The data start at $0.05. I added $0.10 to $1.00.

The USA is a fascistic, totalitarian dystopia with good PR.

No, they were caught completely by surprise by it.

It collapsed because mathematics can't be legislated into obedience.

They said the same thing about the USSR.

It's a different decade and a different Evil Empire this time around, but the ending will be the same.

Banks and government are two sides of the same coin. Certainly in the US there's a constant revolving door between the most powerful banks and the highest levels of government.

Maybe you're talking about some of the smaller countries in the world that feel the effects of US imperialism via the banking system.

In any case nobody involved with any power to speak of has the slightest interest in protecting the financial well-being of the general population.

That doesn't make any sense at all.

How much effort do you think a farmer puts into protecting his cows from milking?

Apparently they are ready to go but are having problems finding banks willing to work with them. It sounded like as soon as they actually got all the licensing required for what they are doing it suddenly got harder, not easier, to find a banking partner.

Only in one direction.

You still can't add dollars to your CampBX via ACH. When this Dwolla change goes into effect, the only ways to fund a CampBX account with dollars will be Money orders or Checks sent through the mail.

It's got to be done in the right order.

Everybody wants to start a business now, but currently if you want to build a decentralized business you have to build it from scratch since there are no tools to help you.

On the other hand what if someone started building, not a business, but a turnkey open source software platform for creating and operating arbitrary decentralized business? That would help things along, wouldn't it?

Nice

In which direction?

Eventually all the Napster-style bitcoin business models will fail and be replaced by P2P Bittorrent-like replacements.

Voting is immoral, like bidding in a slave auction.

That would be awesome.

Do you know how much we'll get done by 2016 in terms of inventing systems that will make that law impossible to enforce in practise?

In terms of the long term trend, I don't think the elevated prices on Mt Gox are that important so I'm going to keep using their price for this. What's ~10% when we're talking about tracing a movement that's expected to span 6 orders of magnitude?

That's what the Litecoin pumpers originally said about GPUs too, and look what happened.

I started using Mt Gox, and I don't know if there's any reasonable way to switch to another data source without starting over from scratch.

Perfect.

The last 30 day graph shows that Mt Gox is losing more relative market share to btcchina than Bitstamp.

That's a great start. An area chart that showed how the fractions have changed over time would mean we could have meaningful conversations about trends.