I have been buying... just now... " I just bought 1.0 bitcoin"

When the stock market crashes people will have less money for bitcoin. Hopefully a bunch of people will invest in Bitcoin BECAUSE they fear that the stock market will crash.

As there are more bitcoin investment opportunities hopefully more mainstream investors will start to join in the fun.

My faith in Bitcoin is not as unshakable as it was a while back. Empty Gox and so many recent scams have shaken my belief.

Nevertheless I still have enough faith in Bitcoin to bet large on it. I am buying more now. If it falls further I will keep buying. If that means other expenses have to be slashed, then I am fine with that.

There are way too many scam coins. I can see the allure in people creating more of them. Hell I created a couple for fun - but, not to scam people. I think we would be better off with just Bitcoin. Ordinarily I would say competition is good. But, when the "competition" has so many scams, it is just bad, in my opinion.

I served someone with a lawsuit at a deposition. So it is a really convenient way to track down someone who wants to hide. Of course the scamming guy I sued then proceeded to file bankruptcy to get out of his obligations to me.

Really I guess the benefit to Mark of going to the US and having bankruptcy protection could help him keep some domain names that could be seized from him in the united states. Maybe he has some bank accounts.

But, any Bitcoin that he may have hidden could be hidden as long as he does not talk.

I would bet that Mark will not appear in the US. Otherwise Federal Marshalls will be waiting for him when he leaves the deposition.

I can't get to the stats either.  

However, nothing is failing over so I guess things are ok. there

I only wish the hash rate dropped in half. Mining is so much slower than it was not too long ago..

I bought this morning at $450 because every time it drops and I do not buy in I regret it later.

Thanks. These look great!

Excellent work. It all looks pretty and I love the thought of having some of Satoshi's first bitcoin in my wallet.

I am not sure about this, "Every bigger government agency or bank is able to destroy Bitcoin by building a shitton of ASICs." but, I would think that the Chinese government could pull it off easily.

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Auroracoin does not provide any transparency because the market will let them get away with it. As long as Fortune and others are hungry to write non-critical articles about new alt coins they have no reason to change any. I can't say that I blame them...

so what happens to the price of BTC if the rumor IS true? or FALSE?

When Gox collapsed it was already priced into the market. Is Chinese market already priced out of the market?

What is a Simbabwian Dollar? It does not sound good.

The future decrease in mining payouts will artificially increase the value of mining before the drop in mining payouts.

This is great news... unfortunately it won't last long. : (

Looks like I am in the majority. I predict big bounties of bitcoin being placed to track down hackers.

The only people who win in the process are the attorneys. The only thing the little people will get out of this is perhaps some knowledge of how Mark scammed us.