You get the same bullshit KYC/AML from bullion dealers, banks, in fact anywhere a transaction or sequence of transactions into fiat is above certain trigger thresholds (~$10k).
At least with Bitcoin you can transact without entering fiat, something you will struggle to do in anything else.

The tops are easy to spot, just look back a few weeks and see where it was at it's highest  

Is your computer Trojaned? Are you sure. Every AMD & Intel processor has a back door, windows has back doors, drive by browser vulnerabilities. Really if you store any amount of coins on a computer, or online account you are crazy.

If the price of a hardware wallet is small compared to how much you are holding you must get your coins off your computer and get one.

I used to use an air gapped laptop running armory, but its too much hassle, so now I use a Trezor to store coins, and for small amounts Bread Wallet on non-jailbroken iOS.

If you must use computer based wallets, make sure you keep the machine clean, no warez, pirate stuff, porn etc, dodgy shareware or freeware etc. But for me, its not worth it.
 

A summary of James Turk's useless predictions.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/Gary/gold/james_turk.htm

So do enlighten us to the reasons you come here to spread your permanent negativity.
1) Is it a moral duty to wake up the perma-bulls
2) You revel in the joy of others suffering
3) This is just a bear alt personality, designed to contribute to market manipulation
4) You have a silver mine in your back garden or bought lots at peak in 2011, and are sitting on huge loses.

Please enlighten me to your motivations, I'm curious.

If it's more than £11K watch out for CGT, who knows what data from kyc/aml is passed to HMRC behind the scenes. Probably better to hold 20% for a year in reserve just in case.

Either someone has a weird sense of humour or google translate is a bitch
from: (change to English)
https://www.bithumb.com/u1/US138

respect!

Everytime an exchange is hacked for BTC, they need to recover those by re-buying them, just like Gox was trying to do. (Excluding any permanent hair cuts) we know of lots of hacks in most of the major exchanges, there are no doubt some we don't know about. As the price starts to climb, it makes sense to step up the frequency and quantities of the buying bots to capture the coins at the lowest price.
Many people , including myself independently spotted willy bot, but times have moved on and with a little thought and programming its going to be almost impossible to see them in action, but its got to be likely that they are contributing to this rise.

There are two ways to make money in life, one is taking money from others and effectively making them poorer, the other is by creating value (utility) and sharing in it's profit.
To me Bitcoin is creating value and being a part of it, many altcoins are more like the former, you know someone is going to get burnt, and just like a ponzi you get in and out earlier than the rest, leaving some with a loss.

No-one can deny that creating value is the better for everyone, but if you only think of your self, well, whatever I say won't make any difference

Thinking the same.... here are s a few significant players I don't see

Bitstamp
Bitfinex
Blockstream
BTC-e
BTCJam
Cloudhashing/PeerNova
Coinfloor
Huobi
Kraken
LocalBitCoins
OKCoin
Poloniex

MtGOX owes (from bankruptcy proceedings)
      45,609,593,503 JPY =~ 414,226,328 USD

There were 202185 BTC found.

202185 @ $2139 = $432473715

MtGox can technically cover its debts

Yes I was watching for how many times Bitcoin was mentioned, and it was very few, on a number of occasions when it would normally been mentioned in the flow of the story it was omitted. Agenda or not, the facts speak for themselves.

$180 change is only a 10% price movement, I agree bitcoin is volatile, but 5-10% movements are not unusual in world wide stock markets.

Imagine if you could see what happens in the board rooms of many companies, as a shareholder you would be shocked and lose confidence.
Bitcoin is done in public, so it's all visible, requires consensus and if you compare it to how business is usually done, looks messy.

Sit back and relax and let all these issues play out. Bitcoin is not going anywhere, everyone with any stake in it, has an interest in seeing it succeed. The internal squabbles are essentially a form of democracy in action.

Never sell *all* your bitcoins.
If you want to cash out, sell a percent of your coins progressively as the price rises, so they decrease, but never reach 0.


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Can't agree more, I generated the seed to my cold wallet by rolling dice. (no joke)

All of us must have made enough recently to buy a trezor (or similar) without even noticing it. Do it! you can't trust your phone or your computer.
Make sure you practice with it a little before commit large amounts of funds to it, and write down the recovery seed!
You will sleep easier.

I am sorry for your loss, buy some Bitcoin

A man/woman in a disguise walks into a bank, shows an ID (possibly fake) and asks the bank to borrow some money, the bank says what will you use as collateral, they say, don't worry this other person who is also in a disguise with no ID, says they'll make sure everything is legitimate.
Do you think a bank would lend any money?
The whole point of Bitcoin is you do not need to trust a central authority, so don't transfer trust to another,  if you want to lend money, get a land registry document, car registration document or something similar as collateral, or get ready to be disappointed.

@Lauda please don't misuse the trust system. Having read the stream of events, it's clearly not a issue where the trust of Vizique should be put into question. Your position of power comes with a responsibility, labelling people as untrustworthy in such cases tarnishes the trust system and renders it less usable for everybody.
The original intent of the trust system is to warn users of scammers,  not to damage someone's clean reputation, for something that is clearly not in any way scamming. (it's debatably copyright infringement (a civil matter - however from kialara's comments it can be inferred permission has been given) or some sort of plagiarism, but in no way could it be said to be criminal or a breach of trust.)

Lets keep the bad elements in this forum under control by using the trust system effectively, not alienating all the people whose intent is positive.