New member signups on these forums have finally taken a decisive turn to the upside.  Yesterday there were 79, and today 82, and the day is not over yet.  82 would be the most since September 14th when there were 84 - nearly a month ago.

Oh man yeah 

and what if they make the drugs illegal too 

what will you smoke before you post?

Is it not clear that SR doesn't care about 'regulations'? Am I on drugs?

- MTGox EUR and GBP accounts have been closed.
- Intersango GBP (our EUR account remains) was suddenly terminated overnight.
- TradeHill EUR bank account has been closed.
- ExchangeBitcoins closes suddenly (might be unrelated).

Yeah...

It started dropping at the end of September.  It gradually went down.  It lasted longer than normal, but it still followed the pattern.

Since either July or August it crashes since the start of each month.  I made a thread about it speculating why and people were all no, you're wrong.  But it keeps doing that.  I much later made a thread going "how come people only hack sites at the start of the month when the price is bound to go down?" and nobody knew.

The other proofs I posted earlier in this thread.

I got to musing about things a bit while driving around today.  If one wishes to end the (proverbial) day sitting on a pile of a commodity, it seems that one has a lot more flexibility than someone who wants to maximize $$$ no matter whether they are short of long...even if one really believes that bacon will save the world, twenty truckloads of pork bellies rotting in one's back yard it not a very desirable outcome.  A bunch of representation in the block chain may or may not be desirable in the end, but it's worth a chance to me.

I wonder if it would not be possible for a small group of reasonably well capitalized people with a common end-goal to cooperate in order to achieve two things:

 - maximize their accumulation of BTC.

I didn't say it was a good system. I said I want one that is successful. Doesn't everyone who hates Bitcoin want a block chain with inflation? Isn't inflation theft from those holding the currency?

just to reiterate and update Fridays action in the REAL economy of stocks, commods, and bonds which i'm sure most of you here don't follow as closely as i do:

1.  stocks rallied big and broke up and out of a bear flag and look to rally for months.
2.  US Treasury bonds continue to be sold off unleashing HUGES sums of USD's looking for a new home.
3.  commodities like oil, gold, silver, and miners took off as well.
4.  the USD took a big dump meaning leverage has returned to the markets in general.  IOW, speculators are borrowing or shorting USD's to bid up investments of all kinds.

what professionals call this is the return of RISK ON.  which means all speculative investments like Bitcoin go back on the table and are targets of speculative froth.  its not surprising to me that we're seeing this 50% rally right now.  it makes total sense.  if you believe in Bitcoin, you should buy it now b/c there are plenty of others right behind you.  and they don't just come from the smallish Bitcoin community that we have here and that most of you assume are the only players in this space.

that huge bid wall thats following the price up is REAL.

bitcoin7.com has just this little text that they've been hacked and are slowly returning coins and money back to people.

What if MtGox suddenly has that and it got hacked big and is shutting down.  What would happen to bitcoins?

An all time bear is as foolish and stupid as an all time bull.

Nagle is an all time bear.

Google stopped caring about bitcoins.

Yeh I second that. Id I had a few hundread spare id buy some up for sure.

That's a possibility. According to my lines, we overshot the channel 4x in May and by your logic perhaps we'll undershoot below by 1/4th. Your guess is as good as any, but certainly nominal values make no sense otherwise we'll undershoot deep into the negatives.