They can still survive provided that they get a few customers. Because then they could cook the numbers to make them look not as bad, blame the Cypriot government or the people or MtGox or anybody else for that matter (except themselves of course) for the lackluster performance, then ask for more investment to help them expand, take on additional projects, etc.

The interesting thing for me is, what happens if they don't get ANY customers? Because, being Greek myself, I can't for the life of me see many Greeks signing on to this. It's a big part of the reason I'm following this thread. I'm curious to see if they can pull this off. I don't think they can. It could be, though, that it's not the Greeks that they have in mind, but rather the foreigners (Russians, Brits, and others) whose capital is now stuck on the island and would rather get it out. If they can get some of those guys, then they might be able to get out of this (by spinning the numbers, making more promises, etc.).

Hmmm, Peter Harrison's post about Danny being an early adopter/miner puts many things into perspective for me. I don't think we're dealing with a professional here (I always suspected this, but that kind of confirms it for me). His foolhardy arrogance is probably the result of him making lots of money from mining and attributing that to brilliance rather than luck. Many early adopters are afflicted by this condition (see MPEX above). I always thought that, for him to be that ambitious and arrogant, he would have to be either a genius, extremely skilled, or a fool, a charlatan. I'm leaning on the latter even more now.

If there were good news, he would have been here. Since he isn't here, ...

If there were parliamentary hearings on bitcoin this morning (or yesterday), then of course today's news programs would be reporting on that.

"A representative of Neo in the Commerce Committee said: ...
Since the opening of the Neo store in Nicosia, about 100 people have shown an interest in bitcoin."

Be realistic, guys.

For most of the interview, he's explaining what bitcoin is and what kind of services Neo is offering to the islanders. Near the end, it gets a bit more interesting (for me, at least).

...
Interviewer: 'till now, how many merchants have come forward and expressed interest in this technology and is there interest from the general public too?

Papageorgiou: There is a lot of interest. On the 24th and 25th, we had two seminars for merchants in Nicosia and Limassol. We had more than 500 merchants and CEOs. They showed a lot of interest in bitcoin as payment system. We explained it to them with the help of the University of Nicosia and we have already established some strong alliances with merchants on the island who in the coming weeks they'll start accepting bitcoins from people.

Interviewer: Internationally, how's the market? Does bitcoin have a large share of the market?

Papageorgiou: Internationally, there are about 50,000 businesses that accept bitcoin, ...

...says someone who was registered April 2013. You obviously got into btc to support the technology, not because btc was moonshoting. And you know what they say about simple men being easily amused, right?

Thanks.

Hmm, I am beginning to dislike this Havelock business. Perhaps I should have researched a bit about them before sending coins to them last week.

Mine ended in the spam folder earlier today. Perhaps check there?

Bought a few more shares directly from LMB Holdings Anyone knows how long it takes for the shares to be transferred to Havelock? hours, days, weeks?

Hmmm, you're right.

Btc withdrawals on MtGox are on track for being reenabled by 3:15 pm GMT, according to...

http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/1y4tbq/its_6pm_jpt_and_still_no_news/cfhd9dm

Yes, it' an 8-character BIC.

Thanks. This seems to have worked for me. I used the central branch address too and the system accepted it. Although, in my case, I also used Latin characters this time around instead of Greek characters (the bank is Greek). I initiated a withdrawal, I hope it goes well.

And thanks to Dargo for keeping us posted. I think there needs to be some official channel of communication (this thread is pretty random). Perhaps a regularly updated blog or facebook or twitter feed.

Similar experience here too. In my case, I cannot add the details of my bank. A "Bad Data" error message is returned. I have sent two emails to support that have gone unanswered. Also, my Tier 3 verification is stuck on "Processing" for several days now.

The thing that annoys me the most is that they don't answer the emails. I was a Bitstamp user for a long time, but became disappointed recently with their poor customer service and communication. I started using Kraken partly for that reason, but I'm met with the same sort of poor service and communication here too. I'm sort of hoping that this related to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. But, still, make some announcement somewhere stating "Because of Thanksgiving here in the US, all customer requests will be handled next week." I really REALLY like Kraken, but they need to communicate with their customers.

Formal:
"centi-bit" (cBTC) / "milli-bit" (mBTC) / "micro-bit" (µBTC) / "satoshi" (sBTC)

Slang:
"ceebits" (cBTC) / "embits" (mBTC) / "youbits" (µBTC) / "satoshi" (sBTC)

But I think the cBTC one is unnecessary. Also, it'd be easier for µBTC to be written as uBTC.

All these denominations could collectively be called "bits". "How many bits would that be? 20 youbits. Here, thanks."

I like the following:

1 BTC or 1B, pronounced "one bitcoin"

and the bits:

1 mBTC or 1 mB pronounced "one millibit" or "one embit"  (both pronunciations can be used, I don't see a problem with that)
1 uBTC or 1 uB pronounced "one microbit" or "one youbit"
1 sBTC or 1 sB pronounced "one satoshi"

Exciting news! Thanks. I was waiting for this.

+1 to OP and post #61.

I like the notation mB too, but I'd prefer it pronounced em bee. (Micros would then be uB and pronounced you bee.)

Edit: Come to think of it, embits and youbits sounds nice too.