The P:E ratios and number of buybacks are what is making the DAX rise to it's all time high, that along with banks being awash with almost free money that they pretty much have to invest somewhere (bonds are nearly negative!)

The USD is a safe haven in that America is nearer to raising rates than everyone else, but they won't do it if they can help it, and I think they will have to reduce them soon afterwards when all of the bread line mortgages start being defaulted on and the government actually has to pay interest on the huge debts they have.  The new normal is ever lower rates, ever more QE, everyone is happy, until one day when it all goes wrong.

I hate threads like this, I see the title, read the first few lines, open bitcoinity, see the price is the same as earlier today, then have to go on reading!
If you hold bitcoin and haven't dumped yet, why would you dump now??

The price seems to trending upwards, and even forgetting the price, the infrastructure improvements are coming thick and fast!

The goal blocktime of bitcoin is 10 minutes.  For 6 blocks to be solved, it will take 60 minutes if the overall mining power is the same as when the last difficulty change happened.  Usually it has slightly increased, so it takes slightly less than one hour - by design.

The amount that you have invested in bitcoin won't change, but the value of your investment will.

If you worry about the fluctuations, then it is probably best for you to send the coins to an exchange and get USD or your local currency instead.  Holding is not for the faint hearted at the moment, the price has falled 70%+ in the last 16 months. 
If you are happy to speculate, then just forget the $ value and be happy that crypocurrency usage is inevitable in the future, so the price of Bitcoin will very very probably rise in the long term

What does everyone make of the price of oil at the moment? 

There has been a lot of chatter that we could see $10 oil, then in the next breath people say oil could return to $100 in short order.  I personally beleive that it is being used as a political tool against Iran and Russia, whilst the Saudis will also be happy to get rid of some of the more expensive to reach fracking oil from the system.

The thing is, at the moment global supply is high and stores are full, which would indicate that Oil is over-priced.  BUT this rate of oil cannot be profitable got out of the ground at $50-60 per barrel, so in the future prices will have to rise or we will have a short fall, so the price should start to normalize in short order.

Where do you see the price going?  I invested some when Brent went under $50, but I feel slightly less confident at $60.  I do think $100 will be reached in the next 5 years again, but I am after a shorter investment..

I agree with man made climate change - generally warming, but I am not really all that bothered by it.  I think science will solve the problems for us, and that turning off my lights when I go to the toilet will never make any sizable difference.

Reddit shouldn't ban any opinion that isn't illegal in my opinion, but they were probably sick of every thread being constantly spammed by climate change deniers or skeptics.  It's the same as Atheists getting involved in religious discussions, it's not really adding to the conversation, you have your opinion, good, now leave us in peace to chat!

I have used some faucets in my time, but they all offer less than one cents worth of Bitcoin every few hours.

I played the coin flapper game for a while too, and thought it had potential to get me some real bitcoins, but then I realised that even that would be about 30k satoshi a day, which is nothing. 
It is very cheap advertising that no one would go for if it were in fiat currency, it shouldn't be encouraged, but for different reasons to those you give..

The great thing about Satoshis are that they are so small, bitcoin is future-proofed as 1 satoshi will always be a low amount, even when Bitcoin is worth 25k per coin.

At the moment though they are used to make minuscule amounts of money appears to be a fair amount. In this case 900 Satoshi is 0.2 US cents.  Not really a great deal!

A couple of big buys in the last 3 hours, the trend is definitely upwards from here, I can imagine $300 being resisted, but it shouldn't be a long term pause, especially if more big buys come in soon.

I sat on a bus the other day next to a women who took about 40 selfies in about 10 minutes, she then looked through them all, posted a few, then looked through her old selfy posts.

It is at best extreme narcissism, and at worst a mental disorder. I do admit to having taken selfies before, but only so as to get a photo of me and my girlfriend somewhere, rather than asking someone to take a photo (and probably steal my phone). It still feels ridiculous but at least the lady is happy we have photos together.

I think we might be on the verge of the age of revolution.

