Good to know. I just change the password again. Better safe than sorry...

For now there are much more important issues to fix, to make blockchain be ready for much bigger transaction volumes.
There was brought in many places that since there were (and are!) a lot of valid transactions still unconfirmed since the last test/attack, the miners just go forward focusing on getting the block fee and not caring much of confirming as much as possible (of course, by the user fee).

Then the block size may come into discussion.


The problems you stated may be valid but the current devs will be dead and buried long before such problems will arise and then why bother, really?

I've read that the stocks of flour are not great, I've read that some hotels said - about one week ago - that their food supplies are for one more week only.
A rather big part of the food use to come - from any country - from other countries. This is what supermarket chains do. And since the money control, this may be somehow disrupted.

However, I am also sure there will be no problems with the Feta and the fish supply, so the situation is not that bad


Allright. Starting when?


They don't announce them so much ahead, so .. yeah, there's some risk. But I plan to refill in Macedonia and whenever I can, to be on the safe side.

This is the interesting part.
Some will buy and hold Bitcoin, it will become the bank they can rely on.

1. Bitcoin needs steady growth, not another bubble.
2. Greece as a country has no benefit in Bitcoin, they need either a loan, either a coin they can make inflation on. Some of the Greeks though, may find Bitcoin as a safe investment of their money and a way to export the money while the "capital control". However, I don't see a big scale for this movement because the capital control may be lifted until the end of the week and most people are still stuck to 50? Euro/day.

If in another city lives somebody that looks like you and wears the same clothes as you, when he goes to his home, will your dog recognize him as being you?
Nope, especially because your dog is in your home in your city, so they will never meet. (And also because the dogs use their nose, not their eyes, but that's another story.)

I hope that's clearer now.

The strange reality is that I waited until it rose back to 300+ (then get back down) to make me think more serious of buying.
Maybe the fact it showed it can get back to its place made me think like this, however, the 100$ scenario doesn't stand.

I've had some money on my PP which I received and with not much of chance to spend in the near future.
But since people are afraid of selling for PP (and I surely understand why!) and since I don't trust anybody (meaning that I wouldn't have gone first), I just used an established business to do the conversion (actually 2 of them - wesellcrypto and poloniex).
This is a sad story, I know. The shitty ToS of PP just seems to help the scammers...

To read your balance or to receive bitcoin the address is enough.
To send bitcoin (which means for most of us actual control) then you need your private key.

One easy way to use this is to create a file with content = a line like:

xxxxxxx 2015-07-14T14:25:22Z

where xxxxxx is your private key and import it into Multibit.

Edit: file name is whatever.key

How about Fibre? I have rather mixed feelings about it, still I think that it worth mentioning since XMR and XMG are already there.

As most people said, Martingale (double bet on lose) doesn't work, it's not related to provably fair.
Gambling means that if you have infinite money, you have almost 50% chance to not lose them 

As i said, I will go. A lot of people cancelled their holidays, but I didn't.
I has in Greece 3 times already, so I am more confident than others. But, as I stated, I still have ... some fears on this subject.

You should not invest (or gamble) the money you don't afford to lose. You already broke this rule.
You also don't have the guts to follow the movements and turn them into cash.

My conclusion would be that you should cash out as soon as you can and leave Bitcoin.
If (or when!) Bitcoin will get really big, you will hate me. But if you act like this after a 4$ lose, you will leave bitcoin sooner or later.

I can tell you that I will leave to Greece for holiday and I am rather scared.

I don't know if the food will be fresh or will exist at all.
I don't know if the VAT will rise until I'll get there.
I am scared that there may come strikes and there will be no place where to buy gas (already had that experience once, about 5 years ago).
And let's not talk about the state of their medical system, I really hope to not get there...

So the damage is done, the tourists are more frightened.

They are not in the official list of pools, I think that this is not the only thing they are "doing wrong".

Thanks Stunna, you are great, as always.


I think that you found the more effective advertising to PD than the sig campaings

The 60 EUR/day allowance is only since about 2 weeks ago. Before that there was a withdrawal frenzy. Just search a little. One of the first results is this http://leaprate.com/9BjDQ (I could find better, but I think that this is just fine).
You are mixed up between Greece's money, Greece's debt and Greek people's personal money.

EURO economy is... what exactly? Euro zone is made of countries that are allowed to decide for themselves. If tomorrow they all decide to split up and use their old currencies, EUR will become just another currency for .. enthusiasts (or, you could tell toilet paper). And the tiny fart called Greece can start that process.

You are a wonderful bag of silliness. Quite entertaining to read  
Euro group fought hard to keep Greece inside not because their GDP, which, as you also stated, means nothing for EU. It's the TRUST. If markets lose TRUST in EUR project, the coin will fall.
About NO MONEY LEFT ... you know, that's way different from NO MONEY. They withdrew BILLIONS of EUR from ATMs. That money didn't vanish. The ones that have it may want to further secure that wealth.

You should read and not try to interpret. You'd be more accurate.
I never implied that Bitcoin would EVER get the coin - even an alternate one - for Greece. They would need a government controlled coin, for inflation and with Bitcoin they cannot do this.

The idea was that some speculators could think like this: in case of grexit Greece will go for Drahma (with huge inflation). Euro will also fall. One asset at hand to buy is Bitcoin.

However, I wrote looooong ago that I don't expect a Grexit at this time. But what would be the speculators if they wouldn't try every opportunity, however impossible they looks for me and you?

In case of Grexit, bitcoin would have reached a new peak, maybe double. Some speculators gave this idea a try.
The virtual gain was huge and the risk was rather small. 9% or less.