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Bitcoin Tops $1000
Well that escalated quickly. Having broken above $900 yesterday to new record highs (and a 100% gain in a week), the crypto currency is not looking back now. On what is higher than average volume this morning, Bitcoin just broke above the magic $1000 level for the first time (at $1025). Meanwhile, the BTC China "arb'd" rate is around $950 for those playing at home; and Litecoin has just topped $26 (from $4 a week ago!).
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<----To the moon, bitches...
<----Shut the power off, bitches...
DaddyO
I downloaded my litecoin wallet. It's the one that says "Bad Motherfucker"
Now if I can just find the password to the wallet that has 20 BTC in it I bought last year at $10......
Nothing can stop Bitcoin. Watch it cut through the gold price in the next few weeks!
I actually think you are right about this. Scary huh? Bitcoin:Gold ratio is just under 1.3 BTC/oz of gold right now.
Well of course, these are just zeros that Bitcoin is effortlessly stacking behind it. It's tracking the loss of faith in nationalist toilet paper in real time.
fonestar I have my litecoin wallet up and running and I am dying to throw a few bucks out the window. What is the best place for me to go to and throw a few bucks at litecoin. I don't have time to meet anyone face to face, I need to sit here and keep posting useless comments. Help please.
I got mine on mcxnow.com.
Thanks, do I have to register as a user?
Hey so much for that
https://mcxnow.com/
"
mcxNOW is shutting down for a period of time Withdraw all your coins before December 20thmcxNOW has seen unprecedented growth in recent months and especially in the last few weeks. mcxNOW is a custom coded exchange built 100% by one man in C++ . This means if anything has to be modified then only one person can do it.
Unfortunately the growth has been too fast to match with the support requirement as only one person can currently do all support. This is a burden of 200 to 400 emails a day among many requests on IRC and through chat. This makes development of mcxNOW nearly impossible without neglecting valid user requests through support.
I am happy that in over 7 months mcxNOW has not been hacked or lost any coins and that the exchange has scaled well from 100 users upto a peak of about 3500 users online at once, it shows the design here is pretty good. However I never anticipated some aspects of running an exchange that are quite important (ie. support) so I need to work on this before allowing the site to grow."
This reeks of filthy money-changers pulling their evil levers. I got mine though.
What is Bitcoin? Is it anything like Twitter?
1. Uses bandwith => Check
2. Is made out of 1's and 0's => Check
3. Is for people who spend way to much time on the internet => Check
4. Nerds think it's cool => Check
....
Yep, it's pretty much the same.
Weighs over 10g: check.
Sinks in water: check.
Some people are excessive in their interests of these: check.
Nerds think they're cool: check.
Yep, Krugerrands and rocks are pretty much the same.
People are going to get scammed by their third-parties.
But I called Litecoin a 'better speculative choice' than BTC last week. Not a cryptocurrency speculator.
There are 80+ Bitcoin - similar electronic coin developed, heard some names like Zues coin? Grid coin? Ultralite Coin? Bitch coin? BB coin? God Coin? Allah Coin? Hades Coin?
Wonder all of them could rise to 1000+ level from several cents.
PennyCoin##################. It's like a penny stock, except in bitcoin terms. The # can span 18 digits. Bet now! Someday you might make it big!
There is a man named Satoshigoldrubensilverstein somewhere, laughing his ass off.
He's got two tickets to paradise, bags are packed, he's ready to leave at a moments notice.
My gut feeling is that bitcoin was hatched by a central bank. The logo is gold, the coins are "mined", supply is limited...... the whole thing reeks of a speculative replacement of the real thing that the govvy doesn't have: Gold.
FortKnoxCoin?
I'll stick to my stance that by letting any 'alternative' currency touch any existing diluted fiats, you invalidate the alternativeness and thus its merit as a standalone/fungible freemarket proxy. Of course, those last three words really have little meaning anymore.
SoberOne nailed it. Hope you gamblers are ready to get fleeced. Digital currency may very well be the alternative du jour for the failed fiat experiment, but they will not be of any value when the experiment is over. Have fun with your tulip bulbs, suckers.
