It looks like this is where our opinions differ.

How would this take place? I could see the U.S making a play with their holdings of Ross's coins but the rest of the world?

This is the black swan so to speak of my current thesis and may possibly be the only out for the U.S.  An out that they need as they continue to lose support of the petro dollar. Either way, I stand to gain.

A run on bitcoin by the central banks will cause an enormous surge in value prior to them getting a hold of a substantial amount. A much easier way to fix up the current global financial system is to cleanse the debt on their books with something that is already in place, gold. Revalue gold and the massive hole that the $ once filled becomes whole and if done correctly clears debts as well. It's already there. waiting to be revalued to work as a debt sponge and a balancing weight.

From this point bitcoin gets integrated into the world of finance on a pretty clean slate instead of the debt ridden global economy we currently have.

"A run on bitcoin by the central banks will cause an enormous surge in value prior to them getting a hold of a substantial amount. A much easier way to fix up the current global financial system is to cleanse the debt on their books with something that is already in place, gold. Revalue gold and the massive hole that the $ once filled becomes whole and if done correctly clears debts as well. It's already there. waiting to be revalued to work as a debt sponge and a balancing weight."

Does your thesis rely upon the US actually having all the gold it supposedly has? Everyone knows the USD is dead but the US can keep printing until the rest of the world stops accepting those dollars. But if the US doesn't have much gold, there's no way it can stop the printing now, basically until it no longer can. And they can suppress the price of gold for as long as they keep printing, albeit at the expense of ever growing unemployment. Like you (I think) i'm backing both horses, because even if the US only has gold plated tungsten, other countries do have that gold and on the day of reckoning, the price will explode imo. Unlike Cypherdoc, I can't see any non-Armageddon scenario, and that makes me hesitant about getting what I wish for. I see btc trending upwards and gold being suppressed until the dollar dies. Or until there's an outbreak of war outside the middle east. The ME is a place that no one really gives a fuck about anymore, including israel, unless the flow of oil is seriously impacted. The Ukraine conflict will have to significantly escalate before people and markets pay serious attention to it. China is also flexing its muscles, so there are many possible scenarios.

I agree. There is no way that central banks will give complete trust over to bitcoin until it's withstood the test of time. I still tell people that buying bitcoins as an investment is risky, which means that even though I have faith in it, it doesn't have 1000s of years of history behind it. It may only require a generation for people's mindset to change but the older men and women running central banks have to multiply that risk by an order of magnitude. That doesn't mean that the CBs won't make a play for BTC in the meantime, but I can't see any central banker feeling safe about putting a piece of paper worth $X trillion in Ft Knox cold storage with their private key wriiten down until they've had at least several years of testing.  EDIT: And by that time CBs may be irrelevant anyway.

Short term sell signal.  Failure to breakout from smaller triangle.  Still within larger triangle.

there are times when volume is indicative of the trend. especially when dealing with speculative assets with elastic supply.  i believe this is the main concern behind the selling pressure.   however, remember that it is just a derivative of the price and is not necessarily reflective of the fundamentals.  we've seen plenty of low volume situations back in the days esp. during the selloff down to 1.98 during the Fall of 2011.  volume was pitiful.  then, the selling pressure abated and the price started to rise inexplicably without volume follow on, initially.  bears, who kept looking to volume confirmation for the reversal, never got it until much later when bull speculators started to pile back in.  by then it was too late. their short positions were destroyed.

these low volume situations are expected for a fixed supply asset.  currently, investors are using it as a store of value, rather than a currency.  and for good reasons.  it has a chance to replace the function that gold once held as a world reserve currency.  we're at a cyclical bottom which further exacerbates the hodling.  ppl won't release their BTC until the price moves toward a new high when spending power is at a maximum.  or when inevitably merchants start offering discounts.

personally, it's an opportunity to buy another dip.

TOL (Toll Brothers) getting blistered this morning.  Remember, the XHB housing ETF graph from the other day.  that's not good.  could be entering a period of deflation for stocks which would be horrific for gold:

does it really matter when the R sided dump is already below the L sided breakout?

Beyond New York: What Lies Ahead for Bitcoin

Here’s what happens on 17th October: bitcoin continues to be a juggernaut, rolling over the promiscuous money printers and corrupt kingpins of the centrally planned banking system, albeit with some market-based adjustments. Markets perceive regulation as ‘damage’ and route around it. This is true with Internet-related damage and it is equally true with bitcoin-related damage.

http://www.coindesk.com/beyond-new-york-lies-ahead-bitcoin/

stocks going negative. 

very slow long term roll.

Thanks for that I think we'll have a bright future,  I suspect trading alts could still play a part if they grab a piece of the pie during the next Bitcoin adoption cycle.