I am trying to at least get a post in daily.
I really did not think bitcoind would buckle under such a reasonable increase in usage and it is the worst time.

I am here. I am not going anywhere.
WeExchange has big news coming very soon. I can not afford for this to continue this way.
I feel very embarrassed and ashamed at this point that I chose to rely on bitcoind and have caused so many problems with it at the worst possible time.


Thank you very much for your patience and understanding. When your withdraws are canceled or possibly pushed through, I ask that you please mention it here so others can see progress as it happens.

-Ukyo

Let's hope much much much sooner than a few weeks..
That seems excessive...

Hello,

I apologize for the delays.
Tickets are finally making progress and the total is shrinking rather than growing.
As I mentioned before we are handling all requests in order.
Please be patient a bit longer and as long as you have a ticket open we will be getting to it soon.

-Ukyo

3 moths ago i have bought BTC 100 for $2000.

Today i went to shopping with my wife. When i came back, the price for a bitcoin was up $20. That means, the value of my 100 btc increased $2000 in 5 hours, which is the price i have initially paid to buy my BTC.

This is just insane. It looks like the mother of all bubbles....

The selling price was 150, but after several (like 4) people that wanted to buy it and noone concluded (not for my fault and I was OK with using an escrow) I decided to keep them.

Thank you anyway for your interest.

Why do so many people have advertisement in their signature to order BFL products when there aren't any to order?

Hard to say… there is currently no reliable indicator or measure of speculation. One idea was to graph trade volume vs transaction volume. This showed that there was a huge spike during the 2011 bubble, but there is no spike for the recent increase in price. You can see the graph here:
http://blockchain.info/charts/tx-trade-ratio

PayPal dollars have no value except that PayPal will often (*cough*) exchange them for real dollars later.  What made PayPal a household name is the ability to move money around on the Internet fairly easily, and allowed people to make payments to people without having to give out private info (credit card numbers/etc.)

Bitcoin is superior to PayPal in pretty much every way except chargeback / consumer protection.  (It may be somewhat heretical to suggest here that the inability to reverse Bitcoin payments isn't always a great thing for everyone, but there you have it.)

As to obscurity: what would you have given to be "in" on the PayPal idea before most people had heard of it?

What needs to happen is: we need to get people to hear about Bitcoin and understand it *before* The Powers That Be can slander it into illegality.  We've already seen the power of the Internet to get the word out and affect legislation that's clearly against the public interest; but before that can happen, the public needs to be aware of their interest in this.  People have been trained to think that their money isn't really theirs to control; introduce them to the idea that it really should be.

TLDR: Evangelize!  And Bitcoin will be a household name like PayPal is.