re: Bitstamp Halts Withdrawls

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My bet is this is actually bitcoin owners doing this manipulation to acquire more bitcoins on the cheap. Think of how Wiki or Josh view bitcoins. This is the future. If you know it's the future and nothing will stop it, why not try to manipulate the market while you still can to acquire market share?

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I think Wiki & Josh are 'true believers' who just want bitcoin (or something like it) to succeed so desperately badly. I don't think that's the kind of person who would do this, because it's damaging to the bitcoin ideal and postponing the day when we can all throw off our shackles of etc etc in favor of the glorious techno-anarchic revolution. This is probably someone more prosaic, like the Russian mafia.