Gavin working for the CIA? Nope
Did he go there to explain the concept and to reduce the misconceptions that there might have been about Bitcoin? Yes, I think he did.
If you are identified or linked to any possible threat against the USA, you will be "pulled in" to state your case.
In the beginning a lot of agencies, who did not understand the technology, might have perceived this as a threat, and he willingly went there to explain the technology. That is my take on it.

Well, for those who wants to leave, I say GOOD LUCK and make sure you sell your coins at discount prices.
I for one will enjoy the rodeo ride and buy as many of those coins as my fiat budget would allow.
Bitcoin is the killer APP for me. ^Hint hint^

Then you are in the right place and the wrong crowd. ^Joke^ In the beginning I also thought Bitcoin was a NerdCoin but my opinion changed when I met a few of these people in meetup's. There are a lot of hunks and jock's and cheerleaders amongst them too. Bitcoin has become so widely adopted now, that people from all walks of life is using it now.

Would be fun, if they could flash a Bip38 paper wallet {Bitcoin Address & Private Key pair} on a big screen and the first person to SMS the correct answer to a question, will be electronically given the pass phrase to sweep the content.
We live in a electronic age, where things like this is possible. Why not do it?
 

This sounds like fun, but what kind of turn-based game will wait for 30 minutes to confirm a transaction?
I would like to play chess against someone, where every move is recorded on the blockchain. You pay for every move you make and it goes to a central escrow service, that would pay the winner on completion of the match.
The only problem is speed and honesty. <You will have to stream the game, to proof that you used NO device to make the moves for you>   

These guys like this type of technologies because it disrupts THE SYSTEM. Most of these guys, originate from the older hacker communities and if you read their posts on the old BBS's you find that they very opposed to centralization and government controlled entities. <We need more people like this, who think out of the box>
In my opinion, he is part of the Satoshi group. ^Hide^

 

Even if you bypass the IP Block, you still need to be able to withdraw it. The minimum withdraw limit and that fact that you cannot <rinse & repeat> without a zero balance, make it impossible to accumulate it to the withdraw limit.
The only way to benefit from that, would be to repeatedly milk the site from the faucet from several different accounts and then gambling with that until you hit the jackpot. Your chance of doing that is very small.

This to me is further proof that the sha256 used in Bitcoin is bulletproof or it could have been cracked and the OP did not report back, due to criminal intent. Out of curiosity, did any of the members attempt this or did the OP not respond to your request for more information?
There was a guy on reddit who posted his BIP38 paper wallet {Address & Private Key} and challenged people to Bruteforce it, and I wonder how successful that was?   

We should not mention bitcoin at all, when we close our accounts. The banks does not need any more information about this matter, than what you want to tell them.
They sr3w us over for years and then we have to arm them with knowledge to hurt us more?
Just close your accounts and tell them you are changing banks for cheaper banking fees.

They sure have a lot of different coins on there. It would be a nice tool to introduce people to the Alt Coin scene.
It can be quite a daunting task to buy all those different coins from several sites.
I joined a year ago, out of curiosity to see if they might increase the rewards, but nothing has changed and I still receive dust from it. I now think they only created it to farm email information, but I may be wrong.

This might sound a bit trivial, but I actually count them. I call them <The Coverted>
Up to date, I have counted 53 people converted to buying Bitcoin or owning some. My best period was when the price was just below $1000/BTC - Since then, a lot of people lost faith <About 13 people>
I do however find that the people who bought before the spike in price, was the people who held on the longest.
They are also more active and still buy BTC frequently.

My spouse agreed to stream a LIVE feed of <spring cleaning in the buff> I made the mistake of saying, Who the hell is going to pay to watch that? I am now officially in the Dog Box for a month.
Next time, I will have to count my words or swallow it, if it pay off and pay the bills. ^Hmmmm^

They can accept what they want, but I want BTC to be one of them or I would be pissed. I would like to pay for my McBurger with my McBitcoin NOW. If we demand it, they will accept it, if we keep quite nobody will take notice.
Buy your burger and chips and demand to pay in Bitcoin. When they deny your request, say the following : "So you want to ignore the fastest growing NEW trending currency out there?" Then report back here, I'd like to hear their response when 50 people do that in one location. ^Ha ha ha^ 

"A friend of an enemy is friend" It's never more true than how they saying it there.
The banks apply the strategy of " My friends, friend is my enemy, If you keep that friend, you are my enemy "
They have so much power, for them to decide who they want as friends and who they want to turn into enemies.
This just shows you, how money rules the world. ^evil^

The man on the street should only understand this part, [ “The easy answer, which may or may not be correct is that transaction volume will ramp up, we’ll scale the network and transaction fees will take over,” said Andresen ]
In 125 years from now, Bitcoin will be a distant memory and we would be paying with our minds. ^Ha Ha Ha^
At the rate we are going now, the world would be destroyed and we would have nothing to buy.

" Bitcoin is an online currency that’s nearly impossible to trace. " FUD #1
" Its founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, mined over 1,000,000 bitcoins before the growing number of competing miners raised the difficulty to levels exceeding his own profitability. " FUD #2
" Once the “easy coins” dried up, the infamous crypto creator vanished with his bulging pot of digital gold." FUD #3

## The funny part is, the OP thinks we are going to buy Goldcoins, when he post enough FUD about Bitcoin ##

Let me be the one to burst the bubble. Do not get me wrong, I am a huge BTC fan and I will support it to the end BUT I am a realistic too. We assume BTC will be the de fact coin and everyone will be converted. WU and the banks are not sitting on their hands, they are investing millions into the development of their own technologies. <Mastercard Send, was launched yesterday to counter Bitcoin>
My prediction would be a maximum of 3 years dominance for Bitcoin and then a complete replacement by a NEW technology.

Bitcoin does not need a leader, just someone to maintain the code. If the change is good, people will adopt and implement it. It's not as complex as these people are making it.
The Core developers work with the code every day, and they calculate the figures and the impact on the blockchain, and we trust them to make the most sensible changes.
We cannot stay with the status quo, things must change as the blockchain grows in popularity and use. 

Check the source, and what is their motives for saying this? 
The twelve members in the committee represent the US Government {Centralized} and the 5 Core developers represent the Bitcoin community and the decentralized protocol they use. ^Spot the difference?^

Also about 2 years now. I have been a Bitcoin pessimist, and then I turned Lurker and now I am a enthusiast.
The next step, will be a Bitcoin fanatic, and hopefully a expert. I read tons of information daily and take it up like a sponge. ^Keeping thumbs^