This (Circle) will have taken at least 12 months (two years, more?) to plan and bring to fruition, so they couldn't have expected to open in such a bearish period. Will their presence increase demand?
It's unlikely IMO, sentiment is going to take a long time to turn around from Gox (which everyone here seems to have forgotten).
So your argument is sentiment will take a long time to change for the great unwashed because of gox, and your closing statement is that we, those most affected by it, have already forgotten gox. Erm.
Yes, absolutely. Why is this so contradictory?
Users of this forum had no sympathy for those who suffered huge Gox loses (the general attitude was "we knew better, serves you right") and the idea that Gox may have impacted on the 'unwashed' does seem to have completely been forgotten by most here. Most people I talk to still say something along the lines of "BTC, that thing where the exchange stole everyones money".
You are a pom I'm guessing -- how many people were rushing to invest in RBS after it went tits up?
Most here are too arrogant and up themselves to consider the harm Mark did to BTC, they are too busy congratulating themselves on how smart they are (cf Podyx's asinine comment above).
Sorry entirely missed this as the thread jumped to the next page.
My comment was flippant and pretty obviously made in jest. You are right that a 400million dollar fraud may well be the only thing the general public remember about bitcoin, but the collective masses do have a short memory, they weren't burned after all. I don't think people think bitcoin itself failed though, especially with all press in MSM since (PayPal etc), if that is what your RBS (boo) comment is alluding to.
MK is to put it bluntly a fucking cunt. No two ways about it.