Quote from: [Suspicious link removed] on August 15, 2014, 07:35:25 PM

Quote from: jcoin200 on August 15, 2014, 06:11:17 PM

Quote from: [Suspicious link removed] on August 15, 2014, 10:26:55 AM

if they can manipulate gold and silver price, just figure what they can do with the btc market. And just like with gold and silver, their aim is to scare little ppl out of the real value to keep them in their fiat ponzi scam. On the long term they're losing anyway with pm (looking at asian imports), so i hodl or buy both btc and pm when nice discounts appear and i've fiat surplus.

[edit] Related:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2cpew8/game_changer_bitcoin_research_at_the_federal/
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I have no doubt that central banks and governments are afraid. But, when he starts his writing with "I'm a trained economist with a B.S. in Computer Science, a M.S. in Operations Research, and a PhD in Econometrics" that almost guarantees that his "employer" could figure out who he is instantly, yet he claims he wants to remain anonymous. Thats a pretty rare combo of degrees. To me, it makes me VERY skeptical of this story

yes, it's probably bogus, but the fact that it seems plausible at first sight is good enough for me :-)

Actually I would believe this. In any paper you write, informal or not, you have to give your credentials and why people should listen to you. Pretty rare combo, sure.. The US government does not just hire anyone that "applies" - often they come to you. But yes, I am sure it is rare enough to single out who it is. But you have to realize it is probably not a big enough story to make the government "research" to figure out who he was. Now if he published the report and etc, than I am sure he would have to be a lot more anonymous.

The US government (IRS) has ruled BTC as property mainly for tax reasons. For them to even talk about something, research had to be done at some point. Truth or not, I am sure this has happened, and really - is it that hard to believe the government would try to hide something??