BTFATH
Workin' in a CUDA mine, going down down, workin' in a CUDA mine whoop about to slip down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms79633njIg
CUDA is Nvidia technology, Bitcoin and other crypto currencies have traditionally been mined on AMD hardware.
Yeah but the AMD's run hotter and take more juice. It's all a trade off.
I'm as bullish on Bitcoin as when I first got into it at $16. Retards still do not understand it, they don't understand the fundamentals. All they can do is come up with increasingly stupid arguments as to why Bitcoin should not be doing what it is clearly doing (puncturing the fiat bubble).
Stupid arguments? So you don't think this is hot money, either from Wall St. or being laundered out of China? You also don't think this is a speculation phase, fueled by all the media attention in recent weeks?
Bottom of a technological adoption curve.
If it is not a bubble and if it doesn't fall to Earth in short order, who knows how far out into orbit this S curve is going to reach.
I bought a few BTC recently only because I don't think we're nearly close to the point of irrational exhuberance. I do not think the cryptocurrencies will survive (at least not these) but I do think that their valuations will become .com-ish before this thing is over.
Some have claimed that it may have already peaked but we have not gotten anywhere near the mania stage. When everyone, including the guy behind the deli counter, is telling me how much they are making in BTC, then it will be time to hit the exits.
Most people haven't even heard of it and many who have, don't know what it is or how to purchase. Once the price gets to $5,000-$10,000, driven by the Chinese (they love this shit), the headlines on the financial news programs and newspapers will drive the next and perhaps final leg before a crash.
What it does after that point, I have no thought on but unless BTC is widely accepted as a means of exchange and with no .gov interference, I don't see it lasting much beyond that.
But in the meantime, I do regret not getting in much sooner. I, like many, enjoy a bit of gambling.
"...but unless BTC is widely accepted as a means of exchange and with no .gov interference..."
It already has and adoption continues! One can now pay their invoice from eBay or Amazon with BTC through at least one intermediary payment processor for instance. More employers are now paying staff in BTC. I can walk two blocks and see people buying breakfast with BTC in my town.
So what if it is ? Nothing wrong with riding a bubble if you got in right. Bitcoin does have some long term potential just because the current monetary system is imploding in on itself.
No I do not. As a matter of fact, we have not even got to the best part of the show. As Bitcoin spreads through China and gains popularity, the price is going to absolutely explode and make the current rally look a small pitance.
So going up 5x in two months or so is NOT EXPLODING, in your opinion? Thanks for the humor.
This is not some stock you are watching. This is an epochal change that we will not likely see again in our lifetimes, the death of one form of currency and the birth of another.
THIS TIME IT'S DIFFERENT
So I do have a question....... What are using your bitcoins for? Food? Water? Shelter? Are you being paid in Bitcoins for exchange of some production? If not then isn't bitcoin just another trading card like any equity stock? Your buying low (or BTATFH) hoping to sell high and exchange your bitcoins for more fiat currency than you bought them for....
Just sayin......
Noel
Hey, fonestar, I'm curious as to something. I don't use Bitcoin, so I don't know a lot about how it behaves. Does the price of things in Bitcoin drop comensurate with the rise in Bitcoin vs. the USD? So, for example, if Bitcoin doubled against the USD tomorrow, would the cost of things in Bitcoin drop by half?
It should, if Bitcoin is actually functioning as a currency. The next question is, assuming it does, does the adjustment of the price of goods in Bitcoins happen at the same speed with which Bitcoin changes against the USD? Or is it somewhat sticky?
FortKnoxCoin - You open your wallet and it's empty.
nope-1004
Your gut feeling is my gut feeling...
And to add to that -
I would love to put my faith and trust in a guy like Max Keiser turning the corner -but lets remember where he came from.
nope-1004 et al, It's apparent many on this board didn't watch the congressional hearings on BTC. If you did, you would be singing a different tune. Did some of you know that wealthy families are selling a portion of their gold to buy BTC/LTC? And if you did watch the hearings you would know that central banks didn't create this. Can't say the same for the CIA but they have different interests than Congress who seems hell bent on destroying the currency.
