To point out a few differences-
 distance, NSA, military.  all are MASSIVE economic drains.  Then there is scale. 5 mil people vs 300, or whatever the case may be.

My maximum is zero percent. It's my money. If I am forced to be charitable, it's not really charity, is it? How much freedom would you be willing to give up for freedom? Your question makes no sense.

Chinese Slumber Method prediction for Tuesday Mar/11

Two predictions for today:

Predictions valid for: Tuesday 2014-03-11, 19:00--19:59 UTC (not before, not after)

Huobi's predicted price for bulls: 4073 CNY.
Bitstamp's predicted price for bulls: 679 USD.

Huobi's predicted price for bears: 3597 CNY.
Bitstamp's predicted price for bears: 600 USD.

Huobi

The red and green strokes are actual Huobi hourly prices.  The current predictions are the rightmost magenta squares.  The blue square is the last prediction (see below), and the light blue-gray squares are the previous ones.  The orange and grey dots are the Slumber Points, the mean Huobi prices at 19:00 UTC every day.  Each point is a Glyptodon if the hourly volume V_h for 19:00--19:59 UTC is less than 0.005 times the daily volume V_d 00:00--23:59 UTC; and is an Albertosaurus otherwise. The grey lines are trends fitted a posteriori to the Glyptodon Points. The orange lines are the trends that were assumed for the predictions. The Germanodactyl and Ophtalmosaurus indicate which direction is up and which is down, respectively.

By the arbitrary criterion I have been using, today was defintely an Albertosaurus (V_h/V_d = 682/95100 = 0.00717 > 0.005).  However, volume in the preceding hour 18:00--18:59 (02:00--02:59) was only 274 BTC, so it should have been a Glyptodon.

Anyway, since by the rules today's point is not a valid datum, we again have no clear trend.  In order to fill what would otherwise be a huge blank space on the forum's page, I considered two straight-line trends p(d) = A+B*(d-d0), where d is the day of the month: the least-squares line fitted to the last five Glyptodons (Mar/04--06,08--09; A = 4022.56, B = -60.63, d0 = 4), and the traight line through the last two (Mar/08--09; A = 3668, B = +135, d0 = .

Bitstamp

The red and green strokes are actual Bitstamp hourly prices.  The dots, dinosaurs, mammals, lines, and magenta squares are Huobi's Slumber Points, dinosaurs, mammals, trends, and new predictions, scaled by the currency conversion factor R (6.40 for Feb/07--09, 6.00 since Mar/04, and 6.12 for all other dates).

Checking the previous prediction

Since today was an Albertosaurus, the prediction is officially void.  But, just for the curious:

Prediction was posted on: Monday 2014-03-10, 01:47 UTC
Prediction was valid for: Monday 2014-03-10, 19:00--19:59 UTC

Huobi's predicted price: 3938 CNY
Huobi's actual price (L+H)/2: 3784 CNY
Error: 154 CNY (~26 USD)

Bitstamp's predicted price: 656 USD
Bitstamp's actual price (L+H)/2: 619 USD
Error: 37 USD

NOTE: These predictions are guaranteed to be correct only in some parallel universes.  Be sure you choose the right one.

Geo-political tensions , makes Gold a safe haven. And Bitcoin is Gold 2.0
I didn't suggest Ukraine or Russia buying, rather current participants converting their fiat, just like what happened with Cyprus situation.


http://www.kitco.com/news/2014-03-14/Ukrainian-Tensions-Technical-Buying-Propel-Gold-To-6-Month-High.html

now according to my sources, we'll be at $700-760 in 2-3 days

The lull is because the big money is not using the exchanges you are keeping track of.

Let me rephrase that: when's the last time I heard that. 

Two possible reasons:
- manipulation - someone wants price to go down (how succesfull will be seen after he will buy back);
- something is wrong - means someone knows something.

We are gonna die! Why is still dropping?

I succelfully got my BTC out of stamp. No problems at all...
Now I will need to send it back If I want do dump  

Damn, I was just about to panic sell but by the time I got my 2 BTC out of cold storage, the price recovered 

DO NOT take any advice from anybody here! Don't ever ask other people here what to do with your money! I know you see all these lines and charts and mainly bears who act like they know it all but i can guarantee you that not a single person here knows where Bitcoin will go. Every bear here will tell you we will see 100% sure 500 again. That's because they're sad little creatures who do nothing but lie and manipulate because they want the price to go down.
The bulls obviously want the price to go up but will be a bit more modest and say we'll likely won't see 500 again. Either way any info you'll get is coloured and worthless.
The fact that you want to invest in Bitcoin means you believe it will be worth more in the future. If you do then you should buy. 500 or 560 is meaningless in the long run if this thing takes off. If you don't think it will take off then don't. Waiting is kinda pointless because again nobody knows what it will do.

