Personally, I had over 550 BTC in Gox. I will never get any of that back.

Unfortunately, slow and steady in any financial market is actually impossible.

The value of Bitcoin is astronomical, but the price goes all over the place as a million buyers and sellers try to figure out what that value is and how likely it is to manifest.

Like the Internet, Bitcoin will change the way people interact and do business around the world.

Bitcoin will hit thousands of dollars per coin, because it's worth at least that much, or it's worth zero.

The Dwolla incident was to be expected. The government will go after sites that it thinks are supposed to register as money transmitters. Some Bitcoin companies will register as such, and some won't, but business will carry on regardless.