I made a deposit yesterday and my funds have not shown up.

Could this be resolved?

JTM29 - I was interested in those shares but wouldn't it be hard to get hold of them given that they aren't sold on any exchanges? I'd have to buy them privately which involves more risk, and if the shares are good why would somebody sell them?

I like the idea of investing bitcoin in order to earn interest on them. However I'm not really sure if its safe or worth it. Does anybody have any positive experiences of such bitcoin investing. Negative experiences welcome too. 

Hi don't really understand people needing emergency bitcoin loans. Its not as if you can pay bills with them.

Bitmit is a great site that has lots of listed products. However when you sort goods to be displayed by highest bid you don't see any bids. That suggests to me that very few people are actually buying goods from bitmit and that listing goods for sale might be a waste of time. Most people are probably hoarding/saving bitcoins now.

Anybody question this analysis? Anybody buy from bitmit?

It is inevitable that bitcoin would attract the kind of people you describe. I'm sure that you appreciate that not everyone who is a critic of the prevailing monetary regimes falls into those categories. Some such people are just savers who are sick of being abused by central bankers and governments through the devaluation of their savings in order to prop up the financial institutions and devalue the debts of banks and governments.

Those are some fairly broad labels you use. I'm not a libertarian; I believe that the government should play a significant role in the economy and in promoting welfare. However there are libertarians for whom I would not consider any of those labels fair.

In sum, with something like bitcoin you need to expect some of the qualities you describe to be evident in the community but not everyone interested or excited by bitcoin is as you describe.

If you are buying bitcoins as an investment then it should be considered extremely high risk. Even the head of Mt Gox, the biggest exchange, said that. The returns are potentially as high but you should be aware of the risk.

I think you might be right; bitmit might be the way to go. I liked the idea of starting my own bitcoin business and getting involved in developing the bitcoin community but its hard to justify starting a business that  is just a duplication of something else. I can't think of a way that mine would stand out so I suppose I'll abandon the idea 

I want to set up my online retail business which will sell books. I’ve never done anything like that before so this thread seems a good place to ask for advice. I’m using a site called “webs” to design the site and it seems to work quite well. Do you think I’ll be OK using that or will I need to buy a domain name and server?

Do you think that there would be decent demand if I could sell a broad range of books?

What are the tax issues like when trading with bitcoin. I’m  based in the UK so it might be a little different here but how are you handling tax issues?

Thanks

Smooth 

Zaih - your signature is more interesting than most.

So a litecoin in 200 days. Utterly not worth it and I can't GPU mine because of the opencl.dll problem. Thanks anyway for the guide though, at least I've got some experience.

I've got it working and am getting 3 k\hs. I'm new to this but I'm guessing that that is basically nothing, right?

Can you suggest an alternative, fair way of building one's reputation?

Sorry to hear that 

Are you the guy mentioned of the "Plan B" bitcoin show on Jupiter Broadcasting? 

Thanks. Appreciate it.

Thats a lot. Mined or bought? 

"can we ever have enough Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh"

A serious philosophical question. The Buddhists would say that desire can only lead, ultimately, to suffering. I say "screw that, Buddhists, I wanna mai bit coinz."

"I can't belive the crazy low numbers some people have. People care enough about bitcoin to register on the forum and still only have small fractions of bitcoins Huh Having said that I don't have very many myself. LOL"

Nothing wrong with having crazy low numbers. Those numbers will grow and its still an idea in its infancy. There will only ever be 21 million bitcoins and there are 6+ billion people on the planet. If bitcoin becomes big then those "crazy low numbers" won't look all that modest.

I'm positng this in the newbies thread rather than marketplace because it is very general and I am a newbie for the topic. I'm just wondering what peoples experiences are like for those who have bought shares in bitcoin mining operations. Sucesses? Faliures? Experiences somewhere in between?

Thanks