Aaaaaand we're back to the price we were before this crazy action started 

This is true but that doesn't change the general market sentiment. This was seen in the run up from $550 to $700 where a few big trades (not even that big really) drove the price up but as soon as those fiat cannons paused we've slumped straight back down. Dont get me wrong we will be going to the moon at some point but it seems the market wants to give more people a chance to get on the train

I am getting tired of such slow returns and bashing from the media, while the mainstream are presented a once in a lifetime opportunity that they do not care for in the least at the moment. The whole scene feels dead. I was promised wall street would enter etc, etc....

.......and thats how we should be feeling at this stage of the wave. we should expect a couple of months before things get really hot again, but right now, they are dead. I think a lot of noobs were just slaughtered in the LTC bubble, and they will not be inspired right now.

There is not a soul buying at 600....  bugger all liquidity, the bears are just toying with the bulls.

Looking at the chart, I think why not 400s, but I also think a smart profit target for shorts is 560. my gut feeling is that we will not see 400 again.

When were we significantly lower than 280-350?

I'm getting flashbacks from last year's slow grind downwards and me losign 1000's trying to trade it...

fingers crossed this won't be the same...

I'm thinking a floor at 280-350 range this time if you look at the past bubble pops... but who knows right..

I am, only it is not against the dollar but against the entire fiat economy collapsing. Other circles on the internets, equally as nerdy as this one, see it coming around 2020.

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You're not meant to say these things! People on this place actually think that Bitcoin is a hedge against collapse of USD and that when the USD actually does collapse, that we are all going to happily exchange things of real value and use for lines of algorithmic computer code backed by no real commodity and backed by absolutely no standing authority! Those of us that have most of these lines of code are going to be the richest!

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Me and how many more other people who might be feeling the same way?
Are Bitstamp going the way of MtGox?
Are these KYC routines a transaction delaying mechanism? If so, then Bitcoin is fkd.

I'm not. The mtgox dip is a coincidence. The purple line is actually formed by connecting a bunch of contact points in 2011-2012.

Everyone keeps talking about this "trend line" (im guilty of it too), but what if our trendlines are actually wrong. <snip>
We all think the blue/green is the real trendline but then it ends up actually being the purple one after a devastating correction (a REAL bear market) is revealed.

Spot on.

Also, "in the not so distant future" will probably be around late April/early May, so I also think Mat didn't pick the smartest moment to withdraw all funds. But let's see, if there's one consistent theme to his posts it's that he changes his opinions pretty quickly (nothing wrong with that, btw. better than being permanently stuck in either bull or bear mode, imo)

I have just decided to shift half my USD from Bitstamp back to the safety of my EUR bank account.

Why am I announcing this in speculation?

Because I suspect that many other traders or investors looking for good entry for longer term investment are going to be doing the same thing right now. Lets face it, Bitcoin isn't going to be doing anything much, anytime soon other than trend and grind, predominantly in a downward direction. I feel it, you all feel it, the hackers with thousands and thousands of stolen coins feel it, so why risk having tens of thousands of USD sitting in some exchange with each of it's feet planted in different countries jurisdictions with still lots of uncertainty shrouding security of Bitcoin exchanges, (yes, even Bitstamp)?

I have this apathetic sentiment towards Bitcoin as do lots of other Bitcoin investors, which kind of adds to the snowballing effect of bearish apathy.

I am holding zero Bitcoin. I still have an amount of Fiat on exchange, some of which will be turned back into GBP via BTC and LocalBitcoins, with a small amount left on exchange, 'just in case'. But the reality is that I don't expect any of my 'flash crash' buy-ins to be fulfilled, at least not until Bitcoin is trending in these sort of ranges anyhow, and I don't need preset buy-in tranches to buy Bitcoins in ranges where I will have all the time in the world to decide on whether to buy or not. Sure, there will still be swings in both directions that I could take advantage off, but will they really be worth the hassles and risks?

That is my sentiment and suspect it is widespread and growing. We were all waiting on the spectacular bottom to occur, to get our buy-ins, and then for Bitcoin to go shooting way back up to the moon but with that one day of Ukraine banking system panic put to one side, things aren't going to work out quite as simple as that. Indeed, I have seen convincing Elliot Wave analysis suggest that the bottom needs to be retested (and according to fibbonacci time ratio principles it aint happening anytime soon), or indeed that the bottom isn't even yet in from the post $10-$1200 bubble crash.

It is very difficult, and I do not believe,

1.This is an artificial maintenance prices, by Bitstamp. (the same as MtGox)
2.Bitcoin is losing popularity
3.Bitcoin is not legally regulated
4.We have no guarantee against loss, theft, etc. (Bitstamp can disappear just like MtGox, anytime )
5.Mining is impossible because minong factor is below 8 cent/Gh at 24 hours ,and almost not more profitable.
6.Mining company massively sell their hardware

I hope you didn't like the house very much and you own another place to live. It would be stupid gamble if you actually sold your home and moved into an rental, just to gamble with bitcoins. At the current situation, it would make more sense to play the money at the roulette table, since probability tends to lean more and more to the bitcoin price dropping.
I would recommend to sell your bitcoins now and buy back when there is more certainty that the price will actually rise.

You're frivolous kid.

trend does not look good.

totally different scenario to the early adopters in many ways....

....not least of all that you or I could have become near millionaires by investing a small amount of capital. As it turns out, you invested an absolute pittance and I invested jackshit/spent all my single digit Bitcoins on Silk Road.

This guy is investing a small fortune. Totally different fkn ball game at a totally different phase of Bitcoins development. Can you really say that we aren't yet going to test the $266 April 2013 high? I doubt it, but with Bitcoin anything is possible so I wouldn't be writing that off.

Bitcoin is overblown. Simple as that. Hyper-inflated value derived from from a speculative mania based entirely upon hoarding, restricted supply, and lack of market liquidity. Reverse any of these factors (such as having around 500K stolen coins looking to convert themselves into USD and Bitcoin could easily go in the opposite extreme.

Bitcoin might go to $5K within the next 18 months. But it also may just hit the $200s, or even less depending on how some totally unpredictable events happen to play out. As they say, don't go putting yer house on it.

I'm almost sure they had a flaw in security, because as I sad, it was the first time that I was advised to activate 2fa (in red letters) just after login. And with all this phising emails (probably gotten on that 'hack'), and the problem with withdrawals... In the best case, they have just experienced a lot of failed logins recently. In the worst case, its database has been compromised