I'll add 2:

Sharon den Adel + Anneke van Giersbergen - Somewhere  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR_mBh5mqok
The Gathering - Strange Machines     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HUMwinV2AQ

Faucets. Too small amounts, it doesn't even matter to bother.
Sig campaigns. You can get decent amounts, especially if you write a lot here. Still slow (at least for me, since I don't write that much), I've got less than 0.4 BTC for the last 5 months or so.
Mine. Usually you'll "earn" less than electricity cost (assuming you don't invest).
Work, earn cash, buy BTC. Depending on your country and skills, this could take from days to 1-2 months. This is by far the fastest way imho.

1. I think that first we need to force the miners don't "run away" with finder's fee and a few transactions confirmed when there are old transactions waiting and max (current) size not filled yet.
This is a much bigger problem than block size, because the block size doesn't matter at all if miners don't use it well.

2. Then, maybe the block size could be adjusted - with some smart formula - to be bigger only when bigger is needed (edit: meaning when there are old transactions waiting for more than a certain time). So a "smart" BIP1xx.

Wonderful news. Pretty nice and big list covered.
However, I'd like to see such .. companies in the rest of the world too. Europe, Asia/Japan, maybe, why not? Africa...

Bitcoin is quite well known by now in US. Still work to do to conquer the world.

You made me doublecheck
As usual, the malware seems to be using names quite similar with known software.
The normal browser is chrome.exe, not chrome32.
I guess that the same story goes to acrobat reader too, but since I don't use it I cannot check.


But really, the ones who run windoze with no antivirus on... they just ask for it.

Yo mama is so skinny, I've seen her shadow, but I couldn't find her!

Yo mama is so ugly, she cannot win a beauty contest even alone in the desert!

With the volatility of Bitcoin, your cash solution is not helping in all cases.

Let's say the buyer sends Bitcoin. You convert to cash.
The seller doesn't send the product and you have to refund.
But .. bad luck for you, this time Bitcoin price is bigger.
And I guess that you have to give the buyer back his Bitcoins, so you are at loss.

I think that you should stick to bitcoin. This way the seller will also try to send the product fast, to avoid .."bitcoin volatility"...

For your image the link is

Step 1. Upload the image somewhere, like http://imgur.com/  It will give you some links, one is DIRECTLY to the image.
Step 2. Put that url like this:

If you talk about mining, technology, ASIC, .. they'll surely get bored.

You have 2 chances:
* start with... colored coins!      joking, there is only one chance:
* give them a good amount - at least 5 BTC and tell it's real money with real value. And show how it can be spent. Now they have your attention and you can give some technical from time to time, but not too much.

Quite a lot of them are expecting to get some free money in countries like Germany, also in countries like Saudi Arabia they have to work much harder for a decent living.

What I don't understand is how the heck they just go with the first that promises them to get them there.
They should use better their brains and think of safety too, gambling their lives too many times.. turns out with some unfortunate events too.

If you want to mine Bitcoin with your computer, you are a couple of years late. You would need to buy ASIC, which may or may not pay for the electricity and make profit. Usually may not.
If you want to try out cloud mining.. that's debatable.. some claim that all are ponzi schemes. There are many scams and even if you find a good one, the profit is not great.
So unless you have free power and a warehouse of ASICs, I'd advice you not to mine Bitcoin. If you want some, better buy.


If you want to mine with your computer for learning purpose, I suggest you try to mine some altcoins. Which coin? Pick one with friendly community, for start.
If you want to make profit from mining, you should research and find the altcoin that you cam make profit on. And you have a slight chance if you have a state-of-the-art GPU and you want to mine with it.

After all this, you can search for "best site" for mining, but usually all are the same and the coin list them in its OP.

Insekt - Push The Needle
...on some internet radio.

Most tell that the exact price doesn't matter at all. But I can bet that if the price would rise, even with "1 satoshi" every now and then without falling much and often, the "adoption" would be skyrocketing.

Of course, such things are not healthy for stocks, but for bitcoin which has actually a very limited supply, this should be normal.
But our calculations don't match with "theirs" (the ones that do the big transactions).


Most tell that price doesn't matter, but if the price falls too much too many miners could give up weakening Blockchain security and/or increasing block times too much (if too much hash power is lost in very short time).


So let's face it: bitcoin is a business for too many, so the price does matter.

This was a news back in April-May.
Since then all uTorrent users that read the news have migrated to something else.

qBittorrent was the choice I liked and I use now.

People may disagree even after years of marriage, really.

There are 2 possible "sane" motifs behind an action:
* it suits them better
* they believe it's the correct way

While "the correct way" can publicly argued, the other part is usually hidden.
I think that the XT story has a lot of both.


Dictatorship is imho on a "sane" motif and I'd rule it out.

I use the older MultiBit and unless you really need to do "big things" I don't advice you to get core client.

Yes, core client is the best, the safest, the first up-to-date and so on, but it makes you download and keep locally the blockchain.
And that's big. So for start I recommend any of the "light" clients you want. Wait for more input and pick one!

Depends how big a missive is, but especially if you want to share only the last one, a solution can be any (?) cloud storage.
At least Dropbox and Tresorit have functionality to share links to files (or folders).

I wouldn't be surprised if a couple of seasoned (wall street?) traders have here a dozen accounts each and earn nicely from posting various rise or fall threads at the right moment(s).
Even tiny changes can be turn into money. And Bitcoin's fluctuation from 200 to 300 and back is about 50%! Quite an opportunity for the ones who know the game.

Almost nobody has patience nowadays. Get used to that. And in this forum (and BTC world) almost everybody wants to get rich quick.
If one would just believe in BTC would only have the amount for tests and normal use and would not care about the current price.
But with all just "buy and hodl", what would you expect

And the drama is good, actually. At least people talk about Bitcoin.
While people talk about it, we know it's here, "alive", up and running. Don't complain, please