haha, now I see all the posts.   This is what I get.    I tried about 8 times before I posted in a thread then saw this post.    Wasted about an hour.

It should be stickied or etc...   This does increase traffic (not BW but potentially a significant number of SYNs).

Sounds like I am remarkably unobservant.   I did not really dig into what happened during the hacking.   Is it really written somewhere that folks new to an account would be able to see it?  I usually only hit the development/bitcoin/press/speculation/economics forums and only recently decided to become a member so I can comment/post.

I thought it was my new account status but I could find nothing that talks about avatar restriction.

Tried web upload and browser upload.    I recall the board hack from a while back and am wondering if they were turned off?

Lol, EXACTLY

I can't seem to upload an avatar?

That bubble phases chart makes me nuts and I just figured out why.

In most bubbles I can think of the resources were not bounded. 

• Tulips: Just grow more
• Housing: Just build more
• Stock Market: Just issue more

Feel free to add to my list.   Does this make sense? 

No it won't  

http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/bitcoins-in-space

Bitcoin gets significantly closer to the moon.

Not to spread further rumours but Branson is also invested in Square and this may be leading us towards that "square at starbucks" thing.

I am with Mr. Voorhees.   Only problem is that it is going to take quite some time to
get out of FIAT entirely.

Holding and buying more when I get a chance (daily purchase of more).   Always increasing never been higher WRT # of bitcoins.   

Also, when buying products I try to purchase bitcoin to buy the products!

I don't think we can stop this trend.   The "natural" behavior when folks are not dumping is a drift upwards.   Keep in mind that coinbase has run out of coins several times.   A lot of demand and the self reinforcing behavior is massively global.

This...   

It is a commodity today that has some currency characteristics (note how the Senate hearings discussed as well).   In the long run the commodity characteristics may go away if it becomes of greater common utility (mom can use it etc...).




Not That...

This is going to be quite different.   Elmos and beanie babies do not have the right qualities to be successful long term.   Having a protocol for exchange of value is absafreakingmazing.

I wonder how much impact coinbase has on price?   If they keep getting capped
and they are the "easiest" way to buy bitcoins in the US would this be part of the
reason why we had softness?

Can't help but notice that a lot of deflating started to occur with coinbase no longer
able to sell coin.

The first step will likely be an FPGA.   

The second someone gets there they have enough "well defined" that an ASIC
is not too far off.

Many, many computing activities can happen in ASICs if they are well planned
and ASICs can most certainly work with large chunks of memory!

Remember the key part of ASIC means "application specific."   The only way to limit
the growth of ASIC potential would be to change the algorithm so frequently
that they can't get to tape out before you change the design again 

Keep in mind that you are up against a very tight clock.  Ebay has it's eyes on bitcoin! 

You may want to look at acquiring Bitmit

https://www.bitmit.net/en/recent

as a possible way to get quickly moving. They are recently defunct and may represent an opportunity.

Buy some for savings/investment.    You certainly don't have to buy $500.   

That said, don't just sit their and hold onto them. 

• Use them to buy things.
• Give craigslist a shot
• Give some to your family members and practice exchanging them
• Experiment!