An altcoin is a coin that's an alternative to Bitcoin.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Altcoin

Therefore, Bitcoin cannot possibly be an altcoin as nothing can be an alternate to itself.

It's better than playing the lotto with what Mt. Gox will decide to pay back. Mark's fraud needs to be exposed and the Bitcoins dispersed back to the owners of those Bitcoins. I don't know if we'll get all of our money back otherwise. I last bought on GOX at $750 or something like that and I thought the Chinese news was what was causing the drop. Instead of selling at $500, I didn't panic sell. Had I done so, I could have made five times my money back.

Bitcoin is the One World Currency, so it makes perfect sense that Satoshi/Illuminati would create it in such a way that it would eliminate the middle-class. They only want the poor (slaves) and the rich classes. If enough people with good hearts amass Bitcoin, it could be the Achilles heal in their plans. The people with large sums of cash could do something to help the poor, while "they" try to ruin people's lives. There will eventually only be 500,000 people in this world once they put the Georgia Stonehenge stuff into action. Just work to amass as much Bitcoin as you can and you'll also be in a place to help fix this mess.

Hopefully more companies will start accepting Bitcoin. The more companies who do, even if they exchange it for fiat right away, the better. After a while, companies will hodl the bitcoin instead of exchanging it for fiat and then the price will jump.

They look good. I sent the link to this thread through our channel at CCN. Maybe someone will write about this. If I have time, I'll do it myself perhaps.

Is this something you created? I'm not sure what to make of it.

Haha! I like #6. That would so much fun to have one of those. At least I have scruples enough to not go around killing anyone with it. I just want to have it for the sake of having it. =)

eBay needs to go away to leave room for legitimate marketplaces. Amazon needs to accept Bitcoin, but they said no for now...

Said the man who got paid. Anyway, as I didn't post the 20 times the first go round and wound up getting burned as I didn't know that some would be getting paid, I'm going to post 20 times again for round 6. Hopefully by tomorrow he'll pay our backpay as well as the pay for round 6.

I hope you're right. He hasn't replied to me in three days and I've been trying to get him to answer his PMs.

He's ignoring me, too.

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Think of it this way. Banks share their information on you with whomever they consider a partner. An insurance company partners with your bank and you do business with that insurance company. You now proceed to pay for an addition on your house using money in your bank account. A transaction for "Richard's Roofing and Repairs" posts to your account and now your insurance company knows that you got a new roof. The roof is part of the addition you're paying for, but it could also be seen as a repair job as well. Well, the insurance company sends out an insurance adjuster and you get a knock at the door. "Hi, I'm with your insurance company and I need to assess the value of your home as we got word that you had a new roof installed. Now your bill goes up by $5 every month. Brilliant...

Anonymity isn't just about being a blackhat. It's about not being taken advantage of by unethical companies.

That's a good idea, but the confirmation wait time would be tremendous if they were playing it safe. 10 minutes is quite the length of time to be standing around for especially if you're in a hurry. I think Bitcoin credit cards are going to be the way to solve this, though, as they don't rely on the customer being legitimate.

I LOVE those movies! I can definitely see where you're coming from. I hope your idea of Satoshi is the right one.

Sounds good to be, but the bigger they are, the harder they fall. If the company doesn't trust Bitcoin just yet, they'll be more reluctant to try things out than smaller companies will. If smaller companies do well, bigger companies will jump on board. Dell is the largest company to date to accept Bitcoin payments, but they exchange it for fiat right away. That creates a "downward pressure" on the bitcoin value.

Get a programmable LED display and have it pull data from whatever exchange you'd like. It could make things easier to have different exchange rates scrolling accross. Personally, I have the "Litecoin" widget on my android. Despite its name, it allows you to pull data from various exchanges and it's not just Litecoin data either.

Have a built in exchange that allows for custom API configuration. If you can arbitrage trade right from your wallet, that could really help a lot of people out.

As mining becomes less profitable, you need to learn where the best places are to use your miner. Just having a mining ASIC on a pool isn't going to cut it anymore. Multipools are taking root now, but to me, IPOMiner.com is potentially the most profitable because it focuses on new coins that just got released. If you mine and dump the coins to bitcoin once it's at the highest you think the coin will be worth, then you'll make more money potentially. IPOMiner only focuses on promising new coins, so they aren't crap coins that have low yields. I wrote a great article on CCN about this.

I try to hold more in a price drop or I'll buy bitcoins. I try to transact when the price is higher. I doubt anyone would be any different.