So, what if he is?

 Can't government agents use Bitcoin too? Are you doing something illegal? Government Agents are people too... (see what I did there?)

So government agents are criminals too... Like the one on DPR's case that stole the bitcoin.

Point being, don't trust the title, trust the person.

Sure I'm full of ideas...

How about the Bitcoin Shark Tank?

What you do is get 5 Bitcoin investors together to listen to people pitch their ideas. Then those that come begging for Bitcoin will have to explain their idea, show how much they earned so far, and what their projections are for the next year. Then the Bitcoin Sharks will either make an offer or kick them out. Funny thing tho... All those that came begging for money on the 'real' Shark Tank with just an 'idea' got kicked out pretty quickly.

P.S. I want 5% royalties in perpetuity for this 'idea'... 

So many investors think in the 'all or nothing' mode when calculating ROI. There is a system for taking profits while staying invested. Think of it as reverse dollar cost averaging. Will you maximize the total amount of ROI if you hit the peaks and valleys? NO... but you will average your Peaks and Valleys and in the case of BTC, that should have been pretty good. (So far)  As to picking your End Date for your investment. I'd suggest you'd look at a point where bloat will be detrimental to the efficiency of the system. IMHO...

Yes,

Every wallet.dat file is a bitcoin bank. The interest earned is directly proportional to the amount of people using BTC so it can grow and shrink in value. How secure the bank is, is completely up to you.

Give the history so far, IF, someone held your bitcoins for you and paid a small percentage in interest. Say, 0.5% (like a bank, LOL), they would've done very well for themselves.

Let the math geeks go...

In 5 years what will the size of the block chain be? In 10 years?

Projections anyone?

Just received this:

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Hash: SHA256

You are receiving this message because your email address is associated
with an account on bitcointalk.org. I regret to have to inform you that
some information about your account was obtained by an attacker who
successfully compromised the bitcointalk.org server. The following
information about your account was likely leaked:
- Email address
- Password hash
- Last-used IP address and registration IP address
- Secret question and a basic (not brute-force-resistant) hash of your
secret answer
- Various settings

You should immediately change your forum password and delete or change
your secret question. To do this, log into the forum, click "profile",
and then go to "account related settings".

If you used the same password on bitcointalk.org as on other sites, then
you should also immediately change your password on those other sites.
Also, if you had a secret question set, then you should assume that the
attacker now knows the answer to your secret question.

Your password was salted and hashed using sha256crypt with 7500 rounds.
This will slow down anyone trying to recover your password, but it will
not completely prevent it unless your password was extremely strong.

While nothing can ever be ruled out in these sorts of situations, I do
not believe that the attacker was able to collect any forum personal
messages.

I apologize for the inconvenience and for any trouble that this may cause.
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If true, a prompt to change password on log on should be instituted. P.S. Haven't checked signature.

LOL, What's FaceBooks gender count now? 50+  

I see no gender on the inter webs. So she's hot.



Edit: Except that randy guy, dude change your avatar.

You're still hot. Funny how that works on the internets.


Never joined the foundation. Said I would when they offer a Substantial Scholarship to an accredited school tho...

I wouldn't go so far as calling it a 'scam.'

Paying to join the local golf club usually just ends up with you paying for tee times at a reduced rate.

The idea of taint with time will quickly go away. Imagine trying to seize every dollar out there with traces of 'taint' on them.

The services that 'seize' tainted coins will quickly find themselves in lawyers fees up to their noses.

BTW: You could just avoid the whole issue and sell the wallet.dat in 'Cas Coins', Bitcoin Bearer Bonds, etc... I mean if you know a miner that would go into this system of washing why transmit the coins to him at all on the network, just send him the wallet.dat?

Can I get the movie rights?

Has to be better than Suck My Geek.

I have sent to this address.

SO?

Just like GLD ETF. All one needs to do is hold BTC in Cold Storage, available for verification (public address), and then file for FinCEN and SEC approval and list on an 'exchange'. (So easy a Caveman can do it. LOL)

The KEY is the overlay network. You don't need to expose the BTC (gold) for actual trading in day to day operations. Basically, you are only dealing with FIAT. It would benefit you to be able to acquire more BTC to expand the ETF. (HE might have some problems here, considering...)

I like the idea of a P2P exchange.

   Scientific Statistical Polling algorithms would need to be written into the client. People trading would report what the exchange rate was for each trade. I think it would be better to only count Smart Phone Trades to start to keep 'outliers' to a minimum but with proper execution we should be able to get to a proper average price.

   I'd align the idea of Singular Exchanges for every transaction aggregated through algorithms to determine a moving average.


Plus, using Smart Phone services when it come time to trade, you could turn ON the option for Trading and quickly locate local traders with their Trading option in the ON position.

The down side is 'Large' trades but that's for others to worry about. I'd rather see the average guy quickly get into and out of BTC and let the 'big' guys solve the big trade problem.

Read up yourself...

http://ia800904.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.txed.146063/

I was never a fan of a Foundation as it would tend to emulate others on consolidating power but understand the 'want' of others to have it.

It seems to me that the formula for fixing the BTC to a USD value is a little Full Tilt right now.

Perhaps, someone can address the issue.

You will be getting members overpaying for their memberships with this Mt.Gox issue.

Luke, seriously you wish to become a politician?

I'd understand you buying your way to the top but political ambitions rarely end up as intended.

Platform Questions:

Are you for or against BTC Social Security?

Do you support BTC Stamps for those without the means to feed themselves?

Are you for a strong defense?

Immigration stance on repatriation of coins?

And, of course, BIP16 or Bust?

This should do: