i don't know law in your country, but in my country stock excha, when panic sell, like btc right now, stock excha can temp shutdown to cooldown heat

Same here. I am already all in with Bitcoin. But if I would have any fiat left I would buy immediately more. And that's exactly what I am going to do when I get my next paycheck.

Low: $152.25000

 

I always ask anyone I'm talking with whether they've heard of bitcoins. 99% of the time the answer is no (and I mix with some clued up people). Within a minute most of them are intrigued. But now when they hear that the price is ~$150+ their response is, "Oh it's too high. It's risen too fast, too quickly." If however, the price was $1.50 or even $15+ they would probably jump in and spend just as much money. It's a psychological thing, like buying a thousand penny stocks vs spending $600 on a single share of Google. I think the bitcoin powers that be, need to think about naming the equivalent dimes, nickels and pennies of the BTC world so that newcomers aren't faced with sticker shock. One of the most common newbie misunderstandings is that bitcoins aren't divisible and a well presented naming convention would really help. Just my ever humble opinion, but what do others think? Do those names exist already?

If I would not have any BTC or FIAT if would definitely take small loan to buy some BTC. I think that the risk to lose completely couple of grands is much smaller risk than the risk that one day 1 BTC will be priced 100k$ and you missed the train.

I am much more willing to take the risk to lose my money investment in BTC than to take the risk of missing the train.

Mt.Gox was under DDOS that time, people couldn't panic. Although that means next selloff will be huge.

הרעיון בגדול הוא לקנות רכיבים סטנדרטיים ולהרכיב מהם מחשב, יש כמה guides איך לבחור את החומרה.

לשם השוואה ניתן גם לקנות מכונה ייעודית באותו מחיר שתעבוד ב - 25 GH/s, הבעיה היא שייקח לה כמה חודשים להגיע.

But is arbitrage-trading really possible with bitcoins? I mean the network needs about 1-3 hours to validate a transaction and for real arbitrage-trading you need then much luck because of the volatility to buy cheap and sell high on other exchange, or am I wrong?

In Russia, Yandex is more popular than Google, due to their better handling of Russian language. Would be curious to see the trends there... I'll do some research.

In some of these countries people use other local search engines.  Some of governments are blocking google, faceboook, etc.  As a result, Google may deliver only a part of the whole world picture.

בזמן האחרון נוספו נותני שירותים של המרה לשקלים

https://www.bitsofgold.co.il
שירותי קניה ומכירה במחיר שהם מצתתים
העברה בנקאית בשקלים לחשבון שלהם בבנק לאומי

https://bit2c.co.il
בורסה שמפגישה קונים ומוכרים

מעניין איך הם מתמודדים אם נושא ניכוי מס במקור על רווחי הון?!
מצד אחד הרגולציה בארץ לגבי העניין לא כוללת מט"ח מצד שני ביטקון לא ממש מוגדר כמט"ח.

The Supreme leader of Persia, Ayatollah Khamenei, has anounced that Iran Oil Shipping is going to offer payment via BTC.


This follows an ongoing standoff between "Great Satan U$A" , Israel and the Gulf State. 


Khamenei is confident to thwart any effort to crush Iran's economy by sanctions and trade war by some countries eager to serve their masters. 

I regret that I didnt buy bitcoin at levels between 2-5$ where I became aware of bitcoin and became a "believer".

Either you believe in bitcoin or you dont.
If you believe in bitcoin you should invest in bitcoin with at least 10% of your salary each month plus make a big onetime buy on a dip.

My longer term view for bitcoin is bullish: If bitcoin really becomes the no. 1 Internet currency / payment system the valuation should be compared to Visa (106 Billion $) and Mastercard (63 Billion$). If we assume Bitcoin is most suitable for the young generation 25% of total credit card transactions and usable for 10% of their transactions (online and on smartphone) each year the result is that 2,5 % of the worlds total credit card transaction have the potential to move to Bitcoin instead.

If we assume that the valuation of all credit card related companies are 300 billion dollars, Bitcoins valuation should be 7,5 Billion dollars. Since it is in growth we should discount for greater user base in the future so the valuation can be several times greater than established credit card companies - 7,5 x 3 = 22,5 Billion dollars = 1071$/ BTC.

But the way is not straight - I assume we will have many crashes to 1000$. Right now I wouldnt be surprised if bitcoin would crash to 20-30$ before stabilizing.


Conclusion

-Buy bitcoin on huge dips with money you can afford to lose.
-Buy Bitcoin regulary every month if you can
-1000 $/BTC is a realistic target if Bitcoin increases in popularity and a growing ecosystem of bitcoin shops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jllJ-HeErjU

seems like someone sold two million dollars worth of bitcoins