Either that or dump everything by end of 2015, for tax reasons. Both scenarios plausible.

Me.

Can't believe this one pumper is controlling the entire market.  There are literally no other players. I'm secretly hoping a deep pocket bear raider comes swooping in out of nowhere and crushes this fake market run. It would be completely deserved.

If it does happen, it'll probably be the same guy doing it.

Completely. Fake. Market. No wonder Average Joes detest bitcoin. With things like this, it's a wonder anyone will ever want to buy bitcoin in the future.

I know right! Sarcasm makes you seem really clever and smarter, yes!

PSA- Remember kids:

When some bogus news about some wannabe wank from Australia who claims to be SN, that's the sell signal.

Like Dorian, this guy is the real deal 

You really think Satoshi is one guy? Or actually wants to be unmasked?

Like Dorian, right?

#bitcoinersarenaïveandstupid

With this pump (*cough short squeeze cough*) they've got ya'll convinced now that we are in a solid, unstoppable uptrend. That it's just gonna keep rolling up, and without a doubt that you should close your shorts and open up margin long positions here.

Actually the jokes on you, Jorgi. I'm a career programmer too, that's actually looked at some of the recent Core releases, and I can tell you that there's been maybe only a handful of lines of code added to Core in the last year or two.

A. Handful. Of. Lines. In. Over. A. Years. Time.

So let's don't over-glorify these so called developers and put them up on some sort of pedestal.  Like they've got their noses to the grindstone every day, furiously cranking out mountains of code. If they had only coded that much in a business world white collar desk job setting, they'd be fired by now for being over-paid slackers.

P.S.- And the truth/reason is, after 6 years of development, Bitcoin Core is pretty much complete and solid at this point. All the heavy lifting was done years ago. With the exception of increasing block size, and maybe a few other little things, there's very little left for the Core developers to actually do.  So they're basically just downshifted into long term maintenance mode at this point, which anyone with their knowledge can do on the side for a few hours a week.

No one believes or cares about an idiot troll who is so stupid, that he public contradicts himself within the same week.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1277566.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1272827.0

This would never work.  They'd just go and spam a bunch of seemingly well-meaning posts elsewhere on this board to get their activity count up to the requirement.  Then they'd come to Speculation sub-forum and start trolling.  In fact, that's what several of them do today, to fake looking legit.

Notice how the price is being slowly, carefully eased and balanced into that perfect, just on-the-edge average-across-all-exchanges price of $399.99999 ?

Yeah, that.  

That supposed volume on Huobi is complete and utter bullshit.  Look at all other exchanges in comparison.

PSA - Remember kids:

A rising price based on a small volume of shorts being squeezed is neither true growth nor a bull trend.

These guys will be the first to dump at a small loss, or a big one if need be.

I'll take 'Back to the Future' for $800/btc, Alex.

So whoever is controlling this market right now decided that a higher price would = greater consumer bitcoin spending from Black Friday to Cyber Monday.

But the only bitcoiners right now are computer geeks.  So who's in control then, NewEgg or Dell?

^{(Did you see what I did there?  Har har)}

Everyone knows Bitcoin is here to stay, and yes I have been majorly on the train since early 2013.  Still a long term bull.  But the absolute bullshit in the short term continues to be mind-blowing to me.

It's pretty clear now to everyone that the price is not decided, nor even moved, by Average Joe buyers/sellers.  It's decided by collusion between miners and whale traders (who are likely one in the same people) and possibly even exchange operators.  That's it.  Bitcoin's future fate is completely in their hands.  And that's scary as fuck.

You mean that whale miner(s) colluded to orchestrate this whole pump because rising hashrate, and they needed to up (read: peg) the price higher to continue making money?  And because halving is coming next year?

Nah, it couldn't be an Occam's Razor.  It just couldn't.

And your point is?  We were also at $600, $700, $800, and $1100.  Wake me up when we even get back to $600, that would be a start.  

But I guess that would be a bad thing as then bitcoin would no longer be "cheap as chips" as you say, so no one will be buying then.  Amiiright?

Yeah OK. This is the same crap everyone was saying when the price was ~$230.  And guess what, no one was buying then, even the people saying it.