Your off by three orders of magnitude there. TH/s not GH/s.

Well this is the monetary base.  So it isn't all dollars it is the fed's balance sheet.  But since the monetary base is the starting point for FRB yes the amount of dollars has "exploded" over the last couple years.  Here is the equivalent chart for the M2.



The FED only know one way to stimulate the economy and that is to pour dollars on everything like gasoline.  The M2 has "only" expanded 60% or so in the last three years.  Why?  The FED can't directly change the amount of money in circulation.  It can only create conditions where banks increase debt which produces more money.  However banks have found this great loophole.  They borrow money from the FED for essentially 0% dump it into Tbonds for 2% to 3% and collect a nearly risk free return. 

Still 60% M2 inflation in three years is pretty huge.  You may be wondering if the number of dollars has increased by 60%+ why haven't prices almost doubled.  Well velocity has fallen off a cliff.



The more the economy stagnates the more the FED does the only thing it can do which is print more dollars, however banks are growing loans so the economy sees less and less of that money.   So the fed keeps printing and printing and printing in order to coax the economy to life.  Kinda like someone who can't get a barbaque lit so their solution is to keep dumping gasoline on it.  One gallon doesn't work, lets try 2 gallons, 5 gallons, 50 gallons, hey back up that tanker truck.

However if the economy ever grew by any significant % suddenly their would be a "shortage" of dollars velocity would skyrocket and that would be the spark for an inflationary inferno.  Of course the omniprescent FED will see this coming and contract the money supply at the perfect time to neither hurt growth nor let inflation get out of control.  If it sounds highly risk, don't worry the FED has a great track record with the almost inhuman precision needed to manipulate the world's large economy.  As an example of their awesome skill in manipulating the economy to maximum benefit, take a look at the housing bubble.  They quickly saw that low interest rates were fueling an utterly unstable bubble in housing prices and were able to gently bring prices down averting the recession of 2008 and expanding the economic expansion for 2000 straight through 2013 with massive growth in real GDP, employment, and overall prosperity ... er wait.

Not sure how everyone got confused and off topic.  The OP was about EXCHANGE TRADING VOLUME.  It was lower yesterday than normal.

It isn't just you.  There should be an even larger batch clearing on Monday.

It is very low.  Then again weekends are always low but this is low for a low weekend.

Please don't buy into the media hype that the sequester is any Massive change.

1) The sequester affects the 2013 "budget"  (well continuing resolution) which is ~5% over 2012 levels.  So it is a "cut" in the amount spending will increase.
2) The $85B number represents roughly 2.24% of the $3803B budgeted for this year.  Historically Congress has always overpsent the budget as throughout the year supplemental "one time" spending bills are passed.  Usually to the tune of 5% to 10% total outlays.
3) The $85B number doesn't all take effect in 2013.  Only roughly half of it does.  The rest includes cutting some long term spending plans over the course of .... wait for it .... 10 years.
4) Nothing prevents Congress from passing a spending bill to spend $85B, $850B, or $8T more if necessary.

Bitfinex

You can deposit USD and borrow Bitcoins effectively making you BTC short.

Well that is tough.  Due to AML KYC junk most prepaid (no reloadable) cards purchased in the US will not work with international merchants.    Even international prepaid cards are hit or miss when used online.  Most non-reloadable prepaids dont' give you any way to provide address information so the AVS security check will always fail and many online merchants auto-reject cards which fail AVS.

No but most people re-use their passwords and likely he is going to check the password on his site against the userID you provide.

You can use a MoneyPak to directly load the balance of a PayPal account.

https://www.moneypak.com/PayPal/Index.aspx

I don't think anyone (legit) is going to take below spot.  I mean what they are doing the work for free?  To be nice?  Lots of scammers likely will give you amazingly good deals though.

Hang on a second.  Where in the MtGox TOS does it say MtGox has the authority to sell sensitive identity information to third parties without the express written permission of the account holder.  Last time I checked with wasn't a merger.  I gave my identity documents to MtGox not Coinlabs.

Did it even occur to you that you have right to that information?  I guess not.  Client's identities are just something to be bought and sold to the highest bidder.  When you grow tired of playing Bitcoins I am sure you will sell off financial and identity information to anyone who will throw a few dollars your way.

There is no such thing as stall.  People would pay higher fees and life would go on.  This tactic however would massively enrich miners and cause a boom to the exchange rate. 

Was it the android app on a smartphone?  The OTP is time based.   The only time I have seen an issue like that is when the smartphone's time gets out of sync.

You sure you only need $10K?  Lets make it $70,000 you got 7 whole posts so I am sure you are good for it.

Coinbase =/= CoinLab

nah not a chance.  I bought bootleg DVD from locals all the time in Iraq.  Got a surprisingly good quality box set of all 5? seasons of Alias.  When our convoy would transport officer types who rarely left the FOB the first thing they wanted to know is if we know a shop to stop and buy DVDs.   

Have fun splitting hairs.

With the spike we obviously have a lot of coins coming in.   Offer likely will be open for another day but don't wait too long.

Coinbase isn't an exchange (and doesn't claim to be one).  They don't allow the creation of bids and asks.  They simply offer a quote with a fixed margin from spot.  What spot price ... MtGox's ticker.  That always requires an outside pool of liquidity.  

Note this isn't an attack on coinbase they have seen some impressive growth but think about it for a second.  Imagine right now nobody on coinbase wants to sell and one person wants to buy what happen?  Where does the coin come from?  Either coinbase needs to become the counterparty on everytrade, or they need an outside source to avoid going to long or short.

Broker =/= exchange.  Now coinbase probably could become a full exchange in the future if they wanted to but they aren't one.  My guess is they have no intention on becoming one either.  APMEX isn't a gold futures exchange but they sell and buy a LOT of gold as a broker.

Lolz.  Notice the three digits after the . and the double . .

In many countries . = ,