hello?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

I did, it's a joke.
there is a "wallet verifier" that lets you upload your wallet.dat to have it checked for malware...

maybe BTC is falling because Big Ben stopped QE2

pretty much, yes 

spent the rest of your 9990 BTC on "insider information" like this?

I'm afraid you dont understand bonds either. bonds are issued by one party and bought by another, as a whole forming a loan agreement. if bitcoin succeeds there will be a bond market.

what has that to do with the monetary system and why do you need to "mine" them?

please. speculators ARE the market.
there is no bitcoin economy to speak of.


btw, your idea of a publicly funded bot that stabilized the price is a speculator's dream.
see bank of england vs. george soros.

is it the same guy?
why is he not banned?

oh. looks like that article already changed by a lot.
I referred to the current version.

out of context?
he is quite right that the US govt will go after it.

if you think the last two weeks was volatility, look what's ahead.

either you or I don't understand futures.
futures are by definition the exchange of one good for another (or a equivalent monetary settlement), here BTC for USD.
how can this NOT be done by an exchange but by bitcoin only?

I don't.



1. it doesnt matter whether I care or not. a bitcoin -> USD withdrawal isnt anonymous, pretending otherwise because you want it to be is stupid.

2. I never said Mt. Gox should reveal the identity to all. I said the victim might have the justice system make Mt. Gox reveal the identity if he can provide enough evidence and the thieve isnt clever enough to hide his tracks.

this will happen at some point, be it because of stolen bitcoins or because of some illegal purchase / money transfer.
Mt. Gox even said publicly they want to run a legitimate and legal business and work with the authorities.

I think what the author refers to here is a a desaster like that when bitcoins are already widely accepted - like USD today.
in this scenario, you don't have to worry about whether the network can eventually be fixed by a software update. you have to worry about a downtime of a single day, which causes banks to fail and other fun stuff.

for whatever reason you think bitcoin was created, people now have massive economic interest in it and are going to try to protect it, whatever it takes - including breaking a thieve's anonymity.

pretending bitcoin is anonymous because it was intended to be anonymous - give or take $500,000 - is the dumbest fucking position _I_ have ever heard.

what reason could they have to bundle it in one address?
unless it's a Mt.Gox address, but why have 400k there?

isnt it obvious? what banks and brokers do.
ranging from transaction numbers, transaction cards that dont have to be replaced, to devices that generate a transaction-specific authorization code.

looks like someone identified malware than steals your wallet.dat, with only few scanners detecting it:

http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=c7976118f0a8e1b7046f49718b5f49933db582d72adf6d78e1d4efc043ec6377-1308227137

if the thieve is smart this will never happen. he can sell and buy them using multiple anonymous Gox accounts and in the end his withdrawal can not be differentiated from a miner/trader because it isnt the same BTCs anymore.
but then again, thieves make mistakes.

I think from the blockchain it very much looks like they are sold, but there are also still large amounts unspent so it is doubtful this is limiting the price at 20.
but other amounts are split up in very arbitrary and sometimes very small amounts.

considering there is almost no bitcoin economy, either this is done by an exchange or the thief deliberately tries to make it look like an exchange.


if I was the victim I would provide Mt. Gox with a list of addresses and ask them to save the identity of outgoing transfers with these. so once the victim has provided proof to the police these can be obtained.
this has nothing to do with "killing freedom".

thanks for the link. though not exactly what I had in mind. these things would have to have similar security measures as cash do and be quite expensive because you have to destroy them each time they are spent.