If gov's are going to control everything on the face of the planet, evolution itself (whatever it is) will intercede. Do not participate at your own peril. A storm is 'a coming.
Another thing that bothers me is Satoshi Nakamoto. Who/what is he? If bitcoin is 'the people's money', why is the founder/creater cloaked in secrecy? Secrecy and hierarchical systems are often associated with control mechanisms.
My sentiments exactly. It's most likely a diversion created to steer the sheeple away from real money. Then, if/when needed they will shut it down and steer the sheeple to something else.
Or, that the govvy does not want YOU to have.
And I'm willing to bet he's unloading his bitcoins to the suckers and trading them for Caribbean islands, sports cars, and hookers.
that's what I'd be doing! lol I'd trade my Bitcoins in for real phyzz silver and gold and use some leftovers as Bitchcoins for the bitchez, bitchez! lol
I swapped 200 BTC for gold and silver two years ago. How well do you think that went for me?
Depends...as of today, not so good. 5 years from now, who knows.
Then again, we can all be dead 5 seconds from now. Gamma ray bursts are scary.
Putting on my best Dave Chapelle voice... "I'm Rich, Bitch!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBgIlaTC0vo
It's exponential price increases like these that attract attention from Il Douche. Investment? Or asset? Hmmm.... At any rate, the price action is crazy and this could go up another 10,000%, or fall like a rock.
Will be interesting to watch. Not my kinda secure asset to hold though, especially since it really doesn't exist in physical form, much like the existing financial system that teeters on the brink of catastrophe.
MBS and CDS's had mortgages behind them, and look how that turned out. What's behind this thing?
Much like your analogy of MBS/CDO's, there were assets backing them, they were just over-inflated in value (driven by speculative interest). But I'm sure no one would be able to inflate the vaule of a BitCoin..........
We can see how smart it was for the Fed to allow you to continue to hold some amount of paper dollars. I guess in your mind this makes the dollar "real" and Bitcoin "not real".
Suckers.
It'll rally till gold breaks below $1000/oz. or they can't find anymore gold to short.
@ EscapeKey
...
Has devalued thousands of percentage points against BTC: Check
Damn it, they're not rocks, they're minerals!
Diamonds are considered rocks, right ?
Forgot one: Is susceptible to EMP.
My guess is none of your brains are susceptible to EMP. You are safe.
You are correct. if an EMP hits us, my 30 bitcoins are screwed.
Of course, if an EMP hits us, 90% of us will be dead. I will just come over and take your silver and gold out of your dead hands. And then i will die, because you cannot eat that shit either.
The EMP, power goes out, argument is a BS argument.
The wallet that I have stored in the EMP proof box will survive.
And EMP will not affect the entire world. Even a CME will not affect the entire world.
Please, if you don't like Bitcoin thats fine. What is not fine is spouting stupid crap that makes no sense.
If you havent taken a few bitcoin and tripled your money over the past month, pulled it out and left the profits to go...well then, you have a right to be jealous. But you don't have a right to try to piss into my punch bowl with your weak arguments.
EMP is probably one of the most over-hyped bunch Internet tinfoil hat bs that has ever come along.
Queue up the sad panda parade! SD, your lead float is ready....
so if that fucker gets runover, the pipedream ends?
I just BTATFH in Bitcoin!
Just go to Litecoin.org and look at the side bar fonz. BTC-e is the predominant exchange but not sure about getting USD to them. If you use BTC it's easy, get an account, fund account with BTC and then buy LTC on the exchange. It's much easier to play with Litecoin if one has Bitcoin, takes a lot of the hassle out of it. Good luck.
Thanks man. From what I see it is hard to get USD to them without paying a massive premium.....and I thought the 20% premium on ASE's were high....
Wow, yeah, that sounds completely trustworthy to me. One guy writing C++ that probably isn't open source, and even if it was, how can you verify that the public code is the production code?
that site (mxcnow.com) is shutting down
That is mildly concerning
I have bitcoins, litecoins & other cryptocurrencies for sale for 10% under spot at all times.
No worries about losses, because I'm a member of the FCIC (Federation of Cryptocurrencies Insurance Corporation), bitchez.
