then again if you are a 'founding father', and not blinded by greed, you might have every incentive to dump some of your BTC for nothing. liquidating some of that stuff means the price goes down (as it did) and more people can buy == more long-term viability.

could be a nice way to take the complete market from a competitor: sick the hackers on them, give them constant hell.

all this seemed to start happening after they launched. and remember the problems with mtgox the DAY they launched?

hmmmm... :-)

if they THEMSELVES cause panics and selloffs, don't they massively profit on exchanges when the price bounces back up?

what can be done to counter something like this? simply have more exchanges?

is anyone here able to buy skype credit for me in trade for bitcoin?

ive heard that there are kiosks in russia where you can top up your skype accounts; is that true?

begrudgingly agree with OP.

@btcLeger

so can we confirm then that you are the first actual 'bitcoin millionaire' (actual in terms of converted USD holdings)?

why doesn't he just say what it is? why do some people choose to create panic?

that image is a computed face that is supposed to be a sum-total of all faces, "the world's most generic face". i read about it somewhere.

anyway i still think the shirt is much less cool with the face. you want to get the idea that you could come across satoshi actually wearing it. and with that face there, it's like... well, you make a comparison and it's not as exciting.

without it... well, you never know. :-)

is anyone following this?

do you mean prop down the price? how does this work exactly?

theyogi is really living up to his name

can we start another rampant speculation-about-price-stagnation thread please? what's going on?

what an absolutely brilliant idea. i love this!

could it still reach those incredible highs of $1000/btc and beyond, in some years?

no valid ip address == higher levels of deniability

is there any rule that says you have to use 99% of the gpu/cpu power? why can't it be some lighter process (but made up for by being so distributed)?

why not embed something like i2p with the bitcoin client, leaving it on by default or at least toggleable? what are the arguments against anonymity/security not being 'bring your own' ?

but my point is... with distribution all you have to do is release a 'hotfix' or patch, and you could theoretically be backgrond-mining across more than a million computers.

have you guys thought about this?

every point of sale system out there, that sits idle 99% of the day...

the next world of warcraft...

or how about the next version of microsoft windows (steve balmer, sweating on stage: "Uhhh we have a surprise for you all, the next version of windows is... free... yeah, and it comes with a free high-end ATI graphics card, and we'll also pay your electricity bill. we figured fuck it, we have the money...")

huge opportunities out there for anyone with distribution capability to totally own the network and mine the shit out of some coin.

when do you think we will see this kind of thing start to happen?

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damn i love this community. ideas move FAST