10-4 Thanks!

Παίδες όλοι είμαστε ενήλικοι και οσον αφορα τις θέσεις που διατυπώνουμε μην ξεχνάμε πως επηρεάζουμε και απλούς χρήστες, καλό θα είναι προτού εκφέρουμε μια άποψη για τον οποιοδήποτε να το τσεκάρουμε και μόνοι μας. Προσωπικά νομίζω πως μια επαφή με τον τύπο που έθεσε το θέμα του φάρμινκγ θα την κάνω και μετά θα εκτιμήσω τις όποιες μου κινήσεις. Περίμενε κανείς σας το σκαπανέβασμα στην τιμή του BTC , αν είστε τόσο σίγουροι τότε με τα παραδοσιακά χρηματηστήρια γιαί φάγατε την φόλλα απο τον Σημίτη?
Απλά λέω πως ο καθένας μπορεί να το ερευνήσει και μετά να προτείνει.

does anyone else think this might be tied to Bitinstant being down?

I'm telling you guys, silent majority of drug buyers keep bitcoin going

but nobody wants to believe me

This whole deal is completely over, they sounded like the real deal for a short time - they are not, it is clear!
The couple of fanboys on here who keep posting positive stuff about them or slagging off detractors have low post counts and are likely aligned with TH either Amir himself or friends or just people too greedy to not see the truth.

It's time to get out while you can guys before the 45 day PayPal limit

Damn large monster sells today at bitstamp - now orders at 70, 72, 75.

Some people are not running to fiat...yes times have changed.

I will believe in alternative cryptocurrencies when I see Silk Road using them.

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The reason for Bitcoin to go up again is for it to reach its bottom, becoming undervalued and thus a good investment again.

That means they will start taking orders for those people who wish to supply their OWN chips and have them assembled onto a board. 

Also, we will start taking assembly only orders next week after we get our test circuit hashing.

It's not the first solution - there are other ways to mix up coins and preserve privacy. ZeroCoin is a very nice piece of work and there are all kinds of uses for advanced cryptography. Unfortunately as pointed out before, zerocoin is not only "not the most optimized", it's so slow as to be unusable. But crypto only ever gets faster. It might become feasible one day.

Until then, there are simpler approaches that can do a job that's nearly as good (or maybe even just as good).

We are making considerable progress, both with the circuit and the enclosure. I will post an update here and well as an email to everyone, including pictures in the next half an hour.

Do both. Private IPO and accept pre-orders, offering escrow until a prototype is available.

A "soft fork" is a hack. It means miners know about the new rule and other nodes don't, so those nodes can accept blocks that don't follow the new rules, but eventually those blocks will get re-orged away.

I don't personally like soft forks and think we shouldn't use them. The assumption that appearing in the block chain means the transaction is valid (according to everyone) is pretty fundamental. Breaking that by having transactions that are "valid" except that they're not going to actually be accepted by the majority undermines that principle. And so far there haven't been any compelling reasons to do it. P2SH has turned out to not be used so far, even though at the time it was deemed important enough to not want to wait for a scheduled hard fork. ZeroCoin isn't usable for the reasons gmaxwell cited back in May.

There are lots of ways to improve user privacy that don't involve any kind of fork at all - it'd be weird to use a complicated backwards-incompatible scheme before simpler backwards compatible schemes have been implemented.

I saw this: https://github.com/Zerocoin/libzerocoin

You all need to start businesses that provide products and services for bitcoin, earn Bitcoins, not buy them with fiat. If the price is low... Earn more of them, then sell high. Yes, I know ideally the price of goods and services would not he pegged to the dolloar but for now it ie, and take advantage of that. Bitmit is a great place to start.