True. Hope at least you requested for his ID, etc. to be reviewed by mods. You simply do not give such amount of money to a random guy on the interwebz without having his info checked.

It was obviously not a prank. I he'd won, he would have taken the money for sure. Just check his original post, he was very serious.

The fact that the scammer still tries to justify his default with "I was trying to prove a point about using escrow", etc. it's just a demonstration that he is not sorry about what he did - at all.

With such a low volume, we should go well above $130 to welcome a new uptrend. Let's see how strong is the bull's hope.

As soon as you will do a few small trades on Gox you will be entitled with a free Yubikey. In the meanwhile, you can just use Google Authenticator. Anyhow, it's very important that you print the QR code and the private key string before even clicking on "SAVE". Otherwise, if you lose your phone, or if it fails and become a brick, etc. you will be screwed big time.

And do not forget to add the 2FA also to the "security center" option, otherwise a hacker will be able to change your security settings any time.

100,000,000,000 XRPs

Use both, Google Authenticator (print the QR code so you have a paper backup) and Yubikey.

That way you have your ass covered.

I'm not speaking about relative volume, I'm speaking about the bid sum. On gox you still have x20 the amount of fiat compared to Bitstamp, which is expected - it's much slower to move fiat than coins.

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Unfortunately I do not see that. Bid sum at Bitstamp was $955k a few days ago. Now its $1.05M. That's a tiny improvement. And it is still a joke compared with the $20M sitting on Gox's order book.

Well, I can guarantee you that I'm leaving both my coins and fiat at Gox atm, even if i have to admit that I reduced my trading position by 80% after the Dwolla situation. I was going to do that in any case, as I stated a lot of times I do not like to sell coins, only to buy them after/during dips and crashes.

We just broke the highest price of the last 7 days.

It will be interesting to see what happens at Bitstamp, with those HUGE ask walls.

Both fiat and BTC are saying "bye bye" to Gox.

Breaking $125 feels good

And here you have a practical demonstration about how the preorder scheme is working wonders for BFL.

The fact they are still spending huge amounts in advertising to trap clueless newbies in their scam, regardless of having missed the deadline for at least 7 months, is such a red flag that I really cannot understand how people is still hoping to recover any investment made in BFL units.

HELLNAUT, you better cool off, as you will have to wait for many months (if not years), and what you will receive is not a miner but a beautiful coffee warmer.

Jeez, man. First you cooperate with the CIA. Then you get a BFL ASIC miner, which is some sort of mythical artifact at this stage.

What's next, partnering with Mr. Shavers to launch a Bitcoin fork?

Just joking of course 

You do that immediately, otherwise you are screwed. In fact, as soon as you add a new "software authenticator", first thing you do is to print the details including the QR code and the key strings. If you do not have a printer, you copy by hand your private key string. You do this before pressing "SAVE".

Otherwise you are looking for big problems, Google will never be held liable for that. It's like saying  thatGavin and the core developers of Bitcoin are liable and must pay if your wallet.dat is corrupt and you do not have any backup of it.

Honestly, it's your fault.

You do not use Google Authenticator without:

a) a paper backup of the QR code to activate it
b) a backup of the secret key
c) another OTP mechanism in case you lose your primary one (for example, you can have both Yubikey and Google Auth on Gox, and you can use any of them)

What would have happened if you lose your phone? Or if the phone died on you and became a brick?

I really do not get how you guys can have such important things without any kind of backup. It is really beyond me.

Well, you just have witnessed a +BTC700 market buy less than 20 minutes ago, and the boost in price was just $0.5, which means a tiny 0.4% slippage.

Of course daytraders will want to avoid that 0.4% slippage, but 99% of Bitcoin investors simply don't care about a 0.4%.

Volume may be low, but market depth is strong.

Again: did you use escrow?

LOL, that made my day

But seriously, really excited about this. Let's put some serious work on this thing.