100% is a problem cause I need to have fiat for 2 weeks spendings but other than that I was at that point, yes. Well, actually I was down with fiat to some $100 at some point but I consider that an accident cause I failed to sell some bitcoins in time.

Any manipulation a billionaire or a millionaire could do would drive the price up. Pump and dump and getting rich doing so does not work by only suggesting a bubble by buying some bitcoins. You would have to also announce some services, get some names convinced the next big thing is around the corner etc.

Is Bitcoin really a risk? Who should destroy it? Governments still have a window of opportunity that is not closing for some months if not years to come but if govs really wanted to, why wait? The longer they wait the more businesses will get mad at them. Taking away our 300M$ toy is one thing. Taking away a 300G$ toy later is a different league although the Fed is printing this amount every 6 months.

Virus? Hacker? These are known issues that are a constant in the IT business. It's the same old arms race and the more we care about other people's wallets being secure the smaller the rewards will be for hackers and less attractive the bitcoin will be for them.

Nice finding

These donation addresses are a joke, aren't they? If people like what I'm writing, nobody would tip me, right? I mean I could pick some top 100 address and not regret missing out on all the donations flowing in, right? I guess I will go with this one: 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa.

How would a switch to bitcoin look like?

Version 1 (unlikely): The government hoards a million Bitcoins and then publicly announces to give 0.01 micro BTC (or so) for every IRR which would look like a big scam:
Currently:
20,000IRR = 1USD = 0.05BTC
1IRR = 2.5uBTC
but they also announce to sell their oil for bitcoin which would get the exchange rate to x250 instantly.
Other powers (USA) would bomb Iran back to the stone age because they find clear evidence of WMD.
Bitcoin wins.

Version 2 (likely): Under the radar remittance payments provide an increasing in-flow of bitcoins and a local market like localbitcoins evolves to arbitrate between those needing store of value and those needing legal tender.

We have discussed this issue before and yes, sure, it is an issue. If there are 0Ƀ in Iran, you will not bootstrap a 10Ƀ economy there but if people can use bitcoins in Iran, they will find ways to get them in.

There are many Iranians that receive support from their families abroad and bitcoin is the cheapest way not only to pay you while in Iran but also to send value to somebody in Iran from the US for example.

It's a hen-egg problem. Right now very few people see value in Bitcoin in Iran, so they ask their relatives to send USD via Dubai or whatever at a 40% loss. If they find out they can sell bitcoins in Iran for 10% commission, they will change their mind, so please offer stuff to Iranians (if you know you can deliver) and let people know. Money will find it's way.

Really?
I assumed you had at least some Satoshi Dice shares but if you say so, 100% are owned by anonymous investors

I would say the bitcoin blockchain pretty much rocks, doesn't it?

… if you are into tungsten.

@OP: I agree the slogan of the sticker is a bit weird. Too bad. Cool idea to get promotional material distributed. Too bad it doesn't reach the right people.

I doubt that once enough people trade bitcoins, you will still be able to charge 3+3 %.
I wanted to sell but had time, so I copied the others that sold at +5% and waited. Nobody showed up. Then it got urgent and I completely removed the fee, I actually paid 5% for one trade but now people cue up for small trades and I send them on when it exceeds my needs. Charging 0% has the advantage that people come close to you and won't argue if you round up on the trade. Long term this is the margin for every-day trades. If you need more liquidity, you will still pay a fee.

The person to person trade is super important. My 5 last trades had 2 with total newbies that both had no wallet ready at the time we met. #1 was interested and wanted my advise on which wallet to use. #2 had no clue about the concept of wallets at all. He even suggested he gives me the 100€ now and I send him the money later when he figured it out. Hope he hasn't lost the MyWallet that we set him up on his iPhone.
Basically if you have a high density of regular bitcoin users, an ATM makes sense but currently the person to person trade still is very much about education and exchange of ideas.

Rassah will not run with it. He's more famous for giving it to charitable organizations

A little bit, yes

Hey, DobZombie, if I had the feeling you would suicide in shame now, I would apologize but I don't, so yes, I really do consider it possible that you are in some connection to Jakers. I would have to check if we had some penalty for the last one to hold the coin but I'm writing this more in a popcorn mood than in anger over some scammers.

