Geez, completely forgot about this bet. Looks like everything happened as expected.

Right. Previous cycles were broader media coverage. People speculating that BTC could grow big (and that obviously means consumer adoption, what else?).

I think you should repeat that sentance.
In front of a mirror.

Thats a pretty good thing actually. Means they also dont know about all the deficits. And thats there is time to improve it before its ready for wide adoption.

All of the previous bubbles have aligned with extended media coverage. At first just some crypto-related channels. Later on tech sites, e.g. slashdot and similiar. And even further on main-stream media.

And why would someone invest trillions into a technology that hasnt seen any significant user adoption?

I´m pretty sure that bitcoin will/would rise with consumer adoption, not the other way round. Why would a consumer, who wants to use it as a payment system or store of value, be interested in how much a single coin is worth? Thats just an arbitrary number. Thats like saying consumer adoption would be higher if Satoshi had decided to cap the maximum at 2.1M instead of 21M, because a bitcoin would be worth ten times as much now.

Ok, then which potential investor doesnt know about bitcoin?
Banks know about (and a couple have even written papers about it), governments know about it (and have written advisories), Wall Street and investors knows about it (and have invested quite a lot of money into startups around bitcoin). Who doesnt know about it?
Its about consumer adoption know (i know, i´m repeating myself here).

Yes, but that was due to widespread media coverage. By now pretty much everyone who could invest in BTC knows about it. Its about consumer adoption now.
I mean, sure, basicly you couldnt rule out that the next bubble will be due to aliens buying it after the inter-galactic news network publishes an article about a "fantastic and innovative payment system developed by some ape-like beings on a boring planet on the edge of the milky way".

Simple. If it wont bubble again until consumer adoption then obviously the trolls (or whatever you call the people predicting a price decline) will have to be right every now and then.

Does anyone seriously expect a bubble until consumer adoption is cheap and easy?

Bullshit.
For a lot of essential functions the internet only saves a meager amount.
I have already dealt with institutions that that calculate with "ok, and what happens when a tank blows up an office?" type of events. Internet is a "nice to have" to save a couple of expenses, but its very far from being essential.

Sure. And Bitcoin number 42.000.000 can be mined as well.
All it takes are a couple of lines of code changes.
You know like, "hey, deflationary is stupid, screw that".

Was thinking along that line as well. Volume low for ages, and then a huge sell wall gets eaten up so quickly? But it stop right after eating through it?
Might be a "cheap" attempt to get people to start a rally.
Sure would quite a lot in fees, unless it were people from Bitstamp themselves. But may have been considered worth the risk anyway to trigger a rally.

Pretty similiar to what i was thinking. However i also expected it to hang around $500 by end of the year, so the bottom might actually be lower. And there are still a lot of requirements missing (ease of use, low fee accessability, incentives from merchants), but mid year next year seems possible. From there on an exponential growth seems reasonable. Might well be like 30%/year. So the ATH could easily be broken in less than a decade.

Actually they arent. Prices would have to be a lot closer to last ATH for mining to be profitable (at least for "normal" people buying devices).

In his defence he wrote www, not internet.
Mosaic was pretty much the first "widely" used browser, and that was 93.

Why go for a suggestion? Just plug the numbers into any damn mining calculator.
E.g. a brand new Antminer S4 will break even after 5 months. Assuming you pay 5 c/kWh and the difficulty will NOT increase any further. Even assuming a mere 15% difficulty increase per month it will never break even (current 30 day average is 26%).
Either you can get something like a 50% discount of retail prices or you can forget turning a profit from mining currently.

Its not the filename. There actually is part of an old MS-DOS virus in the blockchain.
Fortunately its harmless.

I know for sure. I had a rig mining back then (and a couple of gfx cards for scrypt coins).
But that doesnt change anything. Mining capacity follows price. With Asics there is allways a delay, due to the long times between (pre-)ordering and shipping. The hashing power has kept rising at unsustainable rates since last ATH (actually next difficulty change might be first drop since around the time of the first reward reduction). Mining cards like the BFL monarchs which were ordered during the ATH still havent been shipped (and its very well possible they never will...).

Nothing. Except rational behavior.
If mining is is highly profitable more people (or farms) will do it and expand capacities. I mean, seriously, who wouldnt want to buy a "money printing" machine?
Mining capacity (and power requirements) will allways follow price.

Because the miners get paid with block rewards in bitcoin. As the price of bitcoin rises so does the block reward.
And as long the mining gear produces more rewards than the power to run it costs, it will stay online. And at, say $500K per coin and 12.5BTC/block that would be like $900M rewards/day or ~$330B/year. A large amount of that would be going into paying the electricity bills.

Well, the chart does imply a couple of things, amoth others the following.
The mining network will consume more power than a medium sized country.
The technology will still not be widely used, even at those price levels, otherwise it would have stabilzed with a high volume.
So, thats what you believe?

Well, i would guess there are only so many interpretations for a topic called "[prediction] Next spike $560,000 14 months from now".
I mean, what is the topic supposed to imply?