I don't disagree with you.. as his hodlings could easily be verified by Elon.. if he wanted them to be...
But just to clarify what he's written (again what's true could be diff.)

He said, “I have not sold any of my bitcoin,” Apr. 26th when being accused of starting a P&D. which looks to be the case.

He stated Tesla was holding BTC long.. and he himself hadn't sold any of "his" BTC. (could be easily verified.. but Elon's like nahhh)
“We do believe long term in the value of Bitcoin,” he said. “So it is our intent to hold what we have long term and continue to accumulate bitcoin from transactions from our customers as they purchase vehicles.”

A month later.... after he pumps it..

"Tesla has suspended BTC purchases.. not selling BTC gonna use it for future tx when BTC 'forks'" (Not really about the 'forks' but basically what he's saying whether he knows it or not)"
Again the "unsold BTC holdings" could be verified.. but Elon's like nahhh

Then..

"Yeah, I haven’t and won’t sell any Doge." In response to "his" Doge hodlings. But notice he didn't say "any of my Doge"..

Just following this pattern alone, he could easily tweet out he's no longer supporting Doge. Not that he would but he clearly has no allegiance to anything but profits.

Either way he's blatantly playing the unregulated market.. He's most likely playing the pumps and dumps like KimDotCom used to do.
and they've been falling for it every time.

sure it's just a dice thing.. but can't remember this many 25%-ish or less blocks in one week.. I believe I counted 8. considering each one of those is about 16 hours.. this sucks.

well no one answered me. but this news just dropped. hopefully some people get their BTC back.
https://coinfire.cf/2014/11/28/ryan-kennedy-of-moolah-ordered-to-pay-back-750-btc-today/

I write this knowing the chances are slim.  But did anyone ever get their BTC out since Mintpal.com went quiet. supposedly re-indexing, reorganizing.? Moolah debacle. etc.

If this doesn't come around..  The list of exchanges going down and stealing Bitcoin is getting vast.  Or better put, the list of exchanges who are once regarded as "good exchanges" stealing or "losing" others Bitcoin, outweighing the exchanges who have yet to do so.. should be alarming.

Been waiting.... Just remember what I said....

Not correct.. well partly correct, yes it does self adjust...  after 2016 blocks have been mined, ie, a very long time.  To pretend that the centralization of hashing that is going on, like how the "unknown" petahash has grown about 40% just in the last month, .. you know. KNC's solo mining...  Isn't a big problem? ..  Is really bad and could be catastrophic to the network if/when one of these giant powers were to go down, power loss, whatever.  We've already seen a few occasions where there have been whole days of petahash dropping a bit and block finds were longer than usual throughout those days..

We need to be open and honest about it, perhaps there's a way for mining to still be competitive while helping the network without it becoming just a few huge centralized powers of hash, but I feel that boat has sailed because of skewed information like you and others keeps propagating..

For the record, I've done over a 100 tx with BTC and have yet to have one tx only take 60 minutes for 6 full confirmations, and I always pay fees, there's always a 20-40 min. block in there somewhere... just saying..

He doesn't solicit donations once in his entire post.. you come off as some authority on BCT, you are not.

As to the OP, just a headsup, sometimes Malwarebytes (if that's what you're checking with) will give false positives to mining .exe like  minerd etc, I think it goes back to the days of solo mining where there were bad malicious mining software that would actually have you mining for someone else. the consensus is if you get the software from a good source that has been used a lot, you're probably fine. (although checksum/sigs are always best to have) I wouldn't use that anymore if you think that was the cause. your culprit stuff could be coming from somewhere else is my point.

I know not easy for everyone, but I always use new mining software on a separate computer from any of my good warm wallets. it's just much safer.

edit* and if you can find the exact link where you DL'd it from. make sure to post and follow-up.

Your use of the word hence presumes as much as the NY post.
I thought my use of quotes from the actual piece would suffice in saying this isn't an "association".. this is their exact quote.
"Bitcoin's turmoil has claimed it's first life"
I actually shortened the quote the first time, not realizing it's even more sensational than her parents could have ever wanted..
Is Bitcoin claiming lives now? Only on its first??.  Is this a newspaper's way of claiming "first" on a topic.

No one can say for sure she committed suicide because of Bitcoin's "turmoil", Which you've ascertained about 10 times in your two posts.

....isn't Bitcoin still up about 30% since.. like beginning of Nov.?  
I know of a few traders who wish they had that kind of Quarter.. Hasn't it already "recovered" from Gox?

Perhaps it will come out as that, (we're not even sure she committed suicide yet) perhaps she had ties to Gox that were crushing..Perhaps. Perhaps.
but to conclude such when someone has just taken their life is presumptuous and sensationalism as best, and feeding an agenda and a troth of sheep at worse,
we should all expect..no.. demand.. better from news journalists.
The Daily Mail (shockingly) even wrote "we don't know why yet."

..oh and you're a luddite to follow those sheep who follow that mindset. (he is)

I'm genuinely disturbed how many mainstream newspapers are reporting this as "Bitcoin's turmoil claims life".  Op-ed or not, they have no proof this is why this woman sadly killed herself.  Irregardless what turns out to be the reason, this is above and beyond inappropriate and irresponsible.  Editor "Lets see, we got Asia, we got Bitcoin, we got Gox in Asia, she musta committed suicide because of Bitcoin. Print it!"

