Is there any way to get a chart from btc-e.com that's longer than 24 hours?

I've been using cryptocoincharts.info but I'm wondering if there's anything better?

Does anyone know why LTC seems to be on such a downtrend lately?

Really?  Is this what smart people do instead of sending coins from exchange to exchange directly?

Really informative guys, thanks a lot.

I sent some BTC from one exchange to another and there have been 0 confirmations in over 90 minutes now.  Is that anything to worry about?

Why is that?

I'm pretty excited about Namecoin.  So, it works just like BTC except with the decentralized .bit/DNS thing?  I've read some conflicting info but I think the recent flaws have been or are being fixed.  If NMC and BTC were both released today, why would anyone choose BTC?

I've gotten the same message two days in a row when trying to transfer BTC out of CampBX:

"Cold wallet maintenance in progress. Please reattempt after 3 hours."

Anybody else getting this?

I'm confirmed now with a Gmail account.  Really, Gmail is the only one that works?

That's how I got here in the first place.   With commissions, It seems difficult to spend absolutely everything in the account.

But the leftover balance is in USD.  Am I missing something?

I tried but $0.80 is too little to trade with.

BTC-E won't let me withdraw BTC until I confirm my email but I can't figure out how to do that.  Has anyone done it?

I have $0.80 left over in an exchange that I don't think I'll use again.  That's too little to withdraw or trade, right?  Just let it rot?

Are there any?

Speaking of media coverage, this hits the newstands in the September 2nd issue apparently:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/meet-the-dread-pirate-roberts-the-man-behind-booming-black-market-drug-website-silk-road/

The article is just as much about BTC as SR.

So the dangers with keeping your BTC in an exchange are the government seizing them or the exchange filing bankruptcy or otherwise running off with them?

What makes kipochi.com more trustworthy?

On a side note, why does an exchange being in America make it more dangerous?  It's true (and unfortunate) that the US government has been known to take whatever it wants, but so do many other governments and to a much greater degree.  I'm the most familiar with the US, Spain, and Australia.  The following thread contains several anecdotal accounts of the Spanish government taking fines directly out of the bank accounts of normal citizens without any kind of due process:

http://www.expatforum.com/expats/spain-expat-forum-expats-living-spain/127813-bandits.html

The Australian government doesn't strike me as hands-off either but I don't think they'd go to that degree.  I've spent most of my life in the US and I've never heard of that sort of thing happening there.  In the news I've read about assets being frozen but that is done to people who are suspected of committing a crime.  Generally, if the US government wants your money and you don't want to give it to them then they have to sue you for it in court.  My question is, which are the governments that keep their hands off your money to a much greater degree than the US government does?  Maybe there are a lot of them and I'm curious to know which they are.

Long term I believe it's going up.  I just wonder if people expect it to go down first.  Sounds like there isn't a consensus.

I've been wanting to buy and hold some BTC for awhile.  Is there a consensus on where the price is heading right now?  Should I buy now or wait?

I've read a lot about security as it relates to BTC and I understand that it is safest to use an offline wallet.  However, is Coinbase generally considered safe enough to store (for example) $3K worth of BTC?  Are all kinds of people losing BTC this way or is it proving to be safe?