This article is excellent.

I'm not going to link you to the auctions because I don't want to get them reported.  I'll just say, you look for people selling "cartridge boxes."  If the prices are unusually high for an empty box with no historical value, you know there's a behind the scenes ammo purchase going on.

Sell USB sticks that just incidentally have wallet.dat files on them with 100 BTC.  People sell "collectible ammunition boxes" on ebay all the time that just incidentally contain the ammunition.

If you think this thread and the hundreds like it aren't rooted in abject jealousy, you need to learn something about human emotion.

The implication is that he'll be able to buy a boat.  That's pretty much it.

This might shock you, but the majority of bitcoin traders don't even come to these forums.

mtgox going down with mysql errors and saying nothing about it except to 7 people on IRC is reason enough to pull all your money out. 

Can we move this thread to the philosophy subforum?  We like to discuss unknowables in there.

We've seen him move things around before.  Why is this time different?

The lack of communication is completely unprofessional.  I hope the other exchanges are taking notes.

Why do we have to rely on gossip to get the status of the largest bitcoin exchange?  If there are problems, say so.

Goons.

TH needs to release its API if they want to see the trade volume of mtgox.

Arbitrage is hard when the volume on TH is literally 100 BTC per day.

Why can't this site stay on-line?  I rely on it to give me the obese aspie perspective on bitcoin.

edit: and it's back from 404

Most bitcoin detractors don't have money in any form.  That's why there is so much hate.  It's tough being poor.

Please stop importing your humor from Something Awful.

Buy on Sunday night, right before all the new money enters the market on Monday.  The money pipeline is still fat with cash from all the recent press, good and bad.

Most of the top threads in "Bitcoin Discussion" have either been taken over by trolls or were actually started by trolls.  I've been reporting left and right, as I'm sure other people have been as well.  This is very very bad for the public image of bitcoin, which is why the trolls are doing it.

People from other sites are angry about the large sums of money being made on bitcoin and they're determined to ruin the party.

What can we do?

I'll be watching with you from the cheap seats.  My bitcoin experiment has been an unqualified success so far, so going long is an easy decision.