Gave it a read thanks for sharing.
I found the part about it being an active investigation interesting and wonder if the culprit was caught also the effort the hacker put in the attack.
Bitstamp did not restart their server but acted and used a backup, and Xapo was not a bad choice so respect there.

In a sense at least it is manageable with PCs Bitcoin would have been extremely concentrated up to the late 1990's
Unfortunately your right about the amount of bandwidth each user has to run nodes and it will be a significant problem unless bandwidth development accelerates at a similar pace to HDD.

While he talked with Satoshi his real ID would not be known to him being psudeoanon.
Just as we have profile names and a real person behind each account he communicated with Satoshi as Satoshi not under a real name.

If its sounds like speculation and feels like speculation it probally is.
That said it makes sense in the view that if timing a new asset to coincide with a significant Bitcoin event triggers potential upside volatility and is near your release day then take advantage of it.

Well as long as Mark Carney is overseeing the UK central bank the banking system will improve steadily.
Did a decent job in Canada which is in the gutter a bit with Poloz.
And providing some additonal info is always good.
On a day dubbed “Super Thursday”, the Bank broke with tradition to publish the MPC’s August rates decision, the minutes of the meeting, and its quarterly inflation report, alongside Bank governor Mark Carney’s regular press conference.

Congrats to flux on his win
Its always nice to see a old vet win a few rounds 

Well in that week it managed to surpass WU.
Considering all the advertising and costs associated with WU's revenue model that is quite the impressive feat for Bitcoin.

With the issues of setting up an intelligent brainwallet, it makes sense that people would be better off not creating them unless aware and capable of securing them however if the wallet is unused and abandoned a few treasure troves are available for grabs.

The 250BTC Brainwallet passphrase was "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood"
Someone didn't think that over.

No just no
It would set to many dependancies and a lot of problems including the fact that some might not have traded any goods/services cash with others among other cases.

It will take a while for the supply to get there but I'm assuming that people were tired of having their Bitcoins locked for so long
So just got to wait a bit and let the blood settle then sneak in their as a speculator.
0.005 BTC
1 BTC = 2000 Ether
Mean 0.0005

Keep watching
For now at least and see how developers decide to participate in the network.

It was an interesting chart on poloniex
Someone started the order history at 50 BTC for the daily high so it was a 99.99% loss when it started trading at a normal price.

At the moment I'm curious on ethereum and whether it will have the growth to become a sustainable investment.
You get rewarded for people using your applications in Ethereum I believe and with the release of Frontier and trading starting on exchanges its on my radar for observation.

A brainwallet cracker, people will learn the hard way if their password is strong enough
It also will be a hobby for those who want to gamble for a large payday reward.

Just a bit curious if the Bitlicense in New York has any impact on Betmoose
Or if it doesn't affect US users.

I opened a thread amongst all the Greek havok about this default incoming
It was set to happen and given that most of the debt is American that was bound to happen.
Death spirals are really tough.

Puerto Rico is not Rico anymore
Rico means Rich

Now its Just Puerto ....

That is a strange ruling, the court must not have the laws and mechanisms to cover it
Off to the government it goes.

First mover advantage
In this case Ether would likely survive as its had the time to get a developing base
Other alt coins that come after and do side chains will likely not gain as much traction unless they have big capital to support it.
Bitcoin due to its position will still be able to enter fairly safely into side-chains if it's not done to late in the future and another group takes the dominant and solid position.

There is some blood being shed today in the markets
That said it was expected given that the market has finally had a chance to adjust itself.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33754005

The main Athens stock index, the Athex, ended the day down by 16.23% as trading resumed after a five-week closure.

The nation's top four lenders - Piraeus Bank, National Bank, Alpha Bank and Eurobank - fell the most, all down 30%, the maximum allowed. Banks make up about a fifth of the index.

Expect more bank pain tommorrow and also for people to realize the utility of a cash reserve if you want to take advantage of deals.

In accordance with conditions laid down by the government and the European Central Bank, local investors are not allowed to buy shares with money from their bank accounts, only with cash kept in safe deposit boxes or at home

That sounds like an accurate assessment but it needs a caveat that wild swings will likely still exist due to trading maniuplation as the amount of interested parties increase.
It will be interesting since it opens up all the additional pairings of Altcoins that are based on Bitcoin to market trading and pairings which could cause random unpredictable spikes to Bitcoin itself in correlation to them.