Most interesting move might be for an enemy to pay for keeping the files secret. Heck, the person who wrote the whole thing might just pay himself!

Once the bounty for "secret" has been paid, Mr. Romney will have campaign trouble.

Politicians and their games. I prefer not to follow them or play them, it's all so nonsensical.

Thanks for the neat service.

As hinted in my earlier sig, I had placed bets on BS&T default. Got some nice customer service repeating the default definition, had a chat about betting in general, won a little over 2 weeks after payments stopped, and was able to withdraw right away. Some bets that came in late were reverted, which is the right thing to do, since there was additional information at the time.

Overall, the site made a good impression to me. I'll use it again as soon as there's something I want to bet about.

A "vibe" that is includes convenient ignorance, absurd ethics, fraud and lies deserves being disrupted.

Disgrace lies in the eye of the beholder.

Hatten die nicht 'ne Adresse in Garching?

Ich kenne da Leute, die hätten mal vorbeischauen können. Aber dann dachte ich mir: "lol ich schicke sie doch nur in den April, da würde eh keiner da sein".

There are plenty of users who have lots of IPs, just as there are plenty of IPs that have lots of users. IP banning is a broken concept. I don't know how many people may have accessed Bitcointalk from the same IP(s) as I, and AFAIK none of us has used sockpuppets. Yet.

Check out BitcoinSpinner on Android. Its design makes it a little more secure than classical online wallets: the maintainer does not have direct access to your keys (at least in theory).

It's not technically an "online wallet", but it doesn't get much smaller and faster than that. For a quick, small transaction from anywhere, it's perfect! And for bigger ones, I'd neither use Android nor online wallets.

I think we have a problem in terminology, I don't understand the scale. How is -300% even defined? Having twice more debt than initial money? Bitcoin exchanges do not allow debt AFAIK.

Also, there's a statistical problem: people who lose tend to go quiet and use the forum less, which gives a bias in the result.

I can't answer the question without a time-scale.

Maybe one day, the Bitcoin market will be mature enough to work on a bigger scale. But it doesn't look like that will be very soon. Just look at the nonsense that was the last month, this sort of thing scares off people who want to do normal business. The Ponzi party should do its part as well. And on the historic graph, that's a lot of sharp straight lines considering we're looking at a logscale plot.

How about a new slogan: "Bitcoin -- because sanity is for the weak"?

I like how this thread is kind of concluded with the first answer.

Apparently, he's some loud man who is being funded by Russia of all places. I take it as a compliment to be insulted by that sort.

Also, derp -- the context makes no sense. He's acting as if Libertarians accept the breaking of financial contracts or something. One moment he talks that short-selling is somehow evil, then he's ranting how rocket launchers used by the public solve everything. Tha heck?

It's a coin laundry that exchanges old coins (at least some clearly coming from BS&T) for freshly minted ones from various pools, paying some extra for it.

It can be used as a smoke-screen to hide activity and as a source of untraceable coins.

zyk: I'm here, but just reading because there's nothing to do at this point. Lock is down, clock is ticking for days already.

If you ask me for a guess for the most likely case, we'll just see "delays" until the end of the month, then it's marked as defaulted and the story is over. So unless something strange happens, there won't be much of a show from here on.

I might not be online much when it's concluded, I'm going to be travelling at the time. I'll show up early September to settle the bets, and maybe occasionally in between.

Can't tell if you're joking or serious. ("Shaking out the weak hands" is pretty much a meme from the primary Bitcoin bubble)

I cut out the first part because

Yep, I guess we got a very precise answer for that.

This is actually not a random timing: Friday in the US, after an over-heated rally. Look at the main bubble, it also started its main drop on a Friday. (And the order book looked very similar at the time.)

lol... what were you guys expecting?

I doubt you'll ever see such an obvious echo bubble again.

Now, saw-teeth please! I know they're rare in echos, but they pay soooooooooo well, I just can't stop hoping for some!

Who's "he", just curious?

The shut-down is not surprising, as there are signs of withdrawals but few signs of deposits.

At the end of the month, you will know who won.


BTW, from timing comparisons, this crash would've happened shortly anyway. BS&T should only have been a minor factor.

• Set limit order
• Click sell
• Send more coins from standby
• Repeat

My sentiment is now bearish and my strategy is "hit the sell button on a regular basis".

Don't worry: the speculators who cause unnecessary instability lose money on average.

I don't think it's fair to just talk about "speculators" as if they're all one and the same. Ultimately, it's speculators who provide liquidity, allowing larger players to move in and out of Bitcoin quickly and easily. But it needs much more time.

No reason to panic or blame Bitcoin. We can stabilize this beast eventually. Not overnight though.

Sounds like a joke.

Even scammers avoid SQL injections these days, and unsalted md5 passwords? Don't know if legit. Isn't Meni into cryptography? Better double-check this, it sounds like an over-the-top story.

Should you be able to confirm it true though... finish the sentence for yourselves.

Trolls will be trolling... what did you expect? Not like any other franchise is free of them. To get over it, watch Derpy watch a lava lamp.

There's a difference between that and doing PR for something of the kind.

This thread is the same thing as your signature: trying to discredit critics by any means necessary. He has a website at bryanmicon.com, but "at his web site" refers to miconsecrets.com? Also, even if it were his, who ever spreads malware on their own server? It's usually just been infected.

Just wait what people come up with next. Maybe we'll get child porn "evidence" bounties too, when Goat isn't busy anymore.



But the whole method is vain. Even if a child-murdering scammer Nazi posts a valid argument, it's still a valid argument. To someone who judges books by their cover, everyone involved in this discussion looks dubious, and that's okay for the time being. Micon isn't saying "Trust me, I have the better investment." He's saying "Don't trust people too easily."