Thank you. I wouldn't be here otherwise. (grin)

Hah! I beat that in my intro newbie thread! Just go full retard. (grin)

LGBT owned businesses can accept and advertise accepting Bitcoin as a payment option.

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Dude, yer better than that. 50k BTC at least! (grin)

Why do people do this? (grin)

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OK, total newb here, but the U.S. IS the land of suit/countersuit. Couldn't Tangible Cryptography take steps to protect itself and any investors by seeking legal redress from the Commonwealth of Virginia for any loss or possible loss of income due to interference with its business on the basis of such a vague charge? Go on the offensive! Fight back! (grin)

I remember seeing it jump up to $27 very suddenly and thinking I should do something about that. Then I remember watching it every day as it went up to $226 and thinking to myself, OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG! And that was just this year. (grin)

The Sapphire Radeon 7950 or 7970 seem to be the recommended graphic cards for mining, and mainly for mining Litecoins as it's  supposed to be ASIC resistant.

Ouch. I'm very much against the Ignore button. Where's the fun? (grin)
It doesn't matter to me if he's just spouting or is actually having me investigated. We get investigated by so many agencies every year that one of my main "jobs" is keeping all our paperwork and computers organized for easy accessibility and understanding. Most agencies default action to not understanding your data is denial of services, negative action, Not Good Stuff. Then you have to appeal and it just increases the paperwork and hoop-jumping. I've long ago gotten use to making the process as painless for us as possible with the most amount of transparency to them. So if the hero member wants to spend his money having us investigated, fine. Just another Monday here. (grin)
 
The assumption seems to be that I am committing fraud, or wanting to commit fraud in some way by using bitcoin to hide assets or income, and not reporting it. My stating otherwise doesn't seem to deter the assumption. Oh well. Gives me a reason to check the thread until it dies from repetition.
 
Here's another anecdotal story about living the "entitled" lifestyle: During the 24 month period of time when we got to "pay our share first", after my wife's acceptance to receive Social Security Disability, during the automatic 24 month delay before approval to receive Medicare, "our share first" meant that all medical costs, prescriptions, Hospital inpatient, outpatient, Emergency Room, etc., physical therapy, home healthcare needs, stays at the lovely "drunk tank" (there isn't any other place you can be held if you are declared a danger to yourself or others and you have no health insurance) until you have a seizure and get to visit the indigent hospital ER, and every little bit of equipment, supply, transportation, or contracted service by said medical suppliers is billed to you, and very quickly adds up to $10s of thousands of dollars.
The fun part is that a couple of weeks into this 24 month coverage gap, we got a call from Social Security asking if we wanted to participate in a study they were doing to see if people in the SSD/Medicare gap would benefit from Health Insurance Coverage. The program would consist of 3 study groups: Group A would get a Health Insurance Card that would be accepted by all medical providers that accepted Medicare+Supplemental, and an RN trained in providing HR services to the disabled person.
Group B would receive just the Health Insurance Card, but would be expected to provide all their own HR services. The Health Insurance Card would pay for a maximum of $100K before it "maxed" out and would no longer be accepted.
Group C would receive a phone call once a month, and if they agreed to take a survey on how it was going without any Health Insurance like coverage, get $25 a month.
I was ecstatic to hear we had been chosen for Group B. Without that study group program, our medical debt during that 24 month period would have been $100k higher. I'm glad that we didn't get chosen for Group A because I wouldn't have received the training I did during that time in dealing with the default denial reaction of most government and medical services, and learned the process of appeals, transparency and persistence necessary to navigate the "entitled" lifestyle "successfully". Joy. (grin)

Actually a state run place for her could be had for her now if it was necessary. We haven't quite reached that point yet. She has a full-time caregiver to provide the home health services she requires at this time. As the level of dementia increases, the amount of state contracted services have increased. The most expensive option to the state, and therefore to the system paid for by entitlement programs, is full time care in a state medicaid facility. But at this time it doesn't offer the same quality of life she has at home.
As for prison, you have no idea how amusing I find that. Until you've spent a week keeping someone you care about from harming herself as the delirium caused by the increasingly manic energy that anxiety and lack of sleep increases to the breaking point of psychotic behavior to the level of qualifying as a danger to herself or others, followed by 10 hours of doing the same in an ER as you wait for the doctors to finish observing her under the influence of increasingly strong injections of medications that seem to have no effect while she rants at the top of her lungs about the message she has received from God to preach the Gospel of the Holy Nicotine patch and it's all healing properties to the world until finally they decide to commit her to a locked unit and knock her unconscious with strong enough medications to break the manic cycle, and when you finally get home from checking her into the locked unit you just sit there and try to wind down from 8 days of hell on earth that most mortals do not get to experience so you can pass out and try to catch up on your own lack of sleep while keeping up with her, and you start to wonder if " a nice prison cell" wouldn't be a vacation after 5 years of this being your life. Problem is, they're real reluctant to remove me as her caregiver. It would cost em a lot more. Remind me sometime to tell you the funny story of the time I called Adult Protective Services on myself. Long, amusing story. The gist of it is that at one point from A to B I reached such a point of exhaustion I couldn't go on, and called APS because I wanted to leave. Move out. Survive. They came and talked to my wife, and me and quietly informed me that APS was normally called by someone else. Then they left. I got a letter later explaining how they were closing the investigation. So hey, feel free. They'll probably send the the same officers that show up every time I call 911 and report my wife as a possible danger to herself or others.

