If the companies actually had a product there wouldn't be pre-orders.

Work and invest what you can in BTC

Once you get comfortable with that try to make some small investments, but only if it brings you more BTC.

Try not to worry or rush because then you'll make mistakes. Just wait for the right opportunities while working with what you have.

You can find a several popular Bitcoin Lotteries at:
http://bitcoinbarrel.com/bitcoin-lotteries/

I guess just not enough people are buying it 

99% of movies nowadays suck so who cares...

Yes it is still possible even on a CPU miner. But if you don't mine then it is not possible...

Sooner or later they're going to have to accept it. Too many people are jumping on board at this point.

Signed up the other day and love it so far. Very unique game selection compared to most sites like Bitnopoly and Battleship plus layout is easy and appealing. Great work guys it's a lot of fun!  

Bitcoin may not be better than Gold in the long-run, but in today's technological and fast-paced society Bitcoin is much more practical than traditional banking for several reasons. First, you are in control of your own finances whereas in a bank every employee has access to your account, information and transactions. Second, transactions happen in 10 minutes compared to bank transfers/wires which take 3 days. Also, let's not forget Bitcoin utilizes a public ledger with all transactions made public and Fiat currencies are un-audited and privately controlled.

It's beginning... 

They just can't stand SWC being the best damn poker site in the world.  

p.s. I'm going to buy an e-cig so I can celebrate when the site is back online.

I'm guessing the physical coin is only a novelty and not worth 1 BTC, but we'll wait to hear from the OP.

Apparently these guys on Twitter are behind it:

https://twitter.com/cryptotipz

LOL what a mess... I'm glad it's working now though.

Good thing ReCaptcha keeps there Twitter updated:
https://twitter.com/reCAPTCHA

What a jerk.. 

Around 12,000,000 back in May 2013.

You can see what the difficulty was on certain dates at the bottom of:
http://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

I would be so happy if Google Adsense had an option to payout in BTC!

I've been playing on Seals since May 2013 and have only experienced down time like this 2-3 times. They are always back online quickly and have never failed to compensate me for BTC lost from outages. I have full confidence in SWC, ST6 and Mr. Chairman.

What would happen if they banned file sharing?

Yes I'm specifically looking for online merchants and e-commerce stores that accept Bitcoin.

If you know of any Brick and Mortar stores that accept Bitcoin it wouldn't hurt to include them as well.