Hello all,
Today I have a really bad news were the bitcoin price will drop alot next days
Heres my proof :

Selling 50K bitcoin : http://www.coindesk.com/us-marshals-auction-50000-bitcoins-march/

Mt Gox cheat users : http://www.coindesk.com/report-mt-gox-data-provides-more-clues-to-trading-bot-willy/

Bitcoin poker site hacked : http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-poker-site-seals-with-clubs-closes-after-security-compromise/

Bter hacked : http://www.coindesk.com/bter-bitcoin-stolen-cold-wallet-hack/

Lawyer ban bitcoin in Hong kong : http://www.coindesk.com/mycoin-hong-kong-police-8-1-million/

Those huge loses will not let bitcoiners in peace , price will drop and bitcoiner will also lose confindence in their coins

Wo soll da das Finanzamt was machen/gemacht haben?

for some parts of the world , yes it is becoming mainstream, but in some parts, like asia, i mean the majority of asia, i doubt that the word of cryptocurrency or bitcoins can be hardly heard,

Because USMS is not as dumb as most Bitcoiners?
Because you don't get to tell USMS what to do?
Because USMS always auctions off seized criminal proceeds?

If those aren't reasons enough, here's another:
If USMS chose to hold BTC (what you feel is the equivalent of putting USD in the bank), the agents would discover, much to their chagrin, that their "saved" BTC has lost most of its buying power, i.e. the same coin that was worth $1,2000 in December is now worth $245
Like so:


So the question really shouldn't be "why did USMS choose to sell," but "WTF didn't you?"

Yeah Elwar !
But why not , as i know he get's his pay converted to BTC and then he cashes them whenever needed and is using btc to buy things , he might not be avoiding them but decreasing to good extent

I heard that cold wallets can be hacked. But never expected BTER to be hacked, specially because they are expected to keep it much much much more secure.

It doesn't free us from tax , though it helps reduce it to a great deal if used extensively well!
Though i remember seeing a guy(legendary member) who turned his all pay and everything to bitcoin and use it! he might be avoiding alot of taxes for sure

The coin is secured by the blockchain.
The blockchain is secured by the miner.
The miner is secured by the block reward.

So why reduce the block reward when it's unnecessary and detrimental to the security of the system? The problem is that the coinbase has a hard supply limit and no mechanism for deflation.

The block reward needs to remain constant until the very last coin is mined from the coinbase, and transactions need to expire after some time, a year for example, so that lost and abandoned coins can be returned to the coinbase. Expired transactions, and all previous transactions with no other dependencies, can then be pruned from the blockchain.

A short exercice with a block explorer reveals that the wallet indeed was used as a cold wallet. Anybody can see that.

People should avoid purchasing Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency from any government that did previously confiscate them.  Most Bitcoin users use Bitcoin because they wish to engage in a more FREE and a more PRIVATE management of their value/worth/wealth that is not subject to prying third party eyes (government or otherwise).  

Anyone that purchases those coins from the government is no friend of freedom or liberty or privacy... instead they are simply one of but many slaves to fiat currency, as is policed by each its own respective government and world banking oversights.

The government will take the fiat proceeds of the Bitcoin sale and will apply that against more policing and prosecution of more people, namely people committing victimless crimes where all the participants were voluntary, and where Bitcoin or Tor or some other technological means of privacy was used, which to the government represents an enemy.

True Bitcoin believers and advocates seem far and few in-between, in that they've not the sense to speak out against such government actions relating to Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin community, at least the core community and those with the muscle and influence, should publicly denounce such auctions and encourage everyone in the Bitcoin community to not partake... to avoid it like the plague and to not give them anything other then what they've already stolen.  

If they want to sell those Bitcoins, then let them go to the exchanges and sell try to sell them, but the community as a whole, including the exchanges should treat those Bitcoins like 'dirty' Bitcoins and have NOTHING to do with them, and not trade them... because after all, aren't they dirty Bitcoins?

If Bitcoin going mainstream means that the average Joe pays less in taxes than that's great! Otherwise I think only the halves will benefit
from mainstream acceptance.

The mark of the beast and one world currency, i have heard this brought up to me a bit when I talk about Bitcoin because I live in the very religious Bible belt (I myself am also religious) This is what they're referring to
"He (the false prophet) was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast (antichrist), so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666."

It is the fear that a one world currency would lead to having to be marked to spend, the best thing about this is that Bitcoin could not be it since it is decentralized and able to spend without any mark or way for them to force this. This would have to be a fiat from a government who can print and control it.

Moment mal... Kann man als Österreicher dort ein Konto eröffnen?

I'm curious if anyone has closed bank account for real and went all Bitcoin?

You can buy more and more things with Bitcoin but I still (for now).

Exactly, slowly but surely big businesses are making the switch. Meanwhile, small to medium size businesses like mine have been accepting since the early days 

But what would come out after ISIS is eliminated by ground troops? I don't think you can solve this only by bombing and killing people. I think it needs to be a more general approach: stop interfering in the region, funding extremist groups, and removing moderates. For example, stopping the support Saudi Arabia gets would do more to stop these problems occurring again in the future.