You could spend hundreds or thousands on this type of thing and it still won't count for anything compared to a handful of real people taking a look. If you're going to throw money anywhere SEO makes more sense and will ultimately continue paying off.

So the moment has finally come. It's about time the the TA, trendlines and 'wisdom' accrued up to 2014 was pissed all over. If this market was a couple of centuries old all that stuff might count for something. As it stands it's all being made up as we go along and it's good to have a reminder of that.

Even if they find the whole thing odious and pathetic, hundreds of thousands of people are transacting happily away with it under their noses. That's got to catch their attention and they're going to at least consider how they can work their way into getting a piece of the pie.

Banks aren't there to benefit mankind or dictate policies, they exist to make a profit. If there's future profit in bitcoin then they'll be looking into it even if they think it's silly now. I'm sure plenty of banks were just as sluggish about the internet.

SEPA should be same day, often the same hour. Banking is rather more first world in the EU.

Cor blimey. Give the fella a break. Bank transfers can go wrong pretty easily. There hasn't been a squeak from anyone else about withdrawal problems. Open up a ticket and see what they're saying.

Sweet. So a $2300 rise per day. Let's get rolling tomorrow morning and see if we can get off to a good start.

I've well and truly given up trying to predict anything any more. I'll go for it to bubble up to $100,000 and then back down to $100. That would be quite a firework show.

Inflation will be borderline nominal in 10-15 years though. Economics is a considerably more sluggish arena than technology. So far Satoshi made some eerily prescient decisions. One of them is probably realising how long it would take for a new economic concept to take root. You need to maintain that incentive to support its creation for quite some time. The move to pure tx fees for miners will have to be very gradual too.

Unfortunately one can never quite tell until the vital moment has passed. As soon as I get a sniff of it these days then they're cut out of my life for all eternity. The world is harsh enough as it is. No point in surrounding yourself with worthless people.

I think it'll all hinge on the bitlicence and that's gone pretty quiet as of late. There might be final conditions in there that take a considerable amount of time to implement.

They'll be fully regulated and they'll have a proper banking relationship. No conventional market player or finance professional would go within a trillion miles of any of the present exchanges.

It's the first time there'll be an exchange that's on a par with every other financial market in the world.

The existence of exchanges that actually aren't shit or run by children or thieves will be a major factor in pushing the price to that level. It will never happen without places that are bulletproof and accountable.

I'm pretty amazed it got to where it has with the wretched history of exchanges.

A very sensible approach IMO. Money brings out the evil in an awful lot of people. If they sniff it then they'll take and take and take. People will throw away their deepest relationships for financial gain sometimes.

Just received mine. Packaged well and rapidly delivered considering the distance. Thanks a lot.

I don't think they fully know what they're up to themselves. That's why they're up for messing around with it. I settle on none of the options so far.

No bank, other than a central one, has ever made its own currency and they're not going to start now. They might look for solutions for inter bank and international transfers. They might look at tokenisation like mintchip.

It'll be interesting to see if there are any conclusions and innovations. They might come up with nowt or grudgingly start to look at integrating Bitcoin in a modest way. There's a role they could play there.

There's gotta be a more dependable way of gaining extra coins than that. If you are still gambling that means you must have some left.

And are you managing to pull it back so far?

It differs for everyone. My own criteria would be anyone whose opinions, or not even that, are 100% predictable and overwhelmingly worthless.

I'm perfectly happy with how it operates at the moment. Uncool but true. Many present gripes will be addressed by layers built on top.

If we're allowed to run with our pie in the sky ideas, it would involve wiping out the centralisation of mining at its core and having the mining algorithm serve a worthier purpose on the side.

For a decent amount it would be about being rich with BTC and chuckling at the fiat folks who never took the plunge. I for one would prefer to only splurge bitcoin, not anything else.

He'll be back soon to mention giving the gig to others and then disappear again. Rinse and repeat. Weird.