Fork is unfortunately the only way to go forward. But forking the chain should not mean a split between the "nodes" and the "miners". I think that this "option" is a little bit too .. "forced".


I hope that this will never become a real problem, though, it also worries me too.
There is always a fix, but nobody will like it: another fork, change of algo for an ASIC-resistant one, bring mining back to people.
(Of course, this may never work for real and it could crash the price too.)

Greece will not leave (nor get kicked out of) EU yet.
But IF that WOULD happen, I expect that Euro will also get hurt a lot. And not only me will expect that.
The result will be that Bitcoin and USD will gain quite some %.

You missed completely my point.
If only army and SWAT would have guns, it would be much less likely you'd end up in a gun fight.
If guns would be so much harder to be bought, the likelihood to see this often gun fights would be much much smaller.
And obviously it's the law enforcement who should take care of this, not you and your guns.

I live in a country where it's very hard to get a gun. And it's the very few things I actually like here. I've never seen a gun fight and the chance to see one in the next 5 years is almost 0, though I use to walk alone in the night on the streets.

Edit: missed a word, yeah, En is not my primary language

Bitcoin is getting more and more popular; more and more people have some or want some bitcoins; even though it's constantly mined, rather soon it will become scarce enough for the price significantly to rise.

Guns should be used only by the army and SWAT. I think that such restriction would make life much easier for all.


Most terrorist have this "hobby" too. Americans will have to let that go. For most cases a pepper spray is just enough.

Halving happens at certain block numbers. So the moment in time depends on the global hash rate and cannot be known very accurate.

1. Bitcoin will be fixed, but it'll take more time than you'd like and it will not be an "unsuccessful fork".
2. Patience... all this good things will happen, but not this quick. I don't expect a recover to $1k before 2017. And yeah, the bitcoin retirement account may be something trendy in 2019-2020. But.. buy from banks?

No. He must have exchanged USD or DEM (German Mark) into Francs (FRF?). Euro was the same in France as in the rest of Euro zone since the start of Euro.

Indeed, euros differ from country to country, from first letter to various other small things. I think that even some graphics are different.

But it doesn't matter. If one would devalue "Greece Euro" to nil, it would hurt people from all over Europe. Because the money travels. Because they've got mixed with the local money in all Euro countries. Especially Greek Euro, with a country with such high amount of tourists.

Actually almost nothing is free.

The faucets will give you tiny amounts for filling captcha.
The PTC sites will pay you for visiting sites and clicking on ads.
The sig campaigns will pay you to post.
...


Mostly you'll have to invest at least your time in order to get "free" coins.
But if you have time, why not?


Also, keep your eyes open, from time to time there are individuals or companies which pay very good for small tasks (like, retweet, post here or there, ..) or companies doing various types of giveaways - especially casinos. The casinos will give you nice amounts, but you have to be lucky enough and win some in the casino to actually withdraw, but if you have the time, it's fine.

Just make sure that you don't gamble your money, or at least don't gamble more than you afford to lose.

BitSig behaves strangely. Bugs?

It gave me a couple of times this.



Now it works again.

Careful, not everybody lives in US and there are countries where jail offers .. very bad conditions. Most of the points of your "nice" list may not be available.
Also, I am not convinced that you'd be allowed to carry such personal items in a jail, like a miner, even USB miner. Where would you connect it anyway, you'll get your laptop too? LOL! Is that jail connected to the internet?!

So yeah, I'd say that your question was not well enough thought on. And no, I am not stupid enough to waste my life for a few coins.
I know that the daily job is the modern slavery, I know that some think of it as prison, but I have some free time with my family and the job can pay for more coins than I'd get by mining, really...

I can vouch for that. Mining became harder and harder, no matter which coin we talk about.

Most of my coins I've bought from the money I earned from signature campaigns and, really, those are tiny amounts, because I don't want to spend too much time talking.
Since I have a decent job, I ... just do my job. I even turn FIAT into cryptos and I think that this is best way to go forwards: the job gives me more money than I could earn from mining and chatting, and buying can help the coin price (and economy) grow.

So unless you have all you need for starting mining facility (dirt cheap power, good knowledge, space, a lot of cheap ASICS, FPGA or GPUs), it's not actually worth to mine.



You need patience; bitcoin has low price now, but a bright future lies ahead. It has to grow eventually.

Take it as a lesson.
Gamble TINY amounts and do that only if you really like the gambling as a game or as a way to spend time.
Never gamble (anymore) more than you afford to lose.

Yeah, you knew all this. Actually you think that you knew that, but you don't.

Getting drunk is an option to cool down.
Moving your BTC to a paper wallet would be another pretty good way to store them in a way you can think twice before spending (just make sure you create it/them safely!!!!!).

Sorry for your loss. Quite an expensive lesson.....

Some 50 BTC should be more than enough, depending how long will the retirement be Really, a lot of things can be invented in the next years. I hope that medicine and technology will make us a nice surprise during our lifetime.

But don't keep all the eggs in one basket.  You should diversify: pick 3-5 more cryptos which have a good chance to survive (and grow) until your retirement.
And invest in other things too - you should also add some lower risk investments to your portfolio. If tech will advance enough, cryptos may become obsolete / outdated.

Debit cards will always have fees and - maybe more important - exchange rates you may not like. It would be much better to pay directly with your BTC wallet whenever possible and, for money, make yourself the exchange and transfer to your normal (usd) card.
Also, I'd advise you to purchase such a card only if you plan to use it on a regular basis, because else you may face "inactivity" fees...


But to answer to your question, the 2 options I know of are Bit-X and Xapo. And, if you care to join to Bit-X campaign you'll also can benefit of a Bit-X card with no fee for emitting it.

You could have put checkboxes instead of radiobuttons, a lot of people tend to have 2 wallets.

I use Multibit and Xapo.

Maybe you have settings for http only?
Try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEVm1dMn5Ks  maybe this is better for you.

I cannot tell this to every new user, really..
Please check who gave you the negative. (Well, I did. And a Legendary from the DefaultTrust is not somebody I'd call "a random guy").
Then go and ask him nicely if you can work this out, 1 to 1, maybe you have a chance to get the negative trust removed.


However, since you are still a newbie, this negative you've got is not a huge loss. Try to learn from it. Really.