Where did this theory come from? Dude, resting your hardware is the best thing for its health.
Spin that bitch down and reap the rewards.

would you feel better if we had someone reputable like Bruce Wagner hold on to this bounty wallet?

Also, once the price goes above 20-30 USD, any attempt at manipulating the market becomes a much more expensive proposition.

try these charts: http://bitcoinity.org/markets?exchange=mtgox

Why are these people are not responding to us? Why do they put up a website and ignored us when we need help with their service? I sent 5 btc through bitlaundry to do a test drive and my coins never arrive at the destination address. I sent Mike Gogulski, the owner of bitlaundry, 4 messages asking if he can help me retrieving my 5btc and this asshole is ignoring me. If you guys keep this up, people will lose interest and will definately sell off the bitcoin value because they can't trust the community of bitcoin. I lost 20 btc from mybitcoin and now another five from bitlaundry. This is bullshit and I might as well cash all of coins out and forget that bitcoin ever exist. Get back to me Mike! I can tell you log in and that is how I know you're ignoring me. Thanks

This is it RIGHT HERE FOLKS. You let people like this laugh at you? EDUCATE YOURSELF...

I say more like:

How dare Dwolla randomly lock accounts and funds, and then demand more information that they never suggested was required. This is ripping a page from the PayPal playbook. Next they will start randomly locking accounts and then demanding proof that you shipped an item or demand invoices and business licenses and SSN cards to see how much money they can keep? Maybe they can pull money back out of your account with no notification, while revising their web page and rewriting history where they stated that wouldn't happen. Oh, they already do that. Changing the terms I agreed to, terms that had no provision for change in them? Already did that.

The sign-up page and terms and conditions still have no indication that they will require more information from you, conveniently when you have steal-able funds in the account. There is also no indication of federal pressure brought to bear on them to comply with anti-money-laundering laws and to randomly lock Islamic sounding account names, or that they even looked into their responsibility to comply with money exchange laws before opening and won't end up in Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison with the e-gold guy with all our assets seized.

How about I take my security seriously. Dwolla has not stated what they plan on doing with my photo ID, keeping it on their servers forever for rogue employees to copy to USB drives, for hackers to steal and sell to Ukrainian identity thieves, or sending it to the IRS or the Secret Service?

Well, for many of you, it's not what you think.

I constantly hear craziness like,
"we just have to get bitcoin mainstream".
"Banks and paypal should deal with bitcoins"
"Bitcoins need popular acceptance"
"Exchanges"
"Online Wallets"

blah blah fucking blah blah blah.

Don't you people realize that bitcoins are THE ANTITHESIS of the modern banking system?
It's like saying, "Goliath, we want to introduce you to David, our Hero, we want you to help protect him. Will you make our kingdom more accommodating for David?

Don't be so stupid and naive that you think bitcoin will ever become mainstream enough for stores to accept it and people to use it on a regular basis. It will NEVER replace the dollar or some national currency. Banks will never work with it, and paypal will never be accommodating to it. WHY?

It's IMPOSSIBLE!  It's Impossible for a predator to get along with a victim waiting to be exploited.

Whoever or whatever intelligence created bitcoins realized a shitload of things ahead of time, and ahead of us all. What some of you simpletons fail to realize is that there is something called a NEW WORLD ORDER. It has nothing to do with conspiracy theories. It's a proven historical fact.

Even GOLD, the Rothschilds set the price for, daily.  It's still done the old fashioned way.

The Knights Templars set the standard in central banking in the early 1200's. The goldsmiths and Rothschilds came hundreds of years later in Amsterdam in the 1500's and 1800's. The Bank of England was created and chartered in 1694, shortly after Oliver Cromwell in 1688, led the Glorious Revolution. This was officially the start of the New World Order as it exists today.

The world is set up around the International Banking System through the IMF and World Bank, but ultimately through the Bank of England.

If you think for one second, that Bitcoin will be easy to get off the ground or that it will be accepted by most people, or that it will be something that we can work with banks on, or it will be something major supermarkets or stores or organizations will accept, that's very foolish. They are all owned and controlled by the same central banking organizations today.

Bitcoins will always have to be converted back and forth, and people who do this will always have risk involved unless they accept cash only. People who work through banks and do their bitcoin businesses are sitting on the fence. One foot on each side. People who have their business registered with the government will always be "spies" for the enemy banker elites, one way or the other. They are by nature, informants, through the very workings of the system.

In this system, as in any REAL WAR, you cannot be "on the fence" and you can never be trusted as you can always be considered an "enemy spy".

If people want bitcoins to succeed, they must make compromises, and sacrifices in regards to what they are used to. You can kiss convenience GOODBYE! Say "GOODBYE Convenience, I do not need you as much as I value the freedom I can achieve from bitcoins". Say Goodbye to the ease of which you point and click and order and consume with a finger jerk. Take a new avenue toward life and realize that with freedom comes sacrifice and a will to make change happen. You do not do that by sitting behind a computer and armchair bitching and waiting for others to make those changes.

DO NOT think you can use bitcoins like money, EVER! Bitcoins are something completely different and so new you cannot likely fathom the ways they can be used for the most benefit as those uses may not have been invented yet. Just realize that bitcoins are not what you think they are. Keep an open mind, and think about how easy it is for people to stay in power and what reasons they have for doing so, and the overwhelming need by the powers that be to keep bitcoin from ever achieving it's full potential. Realize there are MANY POTENT forces out there that seek to keep bitcoin from gaining ground and going mainstream. Realize that we are soldiers in a war for freedom and not all of us are fighting the same war or even realize we are on a battlefield at all!

WAKE UP YOUR SLEEPING UNCONSCIOUS. Bitcoins are a real solution to real problems of today. The powers that be are not going to be happy about anything that changes the status quo. That's simple math for you.

I hope some people can use this message to WAKE UP TO REALITY. God willing.

Ya I read about this last night. I might just end up buying this game for the sole purpose of playing around with their item auction economy.