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with his identity revealed, chance of a 'dump' or sell for money to assume a new life increased.  so I guess the fall is 'justified'
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poor fella...
"there were reportedly journalists camped out in front of Nakamoto’s Southern California home"
http://rt.com/usa/satoshi-nakamoto-bitcoin-newsweek-250/
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Back on topic.

When will Satoshi crash the market, and should I place my bids in the double or single digit range?
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All Jorge's comment on the accounting practices of current exchanges does is prove that the first exchange with proper financial reporting and third party audits will be flocked to, due to sheep like trust, lol
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I don´ t want that the craptofuck revolution has been hijacked and sold out by criminals and mercenaries to the status quo.... :-))

our beloved Sathosi couldn´t stand it as well..

but thats what happened....hide women and kids...GTFO....until remember remeber the 5 th of November Wink
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I give up.  We are not writing in the same language.

I know the feeling. Wink

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I see.  For you "audit" means a statement by the company that they have done an audit and everything was OK.   So it was only a misunderstanding on the meaning of that word, sorry.

The audit was by a 3rd party who look to be the backing company/investors.
I suggest you read the posts you link to.

The statement from the auditing company can be found here :

https://www.bitstamp.net/s/documents/Firestartr_DD_Letter_for_Bitstamp.pdf

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You can of course call into question the integrity of the Auditor.

I give up.  We are not writing in the same language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_statement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_statement#Audit_and_legal_implications
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You know it wasn't.  The cognitive dissonance on display here is astounding.

I immediately threw up two links - which you yourself could and should have known about that clearly demonstrated at least two "exchanges volunteering to give a rough idea of their financial position."

So.  No.  It wasn't factually correct.

It was presented as so.  

Cognitive dissonance is quite an euphemism.

One of those links (Coinbase) did not give that information.

The other one is a new exchange that is not even listed in the usual chart services.

(MtGOX too used to show balance sheets, IIRC the last one was in mid-2012.)

But again, before we continue this fruitless debate, can you explain what is your real point?  Do you have any connection to any of those exchanges?

Forgive me if my point was unclear. Smiley

I was asking you to be more intellectually honest.  I was observing that people who claim to be serious academics should either a) refrain from deliberately making factually incorrect assertions or b) make it clear when they are merely proffering unresearched opinion or comment.  I guess a third option would be to honestly disclose their bias and/or agenda so that readers can take it into account.

Saying things that aren't true is one thing but dodging, shifting and trying to misdirect when you're called on their inaccuracy demonstrates, to me at least, a clear bias.


P.S. No, I don't have any connections to any exchanges other than usage and perhaps indirectly knowing some of the people involved in their management as many here do also.
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You know it wasn't.  The cognitive dissonance on display here is astounding.

I immediately threw up two links - which you yourself could and should have known about that clearly demonstrated at least two "exchanges volunteering to give a rough idea of their financial position."

So.  No.  It wasn't factually correct.

It was presented as so.  

Cognitive dissonance is quite an euphemism.

One of those links (Coinbase) did not give that information.

The other one is a new exchange that is not even listed in the usual chart services.

(MtGOX too used to show balance sheets, IIRC the last one was in mid-2012.)

But again, before we continue this fruitless debate, can you explain what is your real point?  Do you have any connection to any of those exchanges?

yeah and if they were robbed in Feb 2014 you can see how those two points in time are un-related in the sense of auditing quality.

let's just let the bankruptcy proceedings play out, unless it was Fud the Japanese gov. said no creditor was ahead of another in the gox repayment process.

Jorge your feverish attack on this audit process, again has nothing to do with bitcoin, it is the same type of person who could swindle with gold, cash, commodities and sheer lies that use tactics like lying and stealing, bitcoin just allows us a better method of auditing via the blockchain, no creative accounting likes of which the Corporate world survive on.

It pains me to admit that bitcoin can't make people more ethical, altruistic or trustworthy. These are things that each person develops or doesn't on their own in society.
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You know it wasn't.  The cognitive dissonance on display here is astounding.

I immediately threw up two links - which you yourself could and should have known about that clearly demonstrated at least two "exchanges volunteering to give a rough idea of their financial position."

So.  No.  It wasn't factually correct.

It was presented as so.  

Cognitive dissonance is quite an euphemism.

One of those links (Coinbase) did not give that information.

The other one is a new exchange that is not even listed in the usual chart services.

(MtGOX too used to show balance sheets, IIRC the last one was in mid-2012.)

But again, before we continue this fruitless debate, can you explain what is your real point?  Do you have any connection to any of those exchanges?
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I love how everyone is double-spacing after their periods now.  Its like a blast from the past.

You're pretty unlikely to find anything where I don't do that.  Old habits die hard and, as many here have pointed out, if you learned to type when typewriters and word processors were still a thing, it's pretty standard behaviour. Tongue

I did, as I commented earlier. I actually can remember back to a time when I was debating whether to use single or double spaces in a report and then someone telling me that you don't need to double space anymore. Not sure of the exact date or other details surrounding that though. I haven't been using double space since that time.
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OK, so enlighten me: how many BTC does Bitstamp own, and how many does it owe its clients (i.e. what is the sum of the BTC balances of their clients' accounts)?  Ditto for BTC-e and Bitfinex.

