No, they have less ability to realize consequences, and more to lose because of undeveloped bodies and minds. You seem to imply older teenagers but what about an 11 year old? If I was to lay out a line of coke and say "snort it", you think she would know the consequences? If she was parented right maybe but not every kid.



Today, Tor and Bitcoin might be pretty hard for youngsters to get a grasp on, but in the future? Let's dream for a minute, and say in the future phones can come with Tor installed, and bitcoin is a common payment method. If a child, 8,9,10,... gets recommended "Silk Road" by his older friends and he's able to buy some stuff that makes him feel awesome in the blink of an eye, is he able to see or weigh the consequences?

Children's freedom is definitely important to me, and I do think western countries are learning to control their kids too much, but drugs are not something to be introducing to a young developing human being. I can't tell you if 18 is the "adult" age but at least by then you have the ability to think for yourself a lot better than being young, and everything learned until teenage years is basically parents/teachers ideas handed down.

There are a lot of buyers that want to pay with paypal and there are even more members who want nothing to do with it. It ends up cluttering up a lot of pages and I can't tell who wants to trade for something without using paypal.

Maybe in the Marketplace, it would be nice to have a subforum for people who want to buy bitcoins with paypal or credit cards only. With the addition of the hide forum ability, it would be able to clear up a lot of that clutter and people who refuse to use paypal could hide the forum.

Just an idea. Maybe a "Risky Market" subforum for payments that allow chargebacks.

I sure as hell hope not. He can say whatever he pleases about the market.

As I said, I didnt know the article was posted on the forum already before I posted it here.

Near field communications and online BC banks/wallets will make this simple. In due time something like Google Wallet could work, but instead of having to use a credit card to pay, you can put real money into your Google wallet and pay from the stored credit. Tap a phone on the payment device, confirm the transaction and you're done. If retailers can be convinced that they can get the perks of mobile payment and NFC without having to pay the merchant fees associated with credit cards, it'll be a strong arguing point.

NFC is years away from being prominent though, and is only beginning to be tested. For now, online wallets work well enough for mobile payments and I think it'll take a wide range of compatible NFC devices for the best transition into a portable option.

Senators Target Internet Narcotics Trafficking Website Silk Road

Edit: Didn't notice until now this topic was already posted in the press thread, but from Sac. Bee and not Huffington Post. Bitcoin isn't mentioned in either article, though.

It's the only read(purple) link on the page.

S3, if you're using Tweetdeck (Which is almost necessary for more than casual twitter users IMO), you can set up a facebook account to link to it as well, and you can put the same status update to both accounts at the same time.

There are other ways I believe but if it wasn't for tweetdeck I don't think I'd even use twitter. It can be useful for so many things.

You could always RSS the blog

Once you put in your banking info (account, routing number) Dwolla makes two small deposits into YOUR bank account. After a few days, check with your bank account to see what amounts they are, and then you'll go back to dwolla and put in the amounts of those two deposits.

No no, I know how Gawker operates. I used to enjoy them as well but have since stopped reading their site as well as the entire Gawker network. Attention grabbers and biased reporting. It just shocked me that they were basically saying "Look! Bitcoins went up! That must mean all these geeks that read our article are buying drugs just like we thought! What, more price increase? More drugs!"

What a joke. Gawker reads one thing into bitcoin: drugs. They then see the price increase and come to the conclusion that they wrote an article on buying drugs with bitcoins, therefore the big price increase is because everyone reads Gawker and wants drugs!!

Well I certainly find that interesting.

I 100% agree and would LOVE this feature.

I've messaged a couple people requesting small amounts, but most here have learned to steer clear of paypal, especially larger orders.

Plenty of reasons. Access to my wallet wherever there is an internet connection. No needing to backup the wallet. In person transactions with my smartphone. Instant transactions from mybitcoin user to user, instead of waiting for confirmations, making this one of the best options for in-person trades. Email notifications of incoming payments. If necessary, secure access to my wallet (TOR, I2P) without needing to install bitcoin to my computer.

I wouldn't store very large amounts on the site, but for small transactions it's great to have an online wallet.

Doesn't seem to be working properly.

"BTC price at Mt.Gox is smaller than 8.0$ (9$)"

I have two IPT invites if any of you bitcoin users would like them. Reputation speaks first here, so someone within the community will likely get the invite if they want it, however feel free to ask anyways if you're unknown or have a low post count and if no one else wants them, it's yours.

Just PM me and I will let you know.

If you don't plan on using it, DON'T ask for an invite. Since it's my invite it makes me accountable as well for any mistakes you make. This is no demonoid. Read the rules and watch your ratio, however IPT is by far one of the easiest private trackers to keep a good ratio.