Indeed. I'm trying to get money into bitcoin RIGHT NOW, and I just can't do it. And that's with me having a verified account at Gox and Coinbase. No coins, or 7-10 day international wire transfer? Hmmm. Well this blows.

What's the vote at 5?

Even the co-founder of Bitpay gives BTC an 80% chance of failing and returning to near zero in the next few years. Until then, you might be able to make a nice return engaging in speculation, but I:m still waiting for that killer app that:s going to convince everyone to cut up their credit cards and jump onboard the train.

*chrip* *chirp*

Has the Senate hearing started?

Any guesses to why stamp is slowly dropping all by it self? Delayed reaction because of ddos?

This is exactly the kind of fascistoid anti-egalitarian discourse (usually spewed out by capitalist thieves who like to get rich without producing anything valuable) that the world is getting increasingly sick and tired of. You must be high on crack if you really think such a toxic system with a minority of winners and a majority of losers can go on indefinitely.

But by all means keep talking and behaving like this - if your right-wing extremism helps some sort of Neo-Communism come to power in the world as a reaction I'll be a happy guy.

To not buy means missing out on a great opportunity.
You'll be one of those 'I could have bought at $400, but now it is $10,000. I'm so sad, please give me some coins'.

I hope the price won't raise yet after the upcoming hearing. I want to buy allot but my money will be transferred to my bank account tomorrow.

I'm just not sure how these Senate hearings usually go. Is this just them being polite? Are they gonna figure out that Bitcoin is un-regulate-able and blow a collective gasket? Or is this really the US embracing cryptocurrencies? It just seems too good to be true. Perhaps their way of thinking, the fact that they believe in centralized control, is exactly what keeps them from seeing the fundamental potential of Bitcoin to rearrange the world.

There's a part of me thinking that, at least in the eyes of the non devotee, Bitcoin has just embarrassed itself. Pissed it's pants in the playground of public opinion out of over excitement. The day after just about the best PR anyone could have ever expected we've proved conclusively how fucked our infrastructure is - how manipulated our markets are - how sentimental the idea of a crypto currency as the guarantee of any stable value is. Not only are the markets rigged, effectively run by an unholy cartel of early adopters, Miners Guilds and ASIC manufacturers: but the three biggest Exchanges in the world consist of a perpetual motion machine running on thin air, a market who's operation is so opaque that not even the most heroic of commentators appear to have one_fucking_clue of what is going on with it and a clunky start-up in a country with a banking system on the brink of bankruptcy.

Way to go BTC - mass adoption here we come. Not.

ps.  Still on the train - just pissing in the boiler so to speak.

Why is Bearstamp doing the opposite of all the other exchanges? For the past couple of hours they've been slowly dropping in value, but all the others are either holding steady or rising...