Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP.

[justusranvier]

https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/543456323749564416

He should make up his mind:

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[BlindMayorBitcorn]

Warning: Inflated ego:

http://panampost.com/belen-marty/2014/12/12/juan-llanos-bitcoin-was-born-regulated/

I'd say (and have said) that the guy is pretty much spot on.  It will be more or less trivial to regulate Bitcoin at this point thanks to the idiots who want to take it mainstream in native form (cough...cypherdoc...cough.)  I've also described how simple and effective it would be to modulate through {choose-color}listing.  The fact that it has not happened yet is a testament to how much more useful it is alive than dead, and that is probably largely due to the number of moron semi-crooks who use it.

Now sidechains using Bitcoin as a reserve backing could, and hopefully will, change the dynamics significantly.  That is not to say that the same attacks on Bitcoin would not be possible, and that they would probably not have some grievous impacts on the userbase, but the attacks would be much more difficult to pull off and there would be a lot more flexibility in fighting them off.

Bitcoin in it's present form has one and basically only one major advantage over most other instruments.  No counter-party risk.  That's really about it IMHO.

Gold could go down 20% or maybe 30% but it can go up 50%, 100% or a lot more so it seems like a good investment especially since you can have Gold without much third party risk.

Gold is certainly a good bet at this point, brother. See here for patterns and details: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=869664.msg9823983#msg9823983

 

[Jungian]

https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/543456323749564416

He should make up his mind:

[img http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/img/the-skeptics/emin-gun-sirer-2013-11-03.jpg[/img]

Feels like I've heard the "broken at a protocol level before".

[jaredboice]

"The internet is broken at a protocol level" 

[jaredboice]

"The internet protocol is what's important. The internet itself is a bad idea" 

[NewLiberty]

https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/543456323749564416

He should make up his mind:

Or at least dial back on the tautologies: "You heard it here first, now is a good time to X"
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"Broken at a protocol level"

Exactly which layer of the protocol is not a protocol level?
To say otherwise would be to say that Bitcoin is perfect, and development is complete, and development should then stop.

[tvbcof]

https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/543456323749564416

He should make up his mind:

 - tweet image: http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/img/the-skeptics/emin-gun-sirer-2013-11-03.jpg

I don't know who the guy is, but selling in Nov 2013 was not a bad call, especially if a guy had use for money in 2014.  I'll hope the same does not end up applying to 2015 as well.

I also would neither agree nor dis-agree with his contention about protocol level deficiencies.  The contention rests very heavily on how Bitcoin is used in native form.  If as backing for sidechains, for instance, I would tentatively disagree.  If as a native exchange currency for the human inhabitants of planet earth to conduct even a small fraction of their general economic transactions in the 21st century, I could not agree more.

edit: slight

[_mr_e]

Yet another use for the blockchain outside of money: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2p56dp/controlling_a_computer_virus_with_the_blockchain/

[jmw74]

Warning: Inflated ego:

http://panampost.com/belen-marty/2014/12/12/juan-llanos-bitcoin-was-born-regulated/

Bittorrent was "born regulated" too. Who cares?

The question of whether the law applies to bitcoin or not, is totally fucking irrelevant. Bitcoin is designed to be censorship resistant. The question is whether it will withstand the attack it was designed to withstand.

Everybody knows those attacks are coming, it doesn't matter whether new laws or old laws are used to justify those attacks.  Is anything in this article not obvious to everyone?

[kehtolo]

Yet another use for the blockchain outside of money: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2p56dp/controlling_a_computer_virus_with_the_blockchain/

quite scary!

[hdbuck]

hum: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2p92s2/chinese_government_official_private_digital_money/ 

[inca]

Yet another use for the blockchain outside of money: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2p56dp/controlling_a_computer_virus_with_the_blockchain/

quite scary!

Imagine what is possible with ethereum.
Ideas like this need to wait until blockchain tech is mainstream before emerging!!

[justusranvier]

selling in Nov 2013 was not a bad call, especially if a guy had use for money in 2014.

Selling on November 3rd was a good call?

[600watt]

https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/543456323749564416

He should make up his mind:

 - tweet image: http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/img/the-skeptics/emin-gun-sirer-2013-11-03.jpg

I don't know who the guy is, but selling in Nov 2013 was not a bad call, especially if a guy had use for money in 2014.  I'll hope the same does not end up applying to 2015 as well.

I also would neither agree nor dis-agree with his contention about protocol level deficiencies.  The contention rests very heavily on how Bitcoin is used in native form.  If as backing for sidechains, for instance, I would tentatively disagree.  If as a native exchange currency for the human inhabitants of planet earth to conduct even a small fraction of their general economic transactions in the 21st century, I could not agree more.

edit: slight

selling btc on nov. 4th 2013 was actually really bad timing.

[cypherdoc]

http://www.cobdencentre.org/2014/12/red-alert-financial-markets-facing-possible-derivatives-crisis-again/

[cypherdoc]

Market top?

http://fortune.com/2014/11/13/park-avenue-high-rise-condo-new-york/?utm_content=buffer11ade&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[cypherdoc]

Matonis on point again:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/02/24/the-cashless-utopia-mirage/

[Erdogan]

Matonis on point again:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/02/24/the-cashless-utopia-mirage/

He's right. Here is an example of the statist, surveilance state, tyranny utopia, cashless money system 247 Remit Plus in the Phillipines, that will of course go nowhere:

http://www.interaksyon.com/business/101146/247-remitplus-app-to-enhance-fight-vs-money-laundering-terror-financing-gets-copyright-approval

Yes, it's all there: The system keeps lists of people that are exempt from payments, five year old payments can be rolled back. 

[tvbcof]

selling in Nov 2013 was not a bad call, especially if a guy had use for money in 2014.

Selling on November 3rd was a good call?

Well just generally late 2013 early 2014 was a good call for cash to be used in 2014.  For tax reason (which ended up not panning out) I deferred most of my sales to just after Jan 1, but I did take some profits in late 2013 just to be safe.  If the guy anticipated a top around the 2013->2014 transition, saying so in early Nov wasn't bad.  I mean anyone who knows what they are doing is not going to be leaving multiple hundreds large laying around with easy access so it will take a lot of people some lead time for staging in order to make a block of sales.

[hdbuck]

so oil is getting it hard: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-14/exposing-oil-price-shock-contagion-transmission-pathway  

As we noted previously, counterparty risk concerns (and thus financial system fragility) are starting to rear their ugly heads.

what is happening? this cannot end well