Yea if there is a problem, I'd rather he was spunking about on some shitty forum, rather than fixing it...

Real friend tells you about Bitcoin. Friend is crazy, Bitcoin is fake money.

Fictional show tells you about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is real, and I need it!

A quote from the show, "Only in America is greater abstraction more desirable."

Ha.

More importantly when these red flag event occur then the market always seems to move in the opposite position (cant short = market goes up, cant go long = market decrease). Is Zhou trading against these flags and if he says no why should we believe him? He would definitely have the capital and the means to do so with bitcoinica.

why put it into bitcoinica? I meant that he could dump it right on the gox market.

Hm. Now that I think about it (my short term memory isn't the best...) I may have placed several smaller orders in quick succession. It's a bit weird that the orderbook only shows a price for one of them, 6.841, executed at 6.6293, and the ones that got executed higher have no price listed.

Well, it may well be my fumble, but I do remember first hitting buy, then a few seconds later seeing the sell price skyrocket on the charts, and sure enough I was the proud owner of several bitcoins with a base price of over 7 USD. Can the "no reserve" situation cause market orders set at one price to execute at a higher price if they get held up? Do the orders get a price set if the bull's eye is winking, or do they simply get executed at any price as soon as buying becomes possible?

From http://www.bitcoinica.com/pages/faq:

How do you guarantee liquidity?
Bitcoinica is similar to a Forex brokerage. Besides accepting orders from our wonderful users, we also trade with other exchanges (primarily Mt. Gox) to balance our portfolio. So that we always have something for you to do margin trading or short selling without always being forced to bet against you. Currently we guarantee up to ฿50 of liquidity for market orders in both directions.

Not sure that explains it, but thought I'd share.

They are updated at different intervals.

http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ is excellent and updates with every block.

Hashrate is always estimated from the time between blocks.

I am 100% not sure of the text book definition, all I know of is used around me, based on that only.  I can see the actual one having a way more negative connotation.  Even going by that though, I definitely have seen posts that were too keen on Bitcoinica, but I really feel those were the people who put money in that did not read the manual first to see what they were getting into.

It happened, but it was leveraged case the * is back.

Hey guys... * has been gone for a while now.

I think infmaous is the perfect word.   Your site is definitely known for being attached to Gox and having crazy numbers right away and of course, the site by the young kid.   The more people that know about things regarding your site but probably don't even understand how it works, infamous is a great word.

The fact that you keep pushing through all these little things and keep focus on your project and making sure it is the best service using the tools that are available, will hopefully make you famous.

Since we broke through $6 two weeks ago, we have been bouncing off of $7.20.  You will notice that most of these "bounces down" took us under $6.50... you will also notice that we haven't gone under $6.50 today.  We are consolidating closer and closer, the ask wall is a lot bigger now but I'm not scared... Still looking bullish to me.