The volume is frighteningly low.  I've been on the edge of my seat, so to speak, the past few days.

So what's the plan everyone?  LTC?

Seems fine to me.

Really sorry.  The best thing I've ever done is create a bunch of paper wallet backups on a un-networked Linux machine with Armory and then do a military grade wipe of the drive.  I suggest everyone holding significant amounts do something similar.  I remember when Gavin started talking about wallet encryption and how he made it a point to say that it couldn't fend of attacks such as the one you've unfortunately fallen victim to.  Real bummer.

Yes, it is my project.  Had to put it on hold for a while, but I'm picking it up again.  I spur of the moment sort of thought that letting the cat out of the bag would put a fire under my feet to get some content out the door.  The fact of the matter is a pretty large proportion of what I post here is posted as a sort of parody of a lot of the sort of talk that goes on around here and, in weird way, a parody of a lot of my thinking and posting last year.  Embarrassing as it is to admit that, it is what it is and it's something I'd like to start moving away from (though, it's just so temping sometimes).  

This is a round about way of getting to the point that I intend to avoid depressing doomsday talk.  In fact, I'm intent to make market talk and price talk a very, very small part of the podcast, if it features at all.  Rather, my aim is provide discussion of relevant current events and, more prominently, I'd like the podcast to focus on stories.  Specifically, stories from and about notable people involved with bitcoin and stories and discussion about interesting events that have happened in this little universe since 2009.  I hope to offer something informative, entertaining, and well produced; so, yeah, you're going to see a side of me that's more serious and less absurd than my posting history.  I'm even thinking of moving off of Proudhon and to my IRL name...

No.  It's this.

I think this is great news.

I knew it!  It's nice to have my intuition confirmed.  I guess it's time to sell everything.  I might wait a few minutes, though, just to see what you folks are going to do.

Maybe I should create a ponzi scheme using apples so I can prove that apples are a ponzi scheme...hmmm

This is what I find so disgusting about the Intersango/Bitcoinica Consultancy crew.  They effectively said, "Yeah, we lost a lot of your money, we have a bunch of it still but getting it back to you is turning out to be really hard and it's giving us a headache, so we're just going to go over here and do something else.  We cool?".

They damn well better be disallowed from becoming members of the Bitcoin Foundation.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!  This is fantastic news and I'm happy to enthusiastically support this.  I'm super excited about the foundation.

Ok, I'll go first.

Stopped watching after "Thanks again to Amir for, uh, inviting me..."

C'mon, there's a much better chance the price will be $2 sometime in the next, say, 6 months than $100.

Price goes down as people panic because of uncertainty and try to take what profit they can and/or mitigate further losses.  Remember those single digits I've been talking about?  They're coming.

Too late.  The community has already implicitly forgiven them by supporting happy fun-time at Bitcoinica conference 2012.

I've been saying this for a very long time.  The coming weeks and month are likely going to be a rough awakening for lots of folks around here.

I think there's a good chance 3 months from now the price is lower than it is now.

So, now that the Bitcoinica/Bitcoinica Consultancy/Bitcoin Consultancy guys are done with the conference...remember how they mismanaged like hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins and, er, dollars and still, as far as anyone knows, have yet to give the vast majority of everyone's wealth back?

Or, with the passage of so much time and the hosting of such a groovy conference, are all those guys, like, cool with everyone now?