Much good news and the price slowly falls. What is up? I've heard a lot of discussion about Dell and Overstock flooding the market with surplus btc and piutting downward pressure on price. What about all the stolen BTC that is out there? Not just gox alone either, there are tons of scams operating/btc stolen. many different actors. even if they try to sell off slowly, several could be driving the market down simultaneously without even realizing. The concept doesnt seem to come up much or get much traction, what are your thoughts on this?

I could definitely see big companies like Dell constantly dumping their BTC being a slight factor in price, but I'm pretty sure Overstock holds a decent percentage, and they also donate lots to cryptocurrency advocate groups. As far as the price goes though, I just wish I had more fiat cash to buy up some good cheap coins.

According to bitcoinity over the last 30 days the volume of coins traded on the exchanges has been about 4 million. Even if the number of stolen coins was 1 million they would have had plenty of time and volume to sell all those coins long time now.

Sooner or later, all continuous sellers run out of BTC. Think about the long game here, don't be made a fool of.Whatever artificial downward pressure is being applied here, if any, it will be reabsorbed on the way up when someone runs out. The only way to get Bitcoin to lose value against fiat forever is to move backwards through time. Move forwards through time, it gains forever until the day fiat ceases to exist.This is an immutable, self-evident, mathematical truth. Two technologies fulfilling the same purpose usually do not coexist for very long, in historical terms. The old way dies, naturally, as the new grows to take it's place.Bitcoin is on the right side of the chart. The surviving side. Fiat money is not. That's the big picture, folks.

There are numerous examples of competing technologies coming along, growing a little, then fizzling out, as the status quo remains.Millions of examples. It is not a given that the new technology competing with the existing one will overtake and succeed.Not sure where you got that. Though its a very nice thought, and we all hope it will pan out that way.-B-