People seem to forget that something needs to trigger the price to rise. The price won't shoot up to $1000 out of the blue. The last 'moon' was triggered by the Chinese and we'll need something similar for it to rise again. The stocks of a company won't rise without good news/more publicity etc.

Another deadline would look as if the Chinese govt doesn't really want to, or is unable to.

as the last poster quoted, still in consultation stage.

one other thing to be concerned with is the merging of national insurance contributions to become "earnings tax"  thus if your employer does not pay in contributions or you as self employed dont pay the contributions, that can then also be used by HMRC to raid your bank account once the totals owd get large enough.

the reason i say this is that NI contributions have more error variance on if a employer pays the right amount, then compared to the error variance of income tax they pay HMRC through the PAYE system

basically employers get NI wrong more so then income tax, and most employee's/self employed dont realise it. but then with this new HMRC proposal, it will make the employee accountable to fill the deficit and not the employer.

other news which makes things worse is that government want to give employers tax breaks*1., meaning yep you guessed it. while employers dont pay as much "earnings tax" on behalf of their employee, employee's are left to 'fit the bill'

*1. http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/article/employment-allowance-2000-nic-break-unveiled/539156

The Moon exists in a vacuum, so lacking an atmosphere, you would not be able to smell a thing there.

Try again please.

FIAT
1. more then 50% of moneymakers scam account holders... a fact
2. many bank ATM limit customer access to funds daily, their call centres are always bsy and they only have their doors open for 9hours a day 5 days a week. (alot of downtime compared to other 24/7 services)
3. banks move money from country to country, suggesting a possibility of large unused financial potential could be used to F**k over the forex and debase the already indebted FIAT market
4. wall street is constantly selling fiat causing the national debt of all countries to grow while wall street makes their profits

now onto scams
i can recall the nigerian prince, the foreign lottery, the nknown relative leaving an inheritance, the foreign friend's hospital bills. the mail order bride.. all of which are FIAT scams
then look at on the stret scams.. pickpocketing, card cloning, identity theft.
then look at banking scams.. HSBC getting away with laundering.
then look at bank history. armed robberies, bank heists.

and the biggest scam of all.. the national minimum wage scam. forcing people to work as slaves due to it being legalised that it is acceptable to pay people very little.

need me to continue?

no? well ill just summerise.. where ever there is something of value that people want. there is always a dishonest person that wants it without earning it. to me that just shows that it has actal value as no one would risk jailtime for something that has no real world value

id be more concerned when the day cames that scammers and theives DON'T want bitcoin.. because when these scammers DON'T want a bitcoin that is given to them through an easy con, then why would anyone honest choose to pay for it

Satoshicoin

Was that you who took ~250 BTC at around $427?

If so you will be happy to know that you never caused a spike in price. Less than 20 BTC have since been sold at prices between $427 - $432.29. Doesn't really look like there are many other buyers piling in either so you can sleep well knowing that you aren't burning any poor shorts.

How many coins you are planning to buy..? which you think will make some kinda noticeable spike in price..!