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61  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 31, 2015, 12:02:07 AM
Chinese exchanges going retard full rational bear, again  Cheesy

Fixed.
62  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 30, 2015, 05:18:53 PM
Bitcoin dying while USD on Ripple gateways continues to grow.  https://www.ripplecharts.com/#/value

Rockets are getting primed.   Wink Cheesy Cool
63  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 30, 2015, 04:31:13 AM

For now...
64  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 30, 2015, 04:18:59 AM
China is really clamping down on the net....

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/chinese-netizens-squirm-as-party-tightens-grip-on-internet-20150130-131plo.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/world/asia/china-clamps-down-still-harder-on-internet-access.html
http://www.zdnet.com/article/vpn-blocks-exist-to-keep-internet-healthy-chinese-official
http://time.com/3685380/china-internet-censorship/


 Undecided Undecided Undecided
65  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 28, 2015, 04:44:43 AM
Interesting. Sounds like your first attorney worked for a high-volume settlement mill.

Not really, they were specialized in *that* particular kind of lawsuit, based on that same earlier court decision.  As I said, the decision was very clear and should have applied to all such cases (hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of home purchases financed by banks); but each victim had to sue separately.  (If you think that the US or European legal system is rotten, you should try ours...)

Settlement mills always claim they are specialized. That is not inconsistent with also processing incredible volumes of clients, doing minimal and routine work on each case.

Do you have injury mills in Brazil?
66  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 28, 2015, 04:25:56 AM
Epic trolling, no? He might even be forced to hire a lawyer to defend himself.
I don't have much experience with the law, but I did sue my lawyer a few years ago, and won.  Wink
Details!?

Too long a story to tell in full... But we sued a bank about the terms of financing of our house. It was to be a routine lawsuit; the courts had already ruled long time ago that all banks had made the same mistake, but each victim still had to sue them separately.  We hired a lawyer firm that did nothing but such lawsuits.  But when the hearing was finally scheduled, a couple of years later, the lawyer did not warn us, did not show up in court, and we lost by WO.  

So we sued the lawyer for damages,  and his fault was so blatant that we won easily.  But then our second lawyer convinced us to appeal because we were not awarded full damages.  We are still waiting for the appeal to be scheduled...

Interesting. Sounds like your first attorney worked for a high-volume settlement mill.
67  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 28, 2015, 03:58:00 AM
Epic trolling, no? He might even be forced to hire a lawyer to defend himself.

I don't have much experience with the law, but I did sue my lawyer a few years ago, and won.  Wink

Details!?
68  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 28, 2015, 03:52:36 AM
Yea ok.

Oops, looks like I should set up my virtual mint in Slovenia or Bulgaria....

Quoted. Will be sending to SEC in near future for evidence.
69  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 28, 2015, 03:47:59 AM
Note the above time stamps. Clearly, I am one of Jorge's many troll accounts.

Clearly  Roll Eyes

 Grin

I'd seriously throw in a good chunk on StolfiCoin though.

Make it proof of trolling and distribute accordingly!  Cool

if stolficoin even distributed and successfully maintained for 1 full years... i will convert all my bitcoin into it

Why wait? Gotta be an early adopter to get rich.

Let's just start pre-mining it now?

(Does this post count towards "proof of troll"?)

We could spend a few months pumping and then report Stolfi to the SEC.

Epic trolling, no? He might even be forced to hire a lawyer to defend himself.
70  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 28, 2015, 03:40:46 AM
Note the above time stamps. Clearly, I am one of Jorge's many troll accounts.

Clearly  Roll Eyes

 Grin

I'd seriously throw in a good chunk on StolfiCoin though.

Make it proof of trolling and distribute accordingly!  Cool

if stolficoin even distributed and successfully maintained for 1 full years... i will convert all my bitcoin into it

Why wait? Gotta be an early adopter to get rich.
71  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 28, 2015, 03:30:31 AM
Note the above time stamps. Clearly, I am one of Jorge's many troll accounts.
72  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 28, 2015, 03:29:41 AM
Half the people trading in China are 'western'.

... who strangely start trading when the day breaks in China, and go to bed when it is late night in China ...


