Not scared , didnt say that how bout prepared .

Yes it can and will but certain things are getting out of hand and I see something and feel something is wrong and far off.   Do you ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkKrpoPfwOY&feature=fvwrel

BITCOIN HAS ALREADY FAILED

CASHOUT DATE IS EARLY DECEMBER

A friendly 1.5k wall popped up to help

You read my mind lol

I caught the knife at $12.40

$12.35, what happens next? 

That's what I don't get.  If anyone could arbitrarily alter the protocol, they could rewrite it to route 10% of all transactions to themselves So can't the protocol never be altered ever without shutting down bitcoin and starting over with a new chain?  Who could alter the protocol and how?

The way I understand it, the writers of the bitcoin client software could just rewrite the code to say whatever they want and say that is the new protocol.  As long as it doesn't contradict existing blocks, it would technically "work."  But if there were 3 bitcoin clients and 1 decided to do things differently, their data would get rejected by everyone who has the other 2 and thus the network as a whole.  That's why I'm a little concerned that the entire network is in the hands of a couple people who wrote the one and only client software.  Didn't they publicly release the code too?!?!  There should be as many bitcoin clients as torrent clients at this point.  For safety reasons, someone write another one! lol.

(of course then if there were 100 clients, any one of them could be rigged to steal your wallet so if you want to use an alternative client, you have no idea if it's legit or not)

Hey folks, i'm in exactly the same situation and have had the same response back from Chris@Intersango

Hello,

If your payment did not bounce back to your bank account, it is likely it was accepted by Metro bank (please contact your bank to confirm this, as I can only speculate). If your payment was accepted by Metro, into our account, we will process your payment from paper statements.

Metro has locked access to our account from online, and we are not able to automatically import payment data to match to your Intersango account. Because of this, we need to process them manually, from paper bank statements, that will be provided by Metro bank.

It is very frustrating, as you can tell, that we have not receivced these statements yet.

The admin has informed me there is currently no timetable for processing. When we get the statements, we will process the payments.

I am sorry for the inconvenience.

Chris





This whole thing is starting to stink like shit!
How many users are in the same situation?
How much money is floating about or sitting in 'supposed' accounts?
Why no communication from Metro to Intersango ref statements?

Not....yet