Actually, no. I don't want to know who Satoshi is. I think the fact that his identity is unknown is just perfect. It forces people to focus on the invention (Bitcoin) instead of its creator. It prevents sloppy journalism which would make ad hominem attacks against its creator instead of criticizing Bitcoin itself. And finally his anonymity gives the whole thing an epic aura, it is the stuff of legends and history. Sometimes I tell people that the biggest reason why Bitcoin will proliferate and succeed in disrupting the status quo is the fact that no one knows who Satoshi is  I might mean this more seriously than you might think. Fully agree. So it is probably good that trainspotter Dorian is distracting everyone who can't see that the invention is greater than the inventor. |
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Great work jl2012.
Their total has now reached the 85k which Exante was reported to own in April last year.
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Maybe newbies could start with full access, as now, but be kicked into newbie jail if they hit a certain ratio of ignores to posts.
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Ron Paul is the best president the US never had.
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ya the only "evidence" she has is the fact that he fits the profile.
as for Nakamoto: "I can not do that." or "i'm no longer Involved", could very well be a slip of the tong / misunderstanding.
... still
I want to believe!
Not him. Dorian can't write as well, and would never have had the time to mess around with trains if working on Bitcoin too. btw. Can anyone see this? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=506152.0;topicseen |
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So MK could probably pay back at least 30% of everyone's goxxed coins. |
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Millies, as a friendly form of millibitcoins.
I like it because it goes with Mikes, a friendly form of microbitcoins, and someone is sure to do a nice logo of Millie and Mike.
+1 "mil", plural "mils", is still the simplest. |
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I'm normally a perma-bull, but Satoshi waking up brings nervousness that his coins are more likely to move than before, when some people even considered that he may be dead and his coins were frozen long-term.
So, unlike the Dorian antics, the market may take a bit of a hit with the latest development. Retest of 600 possible.
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While Satoshi is showing interest again in Bitcoin it would be nice if he reconfirmed that the 1MB max block size was a temporary anti-spam measure.
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Satoshi Nakamoto to the rescue: Knocks all the MtGox stories off the front pages. (Dorian probably not him with writing styles so different). |
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Best not to call the new forked coin Bitcoin, as it will cause confusion. Maybe 'untrustworthyCoin', 'bailoutCoin' or even 'CannotTrustCoinAsMaybeFrozenAtSomeFuturePointInTimeCoin'?
The thing is that even if "apparent" gox addresses are locked, never mind the collateral damage of locked coins on non-gox addresses of innocent bitcoin holders, this would not return any funds to people who had their coins lost on gox. It is purely an act of revenge. So the the forked Bitcoin is best called RevengeCoin. |
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10 of those "Gox coins" are mine! How about we lock them where they belong, back on my paper wallet. I deposited them after the withdrawal stoppage, so I know damn well they have not left Gox's pocket!
God give me strength. I'm beginning to lose the will to live.  Yeah. I know, I was thinking of similar events like someone giving money to Nigerian email scammers and complaining afterwards, but you sum up the situation perfectly. |
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Holding someone's money hostage is a big deal.
I left mtgox in June last year after it was obvious they were blatantly lying with their TwoWeeks TM mantra, and were holding money hostage. You knew this too and allowed $5k to get stuck on gox. Just because you like hammering gox you don't need to hammer bitstamp as well. Bitstamp have behaved honorably at all times. |
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Breakout early warning...
Yes, btce and huobi are building a launch-pad. Stamp still thinking about it. |
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I liked your write-up Peter, but what happened to the 424242 coins. Are they still largely untouched? |
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Gotta hand it to Tera with his/her 666
667 is the geometric mean of the Stamp ATH and post-ATH low. It is logical for the price to gravitate there now that the gox-shock has faded. I have a difficult time thinking that any of this gravitation of bitcoin price around 666 is natural... Surely we have momentum that whales and bots cannot control.. but some of these coincidences of gravitations are likely bot/whale manipulated... . Whales can keep us up and keep us down within a range... take for example the sell $700 wall on bitstamp... if the momentum seems too great, then that sell wall will get pulled and put at $720... however, in the meantime, the whale got his way to keep prices below $700 and then to move downward in order that he can buy new BTC at $666 from his $700 sales... Nice deal for those who have the means to manipulate... I am ONLY resentful to the extent that I do NOT Have those means and that ability, yet if I did have those means and that ability, it is likely that I probably would use that kind of manipulation to make sure and easy money. Yes, whales can make easy money, but I'm really skeptical about the importance of whales, unless it is a major holder like Exante or Winklevoss deciding to divest 100k coins in quick time. We saw a 10k sell wall recently and although the short-term impact was noticeable the effect after 24 hours was pretty much gone. It was news driving the volatility at that time, and once the news went quiet the market has reverted to longer-term sentiment. |
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Gotta hand it to Tera with his/her 666
667 is the geometric mean of the Stamp ATH and post-ATH low. It is logical for the price to gravitate there now that the gox-shock has faded. |
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Can anyone explain that trade that came out of the api at $633 over 300btc below the bids?
3,000 below the bids! Yes, explanation needed as the integrity of the trading engine is very important. |
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