformation, or trendline function. Feel free to plot log time against the square root of price for the last eleven minutes if it helps you illustrate your point.

It is important to end your TA post with an extremely strong, very bold statement about where the price is going. It's also important to be vague so that you cannot be held accountable later. But most importantly, this is the Economics Speculation forum on bitcointalk.org, so it is of utmost importance that you are making a bullish prediction. If you are making a bearish prediction, your methods will be criticized.

Hope this helps!

Bitcoin could have been created by corporate elitists for all we know. With so little information, everything being claimed about "satoshi" is just hearsay and there might not be a "satoshi" at all. The truth is we don't know who/what created bitcoin or what their intentions are/were.

Interesting press release. To me it looks like a new parasite searching for hosts, but I'm old and cynical. Perhaps there will be a wonderful symbiotic relationship between this, um, service provider and the BTC community. I'll watch from the sidelines though. Harumph.