A belated Merry Christmas to everyone here as well.  Nice t-shirt with the BTC symbol on it.  Santa put a bear market in our stocking.

Thank you for the warning, sir.  Good looking out.  I haven't seen anything like this, but I'm going to keep my eyes peeled.

I'm not posting just to post here.  I've read this whole thread.  Who bought what account?  Is KWH's bought?  Coinmaster?  It's not clear to me what's going on and I'm genuinely curious.

This is pretty much it I think.  I don't think Christmas necessarily has anything to do with the price fluctuations.  Unless some people are selling at the end of the year for tax purposes--that happens in the stock market.

Though I just tried the faucet again and it didn't pay, it did pay me 100 DOGE yesterday through Faucetbox.  Definitely is the highest paying I've seen if he can keep it up.

Yep, it's a big drop no matter how you slice it.  It's at $418 as I write this on preev, and it certainly could go lower.  But that's bitcoin.  I didn't go apeshit when it exploded up to $500 just a little while back, and I'm not too concerned with this drop either.  It's interesting, it's bitcoin.

Eh, yeah.  Ever heard of "buy low, sell high"?  Well, if you believe in bitcoin then a lower price means it's on sale.  Sometimes it takes ball to actually buy low...

OMG, I forgot about him!  What happened to that guy?  I couldn't figure out if he was doing some sort of a weird troll thing by offering those loans.

Yah, I hear the folks who say Coinbase needs to be extra careful with people who gamble, etc., but I've heard so many stories about people getting their accounts closed (myself included) that it makes me wonder how in hell they're going to stay in business.  Even banks don't close accounts as readily as does Coinbase.  Oh well, there are tons of ways to buy btc, so just find another.

Yah, and this is pretty much exactly what we got.  Not that I was expecting much movement on Christmas--who really does any trading on a big holiday?

Oh you're always predicting a crash.  You might be right, but lately the sentiment around btc has been bullish.  You ought to jump on board, my friend.  It's nice and warm in the herd.

Holy crap, got the 100 DOGE, thank you!  You're going to run out quick however.  Nice faucet, very easy to use.

I'd love to be able to choose from a wide selection of fountain pens and pay with bitcoin.  High end ballpoints and rollerballs, too.  I don't think there's any pen boutique in existence that accepts btc. 

Please!  Won't somebody think of the poor children Cryptsy is leaving to starve this Christmas?  The inhumanity of it all!!

Lol, so do they actually still have any customers left?

Gaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!  We're so close to your prediction, but I don't think $500 is going to happen this month.  2015 was a good year, so let's hope 2016 is an even better one.  A toast to bitcoin!

Ugh...I think that's a pretty harsh feedback MZ left you, considering it's a trust rating, and whether you bump old threads for pay or not doesn't reflect your trustworthiness.  Not a good practice, though.

And yeah, from what I've seen MZ just disappeared for whatever reason but I don't think he intentionally ran away with that money.  Something must have happened.

Yep, btc is huge for gambling and if all else fails with it, at least people are going to want to gamble semi-anonymously which means bitcoin won't die.  Hopefully.  I agree, it is kind of a match made in heaven...

You mean like buying and selling it on an exchange?  We already have that.  Buying bitcoin is better than buying something that represents bitcoin and I don't think Wall Street is going to think up something better.

Sorry the bolded part was meant figuratively.

I had a listing up a few months ago, and in the item description I mentioned that I take bitcoin in addition to PayPal.  The eventual buyer paid with PayPal, and I don't blame him--for the reason that others have said, which is the buyer protection.  Why pay with a method where there's no protection?