This service is not intended for GPU bitcoin mining. Hence while power is a significant cost component (as with any DC)  it is not that important. It still could be suitable for ASIC and FPGA mining, however.

What important is that customers know exactly who has access to the hardware and that it would require a platoon of marines to storm the DC.  

Right, there are thousands of TA indicators, llikely about 30% of them are bullish, 30% bearish and 40% neutral. We can continue your  style of argument for another 200 pages or so. LOL

What's so irrational about it? Could it be the fact that bitcoin inflation drops from 33% in 2012 to 12.5% in 2013, by any chance, all the while real Bitcoin economy is growing rather nicely (but unquantified)?

For all I care this is just a start of return to rationality.

I am considering a number of options and negotiating contracts with a number of bunker style DC's now. One of the most viable candidates is an ex Nato nuclear bunker on a huge manned and secured site in a middle of nowhere, in UK, outside of London, naturally.

Yes, actually supermicro is my hardware platform of choice for like a decade now and I have no plans to change this any time soon. Supermicro's IPMI implementation is included on bare metal platforms (IPMI 2.0 with virtual media over IP and KVM over IP).

A typical bare hardware server configuration I am looking at right now is:

- 2x 3.5" SATA3's (of whatever size)
- 32GB RAM
- 1x Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 or Core i3

This should be more than enough for a typical Bitcoin company to run a VPS container. Due to remoteness and bunker style of DC's the bandwidth prices will be above average but this is usually not a huge concern for bitconers.

No. this is relatively low cost solution in a private datacenter (not operated by me). The DC is fairly close to me geographically so that I can assist with deployment and in emergencies where physical access is required.


However, it is likely the Bitcoiners would indeed be interested in Bunker based colo and ready to pay for extra security. If so, do let me know and I will make this happen.

daily chart, last 4 month or so.

I have lately provided managed colocation solution for a number of Bitcoin companies. Now I am in position to offer this to more clients. This is a managed solution and as such shall be discussed individually for every company. This can be as basic or as advanced as you want. It can be just a box that you control completely and I just advise on information security as needed. It could be completely managed solution where I manage your servers and you just get yourself as many VPS's as you need plus virtual networking to your specs.

If you are one of those rare people who prefers FreeBSD based servers and VPS you should definitely talk to me.

skype me vladimir.marchenko.co.uk  or email me vladimir@marchenko.co.uk to discuss details.

Actually this is quite reasonable position. I would do the same in mtgox's position.

This is a good thing that mtgox has launched such a service, prices are competitive too and likely will cause competitors to reconsider their pricing. Competition is a good thing.

As a merchant who would like to use such services I have some things to worry about with this mtgox's solution. Here are rumours and reports of mtgox being rather very slow parting with fiat money lately (i.e. fiat withdrawals are taking way too long).

Could please mtgox comment on how quickly and how reliably merchants can withdraw fiat from mtgox. Please describe a typical scenario and costs involved for a merchant that would like to convert 100% of sales into say GBP and sweep it to their bank account on daily or weekly basis.

How long would it take?
Which risks merchants run here?
Are there terms and conditions for merchants?
If someone pays with "tainted" coins to merchant, will merchant run risk of mtgox doing it's usual PI trick and freezing/confiscating merchants money?

I do want to use mtgox's shopping cart solutions since the claimed top line pricing is attractive. However, I am worried about the mentioned above potential costs and risks enough to not jumping into it just yet.

Another 0.05$ up and technically we have "reverse head and shoulders" pattern, which is one the most potent and high probability bullish patterns in TA. This basically works like a red flag on all the TA believing bulls. Meaning a quick move to 6-7$ range, maybe higher.

For whatever it worth.

common sense?

it is not a scam, it is educational experience for all parties involved. 

IMO you are badly wrong on this one. This would be understandable since you likely was not a "soviet subject" at the time and rely on "brainwashing" standards of CNN/BBC and other Murdoch's products. The simple fact is that "soviet subjects" at the time were significantly more resilient than you think. Many large industrial conglomerates had loads of reserves and were effectively mini-cities, with most infrastructure run "in house" from kindergartens to transport and food production. Most of population had some kind of small time agricultural thing going on growing crops for own consumption, most of population lived in 3 generation households with  close ties with extended families. Most of population had no debts whatsoever. This gave them load of resilience and ability to survive for years while shops were effectively empty.

Now in UK, for example, reportedly there is only 3 days worth of food in supermarkets, most families are nuclear, have no reserves whatsoever and live hand to mouth with huge proportion of population relying heavily on government handouts. There is statistics that an average UK household has less than one month worth of financial reserves and otherwise are heavily in debt. Soviet style collapse will be much more difficult for the West. The supply chain works on just-in-time supply paradigm, once the machine stops it will be a catastrophic collapse in one-two weeks time.

We are working on streamlining our printing and shipping process. Chances are that shipping to EU will be much quicker for #2 onwards.

Now who wants some vanity adresses? I have for example one starting with 1Vladimir. However, I made it myself. You are being offered to get yourself a vanity public key, that has a corresponding private key known to a 3rd party. Good luck with that.

Trust no one!

When your private keys are not really private, you have only yourself to blame.

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Whatever it is it is all Matthew's fault.

many VPN's can work over port 443 (https), port 80 too (http), try blocking that.

I would think that this unnatural stability is caused by either:

1. One or more parties accumulating BTC and ready to buy large quantities slightly below 5$
2. One or more "early adopters" are slowly converting their BTC fortune into fiat by selling large quantities slightly above 5$
3. One or more parties are "stabilizing" Bitcoin by doing both 1. and 2.
4. Some or all of the above

Simple really. The one thing is certain, this will end sooner or later and this status quo is highly unlikely to persist beyond Jan 2013.
Once this "trade" runs out volatility will return with vengeance, probably on the upside (based on fundamentals).

Want this to happen quicker, buy yourself 50x bundle of Bitcoin Magazine and distribute everywhere around you. Or go for 10x bundle that's only 60$ and free shipping, btw.