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Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 33757. (Read 26713551 times)

legendary
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On a personal drama note, I tried to ride the wave of dumps by short selling BTC and instead ended up having to buy back at same price while losing a coin in fees. Bummer.

LOL I thought I was the only one bad at these things. Tongue Well actually I've made a 0.011 BTC net profit from this sell off.. but still I feel like an amateur at this. Sad
legendary
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Antifragile
It's really not the Coinlab lawsuit. For that to be the case, Mt. Gox would have had to have:

1. Been served;
2. Replied to the complaint (If you don't reply to the complaint before the deadline you'll lose automatically when Plaintiff files a motion for default judgment, nothing happens until you reply); and
3. Coinlab's attorneys would have to have made an ex parte motion for an injunction (if it was a motion on notice it would be scheduled weeks in advance), and won.

Furthermore, I highly doubt DHS would be serving an injunction in a civil action.

You could see huge news about Gox's US operations being targeted by a DOJ complaint this week.

But something doesn't make sense. FinCen isn't going after BTC, nor is any other government agency. Why now the DHS? The take down sports web sites! Just what Hitler envisioned they would do. LOL
legendary
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Antifragile
Looks to be stabilizing.

Just before the next dive.

Can you at least speak in facts? We are witnessing bad news just get eaten up by buys. Amazing, and that is all you can say?

How about we just try to be realists and not Bulls or Bears? This is interesting lab work right now.  Wink
sr. member
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Back to where we were 24 hours ago.

*yawn*

legendary
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The train is leaving guys. Next stop: Zerooooooo!

LMAO... this is a proudhon wannabe! :

Amidoingitrite?  Grin

Worst Proudhon ever. No Lama, no bold predictions of steel with bitcoin bets , not enough emphasis on single digits.... I want my money back.
member
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It's really not the Coinlab lawsuit. For that to be the case, Mt. Gox would have had to have:

1. Been served;
2. Replied to the complaint (If you don't reply to the complaint before the deadline you'll lose automatically when Plaintiff files a motion for default judgment, nothing happens until you reply); and
3. Coinlab's attorneys would have to have made an ex parte motion for an injunction (if it was a motion on notice it would be scheduled weeks in advance), and won.

Furthermore, I highly doubt DHS would be serving an injunction in a civil action.

You could see huge news about Gox's US operations being targeted by a DOJ complaint this week.
member
Activity: 224
Merit: 10
Wow, the buying is just relentless. The interest is much higher than I would have thought. There is true demand at these levels.

What if people who have fiat on Mt.Gox are buying coins to sell them at another exchange?
sr. member
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Merit: 250
The train is leaving guys. Next stop: Zerooooooo!

LMAO... this is a proudhon wannabe! :

Amidoingitrite?  Grin
newbie
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Merit: 0
A more distributed exchange system would definitely help in the long run and contribute signifigantly to the stability of bitcoin..
however now i think a fair share of mtgoxs volume will get distributed to other exchanges even though they are shit..

The end of the MT Gox monopoly would be a great win-fall for bitcoin IMO
hero member
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Merit: 500
Interesting battle ahead.

The Dwolla/DHS news is still not on any major news site. It is likely to be a big hit on tomorrow's news channels.
The Google Ventures news is also fresh although it applies to OpenCoin not much bitcoin.

Meanwhile on Gox: bottom catchers saw chances for cheap coins and are keeping the price above 115 right now.
We'll see soon if and how much the market cares about the Dwolla news...

On a personal drama note, I tried to ride the wave of dumps by short selling BTC and instead ended up having to buy back at same price while losing a coin in fees. Bummer.
sr. member
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legendary
Activity: 1442
Merit: 1000
Antifragile
Wow, the buying is just relentless. The interest is much higher than I would have thought. There is true demand at these levels.
legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1002
some bears are going to get burned ...severley  

The odd thing is, if you think MtGox is about to get owned by the US Govt, you need to BUY bitcoins and move them off the exchange.

This was my thought too.  This also leads to the theory that it's really just a couple guys trying to manipulate and buy back more coinage then they started with.

well lets wait how this ones playing out... I am holding this one for now

MtGox is a cancer on the Bitcoin ecosystem, it would be great long term news if people left there in droves. Like I said, buy bitcoins, move them off the site if you're actually scared. The last thing I'd go is have them wire me money, DHS could have told every bank in the US to freeze any incoming wires from them.

This all still seems a little iffy. I'm surprised Dwolla would mention lawsuits no one can find record of, and MtGox would have no idea (they still list Dwolla as a withdrawal method). Seems like poor taste by Dwolla (who's CEO has blogged his support of Bitcoin) to say it's now "illegal to deal with MtGox". A lawsuit doesn't make it illegal, the DHS orders if they exist also sound questionable. If it's not a hoax it's a poorly worded notification from Dwolla.

Regardless if MtGox worries you, move *coins* off the exchange, not fiat.

This is a dramatic development to say the least. My first thought is that it is due to the Coinbase lawsuit against GOX. Is this a move by the DOJ due to the court case, or is this a move by Homeland Security in relation to a money laundering investigation? Wow. I hope its due to the lawsuit. I am very glad I trade with CampBX. This could actually be great news if it is due to the lawsuit, as MT Gox having a monopoly over the bitcoin market is detrimental to bitcoins core philosophy of decentralization.

If you haven't yet, US residents should consider opening a CampBX account and transfer out of MT Gox. If you wish you can use my referral link to get a 10% lifetime discount of trading fees (disclosure: I get a 10% discount as well): https://CampBX.com/register.php?r=X8IT0iRWMOA

Coinbase != Coinlab
sr. member
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Looks to be stabilizing.

legendary
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copper member
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The train is leaving guys. Next stop: Zerooooooo!

LMAO... this is a proudhon wannabe! :
sr. member
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CampBX
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In the interest of competition, I can't endorse CampBX any longer. Even at their super low trade volumes, they have issues with lag and page loads.

I personally recommend BTC-e for the moment. Decent liquidity for us small fish (100 BTC accounts and under), and zero issue with lag.
legendary
Activity: 2156
Merit: 1018
Buzz App - Spin wheel, farm rewards
At least it's not boring any more!

+1 for sure man, good to see some movement in any direction.

I almost took up pottery.
full member
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A more distributed exchange system would definitely help in the long run and contribute signifigantly to the stability of bitcoin..
however now i think a fair share of mtgoxs volume will get distributed to other exchanges even though they are shit..
member
Activity: 112
Merit: 10
Isn't the one minute bar chart kind of starting to look like a miniature scale of the one day bar chart? Probably seeing things. . it no longer looks much like it, for it is even more bullish.
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