[COIN] Het grote Bitcointopic #76 | Uprising! (maar dan bijna)

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Op dinsdag 18 februari 2014 16:02 schreef pietjepatat het volgende:

Oftewel ik heb 4:1 gebet dat dit niet het einde is van mtgox, ben benieuwd wat het gaat worden...

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Op dinsdag 25 februari 2014 08:22 schreef WebBeestje het volgende:
Wie dacht er miljonair te kunnen worden met BTC? Dat zijn er nu een heel stuk minder.

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Hello friends,

MtGox is gone. So let's prepare ourselves.

On Tuesday, and for the rest of the week, all hell will break lose in the media. It will be blamed on MtGox, it will be blamed on Bitcoin, it will be blamed on the "bug," and it will, more than anything, be blamed on the "lack of regulation." Pundits and "experts" of all types will weigh in on the calamity. It will be world news in a matter of hours.

Get ready, because it will be an ugly week.

For all of you who lost money, my heart goes out to you. Some people lost a little, some lost a fortune. It will make people sick, and depressed, and full of grief. Personally, I had over 550 BTC in Gox. I will never get any of that back. If misery loves company, then we'll be enjoying a grand feast today.

I should have known better, of course. I take responsibility for leaving those funds with an entity that had proven incompetence repeatedly. I chose to ignore even my own warnings, for nothing more than the sake of convenience.

Gox is still at fault, to be sure, but I have learned the lesson. I hope it is not such an expensive lesson for others. And for all you observers, please take a moment to consider it as well.

Be mindful, however, that the wrong lessons are not learned, for that would be the true tragedy, indeed.

Let me suggest that the lesson is not that Bitcoin is broken. Bitcoin is fine.

Similarly, the lesson is not that security is impossible. Those who know what they are doing, can achieve it and help others to do so.

The lesson is not that nobody can be trusted. There are countless good men and women in this community who are worthy of trust, and some of the very best people I've ever met.

And finally, the lesson is not that we ought to seek out "regulation" to save us from the evils and incompetence of man. For the regulators are men too, and wield the very same evil and incompetence, only enshrined in an authority from which it can wreck amplified and far more insidious destruction. Let us not retreat from our rising platform only to cower back underneath the deranged machinations of Leviathan.

The proper lesson, if I may suggest, is this: We are building a new financial order, and those of us building it, investing in it, and growing it, will pay the price of bringing it to the world. This is the harsh truth. We are building the channels, the bridges, and the towers of tomorrow's finance, and we put ourselves at risk in doing so.

We are at risk from accidents. We are at risk from fraud, from corruption, and from evil. We are at risk from journalists seeking headlines and from politicians seeking power and glory. We are at risk from the very market we are trying to build - a market which cares not about our portfolio, our ambitions, or our delicate sympathies.

For all these risks, devastation will befall us repeatedly. Some of us will be discouraged. Some will be ridiculed and insulted. Some will be tricked, or swindled. Some of us will be crushed or caged. We will be set upon by all manner of antagonists, repeatedly, for a long time.

So why do we do it? Why do we build these towers that fall down upon us? Why do we toil and strain and risk our precious time, which is the only real wealth we possess?

Because the world needs what we're building. It needs it desperately. If that matters to you, as it does to me, then hold to that thought. You will see through the smoke, and your wounds will heal.

So shake it off, brothers, for this won't be the last calamity endured before the win.

Tonight, my heart is with you all.

Tomorrow, my head is down. My eyes are open. And I am building.

Toward peace and freedom,

-Erik Voorhees

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Op dinsdag 25 februari 2014 09:32 schreef Apekoek het volgende:

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Ja echt super sneu, lui die dachten dat 1 bitcoin nog wel de 20.000 euro zou gaan halen. Echt om te janken. Snap nu wel waarom bitcoin onder tijdelijke fora staat.

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Op dinsdag 25 februari 2014 10:30 schreef ConnerJohn het volgende:
Maar kunnen we bitcoin vaarwel zeggen en op zoek gaan naar de volgende hype of is dit weer een tijdelijke crash zoals toen China de handel stop legde?

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Op dinsdag 25 februari 2014 10:59 schreef Ronaldsen het volgende:
Op andere exchanges is de koers eigenlijk nog best hoog, bijna 500 ¤, dus ik denk dat het zelfs na het mtgox debacle nog wel weer kan herstellen richting de 800¤ - 1000¤ als iedereen weer massaal koopt bij deze lage koersen.

Maar goed, ik heb er ook weinig verstand van, het blijft gokken.

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Op dinsdag 25 februari 2014 21:49 schreef Arcee het volgende:
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Actuele koers in plaatje aangepast aan Bitstamp.

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Bitcoin 2014 is the annual international forum, exhibition and networking conference organised by the Bitcoin Foundation for the fintech industry. It's where investors, technologists, regulators, executives, entrepreneurs, developers, and policymakers gather to collectively shape the future of cryptographic money worldwide. Bitcoin 2013, our inaugural conference, was hosted in Silicon Valley and attracted the largest gathering to date - over 1,200 attendees, speakers and exhibitors. This year, join us in Amsterdam, one of the most prolific fintech hubs in Europe, to get a glimpse into the future and the opportunity to be a part of building the digital economy.

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Op dinsdag 25 februari 2014 22:21 schreef Tourniquet het volgende:
15-17 mei organiseert The Bitcoin Foundtion een grote Bitcoin-conferentie in Amsterdam, met o.a. Gavin Andresen (bitcoin lead developer), Tony Gallipi (CEO Bitpay) en Brian Armstrong (CEO Coinbase)

http://bitcoin2014.com/

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Op woensdag 26 februari 2014 07:04 schreef µ het volgende:

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350 euro... Daar ga je niet 'zomaar' heen...

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Op woensdag 26 februari 2014 10:55 schreef Tourniquet het volgende:
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Is een hele normale prijs voor zo'n soort conferentie.

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Op woensdag 26 februari 2014 12:11 schreef µ het volgende:

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Helaas wel, maar dat zijn geen leuke prijzen voor de gemiddelde geinteresseerde...