Guess this is the perfect place for this to have happened considering much of the high net worth people in this country live in and around Jersey. Maybe we'll even get some of their Housewives mentioning it on their show.

We're plugging along at a steady and positive rate yet no mention of when the VC phase will creep into the Wall Street phase which many have forecasted for this fall. They made note of the wide interest in articles on BTC pricing so perhaps they're keeping their powder dry.

It doesn't get much more bullish than that!!...IF you're talking about the YoY low at that point.

Yah, capital gains on sales profits and fortune taxes on wealth enhancements.

It's more like an industry that is being pushed by the extreme left who then profits by using government contracts and bailout money to foist green technology on people when the market hasn't called for it. Solyndra anyone? The bottom line is they had used the term global warming for decades up until recently and now use climate change so they can't lose if we have a colder than normal winter/cooler than average summer or vice versa. There's record sea ice peaks in Antarctica these days ya know. That said, I have a high regards for MIT and their undergrad mission of expanding Bitcoin into those students' lives.

This just makes me want to puke.  Xapo is looking like a solid option more and more everyday for those that want to be their own cold storage.

Most important and enlightening part of the article. Bring on the ETFs, the Gold Bugs, companies offering discounts for using Bitcoin and whatever else = market cap going^

If all goes right I'm assuming we'll be getting back ~60% of the investment in USD and not in the original BTC denomination to which was given to HF? Or more realistically, we'll get a group cut % of whatever HF has left (be it money or equipment) and then that is either divvied up or put to work for us. Ideally, we'd just get our original coin investment back minus the attorney fees.

I'm not trying to crap on your idea and I even support it but Obama and his minions were laughing at Perry in the meeting they had yesterday so I'm not sure the Feds would allow TX to do anything unless Perry stepped up w/ some balls and called out his state's national guard. It was merely a show meeting and there is no intent on securing the border from the left's point of view.

My guess is that lawyer firm we heard about recently has plenty of pull w/ the higher ups on Wall street and the SEC. This ETF, or one of the many being proffered, will inevitably do magic for the pricing side and it seems like it's being timed to pop off to much fanfare. Imagine when those of the interested parties in the bigger money category get on board and then the price starts doing its thing, it'll be interesting to see how the masses deal w/ it.

If you think of the current adoption rate and where that would land on the S curve then there's plenty of room for pricing to expand. The USD is living on borrowed time so even when you have a BTC that is X thousand of dollars, it could literally buy you what it does today. However, if and when the USD experiences that kind of hyper inflation the sky is the limit for USD pricing. I'd imagine there will eventually be a North American currency at some point and that will be driven into the ground to force global fiat on the scene. This could be happening in the next 5 to 20 years unless the likes of Rand Paul gets elected President and the debt is radically reduced and we have an austerity period w/ economic growth that can bail us out. Either way, I expect BTC to do what is what made for and that is allowing someone to have as much control over their own finances as they're willing to have. The more people that want more of this control will mean a stronger mankind.

The Illuminati wants to enslave us by forcing Bitcoin down our throats and I, for one, will not stand for it!

It hasn't really sunk in yet or hit home to the black folks I encounter on a regular basis up here in the Great Lakes region. Of course, my normal encounters are through a major hospital where the employees mostly have it pretty good, unlike those in the inner city or its offshoots. Forget competing for low wage jobs but consider thinking about one's welfare benefits or related entitlements and how the writing is on the wall for how your future will look as more people are on the take. Around 38% of Americans are on some sort of welfare, disability or similar program and the numbers are only going up. I wonder how outsiders think about good ole America going down the tubes..

Can you imagine living in such an area where this bombardment is a regular thing? Not just living but growing up where this is considered normal just be a complete nightmare for the non-combatants that call these places home.

Definitely looks like this one can be put to bed, finally. On the bright side, guess it's better for us early adopters and true believers to take the brunt of these scams and get most of them flushed out before mainstreet arrives and gets turned off.

Yeah, this will be the way to go for most newcomers that will eventually start using Bitcoin for purchases especially as merchants begin to offer discounts for doing so. Most people don't want to be their own bank or deal w/ the personal online/offline security issues when there's services available to do it for you. Also, the vault ain't in the US.

Israel PM Says Gaza Offensive to Intensify as Rockets Fly
More...http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-09/israel-aims-to-crush-hamas-military-as-cities-under-fire.html

H/t Aljazeera
More...http://www.infowars.com/death-toll-climbs-as-israel-bombards-gaza/

The biggest illusion in these job numbers is that they're actually meaningful and upwardly mobile positions. Most of these jobs are minimum wage plus they're low skilled and offer no beneficial future moves to them outside of one proving they can show up to work everyday. So, college grads are taking these positions and there's almost no chance they can pay their monthly student loan bills especially if they don't live at their parent's house. Even former middles class workers who've been laid off for a certain amount of time are taking these low wage positions and it must be devastating to their lifestyles since there's very little room to save to enhance what's left of their retirement savings.

Check it out in full...http://www.examiner.com/article/mexico-made-deal-to-send-more-illegal-aliens-to-the-u-s
As soon as one of the anchor babies can step foot in the country then the rest of the family can follow suit. Yet, in situations where they kids are being smuggled up here alone, there's no telling how many of them have been sexually abused along the way or what condition their health is in especially when we have Congressman that can't enter these camps and let the people know. Not to mention the on site staff can't say anything. Shrouded in secrecy, it looks nothing less than scandalous from top to bottom. This is likely the last leg in Obama's 'formal transformation' of America and he and his gang is doing it at break-neck speed.