God is a fantasy. There's no one person controlling everything. The cosmos is everything in existence and it functions all on it's own. I bow to no god and no man. I simply exist in reality.

Dead silence - By the air around me. Haha! I'll be leaving soon, so I haven't turned on my grooveshark.com yet.

In the long run, I'd like to pay for everything in bitcoin, but for now I need to hodl as many as I possibly can. The more I have when the price booms again, the better. I'm sure we all can relate.

Bitcoins are calculated based on blockchain transaction data. Your wallet stores addresses, nothing more. The blockchain stores only transaction data.

Very nice. It just goes to show you how much IPOMiner can bring in, eh?

They would need to have enough computers around to keep things secure. Perhaps they'll have a different blockchain.

A very basic way to set up a voting system would be to log IPs to the DB that have voted and only allow them to vote once. Most of the time this is sufficient, but if you make a member's area and allow members to vote only once and you have to be logged in to vote, then you're good to go. Also, be sure to check your boundaries. Be sure people can't edit any JS you might use and change how many stars they give or do other garbage.

Bitcoin will grow in value. Depending on how much Bitcoin you own, you'll become wealthy. It's a new currency, so it'll take time to establish itself, but once it does, it'll be the one-world currency.

Set your fees lower. On a side note, why in the world are you sending 0.24¢ to begin with?

Haha! Wow. Someone should drop acid to that video.

That's a smart idea. I was wondering when someone would do that. Not every address you own needs to top secret and this makes things a bit easier on everyone.

It sounds like you might be a spook. Have you checked your badge lately? Haha! Well, anyway, you have a point as to why they can't come right out and say it, but by no means is any government 100% legitimate and for the people. Every government is corrupt and the US government is one of the more corrupt governments out there.

I'd have to say yes, but it could still be one of the more overall positive things they've done. A one-world currency isn't such a bad thing IMO, but it's why they plan on doing with it when it's fully a one-world currency that's the gotcha.

I spend it when I need to, but I try to hodl as much as I can. It's a much better payment method than other things, but if I need to pay in fiat, I have to wait around for a few days while I have it sent to my bank account to transact in less efficient ways.

Everything is now speculation apparently with this. We say one thing at CCN, CoinDesk says alother in a matter-of-fact manner, then AhaMetals says something different. No one really knows why people do what they do right now, but my guess is that the downward pressure of big businesses like Dell selling bitcoins for fiat is causing the market to fluctuate, but to stay low.

I don't know if every place does this or not, but you might have hit a scam business who's trying to take advantage of the Bitcoin volatility. The value of a bitcoin will go up over time and they know this, but it sounds like they're trying to act like it will go down so far that they'll loose money. It's implausible that Bitcoin will die out before they get it exchanged for fiat. They should keep the bitcoins in the first place, but if enough people complain, they'll stop slapping everyone with fees and drop the act.

I'd say the fees should be about the same as an exchange, but you could up them a bit and get away with it as you won't be exchanging as high of a volume as exchanges do. You'll also be providing a different kind of convenience, so that could allow you to raise the fees a bit. 0.5% seems about right. In order to ensure you have enough business, perhaps make the minimum fee the equivalent of $1.00. This way people don't create lots of dust transactions as well.

Aside from Las Vegas, if you're in the UK, the London Inside Bitcoins is coming in September. Check out http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/inside-bitcoins-exclusive-interview-join-us-london-september/2014/08/15

The Bitcoin transaction confirmations are slow and that's the obvious choice. However, the one that isn't so obvious is the fact that no one has sent me all of the Bitcoins yet.

Who's private keys are they?

UPDATE: I decided to search for some of the stuff that shorena posted and I found http://directory.io/ which lists mostly generated Bitcoin addresses to fill out fake pages. All you need to do is run a PHP script to generate a lot of addresses per page, then cache the pages server side. Every page you visit will appear to be a valid page and you can't go past the number at the top. In order to make it appear legitimate, some fake private keys were added with legitimate Bitcoin addresses next to it.

Keep in mind that any Bitcoin address that CAN be used on the network is valid. The Bitcoin addresses are not stored in the blockchain, only your wallet. You can generate Bitcoin addresses until you're blue in the face, and who knows, maybe a couple of the private keys on that website are legitimate by chance. The Bitcoin blockchain only stores transaction data.