In addition to PayPal we also accept Bitcoins at the donation site:  www.burtw.com

Yes, the sixth amendment need to be amended to read  "If they can afford it."

Obviously you have never had to hire TWO good federal defense firms, one for the criminal felony charges and the other for the civil forfeiture.  As I said, my defense is approaching $200K, this does not include the property (money, Bitcoins, etc.) they seized and want to keep.

Or getting arrested.

I was arrested for trading Bitcoins, on Localbitcoins.com, in Colorado.

So far defending myself has cost our family almost $200,000 

We can use all the help we can get, please see the fundraising web site put up by my wife Jean: 

http://www.burtw.com

There is nothing special about Florida except it was done first.  After Florida then came Colorado, your state could be next.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=934268.msg10846235#msg10846235

No, there is no money laundering charge.  It is for selling Bitcoins, on Localbitcoins.com, in Colorado, without a license.

So far defending myself has cost our family almost $200,000  

We can use all the help we can get, please see the fundraising web site put up by my wife Jean:  

http://www.burtw.com

Mine was, is and will always be:

1BurtWEejbnKeBRsvcydJvsNztB1bXV5iQ

Where 1BurtW is the old firstbits protocol for the address.

My wife,  daughter and I celebrated pi second this morning at:

3.14.15 9:26:53

We plan to celebrate again tonight.

Distraction can be a good thing.

FYI:  gifts can be reversed, sending as a gift does not matter and does not protect you.

One of your bank accounts?  Happens all the time if you are taking cash deposits from all over the country/world into your bank account.  Don't do that.  Cash in person face-to-face transfers are the way to go.  Banks can go screw themselves - oh wait, they are doing that already.

Please post pictures of all three.  Thanks.

Start with only in person face-to-face meetings in a public place with lots of people - like a coffee shop.

Start with smaller amounts, less than $1,000 for example.

Build from there as you learn.  Good luck!

Start here:  https://bitcoin.org/en/how-it-works

If you mean shorting then people already do it all the time - any time they sell BTC.  You can also borrow BTC in a margin account in order to sell them at https://www.bitfinex.com

You can also borrow USD in order to buy BTC on margin - do you think that is evil or is only the borrowing of BTC in order to sell them what you dislike?

I lend a lot of USD and BTC all the time there.  It is great because as long as the exchange itself it honest and viable the USD and BTC I have there are safe and the exchange takes care of getting me my principle and interest back.  Assuming an honest exchange my loaned out funds are safe because my loans never leave the exchange.  Works great, please don't try it because according to many here loaning funds is the root of all evil.

Shorting, buying BTC, shorting on margin, buying BTC on margin are not the evil things you make them out to be.  Even fractional reserve accounts will have their place and no amount of hand wringing on your part is going to stop it.

The point is that it is your choice whether you want to participate in these things or not.  Participation has its rewards and, of course, its risks.  If you want to play it safe then put your BTC into cold storage and put your USD into cash and hide it in your mattress.  If you want to make interests then loaning your BTC and USD to speculators on a reputable exchange, depositing your USD or BTC into an interest bearing fractional reserve accounts, etc. should and will eventually be available to you.

Kind of, well sort of...

The question is:  did you create any new addresses that you used to receive the BTC after you did the backup?  A backup is the backup of your private keys.  All transactions using the private keys in your backup will be there.  However, if you:

1) Create a few Bitcoin addresses
2) Backup the private keys for those adddresses
3) Make some more Bitcoin addresses
4) Fail to backup the new private keys
5) Lose the phone

Then you will have all the BTC that were sent to the addresses you created before the backup but you will lose forever the BTC sent to the addresses you created after the backup - since  you failed to back up the private keys.

In the future use a deterministic wallet such as Wallet32 for Android.  You only have to backup the seed used for the wallet once, then you never have to worry about backups every again since every Bitcoin address and every change address used is calculated from the one seed that you back up when you create the wallet.

There is nothing you can do to stop the creation of BTC derivatives, contracts, etc.  So stop worrying about it.  If two people/entities want to create a contract between them that says if BTC goes up you owe me X dollars, if BTC goes down I owe you Y dollars more power to them.  Why do you care?  

There is also nothing you can do to stop me from lending out my BTC to someone so they can short the market.  Mind your own business.  If I want to lend my BTC out for the interest that is my prerogative.  Stop worrying so much about what other people do with their property.

If you want to keep physical possession of your BTC then do it (highly suggested).  If you want to lend them to a bank or exchange in order to make interest then go for it - but you might lose them all so be careful.

All this wringing of the hands about something that is absolutely certain to occur (contract and derivatives) which is also something that you cannot stop and really cannot be stopped is just plain silly.

In fact if you are certain that this news is going to drive the market down then you should short it.

I am confused a bit by the monthly charge for broadband.  Is this a WiFi device or does it use the cellular system?  Can you go into more details concerning the connection?  Is this the only connection from the device to the "outside world"?

Any other details you can offer would be great.  I am specifically interested in security measures and how your software and hardware will be audited.  Open source?  Etc.

You have two posts now...

It wouldn't take that long to just check off all the transactions from the wallet against all the transactions in one of the block explorers to see which transaction is different or missing, there are only 118 to check, right?  Once you find the different/missing transaction we can see if there is anything special about it.

In order to get more precision you should change your posts to $/Th per day instead.  $/Gh per day is no longer the correct units as the price drops and the hash rate climbs.