I bit and bought 6 Goxcoins for 1.5BTC. Let's hope that Tux really has some magical properties.

Bitcoin sets that bar exceedingly low

Just that you make it sound easy. It certainly is not. I do appreciate your advice though, not everyone would be willing to share it.

Lol your posts always read like the ads "how to make $xxx per month in the Forex markets using this one weird trick..." If only!

Perhaps Mark sees it as a way to distance himself from the Foundation and attract a segment of the "anti-centralized Foundation" market at the same time.

Keynesians will be Keynesians. On a larger scale, when one goes to college you generally learn whatever is mainstream and practiced by the establishment in your chosen field. Naturally anything going against the grain will be met with opposition and even hostility. Unfortunately graduation is when many people stop learning. They're experts, equipped with the hubris that accompanies a degree... surely there is nothing more to learn... especially when their job at an establishment publication depends on it.

There are many who think they've missed the boat, proven by how low some are willing to stoop to grab cheap coins and increase their position at the expense of others. Just look at the amount of FUD over the Gox debacle and the effects. These are the same day traders who are content to lose money day in and day out, yet are quick to sell the second Gox proves incompetence. Where was that itchy trigger finger last year when Gox twice crashed the market, then repaired its trading engine? What have we learned about investing? What do we really understand about Bitcoin in the long term? Not much apparently.

Protip: If Gox comes through this, it will have been the best accumulation opportunity in Bitcoin that I've seen thus far. And a good thing too, as the coins will be distributed from the weak hands once again, making the market more resilient in the future. God knows we're gonna need it.

Too... much... sense... does... not compute...

Simple explanations go against the goal of a quarter of the members here, which is to talk up their books and make money at the expense of others. Sock puppet accounts, multiple personalities, bad manners, liberal profanity and a tenuous grasp of English are all optional but encouraged. Acting lessons are recommended to create convincing personas. If you don't see pages full of ignored posts you're not doing it right.

Shrem linked to his official Twitter account confirming that he was who he claimed to be on Reddit. Unless someone hacked his Twitter that's good enough for me.

Anyone who trusts anything posted here by anybody, especially new members with a tenuous grasp of English, is dumb. Besides he confirmed it on his official twitter feed.

Twitter still has their tweets and would happily hand them over in a court of law. Deleting something doesn't make it disappear.

Grammar is overrated, apparently. I bought my first bitcoins from his company last year.

Charlie Shrem (founder of BitInstant) chimes in on Mark's resignation:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yre42/mt_gox_ceo_resigns_from_bitcoin_foundation/cfn38sq

Market movements are like fractals. You can zoom in or out on any timescale and there will be a similar pattern.

I was just thinking this earlier. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction

This is a great idea. Partnering with no-kill shelters would be ideal. It's on my marketing idea list. No kill shelters are important as they never put an animal down if possible, and work within the community to find "forever homes" for all of their animals, including the elderly and disabled. PAWS Chicago is a great example of one in the Midwest US.

We could maintain a list of no-kill shelters and hold online events to raise awareness of these great non-profits. Heck, it doesn't even need to be limited to Kittehcoin, although a secondary goal could be to promote MEOW. I'll have to talk to my marketing-guru wife about the details, but it will be amazing to get something like this off the ground.

Post of the week.

No issues here. I've bought with them on a number of occasions without a hitch.

Yeah I don't quite understand this. However it's immediately obvious, even to dense journalists, that Mt Pox is irrelevant at this point. Chart sites should take down their Gox tickers in protest. It's getting ridiculous.

So I log in to see the price on Mt Pox come up first. Just about gave me a heart attack.

Read through the thread a bit, it's getting people interested and fence-sitters who've heard about it are finally taking the leap... very cool!