No, it's not "about me", if this was "only about me" I could be bitter and angry because my "btc value" decreased by 50% since April, 10th.

Just do not expect btc to always go up in both mid and short term, especially not after a bubble burst. Because is nonsense. Night is dark, there's no surprise and is expected. On the contrary, expect BTC to go UP in the long term (years) - as it always did.

There's nothing to worry about, really. Bubbles need to burst all the way down.

Successful auction? So you are hashing with unit and paying out dividends?

Believing again you are smarter than anybody else?

Accepting escrow? Or you consider that people is dumb when enters a bet without escrow, as you taught to the community, but is clever when enters any other type of transaction without it?

Escrow and I bid. Lesson learnt.

Didn't you see the "untrustworthy" tag?

MNW scammed dozens of members of this community. I suggest you to use escrow. Because last time Matt scammed, he said that the fault was on those entering business with him, as "he wanted to teach people about always using escrow".

So, if you're really interested in this, at least use escrow - lesson learnt, right?

MNW was clearly serious on his bet until he realized he was going to lose, at that point he started to play the joker part because he thinks he is smarter than others and can fool people.

It's sad to see how he insists on the "it was a prank" thing. It's like saying to everybody: "ok, you are so stupid you didn't even realize I was joking". The saddest part is that i believe he is lying to himself and living a delusion.

Pues eso. Con los Avalon 1 y 2, que tan baratos parecen, no había garantía ninguna. Ninguna variable positiva que tener en cuenta. Lo cierto es que era infinitísimamente mas arriesgado comprar un batch 1 a $1200 que un batch 3 a 5000€ (que es lo que eran 75BTC en ese momento). Pero claro, el beneficio de un Avalon 1 será también infinitísimamente mayor que el de un batch 3.

Other endeavors = paying in full people you scammed?

Mars

Man. Just think before you type. There are 100,000,000 Satoshis for each Bitcoin. Do the math instead of babbling. And please, after you have done the math, be so kind to let me know what rate of coin destruction we need to have for this being a problem in, let's say, 2200.

Cierto, era un acto de fe, de hecho tardaron mucho tiempo en vender las 300 unidades del primer batch, jugarse un duro por ellos era como jugárselo a un sólo número de la ruleta. Un "a ver si este año toca el gordo", y cada boleto costaba $1200.

En serio, ponte en la situación. Verás que era un boleto de la lotería muy caro en ese momento... Y es que, aparte de no dar Avalon ninguna garantía y generar muchas dudas (muchos pensaban que no sacarían un ASIC, y menos antes que BFL), el bitcoin estaba a 10€.

Pero claro... El mundo es de los audaces. Y el que no arriesga, no gana

You are correct. And this has been a long term bull market since 2009.

I agree only in part with Brightanarchist. I also said "we are entering a multi-month (mid term) bear market" since April, 11th. Bitcoin will down. Thats what you get after a so obvious speculative bubble. I also agree on the general approach, "buy when everybody is crying and sell when everybody is cheering". Pretty basic stuff. Best time to buy BTC in 2011 was indeed after "The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin" Wired article. But this time much more things are happening, both bad (the feds seizing accounts is much worse than some hacks) and good (positive media exposure, VC's money, etc.).  Plus, I disagree on the following:

1) Brightanarchist, you are looking at this like it's a stock. And BTC is not a stock. His implications are much deeper than those of the commodities you are used to trade on markets. Its growth potential is orders of magnitude bigger than the assets we trade on other markets.

2) you expect a bear market worse than we had in 2011 (bottom was 1/16 compared to the top, November), as you say we will see the bottom in 2-3 years. No way. This is no 2011. IMO the bottom is around $50, and we already explored it. We may very well explore it again, but we won't go much deeper.

Again, BTC has deep implications. More people is understanding it. They fall in love with it. It will go viral sooner than you expect. Each cycle will ignite faster and will go much higher than you expect.

That's the problem of all those crying about the price going down, because it "hurts the coin". Come on... It's so obvious they bought during or just after the hype cycle, and they are scared and butthurt.

Price goes up, prices goes down. Been like that since this baby was born in 2009. But, in the big picture, price is way UP. Even if it takes 2 more years to break $266, it will happen. Just chill and relax. If you bought during the bubble, bad luck, you should have known better, just don't make the same mistake made by those who bought during the 2011 bubble and cashed out for good at a loss because they were bitter and butthurt.

Bitcoin won't let you down, just use your brains and don't be a pussy. This baby needs to grow, and this game is played in the long term.

Man, you are so bad at scamming you are pitiful.

Yeah, because nobody is selling ready made miners to a price that allows ROI. If they have the hardware, either they mine the hell out of it or they  sell it at a price they won't get mining by themselves. Otherwise it would be a bad business decision, right?

Bueno, vendiendo cada 10k chips a 780BTC no creo que vayan nada ajustados.... Pero nada, nada, más bien amplios de margen 

Because we had a speculative bubble which made the price go x20 in 3 months. And speculative bubbles need to fully deflate before a sustainable growth trend is resumed.

Jeeez, guys, we where buying BTC at $14 in January. Chill out and let the motherfucker correct before it goes up again.

THIS

In fact I sold 20% + 15%, plus some play money. And I don't sell more because my average entry point is well below $30, I cannot predict the future and even if I see a down coming I won't gamble my full stash because it's very safe in my paper wallets. I'm in this for the long term.

Because "store of value" doesn't mean "get rich quick". Two weeks, three months mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Just think that 1btc was worth $0.079 in may 2010, $2 in November 2011 and $10ish in 2012.

If we close 2013 at $40ish, BTC will have worked as an excellent store of value for me. It's the best I know. If you don't see it, then you are just short sighted. Maybe you wish to buy today at $100 and sell at $200 in one months. Well, wake up. That's not how it works. Stores of value are for the long term, especially if they are commodity like and thus prone to volatility and manipulation.

Just zoom out and look at the big picture, guys. Really why are you interested in BTC? For the quick easy buck?

First, i only invest what I can afford to lose.

Secondly, in my book being reckless means being out of BTC and into fiat (always considering that you put into this game only what you can afford to lose).