So what you're saying is that uninsured miners and coinholders with over 100BTC in their accounts may be subject up to a 60% bail-in?
One of the problems with fiat is redemption. This is no different.
Shutting down!?!? Pffffttt minor inconvenience. More dope motherfucka!!!!!!
mxcnow....
catchy name he?
@ fonestar
The guy who ran that thing has a history of scammery, it just turned into the MF Global of Cryptocoins this week FFS.
I heard that.
And this is the place you bought your Bitcoins?
WTF? Am I missing something here?
fonestar, how many times throughout the day would you say you do the money dance?
I bought 100 litecoins from from mcxnow 2 week ago as speculation after reading some comments about it here.
I just went on the website and guess what I see,
"All trading stopped. Please withdraw your coins before 20th December 2013. "
Well, anything preventing you from withdrawing yer coinz?
Now that I have some non-trivial BTC to play with, I would like to ask fellow ZH playgrounders to recommend good sites to spend them at. Especially re PMs. Or software that I might need, etc.
Fellow BTC travellers are welcome to comment at my blog (you can delete the comment right after and it goes to my email, but I still get the message even when you delete the message). Commenting with a Google account (gmail) is much easier.
Even safer is picking an OLD POST of mine there and then doing the "comment and delete", I still get the message. Still concerned? Make up a throwaway gmail or use ONLY for emailing me, then you do not have to worry...
Dochen why can't you just cash them out and buy PM's with them and laugh at the sun at the insanity of it all?
It needs to be complex to be cool :)
I don't want to do that just yet, fonz. Cashing them in would probably require payment to me by wire transfer, which I do not want to do. Besides I am still learning about BTC.
Yes, I would like to buy some PMs at some point.
Amagi Metals is what you are looking for, DoChen. I've heard good things about goldsilverbitcoin.com, but no personal experience.
Thanks, I'll look into them.
That's what I would do if I had any BTC. I looked into that whole deal back when BTW were like $4. I coulda had 20 oz. of Au for $100. :-(
At any rate, when Kitco or Apmex start accepting BTC for PMs, you better buy with both hands.
How about, fuck you and your blog?
Over.
Fight Club is nothing without its community. WTF? Jokes, namecalling, everything goes, but just being plain hateful?
I said 'How about' bro. It was a question...
I got lots of questions. I'm trying to get Hedgucated.
And with my Hedgucation I can BUY, BUY! Financial products, and fin-scams and some such other things but I'm not hedgumecated enough to tell you, YET!
Over.
Hey there, Capt. Downvote! Can you figure out that no one agrees with your brainless posts?
You're over
Herd Redirection-Committee
Speaking of "Fight Club"
Amusing to say the least. Tyler may have to change the whole theme of the site now. /sarc
http://xrepublic.tv/node/6387
Why do you say that?
What do you do that is so much better?
I respect him for the stuff he's willing to share and how he dares to humbly say his opion.
And if you don't agree, just keep it to yourself than.
No need to insult anybody.
He contributes virtually nothing to the conversation.
Like that has ever really been a requirement of posting on the hedge.
This has been the only feature of Bitcoin that has bugged me: Actual usability.
If you can figure out websites that actually take the stuff, I might consider getting my feet wet. Then again, it's now worth more than I care to spend on something I can forget the password to...
I'll BTFD when it crashes in...6 months? A year? It will re-valuate at some point.
WordPress supposedly takes it. AFAIK you could sign up for the next 5 years, and prepay right now using BTC.
It's like a 401K in that regard--you're just supposed to put money *INTO* one, receiving value in the future is purely theoretical in nature. I read discussions on other boards all the time--"in good times and bad, I just add to my 401K no matter what." So what's the exit strategy there genius?
http://www.coindesk.com/target-americas-third-largest-retailer-accepts-b...
now if only Target would sell phyzz silver and gold bullion, which for me is the only worthwhile thing to trade a bitcoin in for. I hope the people who got in early and are suddenly in a much higher tax bracket are using their "winnings" to scoop up the real deal, phyzz silver and gold.
