So, I am closing on a house Wednesday. I need to withdraw some BTC to dollars (about $2k).

I was set to go with bit-pay but they are out of commission.

I have an MtGox and dwolla account. If I were to withdraw tomorrow from MtGox to Dwolla, how long would it take to get to my bank account as available funds?

Or, is there another quicker method?

I know a few people have PMed me that they will buy but I do not trust someone not to do a reverse on me.

I downloaded a new client Friday, it went through about 75% of the blockchain download at a decent rate.

Then it slowed down with about 20,000 blocks remaining, then eventually froze.

I restarted the client and it would go again then slow down again to a halt.

I am now at about 9,500 after restarting it off and on over the weekend and it is at the point of giving me one er second or so.

I am on a Win7 laptop 4GB Ram, quad 2.5GHZ with plenty hard drive space.

Can I just download the chain all at once, then run it through?

I am not showing anything out of the ordinary in the task manager performance.

Best process that was suggested was to give each voter an address (or two...yes/no) to vote to.


Then post an encrypted file listing all of the addresses being used. Keep the password private until after the vote.

Reveal the password and all of the addresses can be tallied.

Buy half in a way that is as under the radar as possible...do some p2p buys with cash, hit the smaller exchanges, do some trading on mtGox catching any downward pressure.


Then take another million and jump on mtGox with it. Create a huge million dollar bid wall and spread the word that you are buying a buttload.

You will get a good rally going with your first $400k then start to remove some of your bids with the rest of the $500k as the market takes over the rally.

Gold:

Silver:

The Fed is printing out new dollars to loan to their friends at a cheap rate so that they can pass the cost on to you.

Good bye dollar, hello Bitcoin!

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20120913a.htm

"Committee agreed today to increase policy accommodation by purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month."

"These actions, which together will increase the Committee’s holdings of longer-term securities by about $85 billion each month through the end of the year"

Someone starving to death for not being able to buy food with Bitcoin may raise awareness.

Kinda like monks pouring gasoline on themselves and setting themselves on fire.

We could all wear ribbons.

this

Found it:

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/09/12/maybe-qe3-isnt-so-priced-in-survey-says/

Bitcoin is going to be involved in QE3 with help from Gavin, the CIA and the Fed.

Look for it tomorrow during the Fed meeting.

They have run out of ways to pump more money into the market so they are looking to Bitcoin to fill the gaps.

You heard it here first!

You can buy fiat with BTC here: http://www.mtgox.com

I would be willing to do this and plan on getting as close to this soon.

But only after BitInstant comes out with their Visa card and billpay.

Then I will have every paycheck converted automatically to Bitcoins and go from there.


Not all that exciting though.

Hrm...analyst position.

And a 48 hour work week at MacDill? That sucks. They are probably required to work on Saturday.

I have not planned on selling but need some cash in a few days.

What are the steps to getting cash from Bitcoins? I have about 200 I need to cash out.

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So will I be able to heat my coffee with a laser?

The key there is making Bitcoin comply with GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles).

A hammer can do that!?!

I have one of those in the garage!

They sell those at family friendly places such as Walmart and Home Depot!

We need some laws to deal with this!

Combine this with paying for traffic linking two wifi sites and you could avoid the need for ISPs.