I know right? Exciting stuff, I like how the realization of a decentralized ledger(bitcoin) is causing people to really think outside the box.

BitMessage and Open Transactions are both amazing projects.


Now I'm running BitMessage to experience it, but I don't know to whom I can send a message.  


If anyone wants to try to message me:
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Are ask walls finally beginning to be nibbled at BitStamp....?

Yes, I think so. Due to the fact that the bidwall on Mt.Gox is now at 122, bitstamp is a bit too low.
Now the bids on bitstamp are at 118.35, and asks at 118.39 -> walls should start to get nibbled.
"Movement" is very relative though, looking that moving the walls up by 1$ would take about 1500BTC...

Edit: I am really curious though: What would happen on bitstamp if mt.gox started to rise significantly, say to 125 (or, make that 135)? There just ISN'T enough fiat on bitstamp to buy up the walls...

Paint drying tracker...

Braindump:

When was the last time you were ready to answer the question, "So what's the price of Bitcoin then?" and could answer confidently WITHOUT checking the chart?

Currency volume is at its lowest this year.

Several days of stability with dwindling volume has happened once before this year around $48, then leading to a second wind for the spike to $200+.

Me I've been mining LTC, a little FTC. Doing real world things, perhaps this is good, been getting better quality of sleep anyway

Can Bitcoin survive another hibernation period? Should we welcome it? Am I assuming too much again and is this merely the intermission before an exciting Act III?

I think mt.gox may be starting to move - at least we are seeing new 24 hour highs (123.6)... (though, to be fair, we saw them at 9:00 as well, and then stalled again)
Wall nibbles, anyway (500BTC to 124).

The biggest move of the day is still the bid wall movement from 121 to 122. Which says a lot about how little is happening here...

Were you at the conference? If you had been I don't think you would think we were in a "hibernation period" more things are happening now then ever. The good news is that the exchange rate is becoming less and less an indicator of how much in bitcoin world is happening. In reality TONS of things are going on that isn't related to the exchange rate. Bitcoin is more active then ever.