a few weeks back they(who?) announced a $50,000 development 'bounty' ... never heard it get resolved though.  It's destructive because they are taking attention away from the real work in this space.

Bitcoin is getting popular in india these days but now a single bitcoins price is higher than a average indian's one month's salary so most peoples are buying small amounts only.

I honestly do not think he gets it. Acting like he has an I.Q. of 70 is pretty fail trolling if that is what he is doing.

Looks like there are still quite some issues with getting money over to actually liquid markets - I can't explain ~40% interest rates on USD otherwise while Bitcoin goes vertical and does a few 1000% return in a year if you consider just short term positions.

Please get more USD to Bitstamp!

Also:
Suddenly nearly all my lending positions (from various days) were returned all at once. What's going on there? Whales cashing out? Seems unlikely that all my positions were lent to only one single person though... Anyways, let's get this lending rate TO THA MOON and let the lenders also earn some profit and be frustrated that they didn't buy BTC with their USD instead.

No, but Doug Casey, Jeff Berwick, and a few others do.

Become a permanent international traveller and you can largely escape the tax man's effective reach.

I haven't figured it out, so the riches are ready to deposit billions of dollars into our several obscure Bitcoin exchanges already? Otherwise what is driving the price higher?

To retire comfortably and still stay in the game, you'd need to come up with a sum that you could withdraw the market, pay capital gains tax on and stick in a brokerage account to accumulate interest. Here's what I came up with:

$1,500,000 USD, pay capital gains tax of approximately 19%, leaves $1,215,000 USD. At a typical ROI of 7% on the market, that's $85,050 USD gross, or $56,133 USD net after approximately 34% tax as those would not be long-term capital gains. That's an income that would be quite comfortable in the rural US or in SE asia or in Latin America or in Eastern Europe. Now, because you don't want to blow your chance on multi-million dollar coins, you'd want to make sure that you don't liquidate all your position. So, you'd want to have roughly $3,000,000 USD in value before calling it quits in the rat race (to leave half your coins for speculation). So, then it just depends on the timing of your entry. If you'd bought 1000 coins at $2 a pop back in 2011, then realistically you'd be able to retire next year as historically BTC has a roughly 1000% return per year. If you bought 10 coins today at $250 a pop, then you'd be looking at roughly 3 years to be able to quit comfortably, when your coins are worth $300,000 USD apiece. That's a figure that rpietila already famously calculated as being the gold store of value replacement amount, so not entirely unrealistic.

Ah, cause and effect.

Gold bugs have been chanting for many years about the collapse of government money worldwide, yet they have made very little inroad, and their gold itself is starting to collapse.

A hero is certainly a product of his time, yet the whole false boom and feel-good hobnobbing might have lasted considerably long if it were not for one man's determination to change everything.

Think about what's been happening geopolitically in the last five years.

This isn't about the rise of Bitcoin as much as it is about the coordinated worldwide collapse of government money.

Large fiat holders around the world are looking for an exit strategy. Every time Bitcoin survives another near death experience, a few more of them decide it's worth taking some risk.

This kind of exponential growth starts off looking like a few people quietly making their way to the exits, and ends up looking like a stampede.

At this point right now that would mean basically not getting any answers, as my e-mails go to one of their PR people and then it gets bounced to people all over apparently in the search for answers.  I can ask my contact for their phone number or skype or something if you want, but if I was on the phone with them it'd probably be, "Okay, I'll go send a message to so and so about this question."

Something I have always wondered about is the use of data from 2009, 2010, and even early 2011. Does the nature of the jump from 0.00001% to 0.0001% market share actually contain any meaningful information? To my uneducated self, it seems like this is most likely to be noise