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Bitcoin reaches $200

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19 pointsadamcharnock19 comments

Do we really need this posted every single day? People who care know where to find this info. If the link doesn't provide anything new or interesting (which this obviously doesn't), please.. don't upvote it. Especially when it gets outdated few seconds after submission.

At this rate, the crash is a single-digit number of days away...

Or it's not, and Bitcoins reach a rate of thousands of dollars eventually. I guess it's 50/50 for the buyers now.

> I guess it's 50/50 for the buyers now.

You need to retake basic probability.

Are you suggesting it's substantially more likely that it will crash?

the crash will come, the question is at what price and what will be the floor after the crash. Is it a bubble if it goes to 100000 and crashes to 5000? yes, but still good for bitcoin I suppose

Eventually, perhaps. At the current rate (doubling every few days), definitely not (for long).

i've already made my xtranormal bears video for the crash...

Maybe bitcoin should split (like a stock).

It is already possible to select mBTC (1/1,000) and μBTC (1/1,000,000) units in the client. That should be sufficient, at least for now. For nBTC (1/1,000,000,000) the 8 digits in the protocol are no longer enough, thus some more work will be necessary. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Thanks, didn't know that

There are rumors[1] that MtGox will be announcing Litecoin and Namecoin support this week, which may alleviate things. (Litecoin has four times the number of mine-able coins that Bitcoin has and its proponents refer to it as the silver to Bitcoin's gold.)

[1] Based on their API responding to LTC/USD requests (http://data.mtgox.com/api/2/LTCUSD/money/ticker) and some Twitter chatter.

I can't wait to trade in all my tulips for bit coins ...

or lupins, long live Dennis Moore.

Web devs , you are stupid sorry. JS is disabled on my browser and i get "Your browser sucks!" . Do you really think that makes me want to turn on javascript on your website ? no. My browser(chrome with js disabled) may suck , but if you cant provide at least a message like , 'please turn on javascript' instead of insulting me , then F. you . I'm not going to turn JS on on your website.

Nothing like a rude message to encourage you to enable client side scripting.

You're not missing anything :)

A) It's insulting your browser, not you. Don't take it to heart it looks like a joke.

B) Your browser DOES suck if you're not using javascript.

Honest question: why do you turn off js? it's usually very unlikely for js to be able do anything remotely malicious, specially with the sandboxed model of Chrome.

I used to use NoScript with Firefox, but at some point I realized it was completely pointless and more of an annoyance than anything else and ditched it. I've never seen js compromise my machine since then.

(Flash and Java are a different story though, I wouldn't be comfortable with those always enabled)

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