The market will decide.

If enough traders pull their funds and don't use them, they die. If they stay, they live. It's pretty simple.

I'll happily add my own account as double-secret-probation-escrow, in the event of the contest ending in a draw, I promise to hoard the coins until the price reaches $100.

See below...

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I've seen a site circulating that had some competing bid/offers of different exchanges, but I would like to see a GBBO (Global Best Bid/Offer) synthesized out of that data.

If someone made a gold coin with an embedded chip that contained 1 bitcoin, I think everyone's head would explode. Also, I like the idea of having a physical coin, for the irony. It wouldn't be practical, more of a collector item.

It would be easier to have your own bitcoin DNS server to redirect to a custom domain.

Even that would cost of course, seeing how bandwidth and hardware aren't free...

No, sorry, douchenozzles won't keep the video card cool enough. Maybe a full immersion technique, but that is beyond the scope of this thread.

I don't mind the video cards exploding, just as long as they're not near anything flammable, that could get nasty quick

At least difficulty would actually go *down* for once. What an event that would be!

Keep 'em comin' folks!

I'm touched by your story.

Please submit a donation to the "allinvain" sub-par security church (address below) for consideration. Induction into the "BTC Fool" sainthood will be judged, first by how much BTC you lost, and the tenacity of your efforts to get the media to parrot your story. Only if you can get on an episode of "Dr. Phil" or equivalent will you win your prize.

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Please, sell all you can.

I'll be there to buy them up from you, silly trading newbies.

Okay, I see where you are going with this. I know that allinvain has made people cynical with lack of proof, but there is no reason to accuse me of falsehood.

While I would be ecstatic to even recieve just 600 bitcoins, I am afraid that I cannot rest until the full one thousand have been recovered from wherever they have been spent.

Please don't hate, I am only seeking justice in the same manner as the 25k patron saint of non-security.

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Most likely reclaiming the bits of metal from exploded miners video cards. As you know, there is a pervasive trend in MtGox and Stolen BTC posts, at first I thought they were trolling, but I realized the actual effect such threads.

Every time one of the above threads get started, a video card blows up. The miner, dejected and horrified, hurls the smoking relic into the trash, only to be recovered and stripped by a gang of recycling hooligans. Please, don't perpetuate this trend, the difficulty plummeting would send the wrong signal, for sure.

Dude, no - I am super serious. I understand the breadth of your loss. Now I know how you feel. If only some generous people could donate to my address below, I would find some peace.

1,000 BTC may not mean much to you, having lost so much more, but I can tell you I do nothing but think about those coins, rattling around some nasty netbook somewhere, scared and alone.

Please, while I know 25k bitcoins is a lot, consider looking deep into your soul and sending something to make up for my measly 1k loss.

I thank you in advance!

Be careful, whenever someone posts a Mt.Gox thread or BTC Stolen threads, your video card may explode.

I think that is why they're so persistent.

Also, if you would consider helping me with my 1,000 BTC loss I'd be most grateful.

We BTC losers have to stick together!

Just donate below,

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Oh man, wouldn't you know it? After reading your post, my 1,000 BTC was stolen! I can provide the address in blockexplorer if that would help. Just make sure you donate to the address below.

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Dang, another Mt.Gox thread. I think I heard a miners video card explode down the hall.

No wonder you guys make so many

I've lost about 1,000 BTC reading all of "allinvain" threads.

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I find it funny too that the last trade is 15.40 on Tradehill, yet everyone thinks it is going to zero...

Oh, about volume, since it isn't the same volume as Mt.Gox, I guess it would be easier to crush to zero, but jeeze, just doesn't seem to be happening.

It's okay, we'll wait while all the CRASH CRASH CRASH fanatics readjust their theories... comon boys, if it is so easy - why am I not seeing it trade at 1? 0.50? 0.01?

Every time a Mt.Gox thread gets posted, a miner's video card explodes.

That can be the only explanation for this exponential flood of hysteria.

After thinking about this some more, I see what is going on.

When new technologies are introduced, we try to relate to them on prior terms. Let me drag out the old reliable 'car analogy'. When cars were first made, people really wanted to figure it out. How they would fit into their lives. At first, most thought going faster than 30 mph would kill you (really), and stayed away.

The first autos were "Horseless carriages", because that is all we could compare it to, not having seen one before. So I see this happening with bitcoin. We want to embrace the freedom and open transactions, but feel the need to saddle it with "Backing it with something". Or, "Hey, lets just make it a fractional reserve currency - you know, just so it is familiar."

It is the same struggle that any new technology has to deal with.

I think we need to adopt it, and make up terms along the way, just like we've done for the computer over the years - and the internet.

But you cared enough to post.

CONTRADICTION COMPLETE.