I don't think the name "blockchain" is trademarked, but that's a good question. The Bitcoin community made up the word blockchain. Everyone was using it to refer to the public ledger that starts with the Genesis block, and which miners add new blocks to. It was from that name that Blockchain.info started collecting the public data on the blockchain, like new transactions, and putting it in easy to view format. When trademarking a name the name must not be a word commonly used in public, and even then the trademark holder has to defend the name if people start to use it that way. For example, that's why Xerox would prefer people say "copy it" than "xerox it", because the latter weakens their trademark.

I think stable price for a period of time is good, so people can buy more coins if price remains volatile people will be afraid of buying/selling. I am looking to buy some coins if it goes down at an unexpected price and won't sell if it goes up. Bitcoin has bright future!

Ok, the charts look alike, but why would it follow that specific pattern? Because some people call it digital gold?

Well, I have to admit that most Chinese are into the "price" instead of the technology.
If "that project" refers to Ethereum, I can tell you that several exchanges are following the launch of Eth closely.

I wonder if this isn't going to create problems for them later on where governments or organizations will try and take them to court over a Bitcoin matter...they deserve it for choosing such a silly name!

because current traders lineup, is made of rich guys and bot, they don't care about news, they are waiting when someone will trigger the up trend

if this new exchange from the Twins will do it, then all the good news will be just a good boost for helping the price to skyrocket

basically one is waiting the other right now and none is moving, that's the problem...

it's a new upgrade done by Gavin, it is needed to rise the transaction limit per second, which is nearly fully saturated now, and it needs to be raised before the halving, so we can accomodate bigger merchants that require many more TX per second

Is there a final batch of US Marshals silk road Bitcoins due to be dumped auctioned, or have they already dumped auctioned the lot? Quite often the price crashes a bit when they announce another aucton, and the last one was ages ago.

There is an entire website that lists which addresses own the most Bitcoin. You can find it here: http://bitcoinrichlist.com/top100.

Big crash will not happen tomorrow.

It's happening since 14 months more or less.

After bubble, price was stable within 600-650 USD for months, then it was slowly,slowly,slowy decrease.

All begun last june 2014.

I can't believe that there are still people holding who bought at $1000. I can't figure out why people insist on riding their losses all the way to the bottom. If that's not bad enough, a lot of people then finally give up and sell at the bottom right before a big rally. Makes no sense.

i think if the price continues to fall and we don't see any movement upwards, we will see a lot of people sell and leaving bitcoin behind. even if the downward trend is slow i think this would eventually happen.
this is because a lot of them bought in the last few months and hoped for a big profit and their investment has only returned negative profit for them.

and "the point of no return" i think is going to be something below $100 and that is when we will see a massive dumping.

You guys really don't reallize you're being slapped around by hackers and early adopters. They will keep on doing these 2-5k dumps until the resistance is so low it triggers a cascade. They will buy back at the bottom, wait for you all to pump back the price again in ignorance and repeat.