Bitcoin is suffering from unwarranted self importance.

Neither are the FEDs going to manipulate the Market nor are they 'fighting' Bitcoin per se.
They simply are enforcing proper procedures. You can thank Mark K. & the rest of mtgox who didn't thought it necessary to do the paperwork which is required from them.
It is even possible they brought that up onto themselves by a high profile ad in the G8 magazine and nobody would have even bothered otherwise.

in retrospect:

lol

Perhaps he is trying to encode a secret message with his switcharoos?

Welcome to the piss yellow club. You went there pretty fast.

sure why not.

Trading on btc-e has been depressing lately. Nobody wants to get in at 95... I get the feeling this will last till either gox & bitstamp break the previous resistance or it doesn't even get that far and it plummets right after the top without the chance to unload.

FIXED

This 'community' never seizes to amaze me.

You have incredible fatigue. Bitcoin must really mean a lot to you, if that weren't so sad I would be laughing.

Muahahaha


Seriously I haven't predicted anything. There are simply too many unkowns and possible scenarios this can play out.
One of these scenarios would be that is becomes more difficult to trade Bitcoins for Dollars which would discourage many investors. If that doesn't happen, well good.

I just don't wanna hear: "No one could have expected this, derp"

<-- yellow badge, I got one!

The only universal measure is the number of transistors. It wouldn't even be that hard to estimate that if we get the numbers from Avalon & Co.
It's easy to compare to CPUs, GPUs & so on, and it's a "fair" measure factoring in efficiency improvements.

That's true, but this time there is a reason.

Hey I would watch that!

Bitcoin isn't ruled to be anything. A judge simply said it can be "used like a currency".

This has the same legal repercussions as it was before, namely independently of the medium of exchange your local laws still apply. You need to pay taxes on everything related to Bitcoin which you would otherwise.

This could mark the beginning of the longer multi-year bear market.

There is no legit approach.

If mtgox dies that way 266 was the all time high.

Watching people lose money is even funnier.

Only as long as the price goes up.