There are strategies that will be employed to try to bring down bitcoin once it achieves mainstream saturation. Credit rating manipulation is not one of them.

44. You check hardwarecanucks or Tomshardware every day for new Radeon hardware reviews.
45. You have vivid dreams about the price of bitcoin tanking or going to the moon.
46. Your firefox favorites bar is dominated by bitcoin-related links.
47. Your family has disowned you for heating up the house in the middle of July.

Sneakernet?

In third-world countries thousands depend on their gold mining jobs to survive. Add the workers in the mining industries in industrialized countries that would be out of work, and we see that a lot of people's lives would be severely affected if gold mining was stopped.

Bernanke is wrong: gold is the ultimate money. 100% of central banks hold gold, in spite of Bernanke's brush-off. However gold does have weaknesses that bitcoin can thrive on.

I do understand your point, though. From a wider perspective, why do we need gold if we can use anything as a store of value? I think its because of trust. Gold is a substitute for trust in a dog-eat-dog world. The question is, can the networks (and the bitcoin block-chain itself) be trusted enough to include bitcoin on the list of trusted stores of wealth?

Like the internet?

And at least 100 lawyers.....

I'm with you Sarge. It should have been obvious to people that its been taken way way too far when legislation started showing up prosecuting internet "hate speech".

If you are so fragile that you are unable to deal with another person's speech, perhaps its better to let nature take its course.

I want an invite please!

Stock price is at 3 year high? Hmmm. Its not working. .....Yet.

........there is no age or IQ check to register for the forum.

Could this mean that Bitcoin might survive and even thrive in spite of a major global disaster?

Assuming an expansive cellular network is built up rapidly following the event.

Alex Jones isn't that technologically savvy. He's a red-blooded Texan radio personality. His show and website are really cutting edge because he has a great crew backing him up.

If you want to get Alex Jones behind bitcoin, you will have to pitch it to guys like Bob Chapman or Joseph Watson first. They are the ones who keep Alex on the cutting edge. Alex is smart, he is not going endorse something he doesn't fully understand the implications of.

You voted for O-daddy?

I agree with OP.

Until someone creates a drop-dead easy app that does all the exciting stuff in the previous post, there will continue to be a stream of incidents of mainstream users' bitcoin wallets being compromised by hackers & trojans.

*worked*

Added forum.bitcoin.org to Ad-block+ exclusions.

I'm going to keep my banner.   

I second that motion. NL Holdem cash games & tournaments only.

I don't see any banners?

StrikeSapphire Casino https://strikesapphire.com/?afc=3Ee9Kj2j2J already offers live Texas Holdem Tables. There is currently no traffic (cause you guys aren't joining) so click the link or sig banner and SIGN UP! Someone has to boot up the poker economy, it won't be people who aren't into bitcoin already.

I'd love to bet my bitcoins, but there's no one to play me except the bots in play chip mode!

Perhaps this can be integrated with Tradehill's newly announced P2P transfers. https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=31119.0

I am immune to facebook as well. Am also a pre-internet computer enthusiast.