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This kind of post is off topic and will be deleted. Only reason I split it this time is because you added moderation issues into the repost, and I don't want to delete complaints against my moderation.

No. That's something different. The * on the buy side means you cannot open a long position at that point in time.  This means the dollar reserves are low, because when you open a long position, you are essentially buying bitcoins, and betting the price will go up. Shorting is when you "borrow" the bitcoins, sell them, and then buy them back at a later (lower) price. So if there is a * on the sell side (no btc) you can't open a short position.

Liquidation (zhoutonged as the folks in speculation like to call it) is when the price moves too far and you get a margin call. This means you were long and wrong, the price dropped, you get closed out and lose your original investment. In real markets you would get a chance to liquidate it yourself, or increase your margins with more funds. Zhou can't do that because of the anonymity of bitcoin, so he autocloses the position at this point.

Leverage is the main reason for the *, bitcoinica provides up to 10x leverage (scaling depending on how much your investment is). * on buy means a lot of people are long, or a few have a lot of leverage and are susceptible to volatility. 

Sager is a pretty good company as far as laptops go, solid, aren't overpriced (mostly).

All the ladies go for the mods.  

Cablepair! I was thinking of him when I writing my first post initially but couldn't remember the name so I didn't mention it. That annoyed me too but he stopped soon enough and didn't do it that often when he did.  If he were still doing it I probably would have made this thread myself a long time ago.

Agreed, banning it would mean people give a shit about it, and the people who matter don't. 

Nice, good work.

My bad, sounded so absolute with the can not. Short term will be rough, lots of lows and highs. Hopefully higher than the last  


BTC, I bought at after the second bottom @2.50-3.50 and held (with profits from shorting, should have just went long but wasn't totally sold it would recover well), almost sold when it hit ~4.50 the first time, when it looked like it was gonna crash.  When it hit 5 I gained a little faith and decided to hold and see what happens. Didn't wanna press my luck, tend to quit when I'm ahead. This fund will likely not be touched and is stored away. I plan to move more money in soon, waiting to see what direction zhoutong goes with bitcoinica. If all he does is just move to a different exchange, I may just stay with MtGox since I'm verified already, depends on where he goes.     

Why not? Not short term, probably not mid term, but it's not gonna crash and burn spectacularly, I think it's rebounded quite well. I mean, 3,5, 7 years from now don't you think it's conceivable that more internet businesses are turning to electronic currency? I mean even if a big name corporation didn't, there are a lot of small businesses out there that would benefit from it. And they are just gonna hear the word bitcoin more and more often.  It's already proven itself invaluable among the black market, they aren't gonna just stop using it. Don't get caught up in the short term, and don't burn your ass trading.

It could crash and burn though, there are dangers. People get greedy and fork the chain, to make it more "acceptable" to the masses is probably the biggest threat (barring a critical flaw).

Edit:  All bets are off short term though, I'm not trading in this volatility, I'm just sitting it out and waiting.

I was thinking about that myself earlier when I checked that forum, it bothers me too seeing a bunch of locked threads with 0 replies. With CH doing it three times in the past two days alone, just seems like they're gonna keep doing it unless something is done. 


A locked thread with no replies is useless to a discussion forum and should be deleted. Shouldn't be made in the first place actually, warn then ban IMO.   

   

You should check out out the economics forums, there are a few good bitcoin centric threads there, should give you some reading material . Even the negative ones are worth reading for the replies at least.

Unless Especially if it involves aliens.

Here one that talks about your question.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=58102.0

I figured that would be reg's next reply after he found the manipulator threads. 

You will be disappointed if you are looking an easy simple reason for why it's happening. 

Costia got it right, difficulty is related to price, but for the most part it follows the price.

The Dude said no.

Yes looks much better now.

BIP16/17 are the replacement for OP_EVAL, which was scrapped.  

But basically it will add the capability for multisig transactions, where you could say, send bitcoins from your computer and require it be verified with your phone (so much more secure). The devs all agree better wallet security is needed, certain people don't like the implementation.

Pretty much how I see it. 

I see the phone call wasn't enough...