Yeah some people flipped out when their Bitcoins were being "converted" to CosbyCoins. There's people who think Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme right now, back in 2011 it was hard to generate any creditability. And when the main forum gets defaced with CosbyCoins it was sorta hard to take it seriously. Lots of hacks, lots of stolen coins, exchanges disappearing, bitcoin wallet sites getting hacked, MtGox getting hacked, lots and lots of bumps in the road.
But like this most recent DHS stuff, MtGox gets their shit in order, everyone else checks how they do business, things get more secure, Bitcoin keeps on keeping on.
Sorry to say this but I'm laughing so hard at this story
at least they had a sense of humour haha
but yeah... my new investment took a panic induced loss the other day when the dwolla news came out... sold and later had to rebuy asicminer shares at a much higher price.... was not great, (and I'm a massive idiot for doing it).
In retrospect thinking about the sentiment on this thread at the time, after about 3 hours of keeping calm and staying rational, I had enough and took the precautionary step of cashing out the shares and moving BTC (with upto 24 hours wait for move from cold storage) to my wallet... and I now realise I was heavily influenced by coinseekers desperately negative rhetoric, and frozenlock's desperate and glee filled desire to buy cheaper coins... even nearly missed the 0.035 BTC dividend!
We don't need Bitcoin, Bitcoin needs us and with Ripple, it's going to all be possible.
Coinseeker's presence here just came clear to me. He is a full time employee of Ripple...