pigf*cking sodomite necrophiliac pedophile terrorist racist drug-dealing money-laundering gun-running slave-trading kiddy-porn puppy-stomping paint huffers.

what promises did he actually deliver on?
http://newsgnome.blogspot.com/2009/03/official-list-of-obamas-broken-promises.html

If he promised to destroy whats left of the US then yes hes delivering.

May 24 was the day before Memorial Weekend.  May 21-23 was not.

I know it's just a joke, but it's not like you can just decide to peg your currency to something and call it good.  It involves artificially raising the lowering the price of your currency by either selling it to lower the price, or buying it in the open market with other currencies to raise the price.  It's a manipulation of the actual market value.  They would need substantial foreign currency reserves and a currency that has some actual value to being with.  What you're probably thinking of is what they actually did which was abandon their currency in favor of a real one, but then they can't print their own money.

Looking at May 21-24, there was a small lull in Google Search activity for the keyword "bitcoin", but bitcoin price went up all these four days.

It is possible that there is a time lag.

I never said it was magic, even though to some it might appear as such.  It's economics.  It's the 'network effect'.  As the Bitcoin economy grows, and thus comes to represent a greater portion of the total economy of any given region, the need of bitcoin holders to exchange out to a national fiat currency will decrease.  In the future, if you can spend bitcoin at Wal-Mart for your daily needs, you don't need to pay transaction fees nor trust some distant counterparty dealer.  You simply go to Wal-Mart and buy what you need directly, probably using your smartphone.  That is the end goal of this whole thing.  Fiat currencies have real limitations that make their use in cyberspace risky or difficult, but the reverse will soon no longer be so.

I would be surprised if the Euro existed in 10 years (in any recognizable form) even if Bitcoin didn't exist.  Now I think that not only will the Euro not exist in any dominate fashion, Europeans won't even care.  The US FRN will last longer, for many reasons, but will eventually fade away.  The governments that persist will have to adapt to a world wherein they have near zero control over the monetary system.

where's that "10k pizza" guy ?
maybe he is ashamed or something, but he is actually a hero,
if he did not invest in btc community, maybe things would go a lot slower...

This is from the UK serious fraud office:

Our aim is to protect society from extensive, deliberate criminal deception which could threaten public confidence in the financial system.  We investigate fraud and corruption that requires our investigative expertise and special powers to obtain and assess evidence to successfully prosecute fraudsters, freeze assets and compensate victims.


Sounds exactly like bitcoin...

I don't know how to use that site. It's appears user unfriendly, I'm afraid. Is there a manual somewhere?

I wonder if anybody has ever calculated the chances of a vote making any difference in elections. I bet the chances are compared with those of winning a lottery, if not worse. You probably have much more chances of dying in your way to the voting center than of having your vote making any difference.

Too soon, I need more time. 

This has me thinking about what the biggest threat to bitcoin's value is at the moment. In my opinion the biggest threat is that some early adopter wants to buy million dollar+ house and has to sell off all of his bitcoins to do it. Conclusion: we need a bitcoin real estate company.