your level of legitimacy is pretty low, bro

After Joey Zasa took out the Commission Michael observed:

Joey Zasa would never pull something like this without backing. He's just muscle, he's an enforcer, he's nothing. He doesn't have the wit for that helicopter attack. He doesn't even have the ambition to wipe out the whole Commission. Certainly not the balls.

So now I put the question to you, gentlemen: Who is backing Mark Krap?

Has anyone tried to contact staff members at Gox other than Crap Karp himself? Surely by now some of them are willing to talk?

This dude needs to wake up and watch out. When Gox goes under, which is inevitable, there will be people who are sufficiently angry at him and will proceed to arrange for him to sleep with the fishes.

a legend...

Demurrage is certainly a step in the right direction, to discourage hoarding and, in the long term, to prevent wealth from being concentrated in a minority of backwards thinking money-mad homo sapiens. But right now the people behind it want a "federal reserve"-like institution, and that is a bad idea.

It is interesting to see that most people here embrace the technical aspects of bitcoin but still hang on to a capitalistic ideology. I think we can do better than that.

I am sure my question has been asked millions of times before, but since I am a newbie I am entitled to newbie questions.

There is this group buy that looks very attractive, I am sure many of you will recognize it, three KNC neptune preorders (so far), each of which is divided into 32 shares, and each share costs .6bt. So the host will make a moderate profit from this. Now what I don't understand is that these machines are to arrive early next year then then the host will make much more money simply by keeping the machines to himself. You know where I am driving at: why does he do this? Altruism is a noble thing and it is important to share in this community, yada yada, I don't buy this. If he uses escrow then I will not be asking the question, but he is not.

Thrill me with your acumen on this one.