600watt Agreed.
Sorry JorgeStolfi but this one way off. Bitcoin or what ever crypto takes off is not ponzi (ok excluding the pre-mined obvious scams which disappear in a flash). Crypto currency is just another amazing technology that will change many things. Like any other tech, people will find ways to use if for good or bad. But one thing is for sure, its changing the balance of power in the world. The biggest haters are the bankers, hmm I wonder why? Its like Yoda said "Fear leads to hate..." they are scared the population is no longer dependent on their crappy system any more

Crypto offers the opportunity at least to have a chance at changing things for the better - to people who would never get it because they were not born into wealth. Now we've got a bunch of youth who previously would never see the kind of wealth they have access to now, let's hope they can change a few things for the better.

Open source and decentralisation is the way forward. Any system built on those principals has got my vote whether it makes me personally rich or someone else, reason being that the idea of openness and freedom is closer to love (surely the basis of any system that promotes true well-being) then the hate filled closed source bureaucratic bull shit system we have now.

So just before all this excitement started i sent a request to stamp support to ask about which bank account to use as I have GBP and EUR

"You can deposit funds from or withdraw to any bank account held in your name.
Which account your chose to deposit from is completely up to you and we can not offer any advice on the subject.
Should you require any additional assistance, please feel free to contact us."

so you can't offer any advice but i should feel see to contact you to seek it? erm   well ok i know what he was getting at, but not very good answer...

what i was really wanting to know was it there any difference in speed and cost between a GBP or EUR based account with BitStamp.

Does anybody have any experience?

I sent a mail to Gox support about 45mins ago asking to get the funds that were stuck in limbo put back in my account... and now they're back there! I'd asked the support guy on irc to do it a few days back and he said not possible. Not sure, maybe I was a lot more polite this time

Not really sure what to make of this, I know everyone is sick of hearing gox sux stories but this was a nano step in the right direction. I hope (although not kidding myself on) this is a sign of them actually seriously trying to get their act together.. which begs the question...

if Gox somehow got everything sorted (lets for argument sake say midnight tomorrow), everybody got their BTC back in their wallets, month old fiat transfers appeared into our bank accounts everything was the way it should... would that restore faith in the magic exchange? or is the blemish too big now? can they ever regain trust of those who have left?

any joy?

Bitstamp.com  ==> IP address blocked for 900 seconds

WTF!?!?

Is there one decent exchange on this planet or what. Gox is shit, stamp is down when you wanna go trade. I'm sick of this pish! Where's my Choo ffs!

I am... I've got source here somewhere... rummage rummage rummage

cheap coins then? bounty!

http://thegoxreport.com/

Lines are going down... is this good? Thoughts?

Hi,

Just looking to see if any body else if having problems moving BTC out of Mt Gox.

I made a small withdraw earlier today which was debited from my account but I cannot see it anywhere, in their API or in blockchain.info with the tx ref I got.

I also tried this site which is supposed to show their transactions that are stuck.. http://skanner.net/MtGox/mtgox_tx.php?searchme=&Submit=Search   but mine does not appear.

Can anybody offer any advice? What's happening over there?

thanks!