Now bouncing down to 860 ...This thing is super volatile.  What would be considered a major crash? Halving the value is one of the 4 crashes BC has had from what I read. But it bounces back up quickly.
This indicates that trading is done very quickly but from what I've read here it takes days to make a trade?

Wow. I am a complete newbie here but this looks to me like a crash happening right now.
From a price of $1200 yesterday it is now bouncing wildly between $920 and 945.

Could it be that the Chinese gov. is worried that bitcoin will take away their tight controls over every aspect of the peoples life.  
Freedom for the people! I can see how the Chinese people will love bitcoin. For one, it can be used as a very volatile (risky and potentially profitable) speculation tool. Secondly, it isn't controlled by any big company either government controlled or government influenced. Which means it has a certain amount of political freedom. I don't know. I am guessing. Am I right?

Wow!  So many pages of posts from people wanting to be whitelisted. Well I'll add my bit here too as it seems to be the place to add a fairly meaningless post (mine that is) just for my number of posts to increase by one!
Can I be whitelisted please?  My reason is that if I see some interesting stuff in the other areas I'd like to be able to comment, ask questions, etc. I promise I won't be nasty, I will respect all the others here and behave in an appropriate manner!
Thanks
Matt