Is the LMB site broken? I never got the verification email after creating my account. Can't see any way to have it sent again either...

What a great idea. Have fun going to jail.

It's not a time of crisis as far as he's concerned. He already got rich off Bitcoin and doesn't care what happens from now on.

If they sold at the ATH they'd have 9x (and climbing) as many BTC right now.

I don't know if I should be jealous or happy. Depends how this all plays out.

I call it Mount Gox. Never heard it said any other way.

That already happened.

...A week or two ago when Gox was $1000 and the others were $800 :p

What even is a "full bitcoin"? It's just a standard unit consisting of an arbitrary number of satoshis. A "bitcoin" could just as easily been 10 million satoshis rather than 100 million. Or perhaps 1 billion.

What if the protocol were EXACTLY the same as it is now, but bitcoin-qt was set to display 1BTC=1,000 satoshis? Despite the fact that you still own the same number of base units, you have more "full bitcoins". What's the difference?

Most people don't own any $1 million chunks. Why would they want to own $0.00365 million? It's such a small number.

I don't. The sale was either a mistake (typo, etc), or it was made by an idiot. Perhaps they didn't check the order book before selling, and hence weren't aware how much the price would fall. Maybe they were drunk at the time and had a lapse in judgement.

If you wanted to manipulate the market and cause panic, selling your entire stash in one sale doesn't seem like the best way to do it - it gives away the fact that it's just one person doing it. You want people to think that everybody is selling all at once, so it'd be much more sensible to make multiple continuous sales of smaller amounts.

The $102 sale doesn't bother me at all. Someone really regrets it now, and that's the end of it as far as I'm concerned.

I think that was the guy who claimed to have tracked down the Sheep Marketplace thief, but he had actually found a BTC-e wallet instead.

He thought that sending 666 satoshis to his wallet would mean that mixers don't work anymore.

If there is a crash, it will be nothing but manipulation. If people seriously thought that there would be a crash on the 31st, shouldn't they be selling now in anticipation of it? Clearly there's not going to be a rally in the meantime, so there's nothing to miss out on. People are hodling* because they know there's no legitimate reason for a crash.

China is priced in to the market. It was priced in long ago.

* I am slightly drunk.

Something that would give you way better security? Like what?

Anti virus programs are a joke. All they detect are the low hanging fruit like MegaFreeMicrosoftWindow50000.doc.exe. I have no anti virus or other similar programs and I've never had a virus in my life. How? I patch all my software immediately upon a new version being released, and I don't open suspicious files.

You could have every anti virus program in the world installed at the same time, but if a sufficiently motivated attacker targets you, they're all worthless. Whilst they claim to use heuristics to detect new threats that they don't have a signature for, the heuristics are quite poor. It takes virtually no effort to write malware which is not detected by any anti virus.

I'm not saying DON'T use anti virus, but as others have mentioned, they are far from infallible. They give both false positives and false negatives. The paid ones are generally no better than the free ones, and in many cases they're worse.

Nope. You're the only one who noticed. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!

Someone with malware running on your computer could easily do what you described. Having a different password for your email wouldn't help if you're logged in to your email at the time (or have previously logged in - keylogger, etc).

Locking the screen only prevents someone physically sitting at the console from using it. It does nothing to a remote attacker.

Edit: Now his post is gone... He was accusing BTC-e of stealing 2 BTC from his account without sufficient evidence.

The fact that it did anything at all shows how stupid traders are.

China doesn't like Bitcoin. We get it. It's old news now. You don't all need to panic sell every time China does something else bad. Factor China into your price and move on.

What exactly do you mean by this? Do you think that they're going to manipulate so heavily that they can make it look like Bitcoin really is over for good (massive crash, etc), then buy up all the cheap coins as people sell out of desperation?

I can't believe that people actually do that. Nobody has ANYTHING to gain by giving the world advance notice of their trading intentions. The best thing to do is either ignore, or do the opposite of what large holders claim they will be doing in the near future.

A fool and their money...

It should be deleted. Completely irrelevant to this entire forum.

Do all the pointless NSFW images on here annoy anyone else? It makes it impossible to read this forum unless I'm in private.

Ignoring doesn't really work because other people like to quote them.

I sold all my Dogecoins earlier today. It was funny for about a day, now it's just lame and painful to even think about.

People who are actually "investing" real money are insane.

Who's going to be stupid enough to start the next black market?

DPR is going to jail. Tomas from SM is either going to jail or getting murdered. SR2 people are probably going to jail.

But of course the next time will be different. Whoever starts the next one is smarter and won't get caught, right?