There's a new US Trademark application for "BITCOIN WALLET" based on use starting last month. The term "Bitcoin wallet" has been used generically to describe wallet programs designed to hold and transfer Bitcoins.

If you're lying, scammer. If you're telling the truth, fool. The absolute worst imaginable way to start a business is by borrowing money at exorbitant interest rates. And the very worst imaginable way to induce people to invest in your business is to offer them exorbitant interest rates. This almost ensures that your business will go broke if it encounters even the slightest problem -- and new businesses always do even under the best of circumstances.

Every Bitcoin they sell has to have been bought or mined by someone. So every single Bitcoin they add to supply is a Bitcoin added to demand.

There might be a tiny bit of short-term downward pressure as people who hold Bitcoins but don't really want to hold them take advantage of an opportunity to easily monetize them. But this is more than made up for by the increased value Bitcoins will have because they can be more easily spent.

There is no other known explanation. Please explain what other possible reason would you have for offering such a large interest rate that it would make any rational person think you are a scammer. I have asked this question many times and have never gotten an answer.

If you would even think of asking for a loan at such an absurdly high interest rate when there's even the slightest chance that you might be able to get a bank loan, you're either a fool or a scammer. Either way, loaning you money doesn't sound wise. Honestly, do you have any rational understanding of how absurdly high the interest rate you are offering is? Such rates are almost always offered by scammers or fools, if for no other reason than that offering such a rate makes everyone think you're a scammer.

If you think borrowing money at an absurdly high interest rate in a way that makes you look like a scammer is a sensible way to start a business, you are a very poor businessman.

Don't you have any friends or family -- or anyone with a reason to trust you for that matter --  that would be interested in such an amazing deal?

Is it really? Presumably if there's less wealth, then the value of each Bitcoin would be less as well.

It never left your wallet. It's still exactly where it was all along.

This happens so often (either through denial of service attacks or just outages) that serious miners already configure their equipment to switch pools automatically.

That's just not how the difficulty adjustment works. First, if people stop mining, the difficulty won't go down. People have to mine blocks for the difficulty to adjust. Second, if people resume mining at a low difficulty, the blockchain will progress more rapidly and the difficulty will just adjust sooner. Also, miners benefit from keeping the price of Bitcoin high, so they'd be slitting their own throats.

Right, but they can't afford to protect you from a majority. More likely, they'll just tell you that you have to accept what that majority wants until they change their mind.

In any system that considers homosexual marriage comparable to murder, homosexual marriage will wind up effectively prohibited if murder is. In any system that considers homosexual marriage a fundamental right, homosexual marriage will be protected if rights are protected at all.

So if you want to get something recognized as a fundamental right and protected, what matters is that you convince a majority of people, weighted by how much power the system gives them, that they should be. The system really only matters in two respects:

1) The system decides who or what you have to convince because it determines how rules are made and enforced.

2) The system decides what avenues will be available to you as you do the convincing.

But otherwise, if the majority of force wielders want something, it will happen. If the majority of force wielders are willing to prevent something, it will not, or at least it will be retaliated against.

You tell them your keys or they put you in jail until you do.
http://blog.zwillgen.com/2012/01/26/no-fifth-amendment-violation-for-compelled-disclosure-of-password/

The gay haters would push through a scheme that allows them to compel homosexuals to pay for the very police and courts that enforce the laws against homosexual marriage, but eventually common sense will win out and their courts will hold that marriage equality is a fundamental right.

You think Apple is wrong not to support Bitcoin on their products, therefore you proudly do the very same thing?

Apple makes it hard for people who own their products to use Bitcoin, so in response the community should do precisely the same thing?

It's speculation. But I believe it's the most consistent explanation for the information available -- Gox was believed to have over 700,000 Bitcoins when in fact they didn't have anywhere near that many. This "deficit" accumulated over time.

Where do you see them claiming that?

The problem with the Bitcoin exchange business model is that proper security is expensive and annoying. In the past, customers have believed exchanges when they simply say they are secure. So there was a perception that there was no need to spend more money on additional security -- it wouldn't bring you any more business. The problem has been that there has not been a significant financial incentive for exchanges to actually be secure.

If it turns out Gox actually lost access to Bitcoins that are now stuck in wallets nobody has the private keys to, that's a different situation entirely. Either way, it should be good for Bitcoin in the long term.

I don't think you can sensibly answer the question of how value should fairly be divided without understanding what that value is and who created it. You are asking precisely the wrong question. The first question is -- how can value be created?

The sending account belongs to BitCoinDream.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291387.msg4552072#msg4552072

The lost 800 kBTC don't exist. Mt Gox doesn't have them. 800,000 Bitcoins that people thought were held at Mt Gox we now know did not actually exist. The only Bitcoins that do exist were already in circulation, already pushing the price down.

For every argument why this should make the markets go down, there's an argument for why it should make the markets go up. Perhaps all these factors were already priced in. One that definitely changed is a reduction in uncertainty.