You can try and spin this into good news, but it's really not.

China is saying that it is taking these actions to prevent bitcoin from undermining their currency controls.

If that's true, then this is the first step towards full on war since bitcoin necessarily undermines all currency controls.

Discards 'china bans bitcoin' (even tho its true, its a ban): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=358453.0

Keeps 'china doesnt ban bitcoin' (the real fud, trying to convince naive people nothing bad is going on): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=358368.0

obvious censorship going on here, almost china-like I would say

I'm thinking of getting a loan to buy more bitcoin, as I'm guessing we'll reach $10K in a few months it can be a good deal to lend at a bank against 5% anual rate

Did anyone do this before? Would like some experience advice

last chance to buy below $500 has just passed

who became rich in the last few days by selling?

for mining purposes only

[atleast]

are you ready?

Guess the exact day (UTC) when the BTC value will reach $1000 on MtGox and you will get 0.1 BTC

Rules:
1. you can only play once
2. you must have 25+ posts
3. you must be registered before 16 nov 2013
4. if more than one winner: prize is divided
5. any guesses within 15 days before the winning date are not counted (because otherwise alot of people would guess it one day before)

Notes: I will write down the list of participants in this topic with their guesses to prevent cheaters from editing their posts

[because real money cant be withdrawn]

the  price cant go down because real money cant be withdrawn

thus, after every trade, the seller must buy again, at some point

the bid volume is always the same

thanks mtgox

Is it possible that we could soon be witnessing the first ever cryptocurrency related bankrun that will cause a fractional bank like MtGox to go down?

Discuss

By cutting away the ability to withdraw significant amounts of real money from MtGox, they have basicly singlehandedly caused the current spike up price making us all rich as fuck

This topic is an appreciation and way to thank MtGox and Mark Karpeles for being one of the most inspiring and intelligent people of Bitcoin

THANK YOU FOR MAKING US RICH, MTGOX

mark my words

The sellers will soon realize they cant withdraw their real money and must buy bitcoins again to avoid the MtGox bankruptcy, which would make them lose all their real money

So just hold on and see the price go up again

MtGox will keep the price up boys and girls, with some freshly printed fake USD's, or not even that, just a bigint in a MySQL DB

You cannot withdraw USD, because we don't have it

Are you guys ready ??

Bullish wedge on the daily

We are going up 100%

Don't be late...

Yawn, haven't been here for a while and just thought I'd come take a look today

What happened to conquering the world? Oh wait that's just Bitcoin's selling line, most here are to get rich quick

Most, in their naivety, fail in that and make a huge loss (money+time wasted). But guys, make sure to advertise those rich bitcoiners and make people believe they can become rich too with Bitcoin!!!

Always interesting to analyse the community of bitcoin, it's a great place to see the sheep behaviour of humans

bitcoin price is currently manipulated by mtgox, this can only last so long though

people cant get USD out, so MtGox buys any high volume selling pressure with fake USD to fix the price.
to get USD out high networth persons have to buy bitcoins again, buying back from mtgox ofcourse, nullifying the initial buy but still losing 1.2%. Then, they must sell on another exchange, thats why price on other exchanges are way down and getting lower as more people succumb to the scam portrayed by mtgox.

good luck

Bitcoin doesn't solve any real world problems

Except:
Dealing in drugs
Laundering money
Evade taxation

Naturally, bitcoin will only be used in practice for the above
Anyone here studying criminal law: do your master thesis on Bitcoin, investigate about the economy of Bitcoin. A+ grade in your pocket