guess people forgot the drama that amir taaki was involved in

I've seen a few comments about using audio for sending the data to the offline computer and back. It's an idea that appealed to me quite a bit, probably back from my audio days when audio still was analog. Well, anyway, the solution I found to work is using minimodem:
http://www.whence.com/minimodem/
https://github.com/kamalmostafa/minimodem

There are a few videos on the site and that is exactly how it works. It is easy to install as it doesn't have many dependencies. It's in the Ubuntu repos since 12.04
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=minimodem&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

For lucid there's a version on the author's launchpad site.

I've tried it with both a mic / speaker combination and a straight 3.5mm stereo male-male audio jack cable, you may know these as "Aux" cables. I didn't have any noticeable impedance problems when using the cable. Volume Out and Mic In levels were set to about half of the slider. This can be fine tuned in the audio settings.

Using the -A flag produced noticeably better results than using Pulseaudio (the default). I could tell just from listening that the Pulseaudio signal was distorted at times.

For the baudmode I selected 1200 in this case and it took about a minute to send one way. I think that is on par if not quicker than USB, considering you have to select your file, "safely remove", move the stick, wait for it to appear etc. Of course this depends on the actual transaction size.

I have not played around much more with higher speeds or with the different flags as of yet; a full list is at the man page.

If you are using the mic /speaker combination on a regular basis, it will make it easier if you have two of each to have it bi-directional without moving plugs. And judging from comments of my housemates, you'll probably want to stick them in a soundproofed box

Bitcoin and LTC for several reasons but mainly due to the fact I hold a lot of each.

Could someone please add dates to the x-axis? I don't see the units, is it function(days from today)? Where function=sin?

Potete tradurre le frasi avanti e indietro con google un paio di volte fino a che non viene fuori proprio nella traduzione per la lingua?

He works at PayPal (eBay):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCVQa2RbuCA&feature=youtu.be&t=4m55s

It might have mentioned that BitcoinEXpress threatened in the trollbox, but that the verification of identity post was deleted, and that other aliases were used in the trollbox in the manner and style of BCX to express vague threats to the exchange, creating a generalized plausible deniability of the link between the trollbox and BCT identities (and hence providing deniability to the link between BCT's "BCX" and poloniex's "BCX".
It might have mentioned that other mitigation efforts were ongoing, to defuse the risk of any hypothetical pending attack.  It might have mentioned the (textual evidence) that BCX was a known person, a U.S. resident, and that the actual act threatened would be a federal crime in the U.S.  I found these aspects to be important elements of the real-life drama.

Good blog post with recap of recent XMR "attack": http://bullbearanalytics.com/2014/09/23/whats-going-monero/

Is it possible that the BTC price jump earlier today was a fewMonero holders (or just one?) dumping XMR for BTC, for fear of the announced attack?

Paypal and bitcoin
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/paypal-embraces-bitcoin-payments-partners-171500863.html

Nobody can retire the coming decade(s), millionaires will soon see all their 'wealth' vanish into thin air just like how it was created. Bitcoin could go to $15,000 who knows but dollars won't make you able to retire anymore. Neither will gold, silver or Bitcoin. Actual skills, strong communities and knowledge will become the new highly valued assets, because they will be sorely needed for our future. People who have none of those will become the new poor class.

BCX found flaws in CN previously, and described them.  The Monero dev team have also found a LOT of CN flaws, and are still working on these.  There is no shortage of things for them to do.
BCX likely may well be able to craft an exploit based on these flaws, whether this 'takes it down' or not would greatly depend on the response and the nature of the attack.

There are option contracts available, put and call, so there is "money to be made".

It is plainly clear by now to everyone reading this thread that the OP's intentions (and the fake aminorex account among others) are to do harm to Monero by creating emotions in others more competent.  Maybe this will succeed, maybe it will not.
The folks 'believing' the OP are riding along and in on the game.

Move along, nothing to see here.  The ushers will clean any spilled popcorn.

... at least 6k less now

Just ignore Professor Chinavolume, he's not interested in real conversations, ....

Yes, and ideally to as many persons as possible :-).

Then the buyer will move them, unless they trust you 100% (unless the buyer is you that is).

my guess is that if one was smart enough to steal this amount of coins he/she is also smart enough to sell them off exchange.

if it was me, selling them via a verified exchange account would be the last thing i would do.

Kodtycoon and Mr. E: That paper is completely fluff.  It reminds me of Nxt's "transparent forging" claim that is supposed to make Nxt robust to "91% attacks" (a statement I think is most likely nonsensical).  Don't you find it strange that the real innovations and technical details in bitcoin can be explained at any level of depth that you're interested in, yet many of these "alt-coin innovations" remain hidden and vague in perpetuity?   Don't you find it odd that very few of the many bright people here are even interested?  

For example, how is James going to implement cross-chain trading (what he calls InstantDEX)?  I've heard Nxt advocates talk about trustless cross-chain trading, yet it's generally accepted that it's impossible to transact with external systems/blockchains in a trustless manner.  If it's not trustless, but rather "low trust," then a solution using m-of-n oracles is already known.  There's never a need for things to be "powered by Nxt."  It seems like a ridiculous statement to me.  
  
The alt-coiners don't appreciate the importance of Satoshi's contribution.  If bitcoin adoption continues, it will be written about in textbooks for centuries to come.  Some of the developers here such as Greg and Gavin will likely be famous historical figures too.  The alt-coin sideshow is largely a distraction.  I don't want to say that all the alt-coin work is crap, because I think there's a small amount of genuine innovation [for example, I think Cryptonote's ring-signature approach made a contribution, and I think the concept of sophisticated contracts popularized by Ethereum made a contribution too (although I think it's much better executed using m-of-n Oracles as per Gavin's suggestion)].  If the alt-coin community does make a real innovation, we are going to take notice.  But to date, the vast majority is either a folly or a scam.    

"Peter Warburton: The debasement of world currency: It is inflation, but not as we know it.

Being a young man, I was heavily into econometrics -- or economic tricks, as some would have it."

http://gata.org/node/8303/print

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One of the best essays around. Written in 2001 and even though it's linked from Gata it doesn't focus on gold. Interestingly at the end he lists possible investments to look at but of course bitcoin wasn't around at the time. His criteria seem like a perfect match, for now at least. Gold doesn't make the cut, I assume because of the fifth criterion.