Now I feel like I'm getting to know the real Jorge. 

Well if Doc says it's true, then it must be

Seriously!!!

That is a holy shit moment right there.

This cannot be repeated often enough:

DON'T TRUST YOUR BITCOINS WITH ANYONE BUT YOURSELF
IF YOU DONT OWN THE PRIVATE KEY YOU DO NOT OWN YOUR BITCOINS

The mere fact that you refer to them as cryptocoins tells me that you're ready to start giving sound market analysis. 

-you don't own any "cryptocoins"
-you have a computer science degree from Stanford University

Do you really expect a different reaction from us? I have no problem with people giving honest criticisms to cryptocurrencies, but this is obviously not the forum in which to be doing it. I would think the developer forum would be more to your intellectual liking. Traders here are generally aware of how they work, inside and out, are aware of the risks, and have heard it all a hundred times before.

If you're going to post here, get your damn feet wet instead of shouting SHARK from the beach. You know how to swim, it'll be ok.

I agree with Billy. The triple bounce off the 200 day EMA on the daily chart is conformation enough for me. I bought LTC yesterday and today so we'll see where that takes us in the mid term.

This guy showed his hand weeks ago. The ignore button will save you some grief.

settings>indicator parameters>BOOM

You'll see it arrive within seconds and once the tx is included in a block (confirmed), you can trust it.

Satoshi (holding up flaming white scroll before a kneeling crowd): And so it was written, thus shall it be.
Mindless followers (in a monotone chant): All hail Bitcoin.

Diversify into a couple alts. Buy on the cheap.

For example, 1BTC would buy ~48LTC. They are cheap now.

Wait for the value to go up, say to .037 against BTC. It might take a month or more, which is the risk you must take. Sell the LTC back and you have 1.7BTC.

This will never happen, no way.

Ron Paul once said, "You can't stop an idea whose time has come." His speech during the 2007 US presidential debate began a mass awakening to the dangers of central banking. He was ahead of his time.

Bitcoin (and its digital currency brethren) are all ideas whose times have come thanks to another guy who was ahead of his time. They are competition to dinosaur banking cartels. They have size, but we have speed, agility and youth. I know which side I'm on.

Well, the sign was reached, albeit a bit earlier than expected! During the past week we had a confirmed bottom bouncing off the 200 day EMA not once, not twice, but three times!

We haven't bounced off this line since October 2013 when Silk Road went dark. It was a decisive time for the markets as fears that the value of Bitcoin was largely supported by illegal activities were finally put to rest. We also bounced off the 200EMA in July 2013 after the summer run-up, precisely when the Winklevoss ETF news broke.

Now a similar situation appears as we face the failure and aftermath of Gox, but support has largely held fast, proving the resiliency of this market and optimism of the underlying technology. If that daily green candle means anything, exciting times are ahead.

I love a good face-melting Bitcoin rally in the morning.

Yes, that would be nice. I haven't been pushing the issue too hard as I wanted to give him ample time to recover from his accident. I see that he was last active on 2/11 and his latest posts seem coherent enough that he could work this out. If anyone has received a refund or is owed a refund from Chris' online store, feel free to post your experience here.

Given the recent activity in the community it would be nice to be reassured there are still honest players interested in its long-term success.

Agreed. Gox has been around since the beginning (well, basically), and so will contribute to uncertainty going forward until we have real information. Gox certainly had more whales than any other exchange with hundreds and thousands of coins being tossed back and forth during volatile periods. It was amazing to watch, actually. My analysis of the situation is that Gox is either massively fraudulent or they're under a gag order. Recent US Silk Road investigations and their seizure of Mark's Dwolla account would support the latter. Watching Mark playfully make an apple tart or play with his cat on his Youtube channel makes it hard to believe he is a complicit criminal, but stranger things have happened.

Exactly. Mark already experienced the power of the US Govt when they simply swept away his Mutum Sigillum Dwolla account to the tune of $5 million. Ouch. If they told him to shut up and play ball pending some Silk Road/money laundering investigation, you'd better bet he's listening to them, not anything that's happening on here, twitter or reddit.

I got in circa summer 2013. Heard about Bitcoin the previous year, but didn't explore it enough. Worst mistake ever. Lots of scandal going on, even then, but also so much opportunity if you could see the forest through the trees. I can't tell you how many people thought it could never top $100 (such a psychological barrier btw). It helps to put the current situation into perspective and not fly off the handle over a few lost coins.

My humble attempt at TA.

Daily 5, 15, 30 EMAs clustering together in the not-too-distant future. 200 EMA riding the bottom. Perhaps a Gox-related event will be the catalyst.

Reminds me of when Rick Moranis' character is talking to the horse in Ghostbusters:

"Wait for the sign, then all prisoners shall be released!"