If you're legendary on here as I AM NOW, all you have to do is call up the Core team and you don't even have to wait for another block. And they also double the Bitcoin you're sending as a courtesy.

I'm building a scale model of Venice from my snot. I only do this when waiting for confirmations so my descendants will have to continue it after I'm gone.

I think banks will lift the ideas they like and use it to polish up their own product. Most average people would swallow what the banks serve up to them regardless of how appalling it is for their future.

Do I think there are paid shills from the banks prowling this board right now? I think Bitcoin attracts enough psychotic freaks who are willing to upend it for free for their own sweaty little reasons.

There are higher paying campaigns but it is totally dependable. I don't think it makes an account all that much more desirable especially at the price you want. Stick it up for auction and see what happens.

The biggest hacks, Gox and Bitfinex, were down to the staggering incompetence/criminality of the exchange operators themselves. Had they run the type of security that anyone with a functioning mind would - cold wallets feeding a trickle into hot wallets - hacks would suck but be relatively minimal.

Why not ask them directly? I doubt they're going to bother as it's an awful lot of work for them. They will however keep a log of it and hand it over if the tax man comes asking. When I log in to Circle it tells me that selling Bitcoin is a taxable event. I'm sure they've got better things to do than keep spying.

Don't you know how he was caught? He put up his email address on here back in the day. He deleted it but someone quoted his reply and it was found by the FBI a few years later. Be careful out there, kids.

What the hell was Dude ish about John Lennon? He sounded like an abusive, prickly anus. He's possibly the least Dude ish person who ever lived.

There seem to be many more than there were a short while back. I don't know how many of them are attempting to scam their members by using them for advertising and then skanking them though.

It must be a prize pain up the arse running a sig campaign to the satisfaction of the forum operators. I'm surprised there are as many successful ones as there are.

I wilfully disposed of the retrieval details of an alt that I felt was particularly crap. That certainly showed them a thing or two. As for Bitcoin itself, I may have left dust on certain exchanges that I'll never bother sniffing out again.

I'd be a tad shocked if any of the gift card sellers had obtained them fully legitimately. You can only be given so many unwanted ones by your grandma before it becomes a little fishy.

Folks here seem to have the memories, attention spans and perspective of gnats. Bitcoin cares not for your petty boredoms.

I think we know in our hearts what the answer's going to be for the overwhelming majority. Or the more likely outcome is that they're not going to ask themselves that question in the first place.

The author of that article used the term 'illuminati' ergo I've no interest in his opinion.

You can do it yourself with bitaddress.org. I wouldn't be inclined to trust anywhere or anyone who creates a private key for you.

Save the webpage. Transfer it to an offline computer, ideally booted from a USB with Linux on it, create the address and private key and then you'll be able to send coins to it. Make sure you take careful note of the private key and address of course and back it up offline too.

That 100% depends on where it goes from here in terms of adoption. Despite all the noise and confirmation bias here, it's effectively nowhere still in the greater scheme of things. It's gotten as far as it can on pure speculation by a small number of enthusiasts.

It either remains an experiment and curio in which case there'll be modest pumps but not enough fresh blood to take it anywhere which is the story of the last three years, or some real utility is delivered and it's used as it's intended to be by an ever increasing number of people.

In that scenario then all the silly predictions might just become a possibility. There's such a lack of perspective that people compare 2013 to the dotcom bubble.

The dotcom bubble consumed trillions of dollars of premier league institutional money. Bitcoin's 2013 bubble was probably fuelled by a few thousand Chinese grannies. There were no finance professionals, no institutional money, there were no exchanges worth shit, no investment vehicles, no tax wrappers, no fundamentals, nothing.

Look up 'crossing the chasm' in terms of how tech is adopted. I dunno where we are, possibly sub early adopter still, but Bitcoin is definitely in some type of chasm. Either it climbs out and ignites or continues to roll around at the bottom.

They certainly do. I've read many gloomy posts dwelling on might have been when it comes to Bitcoin. I suppose the violence of the rises is a factor in that. You're less likely to be bereft if it happens over a decade or two but it's still going to eat away at you.

Nope. The whole point is that they're removed from exposure to the internet when they're created. That's the cold part.

As ever crypto news sites add some additional spin.

Here's the line from the original Reuters article.

'Other goals included allowing forward-dated payments and creating an interface with the 'distributed-ledger' technology that underpins digital currencies such as Bitcoin "if/when they achieve critical mass", it said.'

Not a single one.

Ever ever ever.