You're a complete crackpot.

I'm sure if nothing physical happens, you'll resort to the usual "crank" fallback, which is "It was a spiritual/metaphysical tsunami."

Fucking pathetic.

You haven't been involved with Bitcoin very long, have you.

Bitcoin is declared "dead" almost once every year. Gox is no different, and resurrecting its business won't help anything. You want to help people? Then start a donation fund to restore balances that were stolen to the Gox victims. Gox doesn't deserve to exist, because the CEO has zero ability to run a business.

I can't even believe I have to point this out to you. They tried to reorganize and get new investors - and those investors GOT THE FEDS INVOLVED. That alone should tell you something.

The people who say "Bitcoin is dead" will look like idiots over time - and we don't need some half-baked plan to "save" Gox to achieve that.

You are, without a doubt, one of the biggest idiots I've ever seen on this forum - and that's saying something, because I've been here since 2011.

Things that fail should stay DEAD. Any money given to this FAILED BUSINESS will be an IDIOT TAX that will result in NOTHING POSITIVE.

I can only imagine how you are so enured with the current legacy financial system that you'd emulate one of their tricks. Bailouts are for cowards, and they punish the very people they purport to save.

Please throw your computer out of a window.

Thanks.

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Quite right, and I'm glad you pointed that out. We've been here before - of course under different circumstances, but the emotions are very similar.

On another note, I sent you a PM a while ago aigeezer, was wondering if you ever got that.

This is what you get when a programmer is in a position that they can't handle. It is like taking the reclusive engineer and pushing them into a management position. The door is always closed, they don't say much at meetings, and if you really could check behind the door - they're working on whatever captures their interest at the moment - ignoring the glaring red flags of day-to-day operational problems.

Gox will self-gox itself, and Mark is solely to blame for the continued opaque management style, the lack of communication and especially - the lack of staffing from a business that is still pulling in over 1 Million a MONTH on shitty volume compared to the other exchanges.

I stand corrected - Gox IS dead, and Mark knows it, he just needs to stop people from withdrawing all their funds. Classy. Just the kind of "goxxing" I would expect from an inexperienced businessman.

More like "mtgoxBTC has become more worthless compared to bitstampBTC, bitfinexBTC and btceBTC".

Gox is in the death spiral, and not even an "exodus rally" will save them when the withdrawal switch is flipped back on.

I'm sure they'll have it done in "two weeks". That is, if Mark can stop making too many trips to the coffee shop for his whip-cream cocoa drinks.

Gox is dead, he just doesn't know it yet.

The major difference between Reggie's system and Disastercoin/MSC is that Reggie knows what he's doing, has a track record, and isn't trying to game the blockchain and its miners.

Good job Reggie, glad to see a real competitor step up and take the lead from the squabbling coder-fiefdoms present on these forums.

Gox is dead, Mark just doesn't know it yet.

His trust rating is through the floor.

Nicely done, gave me a good laugh.

I love how they think a decentralized system like Bitcoin can be easily controlled and regulated. The ensuing lulz will be rather fun to watch.

Here's Alcatel-Lucent's institutional stock holders:

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/alu/institutional-holdings

Big names, as expected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel-Lucent

They are a global organization that also owns Bell Labs. This is an interesting development. It isn't some patent-troll trying to do a shakedown. I wonder what they are planning...

Had a native russian friend check it out - this is a ban, folks.

But I'm sure reddit and elsewhere will say "this is actually good news".

Appeal to authority eh?

Here's what I think about economists in general.

They are pseudo-scientists, masquerading as practitioners in math and probabilities. I'd love to have a job as an economist, I could rake in a nice salary, and be completely WRONG on all of my forecasts - and still have a job.

The fact you even laud this chump says volumes about your critical thinking skills. You do realize that PhD Economists have single-handedly screwed over the US Economy?

Recall when Greenspan admitted he "didn't realize" that lower interest rates would kick-start the housing bubble?

Recall when Bernanke thought that "subprime was contained" before the final crash in the subprime scandal?

Those are only the highlights - there are plenty more examples to go around.

Do some reading, and when you feel compelled to white-wash the entire community here as "idiots", you may want to check if you're just hearing the echo from your empty skull.

I want to take every "find satoshi" try-hard and lock them into a room. Then sink that room into a deep ocean trench. Do they not get why he/she/they are anonymous? Are they absolutely insane? Stop trying to "find" anything, you idiots. It seems critical thinking isn't part of their toolset.

I'll just come out and say it.

We're on the big boy's radar. And this "summit" is just them picking over Bitcoin to see how they can fuck it up - you better believe it. I know people get orgasmic when they see Bitcoin next to a known big-time "name", but this isn't one of those good news kinds of things.

They see it, and they'll try to either co-opt it, front-run it, or lobby the fuck out of it - getting legislation to protect their interests.

Just watch.

Also, another hearty "Fuck You" to the Bitcoin Foundation for getting the ball rolling early on so these bastards have more time to fuck with us.

Interesting, because I think they've expended most of their power using these words as well. It will become increasingly obvious that all along they were  just trying to scare people into directions that profited them personally. I think Bitcoin will transform the world, and some of these blood-suckers damn well know it. Why else revert to such emotionally fueled rants? They're losing control, and its about fucking time.

The fact that Bitcoin is entering into these conversations on national media outlets is important. Bitcoin is now part of the financial lexicon, its just a matter of time before live quotes are flashing up on TV somewhere. Having tracked this since 2011, didn't think we would be at this point so soon.

2014 is going to be a rather pivotal year for Bitcoin, I think.

I'm glad the pompous richie-rich types at Davos think its a bubble. Perfect. We'll buy more time to infiltrate their entire economy that way. Funny how the forces of power and greed work in Bitcoin's favor, don't you think? Greed over saving fees/future valuations encourage adoption, and technical complexity prevents entitled douchebags from understanding it right away.

Perfect.