hi all, just joined the forum now. Heard about bitcoins a while ago, but started looking into it more just in the last month due to the headlines.

A decentralized economy through a decentralized currency sounds a very interesting idea to me which potentially could bring a new (better) world order for all of us. I strongly believe that governments teamed up with powerful banks cannot bring long lasting well being to the general public - even if this was the intention in the first place.

Payment systems such as bitcoin should help in decoupling the government from the banks.

Having worked for several years in the exchange market making business (derivatives) my main interest is to come up with a good valuation model for bitcoins.