Tons of positive development + legal clarification (in USA) + death of awful exchange + *growing* adoption + people panicking over information they don't understand + TA + Bitcoin! = buy indicators.

"Slowed to a crawl?"  According to what?

I'm guessing you missed most of the good buying opportunities in the past, too.  

Edit:  To the other guy.

The BTC community is a lot bigger than this forum, and more importantly, there's way more going on than the sensationalist stories that get inappropriately hyped by the media would seem to suggest.

All the good news is in the sweat of the hard working entrepreneurs and developers, the 'boring' stuff that just doesn't have the same impact as a good doomsday article.

Actually, the way I see it, everybody who is new to this market and legitimately has something to lose is panicking in reaction to news they don't understand.

And, the way I see it, all the cooler, experienced heads are focused on the overwhelming positive news going on every day, all the time, on every continent.  Seriously, there have been so many amazing developments in terms of infrastructure in just the past 3-6 months alone that I suspect there will be a *lot* of weak hands catching falling tears instead of knives.

Edit:  All the signs are there, eh?  What about this sign?

Here are a few thoughts of mine, though I'm not well versed on tax code laws:

1)  The ruling seems to imply that fair market value should be calculated for *every* BTC transaction, including rewards distributed per share at PPS pools.  Can you imagine calculating FMV and tracking gains for, literally, tens of millions of transactions?  Or, do you only track the FMV of withdrawals made from your pool account to a personal wallet at the date and time they were received (since changes in account balances don't correspond with actual transactions)?

2)  Think of multipool miners who would also need to calculate the FMV of all reward transactions received for each of the bazillion coins that they mine per day.  Sounds fun.

3)  What happens when you buy BTC with BTC at a different price, such as when purchasing a physical bitcoin?

4)  What is FMV anyway?  Which exchange represents FMV in a decentralized market?  Can't I just say my buddy offered me $2 for a bitcoin and call that FMV?  Or is FMV simply whatever you paid at the time that you paid it?  If it is, then how do you calculate the FMV of mined coins at the time they're received?  Am I correct in assuming that it's likely best to just choose a reasonable method and consistently apply that method in tracking all transactions, and claim a good faith effort in case something goes wrong?

5)  The difficulty in tracking everything definitively applies as much to the IRS as it does to us, and it seems impossible that, given a good faith effort in reporting gains or losses, the IRS would be able to prove you owe otherwise.

But 1 confirmation is infinitely better than 0 confirmations, and therein lies one of the key benefits of fast confirmations.

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I'm not sure what you're asking.

Based only on what you typed, the answer is no, there is never a guarantee of rate of ROI.

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Hello,

Up for sale is one (1) 2012 1-BTC Casascius physical Bitcoin.  The coin, although not graded, is in excellent condition and has not been touched by hands, dropped, etc.  The coin was received directly from Casascius and immediately placed in my safe

As far as I know, these are fairly uncommon. 

No set price.  Make an offer that accounts for shipping.

My realtor is a hotshot millionaire ex-banker who is doing me a favor through a mutual friend; he knows the ins and outs of the banking system and works with multi-millionaire clientele, so he's been able to at least get their attention.  He actually told me that one of the agents spent several hours researching BTC because I told him to tell them to do that so they wouldn't keep asking me for information that has nothing to do with proving BTC ownership.  Lol.  

I consider it a small win

In any case, he seems to know what he's doing.

Edit:  Thanks, I will look into that.

Exactly.  I have five-figure deposits to my bank account which are BTC cashouts.   They are indeed asking me where the hell that money came from.

That's part of the problem.

Fortunately, I have the assets regardless of the BTC (i.e. cash, precious metals, investment accounts, etc.), but since bitcoins still represent a very significant percentage of my assets, it's harder.

Cashing out the BTC won't help the issue because they aren't fully convinced that the cashed-out BTC wasn't loaned to me or something -- they want to see that every penny going to, for example, Coinbase, matches the money coming back into my account.  They basically are saying that they don't necessarily believe the money in my bank account is mine lol.

I have an issue.  I'm buying a home thanks to BTC (good).  The bank wants proof of BTC ownership (somewhat bad) and wants proof of USD going into and out of BTC (insanely bad).

First, keep in mind that, although I have a sizeable and easy-to-prove stash of physical BTC, I liquidated the vast majority of my digital holdings.

Second, while I use Coinbase almost exclusively for purchasing Bitcoins, and while I use BitPay almost exclusively for cashing out (except for Coinbase, but that doesn't matter since it's inherently linked to my bank account), the BTC that's cashed out through BitPay comes from multiple sources including mobile wallets, desktop wallets, and Coinbase withdrawals to an external account.  Accordingly, the bank is having a fit that the money leaving my bank account to Coinbase doesn't match the money coming back in.

I told my realtor that I believe the bank has several options:

1)  Learn more about BTC, quit asking for dumb, irrelevant stuff, and accept the fact that providing absolute, definitive proof of ownership would require providing private keys, and this would essentially make the bankers owners as well (not happening).  And, even in this case, I don't know how I could ever prove that the coins weren't loaned to me at some point.

2)  Let me provide them with every iota of transaction data available including all bank statements, all transaction histories from all mobile, desktop, and paper wallets, screenshots of every transaction and every .csv export I can find, etc., leaving them with a mountain of paperwork that they can try to piece together.  This would total hundreds, perhaps thousands of pieces of evidence.

3)  Be fucking reasonable and understand the idiocy of the length that someone would have to go to fabricate the evidence I have already supplied them (which includes pictures of my physical coins, mining hardware, in-progress mining snapshots of CGminer, countless bank statements, .csv exports from both BitPay and Coinbase, screenshots of particular screens on both Coinbase and BitPay showing corresponding email addresses, deposit addresses, etc.

Given the obvious fact that Bitcoin and other virtual currencies fluctuate in value against the dollar, I don't even understand how the bank would expect the money going in to match the money going out.  Throw in cashouts from mined coins amidst coins that were purchased and deposits from multiple sources and you get one hell of a knot to untie.

Anybody else have any better suggestions on what I can provide to the bank?  

Man, I remember my Martingale days...

After ~3,000 bets, I had lost, won, lost, won, and lost again ~40 BTC only to be lucky enough to recover most of it.

If you don't think you can flip 16 heads in a row, give it a few thousand go's and you'll be surprised.

PM sent, counteroffer submitted.

Still available, everyone!

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The baselessness of your proposed probability increases the absurdity of your statement by 84%.

The problem with dumb people is that they think they're as smart or smarter than the smart people.  Therein lies their dumbness.

Use Mario Paint for better results next time.