I wouldn't even bother with escrow -- it's just a hassle for everyone involved, since these cards are going bad so quickly these days. IMO buyers should band together and refuse to pay more than 15-20%. That justifies the risk to me...so if a card gets cancelled half way through, I'm as whole as I was paying 35%. Guarantees from these sellers are worthless.

I don't know about "nice feel to it" -- but the important thing is that it has great liquidity vs. other alts, and the moves are much more volatile. This last rally was WAY bigger than BTC. But now it looks like the top is in.

That's the thing about this market. The supply is mainly these fly-by-night newbies that just set up new accounts rather than make good on cards that have had balances revoked.

Which pretty much means -- buyers need to forget about "guarantees" and force prices low enough to justify the risk.

Yeah, and all of a sudden, the order book is fully exposed -- as never before -- so we can see that the bids are entirely filled in back to 1500. Very suspicious. All these wicks on Okcoin tell me liquidity is leaving. And with all the strange rumors about Okcoin and their "market making", I have to wonder if those bids were filled in by the exchange itself....

If Greece leaves the Euro.... this is longterm bullish for Euro, right?

I mean, short term, some shock maybe, but this is sort of cutting out the weak link, yeah? Seems the EURUSD market is still willing to go bull on bearish US economic data..... so the bears don't seem that strong.

100 or 200 accounts? Maybe over the course of several months, but over that period of time, the price dynamic changes too. I think there is a correlation to the BTCUSD market... I wonder if this rally will have an effect on the market. Hmmm.

Yeah, LTC has been a hell of a ride. I was ready to kick myself for buying around $2, could have been the top.... but the trade is looking pretty good right now. I'm gonna just keep rolling my stops up, not gonna leave all this profit on the table.

Yeah, it's been driving me pretty crazy. I figure with this tight range, we are bound to have a *big* breakout (direction unknown). And I don't want to miss it. So I'm definitely watching closely to make sure I can get decent position.

I'd go as far as to say if you want it for other things, it probably won't matter either. Even if you were using it to appear as an older, trusted member, activity and in particular, green trust, are obviously much more important to the market. IMHO, from observation.

It's a dangerous strategy. It can depend where on the timeline a coin is added to an exchange. Sometimes, miners (particularly early ones) have such a large supply that they just constantly push price down from the get-go. Beware.

Hmmm, candles are curling down now... some sell volume coming in on Bitfinex. I think there is more to this dip incoming. Gonna wait it out before I buy more BTC. It may have to retrace the whole rally. Waiting out LTC for the moment too.

Though I don't think LTC is very promising, it has always remained relevant because it is on the major exchanges and has liquidity (vs. all the other alts). I think some of the more prominent alts just consolidated bullishly because of some of bitcoin's fundamental threats (the gavincoin debate, the OKcoin shadiness, dark market exit scams) and now the TA is playing out. I'm long LTC still, it's got some upside left it in it. May just drag BTC along for the ride too.

The writing is already on the wall -- just get it over with. Grexit will be painful in the short term for the Euro, but bullish longterm. Expel the weak link and pick up the pieces.

(On the other hand, this may empower anti-austerity parties in Portugal, Spain )

Seems ironic that trusted members of the community would be penalized for being trusted. Would be a bummer if you needed a quick few BTC and yet, can't sell your account like anyone else can.

Why do you speculate that a Chinese miner dump will happen? Because of the block size / gavincoin controversy? TBH I think that is all getting blown way out of proportion.

I still have freebitco.in payments coming in every so often. I have no idea why, or where they are coming from. But they add up to a handful of mBTC from time to time. Not much.

The problem is when funds get imbalanced due to strong bull or bear trends. Then, eventually, you are stuck with most or all funds on one exchange, and need to wait for an opportunity to rebalance. I believe efforts are better spent towards trading.

There is nothing about this that is "not above board" IMO. Dark pools are commonplace. Institutions use them to scale in and out of positions (you may have heard the term "institutional order blocks" before).

Actually, they do. Normally, a limit order is executed with a maker fee, which is lower than a taker fee. Hidden orders are charged as takers, even though they are limit orders. So they actually do come with an extra charge.

I'm not sure about flat rate campaigns, but you can get 0.0013-0.0015 per post as a Hero Member with DA DICE, 7BitCasino and Bit-X... so the opportunity to quickly ROI is there, I'd imagine.