This is how badly newspaper's (who are no better than TMZ and the National Enquirer these days) backed by banks want to spread FUD? wow.  RIP.

Funny how Mt. Gox is dead and yet there's a whole bi-product exchange going on, based solely on the potential of the recovery of coins.  My guess is people who have lost at Gox, are actually buying back GoxBux low in hopes to sell GoxBux high. exchanging and trading more etc...  Simply put, Goxxed traders should not get anymore sympathy if somehow Gox is re-established and they lose again. We can only care so much about your willingness to be screwed.

Dear god it's worse than any of could have imagined.. although I imagined it quite bad.
http://newsbtc.com/2014/03/03/knc-teams-chicago-sun-times-launch-new-pre-loaded-bitcoin-wallet/

Just a headsup, both BTCguild and Eligius have dropped about 4PH in the last few hours, and "other" in blockchain.info has increased about 5%, my guess is KNC has finally got their internal pool and network up and running and is now just solo mining.  The final dagger in all of our backs.  

Huge difficulty increase brought on by them mining over the last two months, and now it sticks with our pools having not nearly enough hash to keep up..  This should be fun for KNC and Ceo.ix.  (and yes difficulty will increase or stay the same for at least 2016 blocks)  Hopefully they start offering us pity cloud shares soon.. so lame.

lol.  wrong assumption.  Would your assumptions about my ownership somehow answer the two lies that have already happened? these aren't speculation if they've already happened, ie past tense.  KNC has restructured their model, Plan B, and any 28nm produced from Dec. to Feb. went to... KNC.

Of course on principle, but I believe there are variables, i've reported pool flux many a times already, as in, a 1PH behemoth pops on and all of a sudden my hash reporting goes bonkers, usually dropping.. It eventually stabilizes but this happens throughout the day now that KNC and others pool jump too.  (and that would be across the entire pool..) I'm assuming servers get overloaded no matter how much headroom you have. Until I'm told this can't happen. I'm believing it does.

And that they flat out lied twice,
and never answered for it, when a vendor who is active on bitcointalk..disappears, questions should be raised.

#1 Their fairness program, not building or selling any "new" products for Q1, but instead mining themselves with all the "new" product they've been creating, proof see video and their known hashrate, essentially, they sold products for Q1, to themselves, at no cost.

Actually worse, product "we" previous customers paid for, with the capital we provided based on good faith.

#2 Delivering a 22nm miner by Q2, how they try to bypass this completely without actually being sued, probably not, but I think it is clear with Plan B, they're gonna do it their way. Which really isn't influenced by anyone on this board.. the machine is in process now.

Watch if Bitcoin's price falls anymore.. "Exclusive used modules now for sale".. what a joke.
And don't fall for it people! If and when you become part of their business model again..

Everybody on reddit laughed initially at their protest, I thought it was great he got in his face, that could very well be, the last chance that ever happens now that Mark has most probably flown the coop, or gone into a bunker.

For the record, this guy did initiate or most definitely confirm a few things, first, it showed Mark's total lack of concern or empathy for Goxxers (frap and smug smile) it showed he couldn't answer the simplest questions, (do you still have our coins? followed with Mark, "I'll call the cops on you") and it did put Mark on the defensive (We're moving due to Security concerns via website a day or two later) seriously this guy in 20 seconds managed to capture and embody everything we hate about Mt.Gox.  Even now their msg. on their webpage is so far removed from reality..

"We will be closely monitoring the situation" Umm the situation is what you created. there isn't some situation out there in the cosmos that you need to monitor, it's YOU. lol

it could only come from someone who looks like Mark in that video, oblivious to his hand of MAGIC that has failed to trick anyone anymore. I don't know if it woulda changed anything, but this "confrontation" shoulda happened many months ago.

Does anyone like an opportune moment to make fun of the word rape?

2nd one has been speculated as KNC for awhile. and they've never denied it. It's assumed they've basically taken all their 28nm overstock and started mining. (Don't think that's their only address and pool they're using also)

Shadily Staying in compliance with their posted "promise" of not selling any products until Neptune to keep original purchasers ROI possible, and those interests in tact..  
Unfortunately mining for themselves instead, which completely undermines (no pun intended) this.  Even worse so.   And also flies in the face of their "promise" of never mining more than 5%.  Could be speculation, but it is interesting they've been mum on the whole subject.
Lies and more lies more likely.

Funny thing is KNC will most probably be regarded as a worse company for BTC than BFL when all the dust settles, although I'm sure many buyers who got left stranded will disagree..

KNC is completely skyrocketing the hash for short-term gains, while BTC price stays stagnant and declines, making people less and less interested in mining for themselves and spreading the network more evenly, and across many points, something essential to decentralization if you ask me.  The future will be centralized hot spots of hashing power, whether state backed or backed by investors.  Who will give out cloud shares as they seem fit and at their price.  Essentially another version of a hierarchical bank, bonds, or better yet a public stock.

Uhh.. seems to be some pretty good exposure of Bitcoin merchants who hold their Bitcoin as an investment, on CNN, I guess that is "what of it".

I was gonna write when I searched it turned up to be a hotel location.. lol looks like Mark wants to just stay in his room and get room service while Gox goes by the wayside. Is this dude still on the Bitcoin Foundation board?...