it will grow naturally, with or without the crappy mainstream media. I see bitcoin as something totally detached from mainstream media, and that's a good thing.

well, you can't deny that most women have no interest in it. All women i know including the gf just doesn't want to think about global economics, real reasons why countries are at war, bitcoin etc. Some literally say it like that, "I just don't want to think about that stuff". A bit like 'ignorance is bliss'. Majority of women is like that, so when she says they were surprised she actually had interest and knowledge about it, that's completely logical, I'd be surprised too.

The guy creepily touching her, well that's just bad luck she had to be standing next to someone like that.

Will watch it, thanks.

nice to know you are using the tulip analogy, something used by an old dutch banker, who talks down on bitcoin to protect their fiat scheme, which is based on thin air.
Another one of these idiots is alan greenspan, the strawman of decades of banking scams which have helped the economy completely in the shitter with record debts. The real value of fiat money is less than toilet paper, because toilet paper is at least usable as such. Not that I have tried wiping with paper money, but i doubt it does that better since it are relatively smooth paper surfaces.

because you cant predict how far it crashes, and even if it crashes in the first place, because bitcoin is very volatile and unpredictable. It may as well have been a minor dip and went even higher.
It's always easy to draw conclusions after the fact. Seems to be common amongst traders.

in the end, bitcoin is from people, not countries. It will stabilize over time, along with more and more businesses adopting it.

Just from from the press:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/12/05/bitcoin-china-pboc/3876727/

Bank of America's report said the virtual currency could become a "serious competitor" to traditional money transfer providers.
BoA placed the currency's maximum value at $1,300 per Bitcoin and said its maximum market capitalization would be $15 billion.

the maximum value thing is obviously something they pulled out of their ass, based on the ceiling of the past 7 days. 7 days is hardly a profound base for such a prediction. I guess they hope it.

Anyway, the 'strong competitor' remark is pretty positive, for a bank. All the other banks in the world don't know how fast they have to come out with 'negative advise', because when btc is the new standard everyone of them is out of business.

And what do you think it will do to the present value? I don't see alot of movement in the bitcoin exchange (yet). Will there be a nice dip to buy this month? Bitcoin seems too trusted already for a minor crash, that we could see 12 hours ago when the news from china came out... just a little dip and within 12 hours back on 1100

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And yes count me in for the newbie lottery:
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