Been waiting for this POMO-Fattened market to roll over. We're getting some dip-buying early today, but it looks like the erosion will continue towards the close. Woe to anyone thinking equities is a 'safe' haven.

Cool feature, I'll check this out. Appreciate the updates.

Nice data, appreciate the site.

I welcome the opportunity to play both sides. Brings the bitcoin markets in line with all the other 'majors' out there.

I'm perfectly intact. But then again, I do my due diligence and understand risk. I guess that comes with having experience trading and managing finances.

Waiting for the next scam artist to claim they 'lost' X coins by looking at transfers in the blockchain. That is always priceless. Its all in vain, though, eh?

High Frequency Trading is market cancer.

Quote-stuffing algorithms which have been exposed by firms such as NANEX, show alarming patterns of bid/offer running, pulling orders after using their algos to 'ping' what is in the order book. This results in 'vapor liquidity' as none of the orders put in the book for the thinnest of timeslices is actually intended to fill.

Woe unto the exchange that allows these parasites into their API's. The last thing we need is some "ghost liquidity" from algos that get pulled when all bids disappear.

As I've stated in my thread about 'bubbles', we have until the end of August to conclusively prove we're out of the woods or not. So, not just yet. I personally believe we are not in one.

For reference: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=26117.0

You won't reach a lofty goal by aiming into the ground, I say aim as high as you can.

Ideas like these are inspiration to other efforts, and I believe in being cautiously optimistic. You can be killed by leaving your house and crossing the street, yet we accept that risk (and many others) and go on with our lives.

It comes down to how much effort we are willing to invest that will dictate whether bitcoin survives and flourishes. Not trying is simply a death sentence.

Yep, nice little 'sawtooth' wave. Saw that one early this morning. Aaaaand we're back in the 13.50 range again. I'm not complaining really, if it removes the casual players due to boredom - I won't be crying. Also sure beats "CRASH CRASH CRASH" threads every couple of days in the forums.

Go to your profile and disable the display of forum signatures. Only way to keep sane, unless you like adblocking every grotesque banner.

It saddens me, as most of the banners look like early 90's spamvertising. Doesn't really help us at all.

I'm torn about this plateau. While I like the fact that we can point to the price history and tell people "Look, stop waving your hands, we've been here over a month without massive swings." I'd also like to see some kind of trending.

Can't have it both ways, I guess. I assume we're basing like we did before the upswing through parity.

I wouldn't touch equity markets with a 10-QE pole. Going to get real interesting once interest rates start to ratchet up. Good luck rolling over that short-term debt, America.

Not only should this thread be in "Mining", but there is the overlooked aspect of miners whose gear is completely paid off, so they don't really care as much about margin compression from difficulty or price.

Anyway, I love the delicious irony of threads started by people who say they have no vested interest, but presume to tell everyone exactly how things are going to be. Is it just an ego thing?

Found this article while reading things on the web:

"Minority Rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas"

http://scienceblog.com/46622/minority-rules-scientists-discover-tipping-point-for-the-spread-of-ideas/

I found this interesting:


Could it be that simple? If you convinced just one out of ten people you know to use bitcoin, could it spur the growth curve that we've all been wondering about?

Share your opinions, please.

Google could earn fees if they setup their own mining nodes. I doubt enough GPUs exist to make it practical, but they certainly could divert some of their collective CPU power to make the support of bitcoin more 'tangible' for them.

I'm still on the fence if they would actually go for the idea, as some have already mentioned, they have many different projects going on.

Money is just something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

There, saved you a lot of reading.

All this paper did was graph public keys, ultimately achieving nothing. Unless you like pretty pictures, I guess.

Nothing new here, honestly.

BoingBoing is a weird site.

While they occasionally have some interesting articles, most of them focus on Cory Doctorow's unfathomable obsession with Disney's Haunted Mansion ride, "Fun-gineers" and all that is Disney. Lets not forget steampunk doodads, raving reviews for any writer he's read, and other easily categorized subjects.

They blasted bitcoin early on in the comments, and no one from the boing boing staff really had a word in edgewise. They're too busy publishing articles about cryptozoology, crappy rap bands from south africa and other random nonsense. Its like you took google, scraped a random article and aggregated it on one website.

They don't understand the technology beyond some buzzwords "OOooh cryptography!" and get everything else wrong. Perhaps if we made a bitcoin client that was reskinned to look like Disney's Haunted Mansion, they might take interest.

Truth often hurts, my forum friend.

I'm glad their forum exists though, it is a nice honeypot for those that think precisely like you. Better that than having all that buffoonery saturating every corner of the internet. I'd call that a fair trade.

He's waiting for his bank transfer to go through so he can post on SomethingLAWLful forums. He only paid a $20 fee to do so, man he's so smart.