I haven't bought crack before, but I would imagine you don't have to pay for it a year before you get it.

Anyone else having troubles with this?

It worked last week for me.

This week, I click the button to submit a claim, and nothing happens. I tried 3 different browsers. I also can not sign in to support.mtgox.com , it doesn't accept password, although I'm certain it works and am currently signed into mt.gox proper.

I withdrawal's in limbo and it's driving me nuts with all this cheap coin right now I can't buy.  Argh.. !

Been waiting 2 days myself. Really frustrating.  It's just stuck at 'error'. Wrote support, asking what the error was and how I could possibly speed it up. They responded with " Hello,

Thank you for waiting and sorry for delay. Your okpay withdrawal request was still under process.we will update you ones it done.


Thanks,"

I wouldn't mind so much if it was X amount of time to withdraw your money.  But it's like X -/+ 3 days it seems, and I have no explanation for this general error message, and no way to cancel the transfer to okpay. Argh.

I mostly use BTC-E and think I'm just gonna stay there.

Must be one heck of a whoozy DDOS to take out SR for this long.

Well that's just plain ole crappy if true.

Had a 'error' show up as well today. Not sure what could have gone wrong.  

I think the man who discovered Rhodium, William H. Wollaston, would agree.



Most people don't realize this, but he was an ardent Bitcoin fan, and early adopter. You can see him above looking over his paper wallets in this famous portrait.

*cough* Game of THrones *cough *

.....which is the day after International Dance Day (April 29th).  So like, people will be too tired to trade causing the price to raise.

Really surprised we are still at high $130's.  Was feeling pretty sure we were going to see a downward slide recently, to $120 odd.

This whole speculation stuff just ain't easy at all.

I think this is the best idea I've heard in a while. I hope this comes together. Could do wonders for the bitcoin world. Will be following...

I wonder if mtGOX will be able to handle the traffic.

Right on. Suitable for BTC to show up in one of the best RPGs of all time  

Such a great game...much better than Fallout 3 IMHO...

And can NOT wait for Wasteland 2... 

Oh the BFL troll thread is coming 'in just another week or two'.

There has been some last minute surprise delays. Everything is almost ready though.

It'll be in a slightly larger font, but it'll be worth the wait, I promise.

(Sorry couldn't resist).

Seemed to be a lot of resistance at $130.  Looked like many a dude and dudette had buy orders in at that point. 

Bitstamp, if you are not American, is not the easiest place to get USD in and out of last time I checked it out.

The fees for the international transfers were pretty high as well, if I recollect correctly.

Surprise .  Glendall surprised !

120$ what?

 I really don't see how FinCen would be able to effectively track bitcoin purchases and sells in any way sufficient to prosecute someone if said person was doing only a minimal amount of things to make it difficult to do so.

Also don't see how they could prosecute folks who did stuff prior to any official ruling on the subject.

Could change in the future with some new laws, but currently would not see how they could charge bitcoin users, unless they had a great deal of resources into monitoring someone and tracking their BTC actions, and additionally linking these to some blackmarket venture.

Ok on the serious side of things, your premise is still pretty weak.

First of all, if the U.S banking cartels aka government wanted to kill bitcoin, buying a bunch of ASICS would be one of the more challenging methods.

Second off, you can't even buy enough ASICS currently to do what you propose, in any sort of reasonable time span.

Third, developing their own would be difficult. Okay let's say it's possible.

They would just mine all bitcoins -- what use would this have?  

A 51% by the government could be seen and avoided.

I dunno. Could go on but I think it's a silly premise.

Easiest method would be merely just buying all bitcoins and crashing the market. But I don't see how the gov would be interested in doing so. It is far more feasible that the powers-who-be in the gov would instead just find a way to manipulate BTC for the monetary gain of the few people who would be making such a decision.

Besides even if the government did so the 'crypto cat' is out of the bag. A new coin would immediately be made and gain traction. The government moves to slow to counter the aims of a motivated, technology saavy population.

I hear governments only order ASICS from BFL.

So you're wrong about your predictions.