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I honestly don't know about non-US banks. I only know the SEC has been increasingly leaning on various "money transmitters" (SEC term) to the point where many are simply dropping out since it's not worth the legal hassle.

Like the Hotel California, you can check out any time you like but you can never leave. You can sell BTC at that price at Gox, but good luck actually withdrawing the USD. That's getting harder and harder at all these exchanges.

That's the MtGox price which everyone knows is bogus. Use the price from BitcoinAverage which lets you ignore the MtGox price or not as you wish. You can see from the list of price sources that MtGox is an outlier. The real price is more like $163.

I take that back. stockfetcher seems to have a limit how far back you can arbitrarily look.

Easily done with stockfetcher.com

Haha so how's that default workin' out for ya? They'll never default! It's all just fiscal theater created with the sole purpose of pushing other agendas.

Not sure if trolling but this is ridiculous. All brokers must perform due diligence on their prospective clients.

I must be missing something. How did you conclude that your massive PC issues are due to Firefox?

The USDBTC prices used to be nearly the same on all exchanges until it became harder to cash out. As of now: MtGox: $152.66 Btc-e: $131.99 Bitmit.net (a bitcoin auction site): $139.46 Bitmit uses bitcoinaverage.com for their fiat reference, which has a button to ignore MtGox in...

Imagine a market driven almost purely by the supply and demand of real market participants and not by government policies and data. Imagine! Sorry for sounding like John Lennon just then.

I agree there's not much advantage right now for Joe Sixpack to use BTC. An unprecedented financial crisis could provide the catalyst to get more of the general population involved. The Cyprus banking crisis caused a sudden spike in demand for BTC. It wasn't due to speculators but scared...

A parallel with BTC usage after a ban is the black market in USD or DEM during the cold war in iron curtain countries. Using anything except the local funny money in places like czechoslovakia was illegal but everyone did it anyway because it was almost impossible to enforce. You could walk...

"They" can outlaw it only in the sense that it becomes against the law. But as long as 2 people are willing to exchange goods and services for BTC how can they be stopped? All that will happen is that businesses that operate in the open won't be able to accept BTC anymore. How many businesses...

The MetaTrader platform itself imposes certain requirements and restrictions on how trades are managed. Remember the MetaTrader front end you see talks to a MetaTrader backend on the broker's servers. The way trades are handled in terms of lot sizing, trade management, reporting etc are all...

No. Like calling market tops and bottoms, calling the end of Bitcoin is a fruitless exercise. As long as Bitcoin fills a need it will continue to be useful.

One of the early ideas floated by TJ was that "citizens" would be restricted to the landowner class, not entitled by mere birth. In that light his high words about citizens and firearms have a different meaning.

"Sure I read the Constitution. I can recite the Second Amendment by heart."

Holy cow never heard of calendar flies. Did it start like that or morph into it after adjustments?

I just read the first post and couldn't figure out what "long belly of jfm fly" means. I figure the long belly refers to being long the butterfly body for a short fly, but what's jfm?

You've never traded before have you.