And now Blitz decides what type of off topic rambling is acceptable in this thread which is just a troll box where everybody (including you, Blitz) has been rambling and trolling about everything that crossed their minds, while TA was just a background fuzzy noise.

I hope you just had a bad day.

You're right! I read it and I'm a massive gay! (Joke, not homophobic though, this is BTC, we are FORWARD thinkers here, not Bible bashers.)

Anyway. Looks like a standard weekend drop?

800 coin dump.... it gets interesting....

What sparked this dump? News from China?

the trend encountered resistance and then broke.

Take two steps back and get some perspective guys.

jl2012 was onto something. We did not breakout.

Will we visit 400?

hey rampion, i had a post deleted also. but i think the only reason was because they contained quotes from the offensive fool, so best they are gone.
hope you are keeping well

I wonder if this has anything to do with it?: http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5230184/multiple-moderators-arrested-in-international-silk-road-2-0-busts

What I'd like to know is the influence of new people learning about bitcoin every day and buying in, as a factor with how many new bitcoins are mined every day, and how those affect the price's likelihood of climbing up overall. For example, is there a viral factor to this, which is impacted by good/bad press, and by how much?

Sometimes I use "bitcoin" as a key word in a Twitter search and it seems the number of tweets per 10 seconds is going up, with more progressive questioning overtaking Business Insider-type bashing. How much influence does that have on whether the price will indeed go up over time, and by how much?