Do not smile over a global collapse. If such a thing happens, everyone will suffer very bad and the LAST thing you will worry about is bitcoin or investments or money. You will be thinking of how to survive, what you are going to eat, and how many bullets you have left in your gun to fend off all of the attackers. Bitcoin will probably crash too once the world is in complete chaos, not rally. This is because all the channels to inject fiat will be broken except direct hand to hand barter, and I find it highly unlikely that suddenly Bitcoin will become a barter tool during global chaos when it was not already. Also it will require people have access to technology and the internet, which will also become unlikely. So it will become worthless.  Be careful what you wish for. So maybe there this small chance you bitcoins gain some value while your house is being burned and your friends are being killed by looters. It disgusts me that there is a smiley face attached to such a thing.

Oh I like this guy. Look guys this is the new bull, and you are all bears.  The 1000% per year trend that everyone believes in isn't even good enough for him. Bitcoin is going to exceed that and start increasing 5000% per year. Now anyone that still believes in ONLY a 1000% gain per year is a BEAR.

Hold only if you can take the pain when it goes sub 300or 200$. It might get back to 600$ , but that could take another year or two. The bubbles before have been artificially created by non-existent MtGox USD.
There is no garantuee at all that we will see another ATH bubble. I have to say that we might get a bubble from 70$ to 500$ , if it should drop that far.  

TERA turned from bear to troll now.

she should go to btc-e troll box and leave this forum  

You were strongly bearish at $450, $425, $400...and you are bearish now.
When is the last time you were strongly Bullish?  (medium to short-term)

You should buy them soon if you want cheap coins. I don't think we will be able to get them for this price in the future. That's why i bought 2 extra bitcoins with my last savings.

My god! People, what happens will happen! GHash is at what, 31% right now? Is it really still a threat? If there's a 51% attack, it happens! That's not going to change anything. But please follow the majority, and see were that gets ya. No ones holding you back, and I don't get why you had to publicly state this. Just do it.

It's not a financial decision per-se, more of a matter of principle.

I agree though - after the US Marshal sale, Bitcoin should explode upward in July and throughout the summer. I wouldn't be surprised to see prices hit $2000 by August.  Mass adoption is already occuring (Expedia, etc)

But, imagine what would happen if Ghash (or some other rogue operator or hacker who managed to gain control of Ghash) actually carried out a 51% attack.  Remember what the MtGox crash did to the price?  How would a 51% attack affect Bitcoin?  It would be a total, absolute catastrophe and I think most people would lose faith in the currency at that point.  

So I'm keeping half my Bitcoin holdings and exploring other cryptocurrencies which I think will be more viable in the future, ie those which are impervious to attack by a large mining pool.  Of course, if the Ghash issue is eventually resolved, I would consider moving the remainder of funds back into BTC.

Only time will sell ... I urge Gavin Andresen and other core developers and the Bitcoin community as a whole to band together and solve the mining pool issue once and for all.

Good point!

Obviously you would have to be fairly certain of its long term hopes 

Already many people buy/sell steam codes for BTC. Not sure how big an impact there would be. I wonder if there would be added sell pressure.

bitcoin is changing the world, i can now send 20$ to a friend on the moon for a 5cent fee!
that alone gives it much worth.
10x within 2 year, not unlikely...

While this is a great event for the legitimacy of BTC, I think it's probably worth mentioning that the chairman of digitalBTC made his fortune through pretty questionable methods.

 http://drbenway.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/bitcoin-miner-listed-and-ramped-on-asx.html

without adressing the first half of that article in the second half there are links to forums of people saying how they were basically scammed by sms adverts for a "love calculator" service made by the chairman of digitalBTC which turned out to be a scam where users were billed weekly not to their knowledge and opting out was an arguous process. Not sure if these "sms scams" were as prevalent in other countries like the were in Australia but here they are advertised frequently often on "MTV" and other channels young teens are probably watching. They are solely targeted at children with newly acquired mobile phones not realising what they're signing up for and either themselves or their parents pay unkowingly.

TLDR the chairman of digitalBTC is basically a scam artist

Strike The Co-Operative Bank/Smile of your list of UK BTC friendy Banks!!! Done a few small transactions on Local Bitcoins, the cancelled both my cards and blocked my internet Banking, made me speak to fraud department. As i thought 1 of the transactions must have been fraudulant i told them it was from Local Bitcoins. "It is our policy not to allow any Bitcoin related business"