You sound very afraid of the 'Big Club'. Why wasn't the Internet killed then (same FUD, different technology)?
The truth is that there is no 1% actively chaining the 99%. It's much more complicated than that.

You think my parents ever heard about it? Guess again 

But it's more for fun of course, don't feel offended. It could go to zero tomorrow just as easily. If I look what I can actually do with Bitcoin today, it's still nothing other than having coins Goxxed at Gox and talk about being Goxxed here at bitcointalk. Bitcoin is great in our heads, but still absent in real life by all practical means.

The reason for spending time making useless graphs is to keep minds moving.

As long as the Bitcoin protocol is not compromised, Bitcoin will have a place unless international payments will be free of costs and instantaneously. The next few years, 2 billion people will get access to the Internet. No, they won't need a bank account. It's a game changer.

But of course it is possible that the paradigm shift has happened and that now the practical implementation must happen to make it a success. I'm having fun nonetheless.

You have to use a clear definition of deflation/inflation before discussing it. Bitcoin itself cannot be deflationary since no Bitcoins are destroyed. Bitcoins can be 'lost' or otherwise stuck without access but that does not change the core of the protocol.

If Bitcoin is thus not deflationary, or at least nothing extreme (lets say below 1%), the deflation you seem to have in mind is decreasing prices. Well, that's the economy and not Bitcoin. Changing equilibrium is just what free markets are about. New balance will be found until market preferences change again.

I had the same feeling.

Bitcoin is the Wild West. Stop whining and make your own plans if Gox is so bad.

Value is not without risk.... I don't have a problem with the current price and wouldn't have either with a price at $0.50. The concept of Bitcoin, that's what keeps me interested.

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That's why most people here stay interested in Bitcoin.

Its simple enough: this sucker is going down down down short term. 1st buy at $30, 2nd (if reached) at $15.

The price action?

The enthusiasm will fade. It isn't outlandish to bet on a $30 target. People forget a lot in 2 weeks time.

Looking at the 2-hour, I still wouldn't put my money in it now and instead just wait.

"No army can stop an idea whose time has come" - Vicor Hugo

It's already over for the main competition.....

Bitcoin proves them wrong again and again and again and .......

This looks great. Thread for interested lurkers: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.3180

Doing nothing changes nothing. Positive action moves the earth. It all starts with one person taking action.

Let me guess, they all want OUT of Bitcoins... 

Broken clock thread. I will look forward to the next one in about 12 months. Lucif got this one quite right.

That gives Gox about a month to upgrade.