I'd like a way to hide/ignore threads I'm not interested in. Is this possible with the current forum software?

Either that, or I have to write my own greasemonkey script or something.

1. Live charts - take a look at any of the forex dealers, they have price widgets on a top bar and chart displays nested below.
2. Price Widgets - Bid/Offer and size of the closest bid and offer underneath. Be nice if the bid or offer flashed a color when updated.
3. Rudimentary Technical Tools - Moving averages, trend lines, RSI, Stochastic, Bollinger Bands
4. Payout options - send to several different Bitcoin wallet addresses at the same time if needed
5. Trading Statements - Buy/Sell, Quantity, Price, Timestamp, Cost Basis, Profit/Loss, Full or Partial Fills indicated
6. Order Types - Limits, Stops, Market Orders
7. Sliding fee scale based on volume of the trade - encourage liquidity for larger chunks
8. Darkpool listing of orders over a certain limit - choice to show/hide bid/offer on book

That is all I can think of at the moment.

Best of luck on the venture!

'The banks'?

And how would they achieve this miracle, exactly? Last I checked 'the banks' don't have any influence over Mt. Gox. Worst case scenario, btc gets frozen and another exchange takes its place. That is the beauty of a system that doesn't rely on central control. After a while, we won't even *need* exchanges.

Seems like someone should be a TV psychic with their own show.

How do you 'know' any of this? The truth is, you're just pulling things out of your ass and presenting them as truth. Please don't mind us, we're just trying to run away from the smell.

How are they going to settle their trades then? In US dollars? That would be hilarious. High Frequency Trading depends on rapid price changes, and exchange kickbacks, or 'rebates'. I don't see Mt. Gox catering to that, and when they have to settle up at the end of the day, they'll have to wait for confirmations on their BTC.

Don't see how it is viable for HFT to creep into the system using BTC in any fashion.

The parent poster question makes no sense. I'm not buying bitcoin because I care what they 'cost' to make. I buy them because I see value and security, in addition to the pseudo-anonymity it provides. There are many things that are backed by a belief in value versus their intrinsic cost.

The only way I'll stop buying bitcoins is if the entire system isn't functioning. I truly doubt that will occur.

What benjamindees probably meant was:


Anyway, I say follow the trend until the trend tells you otherwise. To predict is foolish, to be on the right side is divine.

Do what you can, there are millions of people out there who aren't informed as you are now. You still have time.

True, but they won't be happy the 1-block-per-ten-minute throttle will effectively kill any attempt to build a High Frequency Trading system. I on the other hand, am ecstatic about that fact.

Easy enough to compute on your own with an excel spreadsheet scraping URL data.

Formula:

((A-B)/B)

Where the larger value is put in 'A'.

Easy-peasy!

The same thing that 'happened' with bittorrent.

1. Announcement

2. Collective shrug

3. Business as usual

I'm going with september, just to cover any possibility of some profit-taking along the way.

Buckle in, folks.

You all realize that exchanges become obsolete once enough merchants switch over, right? They are just a step on this long journey to replace abused and flawed currency systems world-wide.

You'll see.

Geeks: Here's bitcoin. It changes everything.
Everyone Else: We don't get it, we're more comfortable with our soft green toilet paper.
Geeks: Cool, more for me!

Guess what happens when they get down to parity? We'll buy them all back. Have you ever traded before? Because the theories you are putting out there suggests otherwise.

The best part about 'regulated' exchanges is it placates the government. Until they realize later that bitcoin's overarching goal was to supersede being exchanged into a local currency. At that point they'll bluster and call out "No Fair!", but we'll be too busy having fun to notice much

I appreciate your forecasts. Keep up the good work!

Reminder: gabgab is a troll that can't even pass the Turing test.

Can you buy a vote with the dollar?

I'd rather not find out by a default, no. I suppose what I'm trying to communicate is any major disruption in the world reserve currency would result in people fleeing to other alternatives. That would include bitcoin, I'd imagine.

He/She probably wanted some peace from shrill alarmists until the system proved itself. That, and not being a visible target when governments finally figure out that they've been rooted to the core.