Dude, are you missing the statements I've made indicating that I have no intention of committing fraud? Or are you just having too much fun to care? (grin)

Let me reiterate my position on that: I don't care. (grin)

Well, we are busy redefining our financial reality here in the states. Remember our clever re-designation of estate taxes paid to the government upon the death of the estate holder as "Death Taxes?" We are now redefining anyone who is relying on Government entitlement programs for any reason as "entitled." Even if you previously contributed to the system. The fact that you no longer do so, but are dependent on the so-called safety net of government entitlement systems means you are taking advantage of everyone who is presently paying into it by working full-time. I can understand people's reactions to our situation. I can even sympathize with it. But that doesn't eliminate our need to stay alive. We, like everyone of the other 7+ billion people on the face of the earth, have this bizarre desire to continue to live beyond our productive and contributing years. And to even enjoy some quality of life in the process. I know. "Entitled". (grin)
I'm not sure, and I hate to speak to define someone else's intent or meaning, but I think what gweedo objects to is the possibility that if I purchase and possess bitcoins, I will have used funds that should not be available to me due to the fact that we are depending on entitlement programs, instead of pay for work produced income. Entitlement programs that his tax dollars are presently paying into. And the possibility that I might be breaking some law by committing, or attempting to commit fraud in the process. 
Except for the possibility of purchasing and possessing BTC and/or other cryptocurrencies, none of that is my intent. But I have no desire or need to prove that. And nothing I say or will say here offers that proof.
I am setup to receive BTC, and in the process of setting up to receive LTC. And investing in LTC mining. All coins will be transferred to offline paper wallets, printed off an offline Linux system, with a firewalled hardline network connection to the online system. 
Against the day that I can exchange them for fiat currency without incurring the to me much more serious than any other penalty of losing our "entitled" status. Since our electric utility is paid for directly by a family member who doesn't mind the energy cost for mining, and other family members are purchasing the system to my specs, all I'll contribute is the labor of construction, setup and monitoring. It'll give me something to do. If you do a little research, you'll discover that you can report these virtual sources of "income". 
The status of LTC is even less well understood than that of BTC. Good thing my inquiry was about Bitcoin AND other alternative cryptocurrencies. I'm sure that with the variety of participants in the bitcoin disruption, someone will in someway object to some of this. Let me reiterate my position on that: I don't care. (grin)

Perception is an interesting factor. Over the years I've found consistency in this: Reality is subjective and survival is objective. The fact that most people believe the exact opposite allows one to bias one's personal survival in a positive direction.

Is a  good way to safely "cold store" bitcoin as a possible long term investment(with high risk), but not as a savings account, seems to be the general consensus. I've got an offline linux box & printer all set up for this if the PTB's come back with what I expect them to say, which is pretty much the same rule about everything: "As long as it doesn't turn into taxable income that raises your monthly income above the "acceptable limit", we don't care." This thread went from a discussion about paper bitcoin wallet as a possible "savings account" to a morality play because I included TMI in the OP. So, here's some more:
Before my wife and I went through the "25billion 'easy' lessons" on how to survive early onset dementia on a state and federally regulated fixed income, our family and friends were trying to help us financially. It was nice of them, but until you've really experienced America's Health Industry costs without health insurance, you haven't lived. (grin)
So now they help us by being forced to use what the government agencies refer to as "grey income". They can send us gift cards, and we don't have to report them as income. But we can't sell them or give them away, only use them. Since Wal-Mart already gets most of our money, those are the most popular. They can pay our utility bills directly, they just can't send us the money for them. Oh, and since I don't work for a living, but have "chosen" to stay home and be my wife's full time caregiver, I'm an entitled bum living off the system. And this entire system that keeps my wife alive is balanced on the idea that she'll die before the government changes any of the entitlement programs we depend on.
Personally, I think Bitcoin is a little less risky than that.

Actually I think 3D printers are another very disruptive technology, especially the medical applications.

Well I certainly hope so. Where's the fun without the pump and dump? In the long run I think bitcoin will go up quite a bit more than it has so far. I'm on that side of the fence.

Oh no, I've completely changed. I'm on the side of the good now. Old dog new tricks. And so there. Bad bitcoin! Bad! Sit!

Found this link in the forums somewhere: http://www.coinminingrigs.com/budget-mining-rig/

Same guy did this guide: http://www.coinminingrigs.com/quad-7970-mining-rig/

I can't find the pattern for that. Besides, only if it prints puppies. Can you imagine the cost of printing full grown English Mastiffs? (grin)