Happy Thanksgiving to all and may your turkeys be tasty tomorrow. Oh yeah...BTFD, bitchez! Silver is on SALE! ;-)
Amagi Metals
I've done business with them many times and have nothing but good things to say
LOL !!!
Not worthless if I can still wipe my ass with it. Can't do that with wothless BitCoins
If you missed the boat on bitcoin, I can get you a great deal on buttcoin. It's a new digital currency that I just pulled out of my -- OK never mind where it came from, but it will be up 10x by next week. How many you want?
www.invisicoin.com
priceless.................
~~~
I was thinking about launching something like: WWW. YOURMONEYINTHECLOUD.COM
cool he?
Once I paid that 50$ hosting and get a few pics on it, I'll sell about a million.... euh.... BUBACOINS
only a million!! I PROMISE!!!
So that means they'll easy go to 7000 dollars per coin FAST as there are 7 billion people on this planet and only a million BUBACOINS!!
and after that I'm starting a second site where you can use those bubacoins to buy stuff!!!!
WWW.WESELLCLOUDS.COM
gonna buy me a bit of silver coins this weekend muthafucka
So dead on--when TARP came out, some guy put up a website called "Buy my shitpile" or something like that.
It's tracking the loss of faith in the entire system. The irony is that if the system that Bitcoin is fighting against loses, Bitcoin disappears too.
Bitcoin is walking a fine line between degrees of change that it is able to exist under. The best way to play Bitcoin is to establish a Bitcoin income stream, and then buy PM's with that income. Play the strengths of both until Bitcoin fails. (and if it doesn't fail, you are covered there as well.)
WIth the amount of fiat units floating around out there and only 12 million BTC mined, a lot of those lost forever or being hoarded, if just a small fraction of the money looking for somewhere to go right now floods into BTC, the numbers could get staggering
What exactly do you propose has happened these last 3 weeks? It has been absolutely manic.
The time to get in was 3 weeks to years ago, not now. Think of if just a fraction of that money looks for SOMEWHERE ELSE to go, i.e. it is being used to launder funds across borders? Then it will not be staying in BTC forever, will it?
You aint seen nut'n yet ............... just wait
There are people all over the planet still waiting to have accounts verified and account credited with funds to get into this thing. Most of the exchanges are backlogged with new prospective clients. Institutional money, aside from SecondMarket, Exante, etc., are just starting to sniff around. You ain't seen nut'n yet is right.
It took mtgox over 3 weeks to reply to my account verification request recently.
Oh, why Mt Gox? They sell BTC at the highest prices, and you cannot easily get your money out. Bad place to buy or sell.
Actually, due to awesome liquidity, it is a great place to trade BTC. If one wants to "cash-out" however, you are correct that it is not the place to do it. ;)
Cashing out is going to be the problem isn't it? Doesn't say much for your "awesome liquidity" argument (although I know you are talking about trading, not holding).
Good luck dude, sounds like you have a lottery ticket that needs cashing at some point.
Cashing-out is absolutely not a problem, GOX is not the place to do it, I think you're confusing what I said.
Reminds me of an old Eagles song...
"Bad place to buy or sell"?
How can you say that? I've watched the action there the past week or two. Its a fucking madhouse of trading that is pushing this thing higher.
http://fiatleak.com/
Looks like algos and HFT gone wild to me. Dominated by the Chinese (and US) trading (80-90%+ always). You guys love having it both way on this deal. Everyone wants BTC but don't use the big exchanges who are pushing it.
Comical.
Its all China, according to fiatleak. Watched for 60 seconds, all China.
That all depends on when you are watching it.
Drunk Chinese trade at night time, our day time. its all pretty globally confusing.
Just toss a few grand in the pot and what it go up, go down, grind, spring up, drop off...
Its like six flags for god's sake.
Haole any chance this ends up with a bout of massive inflation that holders of fiat currencies get crushed under?
Not sure I understand your question but haven't holders of Fiat already had their currency hyper-inflated against BTC? PMs have essentially been devalued by thousands of percent this year also. If it doesn't go to zero, this is just the beginning.
fonz, the overall USD market size of BTC is (# of BTC in existence)($1000/BTC). The inflationary effect BTC may/will have on fiat currencies is entirely underpinned by the market size, i.e. "can a BTC bank run bring down the entire global ponzi?"
