http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-19/hft-accounts-76-all-orders-europe

the day the EU market slips, there will be no mercy. robots just dont do mercy.

bailing and pumping...  Classic FED vocabulary

I have found a new hobby, I'm trying to mine Bitcoin on waste heat from a candle and another is to height water from the waste heat from mining.

But on the upside I see Bitcoin is coming into view of the public eye.

Google search terms for 2014 tell an interesting story.

    1. Tinder
    2. Neknominate
    3. Goat Simulator
    4. Ello
    5. Bitcoin
    6. Doge
    7. Pixelmon
    8. Vines
    9. Dogecoin
    10.Flipagram

First I spent a lot of time with blinkers on, apart from the goat simulator I was ignorant of every top search term except for the cryptos.

And gold, just didn't cut it again this year.

Your denial is a symptom of your euphoria.

Perhaps, but it is way overdue for a correction. The herd is being led to a slaughter and it's going to be ugly.

We are running out of sidechains doping

Joking aside I prefer quality over quantity by a long shot.

Happy holidays everyone.

 And have yourself a merry bitcoin christmas now. 

listening to johoe is inspiring.  but it appears to me that even if you're using a BIP32 wallet, you'll still be exposed to a hack from address reuse if you choose to accept multiple payments to a single address.  for instance, if you accept 5 payments of 1BTC each to a single address, you will create 5 UTXO's of 1BTC each.  if you then only spend 1BTC from that address, you will leave the other 4 UTXO's behind on that address which will force you to reuse that address later on when you decide to make another payment.  so in that sense, HD wallets (BIP32) are still exposed if you're not careful and don't always force all tx's to empty an address.  i understand that this is not directly related to the reuse of the r value that johoe talks about in this episode, but it's concerning to me nonetheless unless i have something wrong:

http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-7-bitcoin-hero-jochen-aka-johoe

i didn't imply that it's growing bigger.  i'm just saying that it appears to me (and i could be wrong) that if, as a merchant, if you're accepting multiple payments for a monthly service to a single address even tho it's generated by an HD wallet, you may be setting yourself up for reuse of that address depending on how much you decide to spend from that address later on as in the example i gave above.  you never want to reuse an address given what has happened.