https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDsyj5eLmo

"Bankrupt By Beanies"

Like the gentleman in the video, you all thought you found a sure thing. And now you watch as the value goes lower, lower, and even lower. Eventually, when there's no hope of recouping your losses for the foreseeable future, you'll tell yourselves that... "Maybe someday bitcoin will become popular again!" just like his wife in this video.

Lesson number one in investing: if you've found something that seems too good to be true, it is. Somebody made money on bitcoin, but it's at your expense. Those people found out about bitcoin very early and marketed by telling you that it would change the world, and all you needed to do was buy, hold, and sell no matter what.

In 10 more years, maybe there will be a documentary about some of the people here. At least the guy in this video still has all his stuffed animals to show for his financial failures.

Apple is going to release a mobile payment system, secured with touch ID, and with VISA and American Express.
In other words, it will make the transaction much faster and much more secure.
And that my friends, is a threat to bitcoin

edit: source: http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-amex-teaming-on-iphone-6-payments-system-report-says/

Times are a changing.
This morning my wife asked me - what are altcoins? Then went on to say how they seem to be the new rage - saying how LTC and NMC could be a new growth opportunity. She went on to add that mining is not profitable anymore. (I had to hold my self back as just yesterday I had figured AM Gen 3 basics look viable.)

We don't talk much Bitcoin at home as you can tell.

She makes a great public barometer that way. Anyway she closed off saying this is mainstream now. As the articles that pop up in here 0% economic focus news feeds assume the reader knows a lot about Bitcoin.

So I'm going to call this the bottom for now.

What is wrong with his post ? why do you think he is trolling ?

Yes the block chain is more than 5 years old, and this mean that you missed the point of his post, any attempt to change/add anything to the Bitcoin protocol at this point or in the future will be hard and will get harder when the adoption rate continue to increase, even a simple task to fix a bug or to release a newer version will get harder, but there are working alternatives (chains) that attempts to solve and add new  features that we think will be  crucial in the future... so the question is: is it worth it ?

At what price did you buy the 250 BTC?

Mind posting your wallet?

In two years we'll try to come back here and our browsers will give an 'HTTP 403 Page Not Found' error, because nobody will care anymore about a commodity trading for $1 and shop will close down.

Haven't actually bought it - just made the wishlist.

So far the necessity to pull coins out of cold storage to complete the purchase is just enough of a barrier to help me keep hodling.

You are claiming two different things.
If people has chosen to give away their Stellar is a totally different thing, there are NOT fake accounts

I'm thinking about selling some Bitcoin, and trying to resist.

I'm not happy about Newegg accepting BTC. Too tempting.

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=24976852

1TB of Privkeys and Bitcoin addresses thinking the full blockchain is somewhere around 20GB lol.

Could it be that someone from the 2011 era is selling the old coins?  

No, Huxley wouldn't have believed it either...and 30 years ago no-one would.  But then someone realised: you don't impose the totalitarian nightmare, you market it to people.

Brave New World Revisited (Harper & Brothers, US, 1958; Chatto & Windus, UK, 1959),[33] written by Huxley almost thirty years after Brave New World, was a non-fiction work in which Huxley considered whether the world had moved toward or away from his vision of the future from the 1930s. He believed when he wrote the original novel that it was a reasonable guess as to where the world might go in the future. In Brave New World Revisited, he concluded that the world was becoming like Brave New World much faster than he originally thought.

Huxley analysed the causes of this, such as overpopulation as well as all the means by which populations can be controlled. He was particularly interested in the effects of drugs and subliminal suggestion. Brave New World Revisited is different in tone because of Huxley's evolving thought, as well as his conversion to Hindu Vedanta in the interim between the two books.

The last chapter of the book aims to propose action which could be taken to prevent a democracy from turning into the totalitarian world described in Brave New World. In Huxley's last novel, Island, he again expounds similar ideas to describe a utopian nation, which is generally known as a counterpart to his most famous work.

(note: i haven't read upthread, hoping this refers to Orwell & Huxley's visions of the future in 84 & BNW.)

If you had described the situation to Orwell, he wouldn't have believed it.

Trezor is safe? And how many days it took to deliver?

I was thinking of purschashing a new laptop, download bitcoin-qt on it(is a password like 45LaZywindow55 a safe password?), put a couple backups on USBs and put it offline till I need the money again. Not sure how safe this is though?

At last bitcoin learned me that lesson.

Pool has its own development team and I'm supervising them. There's a lot of effort behind the scene and there's bunch of new features coming very soon. The last thing they're working on now is new website, which offer such features to users...