If the next 3 months, mirrored the previous 3 months' growth, something like this:

MASSIVE swing trading opps here!

Not that that's my thing of course

Even the log scale is starting to curve upwards now!

But that's the major trend: 9-fold growth in Q1 and what may be an outlying spike in the first few days of Q2.

We're on upward trend that's lasted 84 days, if that were to continue the same duration, we'd hit $1,000 in Q3.

Would be interesting to overlay historical bubbles over this.

No, I'm not saying this is a bubble of course. I agree that this an upwards correction.

I'm working on this one right now

I work for myself so am in a great position to try the second suggestion. I know I'd send my accountant's brain into meltdown by suggesting I pay myself in Bitcoin.

It's going to have to be considered though!

This is great, thanks for the heads up. I've only just installed Wordpress on one of my sites for the first time and am looking to do away with the current Photoshelter/ Paypal set-up which takes a big chunk of each sale I make.

Yes but the reasons would be in a different order.

I'm guessing he meant integers?

How's this going for you under your little bridge?

If you need to pay the bills, yeah sell it all. In fact you never should have bought.

Don't gamble what you can't afford to lose: risk/reward ratio!

To be honest, I've stopped watching now $100 has been breached and held.

It was nice to see the moment 'live'. But that line wiggle a hell of a lot. Same general direction though.

So $115 today, tomorrow, next week after a small dip. Whenever, it's all good

This line is suggesting $1000 by Q3...

Sell? 2 years maybe, some.

In a year if things go VERY well I might liquidate enough for a holiday. So 1 BTC maybe

I think we can dispense with decimal points from here on in

Of course, yes. I currently take payments by PayPal via PhotoShelter. Although I can't accept Bitcoin on THEIR system I can ask them if they'd like to consider taking Bitcoin. PP's 3% fees they've earned from me over the last decade would have sent me on a nice holiday...

I can mention to people who want to pay me that I accept Bitcoin or Paypal in that order perhaps?

I've searched and found nothing similar or certainly not posted recently so I thought I'd share what I'm doing to help this thing.

1) Ask your favourite online retailers if they plan to accept Bitcoin. No need to go into a spiel - many may be considering it already but the volatility might be a negative factor. See this is a simple registering of interest.

2) Tell your friends about Bitcoin. Don't be preachy, don't be techy. Just link to a plain English, non-biased (yeah I know!) explanation of what Bitcoin is and what it has done recently. Perhaps drop in the caveats "What goes up.." Past performance is not an indicator..." etc.

3) Get a friend of family member to buy 1 BTC - damn this now reads like a pyramid scheme. Perhaps just ask, don't force. Now all my family know about it. Even my Mum asked "Where can I buy them?" <- Bears you may now reply using the word bubble or crash as you see fit.

My Bitcoin news posting on social networking mostly tends to fall on deaf ears but a couple of the more smart friends have asked me to explain more, which I have done. Perhaps in a year or two I will retroactively become their best friend ever when they come to cash in their pet Bitcoin

Anything else anyone would like to add?

Yep. I for one have tax losses to offset my (perhaps imminent) Bitcoin gains. I pay my taxes and always will. If your government REALLY wants to track you down and see how much you've made - they can. Hence no cloak and dagger from me.

It's certainly not greedy to want to make a profit, but what you do and don't do with that profit can be.

Damn you're right. It comes and goes to be honest. Not reliable at all.

I snapped up my last 20BTC at $70, I might have been lucky.

April.

The 1st.

Put the two together.

Bingo.

I use Blockchain.info but they have been showing the "We have no more Bitcoins" message a few times recently.

They are however damn fast and the fee is 3.2% if you're depositing the max of £500 or thereabouts.

Then you have to concede that the price could go to $0 or to $1M in the next day. In fact the next second. If you use charts before you buy and sell, you are doing technical analysis.

Is all technical analysis a waste of time then? Or just this rather optimistic log projection?

Surely it's worthwhile looking where we headed until we inevitably change course?