I think it's more of a listing of a BTC based company rather than an ETF. Still, very encouraging news.

I'll wager they won't unless you try the freedom of information thing. There's zero reason for the vendors to publicise it. Same goes for the buyers most likely.

There's never been a question of it not being legal has there? It does add a nice little nudge of legitimacy though.

The price is what everyone imagines it to be. I guess their imagination ran with the idea of someone spending several million dollars and then destroying that value by dumping all those coins. I don't think rationality is a strong point of the BTC market.

It's likely it'll be used to scare a few weeds out of handing their coins over right up until the day itself. You may as well work the opportunity while you can even though the auction isn't public and the coins will probably end up in safe pairs of hands.

Anyone expecting some Ebay sniping while the markets dance around in front of a live feed is going to be a bit disappointed.

It's sealed bids and it's quite likely they won't disclose the price unless there's a successful freedom of information request. We may remain in the dark about the price achieved for a long time afterwards, perhaps always.

I'll bet quite a lot of that 1300 have forgotten about it though. The thread problems on here and the name change won't have helped.

I like the etc. at the end of the title. He's too lazy to troll with passion today, bless him.

There've already been offers to buy the whole lot in one gulp. Whether the folks who publicised the offers go through with it is another matter.

I assume over time these cycles are going to squeeze most of the headless chickens out of the picture. I sure as shit hope so anyway because it's starting to well and truly get on my nerves.

Sounds like we should crowd finance some top tier oral for the unpleasant one.

Nah. Happens quite often. Maybe everyone else is waiting for the next person to pull the trigger with a saucy comment.

A proper weird one.

It's likely that many of the coins everyone holds now made a nice profit for the previous owners much earlier in the game. Ultimately they did lose out by not hanging on to them, but if you'd paid 1c for it and received $1 that's still pretty sweet. What people should be doing now is holding off being another rung on that ladder.

What's the time scale of the poll? I don't think it'll do much or anything in the short term. Long term it adds a nice foundation to the launchpad.

I thought about my dead grandpa for the first time in a while today. I'm expecting that to be reflected in the price soon.

The only news I can ever recall having an immediate effect on price was during the regulatory hearings at congress or wherever late last year. It went soaring in seconds as it became clear that it wasn't going to be a total hatefest.

As for all the other news out there, it slowly adds to the critical mass that may eventually wipe out the handful of people who probably control the prices on the exchanges.

One is a method to get a cab a bit quicker than normal, the other is either going to change the world or disappear in a puff of C++. A slightly harder sell.

Ok, I've been reflecting on this since you wrote it and I've decided to yield to you. I'd like to ramp it up a bit and have you run every area of my life.  I'll be in touch for you to supply me with a daily checklist of tasks and things to say that'll raise my social standing.

As you're so confident of it failing, I think someone, somewhere will mine the last fraction using the processors in their futuristic silvery cape and then sink into their hot tub on Titan whilst having a nostalgic chuckle.