That's what they want you to believe...
73  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 28, 2015, 02:13:13 AM
Why isn't StolfiCoin a thing yet?  I'd gladly pump it beyond the moon and through the oort cloud.
74  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 27, 2015, 05:33:07 PM
Wtf is going on with finex

Dunno. But paying the owners for special access to their VIP APIs might help you find out.
75  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 27, 2015, 05:25:18 PM
http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/nr/pdf/20150127.pdf

Quote

FinCEN Fines Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. $20 Million for Continued Anti-Money Laundering Shortfalls

Suspicious Penny Stock trading and Pump-and-Dump Schemes Not Flagged
and Foreign Correspondent Customer Allowed to Conduct Prohibited Activity

....

From 2008 through May 2014, Oppenheimer conducted business without establishing and
implementing adequate policies, procedures, and internal controls reasonably designed to detect
and report suspicious activity. FinCEN identified 16 customers who engaged in patterns of
suspicious trading through branch offices in five states. All the suspicious activity involved
penny stocks, which typically are low-priced, thinly traded, and highly speculative securities that
can be vulnerable to manipulation by stock promoters and “pump-and-dump” schemes.
Oppenheimer failed to report patterns of activity in which customers deposited large blocks of
unregistered or illiquid penny stocks, moved large volumes of penny stocks among accounts with
no apparent purpose, or immediately liquidated those securities and wired the proceeds out of the
account.
...

Do you think bitcoin exchanges are properly monitoring and reporting such activities?

^ This will be the end of bitcoin altcoins.

fixed it for you

Because Bitcoin doesn't trade like a penny stock? lol.
76  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 27, 2015, 05:04:34 PM
http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/nr/pdf/20150127.pdf

Quote

FinCEN Fines Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. $20 Million for Continued Anti-Money Laundering Shortfalls

Suspicious Penny Stock trading and Pump-and-Dump Schemes Not Flagged
and Foreign Correspondent Customer Allowed to Conduct Prohibited Activity

....

From 2008 through May 2014, Oppenheimer conducted business without establishing and
implementing adequate policies, procedures, and internal controls reasonably designed to detect
and report suspicious activity. FinCEN identified 16 customers who engaged in patterns of
suspicious trading through branch offices in five states. All the suspicious activity involved
penny stocks, which typically are low-priced, thinly traded, and highly speculative securities that
can be vulnerable to manipulation by stock promoters and “pump-and-dump” schemes.
Oppenheimer failed to report patterns of activity in which customers deposited large blocks of
unregistered or illiquid penny stocks, moved large volumes of penny stocks among accounts with
no apparent purpose, or immediately liquidated those securities and wired the proceeds out of the
account.
...

Do you think bitcoin exchanges are properly monitoring and reporting such activities?

^ This will be the end of bitcoin.

*edit*

And why most of the volume will remain on non-compliant foreign exchanges. Eventually, US Banks will be fined and prohibited from transacting with them.
77  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / New FinCEN report (1/27/2015) and its relevance to Bitcoin exchanges. on: January 27, 2015, 05:03:39 PM
http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/nr/pdf/20150127.pdf

Quote

FinCEN Fines Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. $20 Million for Continued Anti-Money Laundering Shortfalls

Suspicious Penny Stock trading and Pump-and-Dump Schemes Not Flagged
and Foreign Correspondent Customer Allowed to Conduct Prohibited Activity

....

From 2008 through May 2014, Oppenheimer conducted business without establishing and
implementing adequate policies, procedures, and internal controls reasonably designed to detect
and report suspicious activity. FinCEN identified 16 customers who engaged in patterns of
suspicious trading through branch offices in five states. All the suspicious activity involved
penny stocks, which typically are low-priced, thinly traded, and highly speculative securities that
can be vulnerable to manipulation by stock promoters and “pump-and-dump” schemes.
Oppenheimer failed to report patterns of activity in which customers deposited large blocks of
unregistered or illiquid penny stocks, moved large volumes of penny stocks among accounts with
no apparent purpose, or immediately liquidated those securities and wired the proceeds out of the
account.
...

Do you think bitcoin exchanges are properly monitoring and reporting such activities?
78  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 26, 2015, 04:29:34 PM
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/01/26/digital-payments-company-ripple-labs-finalizing-30-million-funding-round/

Quote
Ripple Labs Inc., the developer of a bitcoin-like technology that enables institutions to transfer money internationally, is closing in on a $30 million funding round, Venture Capital Dispatch has learned.

