Quote from: Trongersoll on January 13, 2014, 09:05:55 PM

Doing as the OP suggests would totally undermine and be the death of Bitcoin. Everyone would wonder "could i be next?". But then maybe killing BTC was the OP's hidden agenda.

I am starting to wonder that myself. It appears as though there is a coordinated multifaceted attack on Bitcoin and our community. There are so many new members starting inciteful and controversial threads, one has to wonder, are these people just overly ignorant, or are they being paid to undermine our community. I could list dozens of examples but here are the two that made me laugh the most.
One is titled "Central Banks could EASILY destroy Bitcoin (if they want)"
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=408955.0
The OP starts by saying "I am LONG on BTC, but want to understand if this scenario would work". I nearly fell off my chair laughing.
LONG on BTC? are you serious!!? What does that even mean?
He then proceeds to describe how a bank could buy all the Bitcoins at a high price, and sell them at a low price to destroy the market.
Well I tell you what 'michielnl', I will sell all my Bitcoins at 1000 USD each, and buy them back from the bank for 1 dollar. Anytime you like!

The other thread is by new member 'mooncake' entitled '51% attack hypothesis - Prove me wrong'
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=408566.0
He starts buy suggesting someone could 'buy a big pool to do a 51% attack' not understanding that a pool is mined by a group of independent miners. Here is his response when it is pointed out that he does not know what a pool is.

Quote from: mooncake on January 10, 2014, 01:52:19 PM

I may be missing something. You are saying miners mine independently although they share server clusters.

You are missing something alright! Why would anyone want to start a thread on a subject they know nothing about?

I am not alone in noticing this either, another member 'SirWilliam' posted

Quote from: SirWilliam on January 10, 2014, 06:50:23 PM

So the central banks ALREADY OWN 40 billion of bitcoins??? Wow they own more bitcoins than actually exist!
Man some of y'all got to be Sockpuppet trolls... The quality of the anti-bitcoin flames and wannabe panic starting threads is really low here, but they do make up for it with quantity...