If you look at his previous posts you would also see that the money that he invested in bitcoin was not even "his" as it was a gift given to him by his grandmother. IMO he has no business investing any money in bitcion as it was never what he earned to invest.

Regardless the price decline has clearly not gotten him to decide to not continue his involvement in bitcon as he is clearly still somewhat active in trolling

Amazon could potentially offer more then a 3% discount on using bitcoin with them. The cost per TX is ~3% however they have to deal with chargebacks and fraud that is not detected at the time of purchase which can add substantially to the overall cost of accepting bitcoin

I think you make a very good point (probably unintentionally) about the price declining. If the prices continues to decline then it will be unprofitable for miners to mine, which will cause the difficulty to decline. I would say that the difficulty is higher then it needs to be right now to keep the network secure, but it cannot go down to CPU/GPU levels as it would potentially open it up to be attacked and essentially killed off

This is not quite accurate. Charities, like all other organizations have expenses and bills to pay, and in the case of charities are paid out of donations.

Charities have an efficiency ratio, which measures the percentage of donations that actually go to help the cause they are supporting. There are many charities that have a very low efficiency ratio, sometimes below 33%.

Coinbase makes it just as easy to buy bitcoin as circle does (with the exception of circle allowing users to use a credit card to buy bitcoin, which is a huge mistake).

The reason that circle could revolutionize bitcoin adoption is that it is seeking to change the user experience when someone uses bitcoin. 

When SR first came out Ross would guarantee the price of bitcoin while it was held in escrow. In other words if a buyer purchased something for 5,000 BTC and bitcoin was trading at $0.10 when the funds were placed in escrow but went down to $0.05 by the time escrow was released, then the seller would receive 10,000 BTC.

I think this usually worked in his favor, but it sometimes did not. I also believe that he charged extra for this guarantee.

This is really not an option anymore because of how many transactions are done in bitcoin. It would certainly not be possible because no one actually "owns/runs" it.

coinbase will require a bank account however circle will not. I believe that circle will also effectively force you to pay your credit card company a 2.9% cash advance fee as they will charge any bitcoin purchase as a cash advance.

Also you cannot actually buy bitcoin via a credit card with coinbase, you can only use it as a backup in the event of a reversal on your bank account

I think that hardware costs will count, but there will be a much smaller markup on the production costs.

I believe that difficulty will mirror that of average electricity costs (with a negative coloration).

As far as the price is concerned, I would say that I would say that the current decline is temporary and hopefully will rebound sometime in the near future.

In banking the bank has an asset (loans) that backs up the money that is owed to depositors.

I believe that Gox did not intentionally use a fractional reserve system (this is really not an accurate term because they did not have any assets to backup the bitcoin that is owed to customers.

I would also not so much call this a "flaw" as it would produce very little profit at best, however could very much blow up in their faces and cause huge losses, and the EV of this kind of activity is negative as the general concusses is that bitcoin will rise over time

I would speculate that the amount being sent was more then what is available in your hot wallet, and you have your paper wallets loaded on your 'account' as a watch only address, so blockchain.info was trying to spend the funds because it had to but didn't have the private keys.

Were you trying to spend more that was available in your hot wallet on your specific blockchain.info account?

If this is not the case then you may have some kind of male-ware

I would agree with what you are implying. If an exchange is offering interest on bitcoin deposits then they are giving incentives for people to hold bitcoin at their exchange. They do this so when they eventually do run away with customer funds they have more money to run away with

Altcoins are not bitcoin. Scamcoins do not offer any substantial benefits that bitcoin does not offer.

I think he will get "off" with no jail time. If this is the case then him pleading guilty will have essentially no impact on his life. He already has a job lined up (if he isn't already working for them) - I believe it is some bitcoin related project, I know that he said that he is working/going to be working for a MSB.

The site requires javascrypt to be enabled. I would consider this to be phishy at best, and at worse something very dangerous to be clicking on.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0

See the above thread for a comprehensive list/summary of all the bitcoin paying signature campaigns out there.

There are very few open ones now however there are sometimes a few spots opening up on the closed for new participants campaigns.

In my experience, any game that gives you bitcoin for playing will act more or less like a faucet with is 100% a waste of time.

This number will technically be a little bit less due to the fact that some TXs have outputs that were sent to unspendible addresses.

Bitcoin has the greatest chances of replacing the currencies (or potentially supplementing) of third world countries that have a very small economy and very small stand of living.

This are all very bad places to visit. You would likely be in danger if you were to visit any of these places.

2 hours and 42 minutes is my total login time so far.

Counting down to 100 days