Plenty of people have made panic posts in an attempt to drive down prices ahead of a buy. Not sure about the efficacy of this technique. If someone does a good job, it may be very hard to tell how well it worked.

In naked shorting you have not borrowed or located the money you need. It sounds crazy, but you are essentially betting with money you don't have.

STFU!    lol really Elwar?  That's a lot. Are you planning on buying outside of the exchanges?

There are ways to short bitcoin, even naked shorting. It's not for the faint of heart but if look around here you can find a few sites where it is practiced.

I'll also be watching this fat baby grow. Nice idea! 

I have some of your missing coins. Like casascius above, I have a stash of coins that I paid less than $1 for.  Those I will hold probably until all 21 million coins are produced, no matter what the price does.

Agreed. No one likes to talk about the losers when the market is up or the winners when it goes down. But they are both always there.

also, about the forum restrictions: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=15958.0

Cool, I never checked this out ---> http://btcmsg.staticloud.com/

That could be a useful whistle-blower tool.

I would hope that the GA spends it's bitcoin to make purchases rather than convert them into dollars at an exchange.  If we wanted that we would have given them old school money.  Have any of our peers involved with the New York protests given the GA a list of merchants who take BTC?

also, Thanks phelix. I copied it from someone her on the forums.

Hitting $1 would cause me to spend some of my profits for buying more coins.

Let me guess which category you fall into.  Besides it cant fall to zero. I have some coins I wont part with for less than $100.

Can I get back to you when Bitcoin is ready for release? Remember we are not even halfway to a version 1.  Once soccer Moms have a version they can choose to use, we will have an idea about it's broader adoption.

What is a Google hangout?

I predict that a year from now there will be new articles about bitcoin's death. I mean, how long ago did god die? and you still hear about her all the time.

Oh no, bitcoin has died again, for the 500th. time.

If it has been that long you should check these things.
What version of the client are you running? Old versions may not be able to find peers. Check to see that you have some connections.
Allow the blockchain to download. This could take hours if it has been three months.

Here are the buttons I'm handing out at #OccupyMadison.  Thanks to deslok for the printing.

Thank you Mt.GoX.

Izzy, why don't you just have sex with a man and get it over. It must be on your mind to bring it into a discussion about price.

I just mean if you keep some USD at your exchange and you want to buy something with BTC.  Just buy your coins and then send them. It is not elegant and you may loose a tiny bit. But you may also realize a discount if the price goes up a bit.