This is good!
I like that people are making this about God.
This means BTC will be the "one world currency" mentioned in the book of Revelation
Now all we need, maybe in 5 - 10 years, is for one powerful man to appear, who will require us to etch our private key into our forehead or wrists, and we're in business!
Bible:  "Nobody will be able to buy or sell without this mark.  It is the mark of the beast."
Once all this goes down, then Jesus comes back and we see a big fight between the antichrist and christ!
At least life wont be so boring anymore.  Bring on the Apocalypse!

Is Satoshi the Antichrist?  

I mean now that all my obese, ignorant fellow white people have decided that Obama isn't ... ?

So you think in the next year and a half, absolutely nothing new will develop, grow, or become more widespread with Bitcoin, across the world?

Just total stagnancy starting today?   Well .. after it drops from $193's current price of course ...

"LOL" <---

Yup.

Scroll to the bottom of this article and "like" my comment: "Bitcoin."

http://www.infowars.com/chase-bank-limits-cash-withdrawals-bans-international-wire-transfers/

Feel free to reply and chime in.

Funny looking at everyone scream and yell to purchase gold.

Well, I might as will keep this going.

We hit $182 today.

Pretty sure this is because the black sheep of bitcoin is finally gone. Silk Road.

And the China announcement.

Confidence is probably skyrocketing now that bitcoin stayed afloat without all the illegal activity going on. Higher confidence equals higher value.

People are probably happy that from here forward, illegal activities won't be the hallmark of the majority of transactions related to bitcoin.

They initially seized 26,000 bitcoins from Silk Road:  $4.16 Million in Bitcoins

They also have Silk Road guys wallet but haven't accessed it yet:  $90 Million in Bitcoins

They seized 700,000 bitcoins from the Ponzi Scheme guy:  $112 Million in Bitcoins

So conservatively, the US Government has stolen and is holding nearly $207 Million in Bitcoins right now.

At $160 per coin they're holding about 1.3 Million BTC.

All it takes is one person with an IQ over twelve to tell them to "Hold on to it because it'll probably go up in value" .... They're not dumb.

It makes me extremely uncomfortable that they have potential access to $85 million worth of bitcoins thanks to the dude at silk Road. Not to mention the Ponzi scheme guy and all the bitcoin they confiscated from him. Why don't they just stockpile it now, and when it's worth $10,000 per coin, the US government will still be the wealthiest nation in the world.

I'm really annoyed that at this point, the US Government is probably the single biggest holder of bitcoins in the world. Because they feel it's their right to steal all the money involved in every illegal operation. It's not like they're seizing it so they can return it to its rightful owners. They just take it and stuff it in their fucking pockets. Real fucking ethical. Isn't the government holding majority of bitcoins the exact opposite of what we want to happen?

Let's hope they're stupid enough to liquidate it...

Soooooooooooo tired of $150 already.

$140 was torture.   Weeks ... and weeks.   But it made my financial advisor shut up about volatility.   Almost worth the price of admission there.

But yes im ready for $160.  lol ..

Wrong.
Might want to update your information a little further rather than just parroting the poorly worded headlines you see floating around the internet.
You sound like my financial advisor who only knows about:

1)  The bitcoin bernie madoff story
2)  Bitcoin is illegal in Thailand
3)  Winklevoss ETF

Outside of that he hasn't got a clue.

Delete

Using Bitcoin QT software to hold a shit ton of money in wallet.dat files and being filled with terror every time I tried to open them because I would repeatedly encounter errors or problems, corruptions, or my encryption key would "fail" for no valid reason (which turned out to be a case sensitivity issue that I swear to this day I did not cause - twice!)....  no more trusting my money to a software program. 

Amazing that you took a chance and did this.  Amazing that it worked.  I hope you get him motivating material.  You can let him know that BitPay has over 10,000 companies signed up with them, accepting Bitcoin as of September 2013...

Someone predicted it would.  It didn't.

Bummer.

Did you draw up that graph when you were drunk?  lol ...

The prediction scale is awesome.

Everything around it is a convoluted mess.  Its a great concept though.  You should put it on an actual graph with actual X and Y axis with proper labels at the various increments.

Too complex.  Just tell them they can accept transactions for free and they'll be sold.

I've already used that simple, one-liner and get nothing but "Where do I sign up?" in response.

Unfortunately that's when the conversation falls apart.

Bitcoin needs to be simplified.

Whatever the cause, im done with Bitcoin QT.  And any software for storage.  Paper wallet until something significantly more stable comes out.  
Unless they want to start providing people with their private key information, which continues to astound me (that they dont).
When you've got a shit ton of money stored in some software that won't even tell you your own private key, and routinely has bugs/failures/errors ... you'd have to be insane to put your money in it.

Just an update to this, i figured out (thank god) a way around this.

1)  When I move my wallet.dat file offline to a storage device, I copy the file, then paste it to the new location, then renamed it to another xxxx.dat
2)  I then delete the wallet.dat file I copied.
3)  When I moved the wallet.dat file from the offline storage back into QT directory, it failed to open.
4)  When I pulled the deleted wallet.dat file from recycle bin, it opened,  and as fast as a possibly could, I moved all my coins out of QT to a paper wallet.

Apparently the act of moving the file and/or renaming it and moving it back ... causes corruption in the file.   

This was the only solution that worked.  

Lets Talk Bitcoin was really good today I think.  Really interesting topics.
I think Plan B is the "fun" bitcoin podcast.  The one dude on there is hilarious and cracks me up often. 

By the way, why is this called the Bitcoin QT support forum when absolutely *nobody* from Bitcoin QT participates or helps anyone here?

Its not a software support forum when a bunch of end users have to sit around making clueless guesses.

Fail # 2.

Update:

I just copied in another offline-saved wallet file and QT tells me its corrupted.

Bitcoin QT is a crap software as far as I am concerned.  This is totally unacceptable.   And this is not user error.  Several people are reporting this problem:

"Wallet corrupt, unable to salvage".

That's cool.  No big deal QT .... just lost $1,000 .... aint no thang ....

Nice job QT.   Fail.

Just happened to me too.

I love how fucking buggy this software is.  given that it has entire savings accounts in it.

Who are the programmers?  Do they give a shit?  What if you have $10,000 worth of BTC in the file?   "Tough luck" ?

No support?  Nobody replies?  Thread just goes dead?

This is bullshit.  You can't have "bugs" and amateurish bullshit software when people's life savings are at stake.   

What's the solution to this new bug?  I am never trusting my wallets to Bitcoin QT again.  I haven't seen this many fucking bugs since windows 3.1

Thanks guys.

1)  Yes, wallet shows correct balance, but as we have all heard - shit hits the fan with a compromised wallet only when you try to "send", right?

2)  QT rescans every time you put a new wallet file in, automatically.   Does that answer your question?

3)   Why would sending more BTC make the "transaction size in bytes" smaller ?

4)  I just loaded up my other wallet file and "Encrypt" is grayed out, as it should be.   So its definitely something wrong with the other wallet file.  I even loaded up a third saved wallet file and it too has "Encrypt" grayed out, indicating that it is already encrypted.  

Yet when I load the wallet file im concerned about, "Encrypt" is enabled, and it should not be, because the file is already encrypted.  And when I try to encrypt it again, it gives the error message above.

I really ... really ... really hate trusting this much money to a software program like this.  For this exact reason.