A spokesman for the company, formerly called OpenCoin, confirmed it is working on a new financing but declined to provide details.

A person familiar with the situation said the deal places the post-money valuation of the San Francisco startup at about $100 million.

Investors in the Series A round will include Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, IDG Capital Partners and other existing investors, the person said. Ripple previously raised more than $3.5 million from a number of backers including Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, Camp One Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, FF Angel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vast Ventures and Venture51.

Ripple has created a decentralized payments network that helps validate transactions using a digital currency technology similar to bitcoin. The goal is to reduce the cost and time it takes to make cross-border payments in various currencies. The company is targeting use by banks and remittance providers, rather than consumers.

The company signed on two American banks, Cross River Bank and CBW Bank, last year, as well as Fidor Bankin Germany, to use the Ripple network to enable customers to instantly send money internationally. The network allows smaller banks to avoid the use of large intermediate banks that take fees on such transactions.

Ripple is tapping into the promise of the distributed verification systems that underlie digital currencies such as bitcoin and Ripple’s digital coin. These systems can help speed up and reduce the cost of financial transactions, as well as a variety of other transactions. Venture investors are increasingly talking about the value of this type of distributed ledger system as a basis for all kinds of applications, not just currency.

Though bitcoin itself has many potential uses, including as a system for improving the efficiency of payments and financial infrastructure, speculation has resulted in swings in its price. The volatility of that digital currency has kept some venture investors on the sidelines, even as others have plunged in.

The largest venture investment in a bitcoin company took place recently, when investors put $75 million into Coinbase Inc. Bitcoin-based startups have attracted roughly $439 million in venture capital in recent years, according to bitcoin-market tracker Coindesk.

Gonna be huge, and bullish as fuck. Amirite, guys?   Tongue Cheesy Grin



A spokesman for the company, formerly called OpenCoin, confirmed it is working on a new financing but declined to provide details.

Ok, so it might be over 30 million, perhaps even over 75 million? Gotcha.
79  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 26, 2015, 04:22:27 PM
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/01/26/digital-payments-company-ripple-labs-finalizing-30-million-funding-round/

Quote
Ripple Labs Inc., the developer of a bitcoin-like technology that enables institutions to transfer money internationally, is closing in on a $30 million funding round, Venture Capital Dispatch has learned.

A spokesman for the company, formerly called OpenCoin, confirmed it is working on a new financing but declined to provide details.

A person familiar with the situation said the deal places the post-money valuation of the San Francisco startup at about $100 million.

Investors in the Series A round will include Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, IDG Capital Partners and other existing investors, the person said. Ripple previously raised more than $3.5 million from a number of backers including Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, Camp One Ventures, Core Innovation Capital, FF Angel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vast Ventures and Venture51.

Ripple has created a decentralized payments network that helps validate transactions using a digital currency technology similar to bitcoin. The goal is to reduce the cost and time it takes to make cross-border payments in various currencies. The company is targeting use by banks and remittance providers, rather than consumers.

The company signed on two American banks, Cross River Bank and CBW Bank, last year, as well as Fidor Bankin Germany, to use the Ripple network to enable customers to instantly send money internationally. The network allows smaller banks to avoid the use of large intermediate banks that take fees on such transactions.

Ripple is tapping into the promise of the distributed verification systems that underlie digital currencies such as bitcoin and Ripple’s digital coin. These systems can help speed up and reduce the cost of financial transactions, as well as a variety of other transactions. Venture investors are increasingly talking about the value of this type of distributed ledger system as a basis for all kinds of applications, not just currency.

Though bitcoin itself has many potential uses, including as a system for improving the efficiency of payments and financial infrastructure, speculation has resulted in swings in its price. The volatility of that digital currency has kept some venture investors on the sidelines, even as others have plunged in.

The largest venture investment in a bitcoin company took place recently, when investors put $75 million into Coinbase Inc. Bitcoin-based startups have attracted roughly $439 million in venture capital in recent years, according to bitcoin-market tracker Coindesk.

Gonna be huge, and bullish as fuck. Amirite, guys?   Tongue Cheesy Grin
80  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: January 26, 2015, 03:26:45 AM
We might find out whether Stamp is running a fractional reserve system...
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