Don't know, if posted already:

https://www.bitstamp.net/article/statemen-regarding-recent-third-party-audit-report/

I see.  For you "audit" means a statement by the company that they have done an audit and everything was OK.   So it was only a misunderstanding on the meaning of that word, sorry.
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Definitely not! I'm dissapointed by this statement.
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OK, so enlighten me: how many BTC does Bitstamp own, and how many does it owe its clients (i.e. what is the sum of the BTC balances of their clients' accounts)?  Ditto for BTC-e and Bitfinex.

Don't know, if posted already:

https://www.bitstamp.net/article/statemen-regarding-recent-third-party-audit-report/

I see.  For you "audit" means a statement by the company that they have done an audit and everything was OK.   So it was only a misunderstanding on the meaning of that word, sorry.
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Even though they do NOT provide a number, it is quite amazing if any exchanges are holding, in trust between 1 and 2 million bitcoins....
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OK, so enlighten me: how many BTC does Bitstamp own, and how many does it owe its clients (i.e. what is the sum of the BTC balances of their clients' accounts)?  Ditto for BTC-e and Bitfinex.

Don't know, if posted already:

https://www.bitstamp.net/article/statemen-regarding-recent-third-party-audit-report/

I see.  For you "audit" means a statement by the company that they have done an audit and everything was OK.   So it was only a misunderstanding on the meaning of that word, sorry.

The audit was by a 3rd party who look to be the backing company/investors.
I suggest you read the posts you link to.

The statement from the auditing company can be found here :

https://www.bitstamp.net/s/documents/Firestartr_DD_Letter_for_Bitstamp.pdf

The transaction in question is here :

https://blockchain.info/tx/1c12443203a48f42cdf7b1acee5b4b1c1fedc144cb909a3bf5edbffafb0cd204

The auditing company is as follows :

http://www.firestartr.co/

My source for this are as follows :

http://www.coindesk.com/bitstamp-audit-proves-behind-147m-mystery-bitcoin-wallet/
http://www.coindesk.com/194993-btc-transaction-147m-mystery-and-speculation/

You can of course call into question the integrity of the Auditor.
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why did they all knew of Mt. Gox being insolvent when the faked 2 bitidiot came out and made patently clear they of course are not Huh Wink

English please.

"Working on Bitcoin's core code is really scary, actually, because if you wreck something, you can break this huge $8 billion project," says Andresen. "And that's happened. We have broken it in the past."

Thanks for that, but I was wondering if someone could translate this: "why did they all knew of Mt. Gox being insolvent when the faked 2 bitidiot came out and made patently clear they of course are not Huh Wink" to English?

sometimes reading is not enough....to be really satisfied, you got to take the sentences read as a kernel for your own cascade of thoughts Wink

theretofore its productive in the first place to have more then one possibility when thrown in translation endeavours...
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Still not ready to do it, eh?

Up one level.  Are you trying to argue that there is no risk that other exchanges will go MtGOX's way?

No.  You've made that up entirely.  I'm not the one overstating his position here.  Tongue

Once more, for the cheap seats, you said "none of them have even tried to do anything about being transparent."

I'm having to paraphrase for risk of repeating it yet again.  I said, "BS - here's two that have."

Now you're trying to shift the argument to "So none of the others are at risk, then?"

Well, I'm not playing.  I can stick to what I've said all along - can you?
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why did they all knew of Mt. Gox being insolvent when the faked 2 bitidiot came out and made patently clear they of course are not Huh Wink

English please.

"Working on Bitcoin's core code is really scary, actually, because if you wreck something, you can break this huge $8 billion project," says Andresen. "And that's happened. We have broken it in the past."

Thanks for that, but I was wondering if someone could translate this: "why did they all knew of Mt. Gox being insolvent when the faked 2 bitidiot came out and made patently clear they of course are not Huh Wink" to English?
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Is Satoshi cashing out or not? Please advise  Undecided Undecided Undecided

Not yet, there is a planned number that's not yet reached...

Do you really think satoshi would have imagined that bitcoin would reach $1000 when he first started?
IF he had a planned number, im pretty sure we have already reached it.

Are you telling me that it even doesn't make sense to Satoshi that bitcoins price is this high? Smiley

Depends on your view. Do you really think that satoshi thought bitcoin would go to $1000 when he started at $0?



I think that Satoshi thought that bitcoin will go to $1000 and not stop there. I thing that Satoshi estimated bitcoin maximum final price to be either $160 000 (replacing annual VISA volume) or $330 000 (replacing gold) or $800 000 (replacing USA GNP). He did not estimate bitcoin to go over $4 500 000 (If all the world economy was converted to bitcoins.).


That would be totally amazing if bitcoin were to take over all of the world economy... and really that kind of scenario seems pretty highly unlikely... b/c there would seem to be some value in retaining some value in other asset classes.. besides bitcoin..






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