Hi, we are all noobs in bitcoin. It's new!
Perhaps this helps answer your question. The "price" of bitcoin is an ever changing figure that ultimately is up to the individual who is selling. The spot price that most people use is normally an average price of many markets at that moment. Whatever you pay today may be quite different from tomorrows price and no one, I mean literally NO ONE, knows what the future price will be. 
So if your concern is paying more than tomorrows price the best you can do is buy when the price is declining. It is no guarantee, but if you buy when the price is climbing you may be holding your coins during a price correction.  In that case they will be worth less than you paid. Over all the price has gone up year to year in spectacular fashion. So you will likely see a higher valuation than you paid if you just wait.

[spit_take]Ha ha  [/spit_take]

Hello 2011.  

During a press conference Mr. Black ripped off a mask reveling himself to be Craig Wright. He then ripped off that mask and proved he is Mark Karpeles!

I guess we are a few days from the "Fucking Japanese" posts then. 

I use bitcoin as legal currency all the time. Why I just bought a valentine present today, so I'm not sure what you mean?

Maybe he got lucky because his GF was reading the other players cards?

I would add that an absolute requirement of any business deal is a notarized contract. The contract should detail what you must do and how any claims of profit are handled. You will find that all the guarantees made online disappear as soon as the counter-party is presented with a legal contract obligating him/her to honor those claims.  

Well, that is correct and is exactly how bitcoin works. It's not charity. You pay for a Tx because it costs money to do that and you are the one who wants it done.

Yes, to say the least. A dirty little secret is that even the most respected TA on Wall St. rarely does better than random chance.

I have never lost a satoshi.
Never trust an unlicensed business.
Never trust anyone with a guarantee of profit.
Never "invest" bitcoin, spend bitcoin.

If there were a loss of net neutrality I would divest at least 50%. It might even kill the project.

The market says $1055.53 US
The market is not an opinion about the price, it is the price. But my gut feeling is that speculation adds say 10% to the utility valuation. So, $950.

I assure you that every BTC Tx in the U.S. is now being watched. In the next few years there will be a lot of people in court who thought as you did. Your going to turn your profits into profound losses.

Help! I'm trapped in a system of fair money that only I control! The value keeps going up and I can't stop it, help!
 

Note that this is not a law it's a rule from coinbase, circle, and bitpay. Annoying really. I helped a gun shop in my city to set up a bitpay account only to find bitpay scrambling to add a ban to their website and cutting off their account. Not very professional at all. There is no reason to fear firearms sales they are the most documented and supervised sales you will find. 

Individual countries can do what they want but it does not hurt bitcoin. It just leaves them out of the money. So what?

Using bitcoin I expect to pay the lowest possible fee that is profitable. That amount will vary based on how fast I need confirmation, the backlog of Tx's, the cost of mining, etc. This is how the bitcoin system works. Miners compete to accept fees when it is profitable and reject offers that are too low. 

Thanks for the warning! Can you tell us what operating system you are using?

That's everything I was thinking. I'll just second this.  
And what do you mean by "trapped". no one is trapped here, lol