I hope you guys have a great turnout at CES. This is a great chance to promote bitcoin and your POS business.

hmm Bit-pay girls at CES promoting bitcoin POS system. Now that is some real bitcoin marketing right there. It's a pretty big news.

They are srs over there. -16 for trolling lol 
It isn't like the speculation section here.

Missing an opportunity of a lifetime... I don't know if I could just go meh and forget about it. 

I'm sure a lot of people are already going "meh" about not buying at $5 when they had the chance earlier today. Forget last Oct-Dec..

 

If bitcoin takes off this year, I really doubt that we will ever come back down to below $4 unless sometime drastic happens to bitcoin and the network completely dries off. And it's looks like we are getting ready to take off real soon into double digits. Of course there is a chance it may fall back down, but I think it's very slim chance that we will ever see prices we did back in Oct-Dec 2011 unless something drastic happens to bitcoin.

Enjoy the low single digit pricing while you still can.   

I've been keeping my eye on this site http://www.blockchain.info/nodes-globe?series=48hrs where they show the active nodes in the past 48hrs for a few months now.

What I've been seeing is that there are many new nodes appearing in Asia in the past two months where it was nearly completely dark.

Will 2012 be the year that the giants like China and India among other countries start embracing bitcoin? One thing for sure is that the news of bitcoin is definitely spreading into these area.
The bars at Beijing, Seoul, and Taipei have been growing fast and small bars have been appearing all over the Southeast Asia as well as India.

It will be really exciting to see new exchanges and services appear in these area in 2012.

there goes $5.4

The days of buying bitcoin at $5.5 are numbered. All aboard the rally train! 

JFK?

+1

BTC price won't be held down by Bitcoinica trading alone anymore and it's showing.

any news on when you guys will allow nmc deposits available again?

looks like you've been teaching him well  Some things you just don't learn in school.

so you think we are on a downtrend still or an uptrend like you said on another thread? II.b.1 being the wave you think we are in.. but it's unreliable.. Maybe you have some bids up?

This section of the forum is quite fun to keep up with. Interesting to read what people put up here based on btc market conditions.

Either way, I guess if you think past selloffs are indicative of future btc performance then it seems safe to assume you think we are still in bear territory and rally was just a correction of the long half year long downtrend. I hope we are past that though and finally moving upwards in the coming year.

he's short on bitcoinica? What else makes anyone bearish on this forum. lol

maybe he just misses buying bitcoin under $4 

Really glad to see Slush's pool still going strong after a year when many have come and gone. Being the first pool I ever and first I mined at, it's makes me feel good celebrating it's first's B-day.

It also goes to show what great job Slush have been doing throughout the year. I wish the best and many more B-day's to celebrate in the future.

Happy belated B-day!

Well I guess I should be glad that I was never able to sign up because I had issues with their website.

I just never had a big reason to use exchange other than MtGox/dwolla since I'm in the U.S to keep things simple with minimal fees.

I think you'll be hacked again. 

Seeing how you don't seem to want to learn from your own mistakes and not having taken all security measure possible for you such as yubikey, it seems likely.. Just saying..

I'm convinced that you have no proof of this and you are simply crying about your computer being compromised. If you were so concerned about your own security, you should have bought a yubikey.

Bitcoin maybe used to preserve anonymity, but MtGox operating as a bitcoin exchange still must follow their local laws to keep their doors open. I agree with that Luke is saying here.

Also, the argument to discredit someone based on religious belief and how they run a mining pool he owns simply reflects poorly on yourself.

And even though they may be the largest exchange available, that doesn't mean that they have unlimited resources to expedite things that naturally takes time.
I've had my share of issues that took time to resolve with MtGox, but one thing for certain is that they've come through each time provided I do my part to help them do their job.
I do think that they could provide a bit more personal and expedient service, but knowing they have a lot on their plate I can digress hoping it will improve over time. IRC is always an option if you need immediate answers.

My best advice is learn to be patient when dealing with bitcoin businesses in general when things go wrong. Even the official client is still in beta for example. Everyone can agree that there is much room for improvement on almost all sides of bitcoin community, but things don't just happen overnight.

MtGox is one of the few exchanges that have stood the test of time thus far and I personally consider them to be a great ally to bitcoin as they share the common interest of bitcoin being a success. They haven't given me any reason to doubt this yet.

It's not to say that users shouldn't advocate transparency and come forward with any wrong doings of MtGox, but as long as they have legitimate reasons to comply with AML regulations and enforce them, you should exercise patience and try to work with them to speed up the process rather than complain.