I do not have an explanation that I am willing to share publicly, however I do have timing and blockchain proof that I do in fact own this account that I am willing to share with theymos or any other global moderator that asks. I could also give proof to a very trusted member of this forum subject to my desecration however they would likely need to be on an escrow list and even then it would not be everyone that meets this criteria (I have no way of proving it to them but can give an explanation - I do have the ability to prove that I own this account to a global moderator as I can give them PM #s that show proof).

EDIT: I think there is a good reason that Theymos has not reset the email for this person (AFAIK this is not something he does publicly but if he had received a signed message and looked into the account he would likely see the evidence himself). 

EDIT: (separate issue - same edit) I had sent bayuo a PM over 7 hours ago, asking him what he is doing and have not received a response as of yet.

I think the price decline is mainly due to leverage on bitfinex. There have even been a number of news articles about this.

In regards to the trolls they are only coming out because the price is declining semi-sharply. It is similar to how all the "pumpers" will say "to the moon" whenever bitcoin rises significantly.

It looks like this user is trying to steal an account with zero proof of anything. If he had signed a message then theymos would have reset the password email for him so he can reset his password.

This is a new low for scammers.

These amounts sound about right. One important things that is missing however is the fact that there are few outlets that you can trade currency in person, generally only at places like airports (most airports will force you to pay for parking; read: pay a fee to visit places you can trade foreign currency). This will likely result in you selling more of your local currency then necessary, making it so you will need to pay the exchange fees a 2nd time when you sell your excess foreign currency.

With bitcoin on the other hand you can cheaply buy and sell small amounts and withdraw smallish amounts from an exchange into your bank account in a foreign country.

I am not convinced that Karpeles was behind the Gox scam, but rather what happened to gox was the result of his incompetence. He simply does not live in a standard of living that would support that he stole those coins.

You can't be just put in jail for any reason, there needs to be probably cause that you have committed a serious crime that could result in jail time. If you are held in jail without probably cause then you can file a writ of habeas corpus and will be let out of jail and can file charges against the police department.

I think that braintree is actually a subsidiary of eBay but that is really besides the point. I think this is great news and would likely lead to increased actual consumer adoption and merchant acceptance of bitcoin.

Consumers would want to start using (and use more) bitcoin because they would have additional examples of why bitcoin is so efficient and good way to spend money. Merchants would have a greater incentive to accept bitcoin for payment in order to stay competitive.

The bitcoin stored on sites like freebitco.in are likely little to none and it would likely not even be worth it to attempt to steal funds from these accounts. There may be a very small number of accounts that have something "writing home about" but the overall take would be very little.

It really depends on the nodes that are broadcasting the transactions. If the major pools are not connected to a node that is broadcasting your TX then it will likely not get confirmed. I am not 100% sure of the reason why your particular TX would not make it to these nodes.

I don't think this would be possible. This person would have massive exchange rate risks and would be vulnerable to loosing a lot of money. This would also very quickly get expensive for him because some business process tens of thousands of dollars in bitcoin sales per month.

No. It does look like your TX is 2x as large as 797 bites though, so technically the fee should have been .0002.

With that being said, generally even a fee 1/2 the recommend would generally get confirmed quickly by the miners.

There are legitimate reasons to not give out their cold storage addresses, one of which being that if you can figure out how much total BTC they have on deposit, then if you know how much they have in cold storage then you know how much they have in their hot wallet, potentially making them a target for an attack.

The fact that chinese exchanges do not charge trading fees certainly makes it look like they are somehow bilking BTC from their customers as it makes little sense as to how they are making their money.

I am pretty sure that the price given to customers when they checkout on conibase or bitpay is based on the exchange rate at the time. I would assume that the fiat price the merchant price is somewhat similar to what the customer gets. To do anything else would make little sense and would subject coinbase and bitpay to extreme levels of market risk and potential manipulation by merchants.

I think we will likely fall farther from here. I agree that at least part of the decline is due to margin calls and margin related selling. I would argue that once margin gets to much lower levels we will likely bottom out and potentially see price gains from the levels seen at that point.

Believe it or not this kind of manipulation has happened in the past. Several years ago Gox was hacked and caused the price to temporarily decrease to one penny per BTC. The hackers bought at this level then withdrew their coins. Most of the trades were reversed and Gox "covered" the losses (they may have not actually been able to do this in retrospect) but this is something that is possible. I would personally doubt that this is something that happened as the decline has been much too orderly to likely be something like this.

This sounds a lot like trolling to me. Especially considering the fact that your account has few posts and is very new (and your forum name). All you have said is nothing more then speculation that is not backed by any amount of evidence, solid or not.

Probably not a good idea considering how volatile the market is right now. You would be risking that you receive a margin call and lose your entire investment. I would think that the drop is somewhat caused by de-leveraging and that the price may have somewhat further to fall before it reaches bottom, however will eventually recover and will eventually reach new highs.

I disagree that it is "much" bigger then 40-50. The price previously was in the mid 570-580 level and is trading around 511 now so the fall is closer to 70-80, but regardless of the amount it is still small when compared to other price drops of bitcoin in terms of percentages.

Markets do somewhat have resistance and support levels however trade in bitcoin is generally too new to truly have these kinds of levels and the numbers that are quoted on these forums are generally pulled out of thin air and do not have any real data behind them.

This is how eBay will accept bitcoin. BrainTree is how people use paypal to pay for things on ebay. The difference is merely that of corporate subsidiaries as they are one and the same.