Has your account been frozen?
I've been trying to change my phone number and they have gone all silent on me...coins stuck on there...getting a bit fidgety.

Yeah, sorry for being a grumpy old mare.

OK, well the gist of it isn't great.

I was pretty bullish about getting RMB out of China and after the "fall of the wall" considered getting funds into China…all in the sake of arb.

However, the communication I had with BTChina was fruitless.
I tried via Bank of China in Australia but they wont play and I tried via some of my HK contacts but again BTChina said no, only mainland China bank branches.

So, I guess Loaded is going to hit them over the head with a suitcase of money…see if that changes their position.

EDIT: One other thing to add is that BitPirate rmbtb exchange was amenable (lets say) but I haven't heard anything from him lately...I am really interested in what his take is on recent developments.

The thing is in 2011 some people bought in at the top of the 'bubble'...it then crashed, they moaned and bitched but by April 2013 their investment had multiplied eight fold...which was when some other folk invested before it crashed again.  They bitched and moaned but the wise ones held and eight months later their investment had tripled.

So, if you bought in at $1200....just wait a while...you'll still get a better return than at your local bank.

Yes, I did post my results from research into getting funds into China yesterday (impossible unless you have a bank account in mainland China) but no-one seemed remotely interested.

I'll go back to my knitting.

that's a point I have raised before...there are many aspects of BTC which resemble a cult and its a shame because its this sort of behaviour which is probably one of BTC's major weaknesses.  While I agree with much of what the OP says with regard to having patience and fortitude, to stick with something new through thick and thin, there is also a touch of blind adherence that in a different scenario would be classed as fundamentalism.

What goat said.

Every rise/fall/correction this chart gets pulled out... of course it looks accurate but it has no time scale...you can zoom in/out pretty much any stock and get it to fit into this pattern...that's because crowds follow the same patterns, which is essentially Elliot wave theory - when any stock rises suddenly it tends to fall in this pattern.

Just hodl and enjoy your holidays.

One of the first things to freak you out when you go to China is going to the loo and finding footprints on the toilet seat...gives a whole new meaning to 'wiping the seat down'.

thirdeded

no, whats the HODL! thread?....sounds like its for dyslexic traders

EDIT: right got it....hilarious...liquered up traders LOL HODLING is probably for the best.

HAven't made it thru all ten pages but seems we have a new meme. Loving this

In lieu of any sensible financial advice here, I asked my cat what to do and she said: "hold, remember this is Bitcoin".  
Which shows cats are pretty smart.

Mornin' all

So, we went up,
then we went back down.
Sales of xanax went UP.
Lots of whisky went down.

Anything else I should know about.

Why is that bad news...although to be honest I think every bubble/crash scares of most potential casual investors/users.  The climb back to 1000USD+ may be long and arduous. Or of course this being BTC...March.

sounds like a particularly unpleasant lunch you'd get on a Hong Kong ferry

Who's the weed lord?
You should have seen the trollbox earlier..bedlam!!

Don't beat yourself up with hypotheticals...I could have bought GBP8K worth of BTC in 2011 but didn't...I've spent many an afternoon floating in the pool imagining how different life would have been but its a pointless exercise.

As we say in Australia, "build a bridge and get over it"

And btw great to see a fellow btc conservationist...good on ya!!

Watch it old man

in a months time we will all look back at this and laugh

You want confusion, hysteria, panic and FUD all rolled into a stream of consciousness...check out the btce trollbox....it in meltdown....foil hats a gogo