 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=723392.0

Interesting. Stamp using two banks now. Based on post #8, the former bank, unicredit, may have stopped taking deposits. This partially explains why total bid sum is recovering slower than in the past. I.e., no new deposits and some traders withdrawing from unicredit while they still can.

Looks like unicredit wants to end its relationship with Stamp. How long will the new banking relationship with Raiffeisen last?

Get your fiat out while you still can.

As far as I know they are registered in the UK and are operating out of Slovenia (which is less eastern and more southern from my point of view;).
My personal guess is btw that unicredit, well...just was unicredit, they lost already a bunch of customers (including myself and some friends company accounts) due to a wonderful combination of arrogance and incompetence and high fees.

Wouldn't that create higher demand lower supply?  Similar to the prohibition?  Sure, less flow but those wanting coins will have less options.

RBI? Prohibition? Fiat withdrawals will stop? What in the hell are we talking about here? I've skimmed the thread a bit and seemed to have missed this....

Bitcoin hates us 

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That's everything I've found   Consider your decision.

theres very little time left.

Nothing better than traders losing money.

I'm thinking maybe a lot of people believe we hit bottom, and are looking for entry.


Or maybe all the major news over the past 6 months, not priced in yet.

The big difference is you can actually buy about the same amount of of stuff with the same amount of RUB, in Russia. That is because there is a real economy behind it and in order for Cryptocurrencies to be even comparable they have to have that economy too.

MRW How I feel after pulling out of stamp last week. PRETTY GOOD!  

No. 3600 new bitcoins are produced every day. The market doesn't want all those coins, as shown by the falling price. Markus, Willy and other Gox price manipulation schemes were the only reason price went to two, three and four digits in the first place. Now that Gox is gone, Bitcoin is exposed as what it is: A poorly designed pyramid scheme technology that has zero utility for ordinary consumers. The only people who has any use for bitcoins, are a few thousand drug addicts and child pornographers.

The speculative Bitcoin fad is over. Bitcoin will go back to single digits now. A lot of cultists, bulltards, early adopters and other bagholders will commit suicide in the coming months.

Next 1h30 actually 

Oh, Lamby Lamby Chop Chop. You're a funny man. But the problem is you're too good and you just can't stop yourself showing it.

Beating out the kids with pennies can't what its about (except of course to protect them and their pocket money, thanks btw). So why do you it? You're not a dull man bitterly left behind (hi, Stolfi); you're not a funster talking his book (hi, fonzie); you're not a 50 center (if you are, pm me I'll give you a dorrar-a-time job).

Those with money are likely to have read enough books, seen enough films and dealt with enough dickheads to recognise that someone with your breadth of cultural references and immaculate put-downs (there, I've said it) cannot possibly not see the "bulltard" future in front of us. The fact that you put so much time on the clock surely re-inforces that. And if the money is here at all, it certainly won't sell because of your thoughtful advice.

Surely the fun of winding people up after all these months and thousands of posts must be wearing thin. What's the exit strategy?

such profit, G..

Seems like Huobi is down.. AGAIN?

has anyone seen this?

http://www.pressexaminer.com/bitcoin-might-face-a-new-challenge-in-two-days-from-now/73854

I suspect backpagers buy the majority of my coins on bitquick.co.  it's nice because I can arbitrage the spread and buy back immediately at a lower rate on an exchange, but of course I'm really just selling my risk of getting my bank account seized in the event that some bureaucrat somewhere decides it's money laundering and retroactively applies the decision to me. So I have to constantly drain the account to minimize the risk. I also have to buy back in immediately to minimize the exchange rate risk because the most buyers come in during an uptrend.  A five dollar bump in three hours can wipe out any profit.

buying gas cards on purse.io is similarly problematic. I get a ~20% discount on the card, but I have to exchange the gamestop card for a shell card at a brick-and-mortar store which takes time and money, THEN I can only buy fuel at Shell stations which typically overcharge ~5% for fuel.

Once I have enough profit to cover living expenses, I crank up the premium I ask for on bitquick and crank up the discount I demand on purse.io.  If nobody bites, it's no big deal. If they do, that's less work for me in the future.

Arbitraging is the only way I know to make profits without burning through my stack, except of course lending out coins on bfx but the vig is still pretty low. For bigger profits that that, one must OBSERVE THE WALL and get lucky.