There has been too much redistribution of wealth from the masses to the rich, most cannot afford to buy a house, pensions will be low and paid only after 75 years of age or more. I think the 'rich' countries populations will rise soon, it will start with civil disobedience, but soon change will be demanded.

I have invested in a USD hedged brent crude ETF, that covers the really low oil price and keeps some of my money out of € too.
Bitcoin is pretty much priced in $ too, or silver, both would be fair choices.

It is a joke situation.  BBC showed a montage of him campaigning for TV debates with Brown before the last GE, now he doesn't think it is worthwhile...
I do think that the debates would probably unfairly help the small parties that would never be held to account, as they will never get into power, especially UKIP.

He might also worry that UKIP will try to lock him down on his position on Europe, making him look closer to UKIP than he really is.  This could splinter his conservative vote, costing him vital marginals and the election.

I would still like to see a 4 party debate though.

Would they not be severely limited by line of sight?  The curvature of the earth would mean that on a talk the range would be fairly low, just guessing but maybe 5 miles?
Would they be able to be used by a fighter jet? Then they would be lethal.  I would be interested to see what sort of defences armies come up with against this sort of thing, should they be adopted in the future. Would reflective materials or stealth materials be safe from attack?

I can only help with point 2, not being a graphics person, but I would push the fact that they can accept money directly without having to pay credit card charges or visit the bank.

I don't think that somewhere still accepting cheques is the sort of place that will be accepting bitcoin in the next 25 years, but for some more entrepreneurial spirits, I think reducing their charges would appeal.

I would say that someone with >1000 bitcoins is a whale.
With 4 figures it is noticeable on exchanges when they are all parked at a certain price. With a global supply of 14mil coins it is 1/14,000th of the total money supply, that is a big lump of a currency.

10,000btc is a super whale in my opinion, I doubt there are too many people out there with 10k coins that are hot stored.

Not really because they are unimportant notions without meaning, so no defined barriers are needed.
If it were actually of importance then it would be something along the lines of being writhing a certain number of standard deviations of the mean wage in the local area. 

I would assume that someone earning 100k in New York is poorer as a percentage of the population than someone earning 90k in Idaho.

Just as a side note, in the UK class has no direct link with earnings, it is more of a family history and job title thing.

Why would companies spend money on R&D without the protection that a patent offers.  They pour money into testing and developing a product only to be usurped by larger companies later.
The copyright isn't so important to me, but I work in Biotechnology and clinical trials and product development takes a very long time and costs lots of money.  Usually big Pharma comes in and buys out the small companies soon after they get drug approval, but without a patent they wouldn't really need to, they could employ 1 or 2 of the key developers and they would have all of the information they need to make the product themselves.

Soon enough no one would do R&D and progress would slow significantly.  Look at what has happened to hollywood since people started pirating the films constantly.  There has hardly been an original film made there in the last 10 years!

It doesn't alarm me and I don't really think it should be too surprising either.  People make a lot of the fact that some Chinese exchanges have no trading fees, so that in thei ropinion means that the volume is fake.  Nothing has proven this hypothesis though.  China is about 2/7ths of the world populationwise, but they are an increasing power that is tech savvy.  I don't know about the prices of electricity there, so can't comment, but I do know that they are pretty good at producing electricals, so can probably pump out a large number of ASICs at a reasonable price to start these farms.

It doesn't really remind me of the GHash.IO story, because they actually had control of more than 51% of the mining, so could have double spent if they had so chosen.  Here the biggest pool is 20%, which is a good thing for securing the bloch chain from future 51% attacks.

China seems very big on any kind of external investment nowadays, they are buying up property, prescious metals and apparently are now dominating Bitcoin mining too.

There is a difference between making a mistake and being an idiot. I expect he can manage to store at least some of his bitcoins in a paper wallet that is obviously completely safe from trojans.
I use online wallets generally with 2FA and strong unique passwords, and I am not quite as tech savvy as Satoshi!

It does seem that trojans like these will be a hinderance to further adoption of bitcoin though, your average windows 7, internet explorer user won't use Bitcoin again if they manage to lose them without doing anthing really wrong.