Looks stable now at 185-200 depending on exchange.  Probably had to pay taxes on it! ;)

Im glad I got out of it back in June but now im stuck with these 290's that I cant sell....
At least they play bf4 very well with 3 monitors
 

Market was reacting to BITSTAMP's hot wallet being compromised for 19000btc, estimated to worth US5m. But this is a manageable amount of loss as BITSTAMP is estimated to make a profit of over US10m a year.

Yea that Bitstamp Loss sucked, all I can do now is just hold onto the BTC I make until price recovers, its at $210 right now and slowly climbing back up
 
and yea Foxmino I feel your pain too, I got a couple R9 270's sitting on my shelf I don't use anymore and can't sell them either. I suppose I could just make a seperate gaming rig out of them.
 
I would have 1 AMD base GPU system and 1 Nvidia based GPU system, though I really prefer to game on Nvidia.....

rjohnson11
The problem is that the market really doesn't know how to evaluate digital currency. 

I think the price reflects the opposite. It's an extremely vulnerable currency that has its exchanges repeatedly hacked or taken down for fraud/solvency issues. It has no system of checks and balances against wild price swings. Since a bitcoin can't gain interest just laying around and the crazy price inflation days seem to be over, holding onto them hoping prices increase instead of crash is just a gamble.
 
There isn't exactly a point to holding them if the price isn't going to go up so people are going to buy out. The only question is will BTC stabilize long enough to build a steady market history (and therefore consumer confidence in the BTC) or not. Otherwise BTC prices are just going to keep going crazy, and mostly down for the near future.

duboisi
Reputable individuals and corporations are willing to invest in well operated Bitcoin ecosystem players. Cryto currencies do have a future.
Check out this news:
http://cryptomining-blog....sd-investment-funding/

Thats great news that should help the Bitcoin Value for sure.

I never got into the bitcoin thing, as it was dying when I started building, and amd was letting the crowds run wild to with gpu pricing, but did anyone see actually think the prices would stay so high when the gpu prices crashed because became wise to the silliness? The moment they shut down companies charging so much, was the moment it was doomed to drop.

And it's back down to $230 again  well at least the wall street journal just did an article talking about how digital currency is the wave of the future.. that'll get some more interest.
 
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