ya... it went back down quickly...

ITS BACK UP =)

also, to be prevent more flaming of my wallet choices, I have QT and all that, I was just wanting to buy something haha =)   web wallets are nice in that you can buy stuff without having to sync a wallet that doesnt get connected to the net much..

true, but web wallets are so cool!  I just want to believe bitcoin is the future and use it carelessly like its normal and safe. too bad its not so mainstream and secure yet...

I know many on this forum have been burnt by preorders, but I thinking thats about the only way to get a good $/gh ratio. I preordered from knc and was happy with what I got so I feel that there may be some others out there worth supporting.
Im looking for 20nm chip size or 28nm if I cant find a company likely to produce AND ship(lol) a 20nm. Im looking to spend about 10 btc.
thanks for your imput, if I cant find a good preorder situation, would it be a good idea to build a computer for scrypt mining? for 10 coins Im betting I could build a very nice unit but I dont know anything about that, Ive been a bitcoin purist and am only now thinking of branch out.

ps, im not too interested in a antminer, as popular as they currently are I dont see them keeping up with the difficulty curve with there watts/gh ratio. if I had gotten on board sooner, sure, but now?

anyone able to access it? i was going to try logging into my wallet, but there link to the wallet was down and a few min later the whole site is 521 error.

it will happen in time. just like we list car prices (generally) in thousands, coffee in dollars, airplanes in millions, and government budgets in billions, so too will we get used to using the correct bitcoin terms. but really we need long terms of stability to find out what these will be.

I know it may be hard to step away, but try to. nothing big will happen in the next month that 2 months from now will even matter. If the price drops it will be a short lived dip because there is a lot of money waiting to buy cheap coins- dont believe the posts you read of people "cashing out and leaving forever" thats all bullshit, they may well have cashed out, but trust that they will buy back if the price goes low enough, and if it starts to skyrocket, they will also buy back because they believed enough to invest at one point in time already.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2821314/   

this

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=decentralized+bitcoin+exchange+project&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

scrypt asics making alts no longer "profitable" vs mining bitcoin directly will also hamstring the alt market and pump btc proportionally.

the winklevoss etf opening investment options for retirement funds and other money currently blocked from entering the bitcoin market.

and there are more

any one of these could push the price well over 1k, easily. combinations of these could drive it higher.
I saw dogecoin T-shirts at hottopic the other day at the mall, and requested they carry anything that says bitcoin. its coming, give it time and try to wait with confidence.

I dont think so, what we are seeing now is the pressure it takes to change the way we do things. We have used exchanges to trade our btc, soon we will trade btc in the client itself, I have read some interesting projects for decentralized exchanges and when we get there its practically game over for the nay sayers.

I have been kicking around ideas for ways to help promote bitcoin, and while watching local tv today and all the cheap poorly made ads we always make fun of, I wondered why not bitcoin?

when I was in highschool one of the better TV ads was simply this:  
screen 1) TURN
screen 2) YOUR
screen 3) KNOB
screen 4) TO BOB

all the while creepy/eerie music played. everyone was asking everyone what it could be about and as highschoolers we came up with all sorts of random things. turned out to be a radio station no one really liked but I bet many people cant forget.

I want to basically copy that idea and make a short ad maybe 5 seconds long that says:
(music starts)
screen 1) the word "BITCOIN flashes on screen for .5 seconds .5 sec after music starts
screen 2) "what is it?" for the last 4 seconds
end

5 seconds long.

timing this correctly before the bitcoin movie could have interesting results. anyone have any feedback or other ideas for a short tv ad spot?

If you had said "bitcoin is now at 600 and its daily average will not go below this" then people would be less able to give you crap over small movements.

you got in sooner than most. As a bitcoin fanatic I actually make it mart of my day to talk to everyone I meet about bitcoin and asking if they have heard of it or what they know, making it a priority to talk to any store owners if they plan to accept it. Most of these people have never heard of it. meaning yes we are still the early adopters.

I feel bitcoin will be over 10k this year.

I got mine, well 1/4 of my goal at least. I really want some sub 500 tho... 540 is good but....

visted bank this morning to find out my ability to borrow, heres to hoping i get to max it out with 300-400$ coins... (i wont borrow money unless the coins are sub 400)

Id moved on before the gox thing even happened. the guy whos sig says "if you are not the sole owner of your privet key, then you have no coins" really stuck with me and so i never really risked anything on exchanges and moved my coins to other places asap after buying them. i bought coins at 800 i was/am happy to have bought (who knows what id have wasted the fiat on) and ive bought more since then. picking up coins today in the 500-600 range makes me happy not fearful. ive been doing a happy dance this whole crash, between telling people not to panic.

poll is broken due to being about mtgox. im sad i missed this epic buying chance at sub 200 prices, but may still buy a 650 coin. my reasons for not being too eager for 650/coin is that Im already heavy in btc. ill pick up part of a coin today atleast though and more if it dips again

people have interesting feelings about how hard it is to get bitcoins on a exchange, for the lowest possible price, but forget they can pay slightly more and get them without any hassle at all.

if you want a lower price you must work a little harder, if you want a easier job you must pay a little more.

depending on your definition, sure it exploded last year. it first became easy to use to buy things other than drugs last year. to me, thats just a fire cracker, when i said explosion I meant something much bigger.
the average person in america still does not know about bitcoin, so that means nothing real has happened yet. todays buyers are still early adopters in this perspective.
I feel bitcoin will be the prefered way to shop online, when that happens todays numbers will seem insanely cheap, todays newborns are handed smart devises with their baby blankets (not really, yet) and they are used in schools alongside textbooks. to these hordes of people with huge buying power bitcoin will rise to power.

Remember Obama won by being the first president to target the youth, still in school but would be 18 by election. the under 18 market for bitcoin is huge, and NONE of them think bitcoin is complicated.

but i just feel so bad for anyone caught up in thew panic.... I feel like there must be a thread for newbies to look to if they have been in the game a short time. Some people may not see threads as jokers trying to pass the time if they are over-invested.

it took about 4 months after starting to gain confidence in bitcoin, and I only KNEW it would take off after using it to do my shopping online. its so much easier then using a CC it would be a huge shock to me if crypto didnt explode in a huge way soon. read soon in terms of years not days/weeks.

amid all this panic do yourself a favor and search for "shaking out weak hands" price may dip, but nothing about bitcoin has changed, the protocol is as safe and useful as ever. since nothing has actually changed that means these fluctuations are no more then blips on its path upward. what bitcoin actually is brought us to the price we are now, it had nothing to do with good or bad press. the press came because of bitcoin. nations are taking note of bitcoin now, sell at your own risk.

Id never go so far as to call taking a loan slavery, that sounds more like what I refer to a job as..