Although there is a breakout building pressure in the chart, there is not yet any sign for that. May be the breakout direction could follow a past trend, I think the next breakout is not before reaching $1000.

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I think so, if the miners do not like to mine at the new chain, they should move to mine the old chain.

If we're talking about a real potential breakout, then I am more concentrating on the months October and November. Doesn't mean it will really happen, but these months are mostly good for traders looking for volatility.

Obviously, you don't understand how things work, especially in Russia. If the government decides to outright ban Bitcoin (which they still refrain from doing after so many talks and speculations, mind you), people will get seriously interested and may actually start buying into this thing called Bitcoin. Since it is considered as a given that if government decides to ban something like the US dollar (there were precedents), peeps get agitated, rumors start circulating - the conclusion inexorably being that the authorities wouldn't ban something which they weren't afraid of...

This is surely not what the gov presently needs, just because "they are so insecure about their own currency"

That is true. I think the price will trade between $600 to $750 for 3 to 5 months before it move up again.

Seems that way. The ETH being transferred from tokens will either be sold or held (No one knows how much of each). Will be interesting to see if the buyers are willing to purchase everything being sold.

I'm still on the fence on if it was an inside job. I think someone inside told someone outside about the vulnerability, and is expecting a cut of that short. But the level of technical sophistication is amazing, it is almost as if someone where sitting on this, waiting to exploit it. Too major to be a passive discovery.

They will hard fork to take funds away, how does this increase confidence as its an attack on the one core aspect of what makes a cryptocurrency a cryptocurrency: no central banks.

Because I hate to see lies pimping shit for profit.

I think we just can wait and see the proccess of the law if there are people who report them to police or something Dev of judge.

You will also have to pay the price of doing that which will be to have undermined one of the technology's core properties for evermore and make it toxic for any future serious players.

Bitcointalk is one thing, where people are aware of the subtleties of the background to this case. Major investors who have never heard of "smart contracts" up till now will not touch it with a bargepole once they learn that immutability can be compromised in this way - whether by mining consensus or in any other strategy. Your job as a miner is to consolidate history, not rewrite it.

Further, instead of confining the loss to DAO investors where it belongs, you will now be imposing it upon the entire Ethereum holder community.

Best to study historical precedents in this area:

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-protected-vericoin-stolen-mintpal-wallet-breach/

Properly said in other words:" The whole idea behind cryptocurrency of going towards decentralization/ditching banks and governments goes down the drain. These people just want profit and are not better than those corrupt officials that we oppose." They will become hypocrites the second that they criticize another bailout in the future (regardless of whether we're talking about banks or other coins).

You've made a mistake investing into something so complex (complexity is the enemy of security). How about just accepting it?

What is interesting is what happened after 17th June.
The DAO hack and its aftermath ensured that all the correlation calculations went out of the window.