Oh, boy, you have to take the tiny size of this island nation(both in terms of territory and population) into account, with that in mind I would say the interest is disproportionately high, judging from this indicator only.

Never short more than what you can make from your long.

Maybe something like a "bitcent"? If the price ever goes to over $10000/BTC, then I think we just don't need to worry about this anymore, as people will adapt, in a variety of ways.

Guys, please let us stay on topic.

Suppose that some Chinese/Korean tycoons made up the idea to buy, Gox would be the only place with enough liquidity I guess.

My favourite scenario would be some bears who are ignorant about world cultural geography setting up walls, reckoning that there wouldn't be much buying during the Easter holiday, then gets gobbled up in a minute.

It's at best a enhanced weekend dip, in Asia we don't celebrate the Easter, so our attack should still continue.

Think about it, if you had got a knife, and you had wanted to stab someone 10 times stronger than you, were you gonna warn him before you stab? If North Korea screams all over the place then that's when we can be sure it's nothing but bluff.

You can change the power factor until you're satisfied. And the benefit is exactly to warn people when large amount of old coins got moved, as this maybe someone ready to convert into fiats.

And the people behind it are as far the best, alt-coiners would bitch about it but it's a fact. Right start with the creator, who open sourced everything then disappeared, this is quite a statement indeed.

This, what in some people's eyes are weaknesses of the bitcoin are actually its great strengths, if alt-coins were to compete with bitcoin, they have to survive:

1. Early-adopters pump and dump, I can just mine a lot and even scam you out and run;
2. More directly, a 51% attack.

Both cannot be rid of without great computation power back-up.

Are there people actively taking advantage of this deficiency? Gox is  lagging even if there are only several orders being placed in total, WTF?

Brilliant, +1, and 0.1 BTC to your address, should arrive within today.

The key is a shared secret/ the address is a multisig one, but unfortunately, the other people holding the keys are dead(give names of random people you know who recently died while in fact you hold all parts of the keys/secret) Sure, everyone knows if they can decide to convict you when they can't even prove you are not complying, there is nothing you can do. But still, bitcoin provides a maximal degree of protection and plausible deniability compared with other hoardable item.

Try brainwallet.

"Yes, good sir, I do own some bitcoins, but only 3 BTCs, here is my private key. What, 500? Who told you so? Some of my relatives? You can't just rely on some hear-says as evidences right?"

Or if your prosecutor is more of a "by the book" type: "Yes sir, I did store 500 bitcoins in an address(which is too long, who the fuck will remember that?) And I use this brainwallet setup to protect my private key, but unfortunately, I have totally forgotten about my passphrase, so perhaps these bitcoins are forever lost. And I think you can't prove otherwise." or just simply: "Sorry I lost my private key."

I guess that's why someone are selling small amounts into the wall, poor guy, mind the hidden wall.

No need to hurry, the longer it holds, the stronger a support it will become when it gets resurrected.

Temporary bears/daytraders.

I read the whole OP, yet I didn't find even once the phrase "secret rocket" gets mentioned.

Who made this video? Should have been a veteran forum resident, if not Vladimir then who?

Possibly two people escrowing through Gox.