Marking all as scammers that don't repair the damage would be a tougher rule that we did not decide on. At least not in the OP and that's what counts.

Maybe we should start over with 10Ƀ, with the above rule that all get marked scammers that don't repair the damage done by subsequent scammers. This might get escrows into play.

Feel free to add such information for each transaction or just for yours.

For the record: The list of transactions is by no means consistent or complete. It was just all the stuff me and others felt worthy to be mentioned.

I solo-mined a block in June 2011 and didn't move it until last week when I moved it to a different wallet. Shitty guess I would say. <tin-foil-hat>The fed mined their millions not to crash the market further when a bubble bursts but to prepare for a post-dollar age.</tin-foil-hat>
Actually I never lost faith in Bitcoin going far up and beyond of its history record, so low rates were times for buying, not selling. Any equally bullish person would just not touch their old coins.

Hi

I have no clue about trading but I wonder if there is some drag and drop interface to place and change orders that would talk to the MtGox API.

I imagine an upper part just like mtgoxlive and below two bars with my $ and Ƀ balances. Dragging within these bars would "grab" the corresponding percentage of my respective balance and allow me to drop it on the market depth above. I would see pins with each of my orders in the market depth so I can drag them back down to my wallet or to some other $ value in the market depth.

I could also imagine this as a paid feature of btccharts.com.

Here is a mock-up:


Notice how the %-values are 0% in the middle and 100% on the outer edge. Reason is that I want this interface to work without having to click again for confirmation and to achieve that, short mouse movements that are more likely to be accidental, should have little chance of ending in a catastrophe. If I drag all my Ƀ and drop them too soon, it's unlikely somebody will snatch them. 2% dropped too soon and being snatched is less dramatic.

Witch hunting is too tempting, sorry.

How likely is it that DobZombie meets Jakers in several totally unrelated threads within Jakers first 100 posts?
[2,968,775]Difficulty Discussion Thread [TRENDING ↑] by DobZombie
Re: If you're thinking buying mining hardware, read this first

We?
You could argue that sending is in the responsibility of the person sending as else I could always send to my sock puppet even if the others doubt this to be a good idea. I'm pretty sure I brought up this scenario in this thread. Also we had discussed accounts younger than that game.

"Geez I'm dense"? DobZombie denying responsibility a-priory? Witch hunt anybody? DobZombie for SCAMMER-tag?

To be honest I expected the experiment to "fail" and just wondered how long the scammers would wait. I would suggest to keep the witch hunt out of this thread and draw our conclusions. For me the experiment was a success and would be interested in:
How long did it take (min/max/avg/median/sum) from player joining to him getting the coin.
How much did we pay in fees (min/max/avg/median/sum).
How many people actually were labeled scammers later (currently at least 4! unfortunately scammers also delete their posts so I can't check on all of the list)

And here is the updated list:

Starting at 7:30 Bitcoin is presented featuring Room77 (Jörg Platzer: "The same banks that scam people in poorer countries with high fees on every transaction make their food 3 times more expensive by speculating with their food" (quote is not word by word)), Bitcoin Conference London, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Mike Hearn ("also Google is interested in the online currency" … good one ), illegal business, money laundering,

Super positive Bitcoin feature with the conclusion: "Shift says: Not yet the big hit."

http://www.dw.de/programm/shift/s-30411-9800

This is so great placement! Couldn't be better. Too bad "Bitcoin is pre-Netscape" with an """info""" graphic underlining how it is pre-anything that anybody could possibly want to have a second look at.

Sorry I don't see how Bitcoin is pre-Netscape to start with. I would get Bitcoins sent to anybody with a smartphone in his hands within less than a minute (given he trusts me). No need to fucking confuse people with such a shitty understatement/misinformation. "Pre-Netscape" being a Tony-the-Bitcoin-advocate-quote makes it even worse.

@Tony: Please tell me they got you out of context with that quote or they had to present bitcoin as a joke to get a chance to feature it at all. Else 7 pages of Bitcoin really is great. Do you know how many flights*seats this will be on board?