Click on buy/sell Bitcoin at the bottom and you'll get your local options. In the UK it offers me the Mycelium Marketplace, Gildera and a credit card option.

You really, really shouldn't be selling for Paypal if you can possibly help it. Coinbase offer that option and that's the only place I'd consider doing it even if you have to give up a little info.

Ah. That makes plenty of sense. I guess they couldn't give up the old zero fees without some pangs. They're paying a healthy premium though.

I wonder what they're using it for. Buying coins as they wait to get back on an exchange expecting it to be somehow higher? Or doing some of that mythical capital flight? I'm kind of surprised by the figures.

I was under the impression that he was only a figurehead for Megaupload 2.0 but I may be wrong. I assume the wider team behind it is having pause for thought at least.

I'm planning on going there some time this year hopefully, if it isn't  a nuclear slag heap  by then. I recommend the various vice documentaries on YouTube. The weirdest one is when they head to deepest Russia to seek out logging camps filled with north Koreans sent there to work for years on end. When they eventually do manage to interview some workers they didn't seem to understand the concept of a day off.

Of course there are always going to be issues,  but if it can't get past the current one which is eminently solvable then it won't be able to manage anything else in the future. It's something of a canary in the coalmine type of scenario.

No love for Goldeneye on the N64? That's a stone cold classic.

Anyway if you have a barn, a pile of money and the time here's the future - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8Bh5iI2WY

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That's possibly the key phrase there. As far as I can tell there isn't a significant project using the public chain. Using offshoots is a fine endorsement but not much more.

And price is mainly dictated by a few exchange whales. It'll need to ascend to the next level to blow them out of the water.

Keep your reasoned facts to yourself, especially when there's bigotry on the line.

Straight back to whoever or whatever sent it if that's possible. It might be someone's ransom for all I know. If that isn't possible then I'd buy 4.3 million sticks of RAM because it makes me feel better having it around me.

When your awareness of BTC grew to the point where you started to properly learn about it, what were the things that initially befuddled you? I don't necessarily mean the tech stuff, I'll never wrap my head around that, but perhaps the behaviour of people in the Bitcoin scene.

For me at least it was the screaming obviousness of the amateurism that abounded and the willingness of people to trust others who blatantly didn't have a clue.

A case in point is Gox. When I got rolling it was still the go to place officially endorsed by everyone. Within a few minutes' investigation I could not believe anyone would entrust a $1.46 Starbucks gift card to such a joke of an operation, let alone real money. Then I read the entire Pirateat40 thread and my tits nearly flew off.

Newcomers, what is currently proving mysterious to you, old timers what got your goat or got you scratching your head?

I'm willing to bet 1 Doge that that isn't the case. If you're balls deep in alts then insane returns and equally insane losses are par for the course. And most people here will never have been involved in any 'real' markets.

He got kicked out of his synagogue for inappropriate behaviour. He hasn't taken it well.

You must be new here. For some reason the second favourite subject of many people on this forum after Bitcoin is being vile about Yiddisher. Hopefully they'll all get their own sub section eventually where they can spit and foam in peace.

That's the most interesting quote and something not enough people have picked up on elsewhere. True usage as a currency comes last and that's the really unpredictable bit.

For a small amount of people at present it's a currency, for the overwhelming majority who do spend it regularly, and it's probably not very many, it's just a fine way of sending fiat.



Man, crypto has spoilt you. Try moaning about that type of return in the real world and you'll wind up having a new arsehole torn for you.

Even if the price is doing nothing, which is very often, the sheer drama, madness and intrigue surrounding Bitcoin makes it the greatest show on Earth. Nothing else provides the same entertainment if you pay attention to the scene surrounding it beyond its pure usage.

I can't see how his track record will be any worse than any previous administration, but let's see how that plays out in the coming years. He seems like the type of person who dives in and asks questions later which is not a good combo to have with thin skin and a lack of education. Hopefully those checks and balances do their job.

There's no reason for Kraken to add it. It's just another alt to them and there are others with much higher volumes. It's one of the best coins but they'll want something that makes them the most fees.

Ah, but it'll make it all the sweeter when it arrives. I remember someone on Localbitcoins had an ad going for ages urging people to make history by being the first to pay £1000 when everyone else was a few hundred cheaper. I think that's a reverse psychology too far.