It may be unfashionable to admit it, but Bitcoin is the last thing I'd sell to buy major items. I spend it on bits and bobs but no more. The last major electronic item I bought was paid for by selling off my old ones. That felt very satisfying and leaves me unemotional about future BTC price explosions.

Gift cards, electronic crap. I'd love to be able to use it more but my options are limited where I'm at. There are really only 10-20 major sites where I can spend it online.

This blog neatly sums it all up. I find it extraordinarily tiresome when people drone on about bankcoins killing Bitcoin. They'll make Bitcoin's attributes even more stark and essential but if cashlessness was implemented, and I really can't see that going down too well in an awful lot of places, then that puts BTC firmly in the firing line.

Dunno about that but I'd bloody love it if cashback sites paid out in BTC. That would be a sweet way of obtaining it for nowt.

Finally I have reached the summit. Now I can gaze down upon you and squirt my wisdom into your little mouths.

Slippage on a 1k buy, no? It's not as if Bitfinex has the fattest walls compared to the old days. A bit of fun for everyone.

So she's running for president to avoid going to prison? That's an interesting take. I think there is a place in the world for a dead president. They can be propped up and look stately at the right occasions. It works for North Korea.

I don't think it's going to be any type of usable currency en masse until it's reached the vast majority of users that'll ever take it up. Store of value comes first, then currency.

In that scenario all of Bitcoin is toast. As is the entirety of the internet in its present form. Let's hope something is done before this becomes a thing.

What about the poor things' claws? Some drones out there are the equivalent of flying lawnmowers. I wouldn't want to grab one with chain mail gloves on.

There's power hungry and then there's delusional. Even if I was a total megalomaniac I'd know that dying on my first night in the white house wouldn't be a great look. Good luck to her all the same.

Let's assume for a moment that she is at death's door and has known for a long time, er, would you put you put yourself up for the most stressful job on Earth and spend months of grinding beforehand to try and get it?

I don't recall saying anything about NEM's present health. I was talking about the silver coin idea. I think it adds a vast amount of complication with little or no gain.

I think the coin thing was a pretty weird idea to start with and now its time has long passed. Plenty of stakeholders are long gone or never arrived in the first place.

https://www.wavecrest.gi/solution/digital-currency/

I can't see one single mention of the word Uquid anywhere on this site.

Nope. They're never going away. There are billions more stupid and greedy people. The sites themselves will become ever more sophisticated.

The best we can hope for is that the necessary operations such as exchanges become bulletproof. That's the real threat and impediment to Bitcoin's growth.

There are always going to be scum operating at the fringe that appeals to morons eager to throw their money at the best lies they can find. You can shout about giving up control of your private keys until your voice box explodes, they won't listen.

In this context a Bitcoin company is a company focused around dealing with Bitcoin. There is no shortage of them.

And these aren't the piece of shit jokes you get in the securities section here. These are companies run by experienced people with proper backing. To be a payment processor requires a ton of regulatory compliance.

That still doesn't mean any of them are going to do anything other than throw your money away. Can you point me to a legit company that's offered any return to its backers?

Accredited investors are not going to be putting money into alts or casino bankrolls.

Pah. It's time to live for today. You could either wait another 2-3 years nurturing your cold wallet, or you could be down your local seafront tonight doing donuts in a thong in your new 'Vette.

I used Circle for the first time a while back. After I downloaded the app it took me quite some time to find the Bitcoin bit.

I got the feeling Circle were positioning themselves as more of a p2p fiat rail these days. Is there an official mention of Bitcoin related to this?

In the UK they tried to do away with cheques a while back. That's a technology that's a couple of thousand years old in principle. The idea was quickly abandoned when millions of grannies kicked up a stink as they never go anywhere near cash machines or online banking.

Cash is another idea that's been around for thousands of years. I really don't think it's going to be given up completely without some major battles no matter what a bunch of egg heads decide is best for the rest of us (ie themselves).