Joe Average with an "iPhone that does facebook" surely will not be buying or selling thousand dollar virtual coins.
You mean this? http://shitco.in/2013/10/24/who-will-be-the-bagholders/
True, and how many people are waiting to get paid? How long are those waits? I've heard weeks already.
Hey I hear you guys. I think Meathammer had an interesting point below. Shouls be interesting to see where this all goes.
I'm pretty sure that it was the next level of the Ponzi was reached. They're still vacuuming up suckers, plenty of time to get in!
This can stop it
Europe’s primary bitcoin payment processor for merchants and free online wallet service, BIPS, was the target of a major DDoS attack and subsequent theft in the past few days that saw 1,295 BTC (just over $1m on CoinDesk’s BPI) stolen.
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-payment-processor-bips-attacked-1m-stolen/
Nah, nobody gives a toss, just like nobody cares if you lose your real wallet.
Be wary of hot wallets and online wallet services. Honestly, I think the lack of a decent wallet is the biggest drawback to bitcoin right now, from a useability standpoint.
Homelessness can be fun.
Has anyone tried to buy a bitcoin in the US? Try wiring money to one of these exchanges. Either it is blocked or they stall ten days or more to receive the money or a site will offer a bitcoin (CoinMAMA) for a 50% markup and then not have any in stock. Now, if you are anywhere other than the US it is as easy as it gets. There is clear manipulation of the process here in the US to be part of this.
I can't understand why the FED (SWIFT) would try to slow and stop such a great idea that makes the transference of money so easy and inexpensive. /sarc
Wait until the day this market takes a huge dump. Oh one more thing, the authorities will show up at your door accusing you of drug running through the Silk Road site even though you never got near the trade.
Yes, all the major exchanges are not located on U.S. soil, for good reason. Coinbase.com is like a Bitcoin store (not an exchange). They are located in the U.S. with money transmitter licenses in 50 states. Also, the old stand-by: localbitcoins.com if you can find a seller without an outlandish premium.
It would be easier to just start selling pot in Colorado or run cigarettes from the Carolinas up to New York.
Lack of power can.
I would not be surprised at all.
-> Bitcoin: 1.3 mln per year
-> Gold: 80 mln ounces per year
Mining contest.
BITCOIN RISE TO DEAD END?
http://www.offgridminds.com/misinformation-blog/2013/12/1/bitcoin-rise-t...
That's brutal! Litecoin reached parity with silver today, but what's Litecoin's utility?
You can buy lindendollar with them which you can than use to buy bitcoins. And you just save the bitcoins untill they go to a million and than you go to your favorite game and buy a horse with rocketboosters to fight the WoTangClan who have laserguided owls and if you win you can go to the next level.
+1 for "laserguided owls". On that note, you can always redeem your bitcoins for AK-47s and meth-making hardware. Make sure you select the "pick up" option, UPS isn't keen on shipping stuff like that. You might have to travel to the Dushanbe Road, a few dozen miles up the Toogooskan Valley there is a low-hutted village, ask the red-turbaned gent with the frosted eye that you want to buy a blind camel, he will take you into the wilderness to a yurt village where there is internet, enter your encryption key in mandarin ASCII on the Commodore, then log in to Red Hat on your batwatch, do a pirouette, call for the Invisible Swordsman, etc.
@Sudden Debt
You write some funny fuckin' shit on here man! lol
Sudden Debt,
You made me LOL with that post!
Cheers, mate.
That's what I wonder. I don't see people actually buying stuff with it.
Not even a footlong at subway?!
And what about that Polish dentist? Does he accept them or does he only work for bitcoins?
Yoy can buy Dubble Bubble with BTC and LTC.
Interesting... but will they pop?
He does the dental work for free, you just have to suck some whipped cream through a garden hose in the alley while blindfolded.
If I buy litecoin at $25 and sell it at $50 and take those proceeds and buy silver with it, that's fine with me.
I am sure Max Kaiser is telling everyone to do that, right?