Thanks, just heard about Zerocoin yesterday.  Could it be that now the Borg's resistance is futile?

Love your avatar zeroday. 

ZH is a waste of time if you want to talk about Bitcoin.  

Some of the morons who post there will just have to learn the hard way.  Some of them think Bitcoin is being "attacked" and perhaps that is somewhat true.  However, I see it as being legitimized as a currency thanks to FinCEN and it is interesting that not only is Bitcoin not mentioned by name but "users" are not subject to regulations unless/until it is exchanged for Fiat.  I liken events to Iran being banished from SWIFT, now much of the rest of the world's major trading partners are circumventing the use of the US$ altogether in trade settlement.  

As much as I'd like to talk about Bitcoin on ZH, too many are hopelessly programmed into their gold/silver/food/guns/ammo/Mad Max collapse scenario paradigm and are too hostile towards the very idea.  Maybe they will be right, who knows but I'm going to remain optimistic, involved and cheer Bitcoin on unless it does get truly "attacked" some day.  Nothing in this world was ever accomplished by being pessimistic.

Like I wrote on ZH once, who would have thought that free market price discovery and freedom in general would become such abhorrent abstractions, even on ZH of all places.

I rarely bother with the comments sections of threads anymore.

Nice

I love the tone of your post, believe me but I think it's not a likely reality in the short to medium term at least.  There's going to be a lot of shaking before something resembling that martini is in the glass.  I'm an optimistic guy but feel enough people around the world have become so dependent on "government" that it's not just going away in our lifetimes.  The percent of people in the population that are into holding something like  gold or Bitcoin, the percentage that is fully turned on to what happens in the world and roughly how things really work, is miniscule.  Plenty of people utterly glued to, and dependent on, the matrix that "governments" can fleece for the rest of our lives I submit.    

Thanks for the article!

Makes me feel a bit better about buying another tranche of BTC for ~CAD$62/BTC at the top of a parabolic move...

The perils of transferring money a day or two too late.

Can't believe I just bought a bunch at >CAD$60/BTC.

Who even know who the Tylers are/is?  I'd like to know, there's the contributors and guest posts but who are/is the Tylers.  I've only ever seen or heard one of the "editors" by name, Bob? something who was on Capital account a while back.  Is it Dan and Bob alone?   The Neanderthal ZH crowd give Bitcoin a hard time for the anonymity of "Satoshi" but have no idea who the Tylers are themselves.  Really makes me curious.  

The commentary is great fun and there are still the odd good posts there.  Gotta' give Hazek credit for putting the energy into it.

 

Edit:  Yeah, thanks Holliday, done.  Now back to the question...

Once this overhead resistance is broken with conviction we'll be on our way to US$100+?

I've been thinking wishfully for a while now but I doubt I'll get the chance to buy more in the teens, 20s or 30s, let alone single digits.

Firstly I'm not sure why "Simon Black" gets such a hard time on ZH but I'm sure it's for the same reasons Bitcoin has been.   Not a bad article, the comedy begins in the comments section as has become the norm.

Yet another bunch of laughable comments even by a long-time poster or two that you'd think would actually know what a Ponzi Scheme or Fiat currency is buy now.  

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-15/guest-post-what-world-bitcoin

ZeroHedge is a bad joke with regards to BTC and even The Tyler's article was a POS hit piece. 

It's almost like they're using Bitcoin so all the doomtards over there can vent some of the frustration of the "system" not collapsing fast enough and/or not getting rich off their metals holdings yet thanks to the historic manipulation.

The reverse troll idea is a great one for kicks if for no other reason. 

You rang?  

My thing with XenoFrog began with 9/11 discussions and if you had read any of the shill-o-liscious BS she's been responsible for aside from BTC discussios you might have a better understanding of where my personal disgust comes from for this idiot/paid shill/whatever it is.

As I've said over there, most of the sharp minds have left that site or do not comment anymore.  The comments section has been subverted by self-reinforcing programming and the Bitcoin threads of late are simply the wax seal on the demise.  Still love the news but the comments sections are virtually worthless and a waste of time.  Or maybe you haven't grown tired of the skipping records and doomtards over there saying "fuck you Bernenke", "if you don't hold it you don't own it" or gold, bitchez", etc. for the 580,000th time..?  

Nevertheless, perhaps it's true in this case that there is no such thing as bad publicity?

Nice job over there Tim! I don't know how guys like you, Half_A_Billion, etc. even want to discuss it anymore.  They're lucky to have guys like you.

When I heard Chris recommend people "sell everything they have and buy silver" I knew to take him with a shovel full of salt.  The same goes for the KWN gang, etc.  Turk, Von Greyertz, etc. have been blathering about gold taking off any day now for over a year.  Fundamentally there is good reason this should have in fact happened a while ago but we're now living amidst holographic, manipulated markets of all kinds devoid of fundamentals.  That's one of the reasons I was personally attracted to Bitcoin in the first place... Hey, look, a free market!

I have a bit of metal and am on board with Chris' general message but I also think giving advice like that is not only irresponsible but a reckless, fanatical approach despite perceived fundamentals. 

Chris has done good things for the honest money movement and has provided a bunch of great info to anyone wanting to listen.  I ordered a Freedom Girl each for me and my sister because they're gorgeous and I love the symbolism, she was very impressed.  I like the guy.  However, people need to be as critical with many of the "good guys" as with the bad guys and do one's DD.

The odd person has mentioned it recently in the comments but haven't seen anyone so much as entertain the subject to any extent.  Turd doesn't talk about it.  It's basically ignored there from what I've seen.

Me three but that's no excuse for being an ignorant doomtard with the cognitive elasticity of a slab of granite.  Man as individuals and as a species has never accomplished anything of lasting value through pessimism and resistance to inevitable change.

I was involved there for a while during the blogspot days and then the start of the new site.  The TFMR following and the mentality of quite a few followers is bordering on a cult and is worse than ZeroHedge in this regard.   Many of the sharpest minds have left that place also during periods of piss poor moderation and censorship by the idiots once assigned (Stephanie anyone) and Turd's own "moderation" on many occasions.  

I still read Turd's stuff but let's face it, he's been wrong a large percentage of the time for well over a year.  He bases much of his personal analysis on a manipulated CoT structure and dynamics of futures trading.   All that being said I think he does a good job in trying his best and has started to post great interviews with very knowledgeable and connected people in the metals space like Andy McGuire, Jim Willie and Jim Sinclair.

One self-assured genius went so far as to suggest jugs of Tide were a better form of "currency" than BTC.  Some of the comments are outright laughable.  Some of these doomers and skipping records are convinced they're going to be standing over their gold and food preps with semi-auto rifles, trading cigarettes and pieces of silver for more ammo and food on a black market, fighting the "government" stormtroopers when their imminent fantasy Mad Max collapse happens any day now.  Maybe they will be proven to be correct, who's to know?  However, some of the shit people are saying is downright absurd.  It really is laughable and sad concurrently and is representative of how far the quality of the comments sections have degenerated for a place that was full of intelligence and open minds not too long ago.  

Thank-you to all involved for your continued hard work and development.