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On a side note, if you believe in BTC, I cannot remember the last time you could buy it for less than $600 like today.

You mean like 2 months ago?

Had to look at the exchange charts - I guess there was a two day dip around December 18th but it quickly corrected.

"corrected"

I love this teleological market-speak.

Ha, yeah I watch NBR before the PBS Newshour some days so unfortunately I've picked up on some of the terminology. I jokingly refer to NBR as PBS's dark little corner.

The BTC believers have very short memories.

BTC believers know there was never a year without at least 200% price increase.

Hard to tell whether that was someone fucking up their sell order or someone dumping a whole lot of (ill-gotten?) bitcoins onto BTC-e.

If you had money in Gox and in other exchanges you might dump your other money now in fear of having lost Gox's funds forever.

Apparently someone sold 3000 BTC @ $102 which seems very wrong.

http://i.imgur.com/ScHaDyl.png

How many coins was the US government holding? It would have to be someone not paying attention or not their money.

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