Quote from: windjc on December 31, 2013, 05:54:42 AM

You should read and learn about the history of Bitstamp, how it started, who runs it and what their track record is. I know you may be waiting for JP Morgan ( Wink

) to start a bitcoin exchange, but until then, there are safe ways to trade.

This is a good place to make the point. Bitstamp?

https://www.bitstamp.net/about_us/

Who the fuck are they, why do they list an office in the UK but operate out of Slovenia and have no names, faces, anything?

Why the fuck would I send those "people" money and how deserving would I be of getting swindled if I did? I get great offers from Nigeria all the time but there is a pattern see...

And like I say I have no reason to believe they are not legit. I am just not naive enough to find out.

As for JPMorgan, they are trying. Goldman is already in though

http://www.coindesk.com/goldman-sachs-director-board-bitcoin-startup-circle/

And in case you haven't noticed, Coinbase has a Goldman alum running the shop too. Forex dealer, kudos to him for leaving the vipers nest of GS forex dealing, but here is what you don't know. Give me an opaque exchange with no regulation and I will show you 500 ways to steal all day long with nobody noticing. Most of the banks run a bid/offer window you can run a truck through, they fill you at the bottom or top of the day and keep the spread and it's a sweet business if your clients don't even know it is a game, let alone how to know when they get played.

Your enterprise will probably be cannibalized by the Bilderberg whether you like it or not. I wish it were not so, but look at where the internet went...straight into the nutsack of the New Stasi. No reason to believe this will be any different, pleasantly surprise me if I'm wrong though.