Now that Gox BTC are soon to be as valuable as Gox Dollars, we may see the gox/stamp difference narrow even more.

Wow... OP is a clueless jerk. Just because you randomly think something, it doesn't make it true.

Look at RFC6238, but perhaps you won't because facts just cloud your opinions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password_Algorithm

I agree that you should stay well clear of Gox, but not for this reason.

Ignored

Perhaps the people who helped create the support at $770-$800 are now selling to stop rally, they want to hold the price in this range to remove the Bitcoins perceived volatility weakness.

You can already see in the press articles about it.
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-volatility-slows-2014-1

Perhaps another objective is to let the fear subside and avoid a capitulation, several million dollars dumped would damage the market considerably and take us back to a few hundred dollars, but this dwarfs the holding of many people (there is several billion $ of bitcoins out there).
I think many large holders now have a real desire to prop the price up.

I'm sorry for the OP's loss.

I would say if you have more than 5 Bitcoins, buy a cheap laptop (second hand if you like) and dedicate it to storing your Bitcoins, and nothing else.
You can use Armory for signing your transactions with an offline computer that never touches the internet.
Every online Bitcoin service should be using 2FA, if they don't have that facility, then don't use them.

Holding 5 bitcoins, your cheap laptop is only going to be 10% of your Bitcoin worth, and you will be almost guaranteed security (unless someone breaks into your house whilst you have your wallet unlocked).

Until something like Trezor comes along people need to take serious precautions.
I wouldn't walk around with the equivalent of 10bitcoins in the leather wallet in my back pocket, and people shouldn't put Bitcoins in a internet connected computer that you do lots of other things on.

Come on people,  it may be virtual money, but its not virtual pain when you lose it. 100's of people on this forum can help you with securing your Bitcoins, pull you finger out and do it properly.

Every one of your posts is anti-bitcoin or pro-ripple, you don't even say anything funny... ignored.

If Mat's rampers hold the price in a channel until we are ready for the next rally, (based on the next chunk of very good news) the bears are screwed.
If they ensure we never get cheaper coins, bears will have no choice but to re buy at a loss.
It really depends on how deep the pockets of these rampers are, and if they are deep, now that they are committed to this course of action, they can't let the price fail and give the bears a chance to avoid their capitulation.
Several million dollars is probably enough to hold this price, they support a level, say $780, and on days like today offload some of those cheaper buys for a little profit. Thus holding the price in a channel. They are probably even making money.

Mine was 6 days.... hang in there

As usual people who probably can't read Chinese are making interpretations of the statement using the the google translation.
Thats just crazy, the exact meaning is lost in the translation. And thinking you can use the subtle differences in English words to extract the underlying meaning of the PROC, when those are not the words they used, is foolish.

http://www.chinatranslations.com/risks-of-machine-translation-in-Chinese-to-English-and-English-to-Chinese-translation.html

It is jan31st in China.

And todays word of the day is "apophenia"

Apophenia /æpɵˈfiːniə/ is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.

This thread clearly teaches us things beyond locomotive journeys to celestial satellites and mammals of the family Ursidae. (bears)

I must be missing something here about risk, amongst other things reward should be based on risk.
Can someone explain to me what risk the developers/founders are taking?
Or is their reward simply based on the cool idea they have had.

http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/January14/SchremFaiellaChargesPR/Faiella,%20Robert%20M.%20and%20Charlie%20Shrem%20Complaint.pdf

Its a long read but looks like they have a number of what shrem thought were secret emails. Also worth noting they had search warrants back in Feb 2013.

Lesson learnt.... always have some fiat ready

Lets say I have 1 bitcoin that the 'system' recognises as stolen, I then send 1 satoshi of that bitcoin to every known bitcoin address that contains any coins. Then the whole black listing system breaks down.

The intention is good, like a benevolent dictator, but it breaks one of the core principles of bitcoin, it centralises control with some authority. That authority is vulnerable to corruption.

It must never be allowed to happen.

A little more rope... He's nearly there

If you have a failed BTC withdrawal from gox check here
http://skanner.net/MtGox/mtgox_tx.php

There are a number of reasons for the delays.
 I had a 6 day delay on a farily large withdrawal just after christmas, but in the end the transaction gets deliberately double spent and a new transaction is created.

Apparently it works more reliably if you keep withdrawals below 50btc.
Very annoying but BTC withdrawals do eventually get completed.

DIE mining is possible using A-SEX miners, after you turn it on it takes 9 months to mine a block, you can cash it in straight away if you are a bastard, or get let it mature for a number of years.

Legally... Legally... None of this is legal, there is no case law, there is little statute. even if sued, banks rarely go to court they get very good lawyers and tie you up in knots and possibly, much later, offer a settlement.

Ownership doesnt change when you put money in a bank, 'posession' changes.
All you armchair lawyers make me laugh.

Like everything now its just safest to stay under the radar, withdraw amonts below trigger values and behave yourself... Just like they want you to do.

Can you let us 'in' on your calculations?  or was it an overstatement.

Look at a 15m chart of stamp on bitcoinwisdom

http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitstamp/btcusd