yes just like BTC Guild and ASICminer before them.

Nice tool!

http://coinmap.org/

Guild was coming in the region of 50% about a year ago but the difference was they started ramping up their charges to discourage users from continuing to join where ghash seemed to not care about the potential dangers.  Its worrying anyhow that it could be a personal choice in the hands of so few at the top of what is supposed to be a distributed network


Good graph but take a special case and its possible a nice set of options purchases could have performed better in 2013.  That could be considered closer as its an all or nothing kind of thing and thats how many consider btc, to be potentially expiring at zero in some future scenarios

Yes I meant Deepbit thank you

Feels more and more like 2012. Lots of solid infrastructure building and adoption of various sorts. But still a little hung-over from prior boom/crash. Seeking the next wave/class/type of bitcoin user.

A robust, liquid, trustworthy futures market for fiat/btc would be nice... Could underpin the next wave of user-type adoption (ie, driven by international commerce, or merchants/supplier relationships, etc). Businesses need to be able to *use* bitcoin while hedging the purchasing-power volatility risk.

Or more gold bugs could just come around.

Or a pittance of the world's "off-shored" cash could move to bitcoin.

Or more bank account seizures, etc...

This.

I think a great little business right now would be a chain of small,  professional bitcoin brokerage offices located in those known jurisdictions of large offshore holdings. Cayman's, Seychelles, Panama, Switzerland, St. Kitts and Nevis, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc.  All linked up to a buying pool, maybe with franchisee model and with smart, helpful, staff to service the noob, high net-worth bit-curious.

The funny thing about this is I was seeing Youtube videos around October or November of last year saying this about Litecoin.

Litecoin price at beginning of 2013 was $0.06

$100 $0.06 (per ltc) = 1666.67 LTC


Litecoin price at end of 2013 was $23.50


$23.50 * 1666.67 = $39,166  



Even at today's prices ($5.30/LTC) you would have $8,833.

Still well above that $5000 mark.  
 
Edit: My mistake...it was closer to $0.07 per LTC on Jan 1st, 2013...but if you do the math it is still a monster of a trade.

I had the same idea earlier today driving through west lake in Hangzhou. I have never seen such a concentration of high end car dealers from aston martins to bentleys, and I'm pretty sure this is one of china's richest cities. There are one percenters in most countries who could be potential clients. 

the ask walls @ 515 on both exchanges are not a sellers; they're blockers.

they must know something is coming in September which will force the price up.  that's my sense.