Since "The Manipulator" postings are welcome here, I too will share some analysis.

Let us first review how the old analysis played out: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18471.msg233319#msg233319
As we can see, BTCUSD has indeed had a major trend reversal. The snail pattern was an indication that the reversal would come very slowly with excruciating weeks of "price stability", for example at 17 and 14 USD.

As the months passed, though, we have left the snail behind us. Today, I see another pattern I would like to share:



Looking at the MACD it becomes apparent that we are currently undergoing a BIRDISH DIVERGENCE (as can be seen on bird I in red). The MACD with the stretching wings indicates that the bird is ready for liftoff, which can serve as a leading indicator, because the bird in price has not yet followed.

More importantly, we are currently in a trend change from SUMMER to AUTUMN. As soon as autumn comes, it will force the birds to take off and head south, possibly having great influence on the Bitcoin price.

Furthermore, bird I and II are mating, making a great quantity of future birds a strong possibility.

Initial target is 35-60.

Excuse me, but.....what cunt ?! Does this word have any other meaning that I don't know?

Oh, that makes sense. Except. No, it doesn't. How do they nullify these trades in real time? We'll bitch, of course, but if that's really what Mt. Gox has done, then Bravo!

See here:
https://mtgox.zendesk.com/entries/20433652-resolved-outage-11804-unexecuted-trades

Someone reuse their weak bitcoin forum passwords for their Mt.Gox accounts. Noobs will always find a way to screw themselves up whatever security measures you have taken.

On the bright side, what happened proves that a single manipulator who is not incredibly resourceful could only control the price for a very short while.

No. The difficulty adjustment will ensure that some miners can make a profit at nearly any price. Lower prices drive miners out, difficulty ramps down, mining becomes profitable for miners remaining, more miners jump in, difficulty rises, mining becomes unprofitable, miners leave. It's a balancing feedback loop that is always in play, it makes no difference what the price is. I have no frigging clue why after a year of this we still have people insisting that the "cost of mining" somehow affects the price of bitcoins.

I agree. Besides secularism, this alleged statement from 1998 may explain some of it:


Source: http://www.oocities.org/~dagmawi/News/News_Sep17_Gadhafi.html

One way or another, OP poses an important question that gets lost in moral arguments based mostly in PR campaigns of corporate media.  The Western leaders may also often be held responsible for terrible civilian atrocities all over the world - napalm, depleted uranium, cluster bombs - and they are more often then not extremely wealthy too. There is no real distinction there between them and Gaddafi, except maybe in numbers which may surprise you. The distinction is that currently they are in control of their plans and wealth, and he is not. Ergo, he is the one having problems managing his assets - and Bitcoin certainly seems like something worth considering.

So, can we try and take a disinterested look: how does Bitcoin compare to gold or cash as store of value for wealthy people who, due to the nature of their enterprise, are at risk of becoming wealthy fugitives?
Someone already pointed out that it's hard to beat a good old suitcase full of dollars - but in the long term there is the problem with inflation. Gold may correct for inflation, but then there is the issue of "value density" for those on the road - you currently get about $60 per gram of gold (as a fugitive much less than that), but $100 per gram of 100-dollar bills.
It's not fair to compare Bitcoin at this stage, but let's assume it is still the three years from now in its present form - not much regulation apart from the opinions of internal revenue agencies classifying it one way or another for tax purposes, serving some niche online and POS markets, mostly used as a store of value, and looking like it's there to stay. One undeniable advantage of Bitcoin would be the ease of transfer, physical or via network. One undeniable disadvantage would be traceability via block chain if your initial accumulation of coins was not carefully carried out.
Any other thoughts?

Supposedly Libya has declared several billions of USD in gold reserves. And, guess what? It's not held in Switzerland, but in Libya. Moving it around and cashing it out as needed in this situation surely makes one wonder if Bitcoin would have made life easier.

As for all the dictatorship- and terrorism-related comments here, I wonder if anyone has actually visited Libya under Gaddafi, or these are just opinions based on CNN, Fox, BBC, Wikipedia, etc. I've never been there myself, but I happen to know several people who have - and I can tell you that things were more complex and more interesting than simply a "terrorist dictatorship". Since lots of negative facts and lies have already been thrown around, I will try to balance the view a bit. It was a secular system that provided free or heavily subsidized healthcare, education, and housing to its citizens. It was a country that invested in and successfully built vast infrastructure of water wells and pipelines, enabling farming in what would otherwise been a desert. It was among the most developed and prosperous countries in Africa, and as a consequence lots of people were leaving their homeland to work in Libya. Curiously, it was a country with almost no foreign debt and with significant reserves.
At least part of the trouble and radicalization was caused by the outside intervention of western countries who were displeased with this working example of socialism and with Gaddafi's support for Pan-Africanism that threatened to interfere with the continuing extraction of resources by foreigners.
It will be interesting to see how all these things change under the new government over the next few years. I predict strengthening of religious extremism, elimination of welfare, rapid rise in foreign debt, and privatization of water and oil resources and infrastructure.

We need to email these governments ourselves alerting them to bitcoin.

But he'll still need some place to spend them and I don't know of any BTC stores that sell dictator level luxury goods, guns n' ammo, torture racks and other authoritarian accessories. Cashing out seems out of the question since it's to the same banking system that has already blacklisted him.

So how would he pull out the money when needed? I assume it would be in huge chunks of money...not the 5-100 btc withdrawls that we might be used to seeing...

This is besides the point. The man has vowed to fund terrorism with his money, and yet you have objected to what money he has in international banks being seized from him. If you are disputing that this should not be the case you are essentially agreeing that he should be allowed to fund guerrilla warfare against innocents after his long and brutal regime.

It's called an "assumption". Gaddafi Vowed to continue a Guerilla war after he was deposed (which in this day and age essentially amounts to domestic terrorism) and he himself funded a cruel and tyrannical regime. If you believe he is entitled to his wealth after vowing to use it for such disgusting tactics I could only assume you must agree with what he has done.

So by this I assume you support terrorism, tyranny and dictatorships?