what event? where is a list of the chip counts?

on bitcoinity, can someone plz explain why there are red bars that are going upwards on the left side??

CYPHER WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!

its -O2 not -02      it's the Letter O not the number zero

Here's my theory:  

Assuming pirate's operation is not a ponzi and he's not doing anything illegal, then he obviously wants the price of BTC to go down.

"I'd Gladly Pay You Tuesday for a Hamburger Today" - J. Wellington Wimpy

This famous quote is referring to the idea that people taking loans and paying interest are betting on the value of whatever they are borrowing to go down. In pirate's case he's betting on the value of BTC to go down.

Have you ever seen him say anything bullish? I see him talking about "risk management" saying that he is prepared for BTC to have no value in the future by using them in an analogy that refers to BTC as "pet rocks" here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=82849.msg918162#msg918162

Even if pirate wasn't betting on the price going down initially, if he gets enough loans in BTC, (which he already has) he will have enough volume to corner the market and have enough influence on the price to MAKE it go down.

This really isn't a risky move for him because if somehow the price of BTC rises out of his control, (which i find unlikely because he clearly stopped the rally today) then his business model either turns into a ponzi (when the only income comes from new investors) and he can just take all the BTC and run. or if he decides to do this legally, he already has enough influence on the price of BTC that i think he can make enough fiat through market manipulation to pay back his investors still with a lot of profit for him.

His investors are basically lending him BTC to sell for fiat to drive the price down.

Assuming this is the case, if I were an investor I would withdrawal my coins before the price makes any movements up or down, because both scenarios are risky for you.

Don't get me wrong, there is still potential to earn money through investing in BS&T as long as you get out in time. But, i think its a bad bet and, in any case, i think it's a bad thing for Bitcoin to have people "Centralizing" where the Bitcoins are. This picture here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85687.msg1015662#msg1015662  clearly shows that the market is already backed up into a corner.

i think this was just a demonstration of power

aww don't give up. u just gotta believe in yourself.

lol
u giving up on keeping the price at 6.66?

hold on to your seats!

either way. whether i'm right or wrong. i still posted this in the right sub forum. It is definitely speculation

how is this off-topic??? i posted this in the speculation subforum and it got moved here instantly. maybe i should word it differently? i speculate that the price is going to stay at 6.66 for as long as pirate has so much influence over the price. I can't speculate how long that will be, but if i had to guess, its probably going to be at least a year.

wheres are the options "i dont have gpu's or fpga's but i plan on buying BFL-asic or non-BFL-asic"?

Pirate is keeping the price at 6.66 and there's nothing anyone can do about it

awesome

i can vouch that this thread was indeed stickied

this is going to have big impact on the world economy

http://webcast.web.cern.ch/webcast/play_higgs.html  i know i'm a little late on making this thread as the conference is over now because i was busy watching the whole thing.The conference revealed that many independent studies got a ~126GeV and 5 sigma result (1 in 3.5million chance of being wrong).  i know these are scientists so they claim that 1 in 3.5million is still inconclusive, but i think it's safe to say they found it.  This is HUGE news. I don't want to go into too much detail about how big of a deal this is, but this is going to make technology advance much faster and many other things. Do you think this could have any effect on the Bitcoin market? If so, what are your predictions and why?

pack dat shi up

is that you in that picture?  if so, you're beautiful.