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UK is playing well between EU and US. They did very good politics with this and they have a strong position "inside" EU without being actual members.
And "if it's not broken, why fix it?"

The only use for it nowadays would be to transfer money out of country.
However, interesting moment to do this, I'd be curious about some usage statistics...

There are the Greeks that have businesses (usually tourism related) which may be to blame only for not paying taxes, but I will not blame them.
And there are the Greeks that found out that "working" inside the budgetary machine means more money and less work. These are the ones which voted for the extremists that promised to protect their way of living.

The result is indeed, some sort of communist dictatorship which is lying them telling it's democracy.

The most vocal greeks are very unhappy to get a little less money and continue to do nothing and you propose to those to.... work?! Really??

Just imagine what will happen if they return to Drahma and its value will drop to 25% within hours....


For current situation I don't really know what will happen with the companies the import food. How will they pay, because the money is not allowed to leave Greece.

From what I've checked it looks like the your only identification is in browser cookie.
That means that normally you will not lose anything. I even did a test with the faucet money. I've lost my alias on browser restart, but not my money.

If you clean your cookies or change browser / computer then, yeah, not good. On other sites if you could password protect the account (and alias), here I didn't see anything for that.

Also, if other tries to use your "secret" url, it's not letting him in. So it's not as unsafe as you would first think.

Count me in again plz

Wow, impressive! I didn't expect that "well used" 2 BTC can do this much.
However, the network "moved on", which is good. Some (known!) time frame for the services to be fixed / improved until the next stress test would be good.

Bit-X has BTC debit card, Xapo has BTC debit card.. they are easy to reach nowadays.

The memebers of Bit-X sig campaign can also get the Bit-X card without the issuing fee.
However, I'd advise you to look for the costs, on any card you want to check out.

The amount is too big to be true. And you know the saying about "too good to be true".
With 2000BTC even the most trusted escrow could run with the money.
You must gather that amount (plus your margin) to actually give that out and it would take enough time for you to play around with the 5-20 BTC you'd actually gather from the ones that'd try this out.

USD gained (and will gain even more) vs Euro for completely other reason. For some months EU central bank is printing money. A lot of money.
Meanwhile US is slowly getting out of circulation parts of the huge amounts of money they've printed in the past years.
So EUR dropping under USD is not that unexpected.

LOL @ "real looking" 
Still, count me in. If it's free I don't complain.

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.