Some interesting details revealed from the investigators who caught the corrupt Silk Road agents -

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/stealing-bitcoins-with-badges-how-silk-roads-dirty-cops-got-caught/

At this point, we cannot completely attribute the cause of the loss of volume - yet a fair inference does come from loss of confidence.   On the other hand, before the "hack", quite a bit of Bitfinex's volume seemed to have come from margin trading, which appears to have not been re-enabled, yet.

nah, tptb will never allow it, the thing is rigged

you ever wonder why all the elections these days are "too close to call" 49-51 affairs?

I assumed we all had our butlers manage our day-to-day financial affairs. Dear god, did you people think I actually dirtied my hands with 1s and 0s? These silk gloves are white for a reason.

Hence my lack of participation in the block size debate: it's frightfully dull, I would need to associate with the hoi polloi, and if BTC goes south I'll simply sack my butler. (Sorry, Woodhouse).

What traditions are we talking about here, specifically? Like grown men wearing those little boy pants, or starting World Wars ...and loosing them?

The Euro is the choice currencyof criminals and terrorists. So lets ban that. Illegal Iranian oil was priced and sold in Euros to undermine USA efforts to bring Iran to nuclear talks. The recent terrorist attack in Paris financed with Euros, assault rifles ammunition grenades explosives purchased in Belgium. A million USD in 500 Euro notes can be transported in 3 bundles 2 Inches thick and weighing just a pound each. Untraceable unlike Bitcoin with its public ledger. To be honest this is pure crap and they know it, the EU cant even agree to ban known terrorists from entering the EU from Syria. Sweden let 300 jihadis return without even challenging them. Bitcoin dropped 5 or 6 dollars today but this was not the reason.

don't know if this a troll post or if the users serious lol sounds like a bleak outlook for the future mate lol

when they take gun rights away i very well may leave the usa and eventually denounce my citizenship..... i absolutely hate the abusive high taxes we are forced to pay.. and i hate obamacare too... both of those are great reasons to ditch the usa.

A couple comments on the FUD:

1) The EU is actually extremely hypocritical. The 500 euro banknote is the highest denomination banknote in the world.

Here is an interesting BBC article on the criminal uses of this note: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8678979.stm As the article notes in some countries these notes are know as "bin ladens".

 "The 500 euro note is really the note of choice among criminals.
"We estimate that more than 90% of the 500 euro notes that are provided in the UK have actually gone into the hands of serious organised criminals."

etc etc

2) What is never discussed is the possibility that bitcoin can also be used by the good guys to pay the contractors that inhabit the nether lands of mercenaries, informers, information providers etc etc.

3) The big problem for the Russki's is that BTC can be used to move money outside of the country.

Why is it that so few people ask why Assad the dictator is bad, because he is undemocratic, but the blasphemer beheading, limb severing, back whiplashing authoritarian House of Saud in Saudi Arabia, and their counterparts in the other West friendly Islamic monarchies, are good?

Political Zionists want a large segregated insular Islamic population in Europe. Corrupt and/or politically correct politicians have ensured that this has been allowed to happen down throughout the years and especially so in the past few months, and now that all these people are in, and we know that there are Jihadi elements amongst them, our governments need to take away all our civil liberties in order to protect us from the extremists (that they let in), Furthermore, having a significant minority population that is at odds with the values of the society in which it is implented, should prove a fucking fantastic scapegoat for the great unwashed, when the music finally stops playing and the Piper refuses to accept payment in €uros, or dollar$.

Fucking ingenius spot of social engineering.

I am not a parasitic Zionist Neocon motherfucker, but if I was, I think I would be pretty fucking good at it!

>Eat shit
>Drink Dom Perignon with Mr Rpietila

Both so enticing... How does one choose?

^OK. Didn't mean to back you into a corner like that, sorry. You're totally a successful trader with decades of experience.
(now your turn to tell me that you never doubted my being top Navy Seal with 300 kills)

I hear you. It was much easier for grade-school children to take up pyrotechnics as a hobby back then.

I used to get everyday fun stuff like ether, sulfur, potassium nitrate, fuming nitric acid, glacial acetic acid, lead acetate, and reagent grade sulfuric and hydrochloric acids from the neighborhood pharmacy with no questions asked. More interesting but relatively nontoxic stuff like potassium chlorate, red phosphorus, manganese dioxide and sodium ferrocyanide came in pricey little chemistry-set-sized bottles from the local hobby shop, also with no questions asked. Other cool substances like calcium carbide, cheap muriatic acid and various alcohols came from the hardware store.

My biggest problem was trying to source powdered charcoal to make gunpowder. I found that the easiest way was to cut the heads off wooden strike-anywhere stove matches (the heads were an excellent material for other fun projects) and reduce the matchsticks to charcoal to be ground in a mortar and pestle.

By the time I was in my teens we were forging notes from our parents to get the really cool stuff like white phosphorus (and the carbon disulfide to dissolve it in), zinc dust, red iron oxide (to make thermite), etc from Central Scientific.

Now kids need to buy stump remover just to get their hands on some saltpeter for the time-honored childhood tradition of making gunpowder. Even an adult trying to buy half of those things would probably come under investigation for being a terrorist or meth chemist.

Guess what? For all our pyrotechnical fun we never burned anything down nor suffered any more than minor skin burns. We'd been taught to think before we did things.
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Today's kids are so over-protected it's ridiculous. The political correctness geniuses figure they can use simple "childproof" packaging and devices to fool the same children they need to ask for help to reprogram the remote control. When I was a kid we learned not to play carelessly with fire by burning ourselves on a hot stove. I understood what the skull and crossbones meant on the iodine bottle in the bathroom cabinet long before I was tall enough reach it.

We learned to respect fire and dangerous chemicals at an early age. Even substances now considered dangerous were freely given to children. In kindergarten we were given powdered asbestos (I can still remember the distinct smell) to mix with water to make a modelling compound. A trip to the dentist wasn't complete without receiving a decent blob of mercury to play with. Now kids can't even take peanut butter sandwiches to school.

No wonder today's kids have no sense of responsibility for their own safety.

Smallblockers happened to me. Scale or die.

15 minutes

How long did your withdrawal take?

The exchange isnt even open yet

Edit: I was just reading a pro bitcoin price-waterhouse-coopers report to UK government about bitcoin. Don't worry lambtroll your audience hasn't left you.

$15 Silver is NOT the bottom. It will be driven lower to the $10-12 range by the summer.

Save your powder for the summer and get ready for a wild 4th quarter 2015. Thank me later.

I think you're pretty close except it ends at #3

How is the pump and dump going?