All of you that have been paying attention to recent block chain movements and sales have probably seen the ever increasing cash outs by early adopters.
What do you think the reason for this is?

I'm more interested about $300 barrier, $250 is nothing significant. The price was at 261 on Bitfinex just 3 weeks ago, 300 on the other hand was touched (and even passed) 4 times this year and the price never managed to stay above it.

Hi guys.

Today bitcoin value is $356.12 (22/Nov/2014)

I have 3 bitcoins and need $1340 for last days of December, what to do?

My options.

A) Keep the bitcoins, the price will go up!
B) Invest in other coins, Doge and LiteCoin will go up!
C) Sell that 3 btc and take that $1050 and try to earn 1 btc to get that $300.

Im of the idea "If price goes down, get more coins", but if you have a "Option D)" share it please 

Bitcoin will be over the news all over the world due the silk road bust.
History will repeats itself.

I've turned permabear . Bitcoin will be replaced by a POS-coin distributed by a government or a really large organisation, here is why:

All traditional currencies have something in common: they were initially created by an authority in which a lot of people put their faith in, an authority which they didn't mind would benefit from the inflation/creation of the currency. Sure, many of said currencies were officially backed by gold, but people accepted that the backing inevitably would get fractional.

Bitcoin is mostly issued by lucky early adopters / mining-speculators, which is exactly the kind of people that society would hate to see benefit from currency issuance.

The advantages of the incoming competition will end up making bitcoin worth nothing more than collector's stamps. The fact that the competition isn't visible or even existent yet, doesn't mean than it's not coming.

We will see the benefits of cryptocurrencies for humanity, but it won't be Bitcoin, or any of todays altcoins.

The question is when does the collapse of Bitcoin start. Could be 5 years or 5 weeks from now.

Currency wars is not only battled on the gold front. Asian central banks are manipulating their exchange rates to boost export, transferring their unemployment to other countries

This is a very important level... I'm sure we will either have a quick bounce up or another continued slow bleed down. I think we will test 400 again soon, what do you guys think?

As a Chinese, I do see my country is becoming more and more powerful. But it's still far behind the US. That's why I still want to do a postdoc in the US.

Unfortunately, no. Price depends on supply and demand. The demand curves for gold and silver are not the same, so simply scaling the supply curve by a factor of 10 will give you different results, even assuming the supply curves are also the same.

Just look at the actual numbers for gold and silver. Silver is 17 times more abundant than gold, yet gold is worth about 50 times silver.

Is it even possible?

It's all kind of self-perpetuating...how can the last coin even be mined?

short selling bitcoin is as simple as messing with a mysql database the meant to represent a balance of real bitcoins.

i prefer localbitcoins and otc's, where the true blockchain coins live.

offchain trading on mysql databases have been happening for years

My order this week just got fully filled

Is this to do with Russia Ban 2.0? http://cointelegraph.com/news/112668/russia-to-issue-ban-and-fines-for-cryptocurrency-use
Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd new BTC protocol upgrade? https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/checklocktimeverify-means-bitcoin-escrow-refunds-fork/
Cyberattack Compromises 76Mil JPMorgan Accounts https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-price-analysis-cyberattack-compromises-76mil-jpmorgan-accounts/


 Don't know these days but anyway - Who thinks we are heading lower this weekend?

Yeah. End of the world will be interesting.