Yeah no kidding, everyone wants to HODL and this is why bitcoin isn't a great currency.  But people don't spend precious metals anymore and yet they're still good to own and are a good store of value.

Lol, rights to Silk Road.  I wouldn't buy it in any case, as I don't like the design.  I was expecting something more creative but perhaps I shouldn't have been, given OP's brilliant sales pitch here.

Yeah, see what an immature cunt he is and this is why he's on my ignore list.  Probably a teenager from a shitty 4th world country (no offense) trying to scam people.  Wise up, asshole.

Uh, yes it can definitely be made illegal--the same way child pornography and drugs and all that other stuff that bitcoin can buy is already illegal.  Mostly globally, too.  That doesn't mean people will stop using bitcoin of course, just like they won't stop using the two things I mentioned either.  It will just be illegal.  Just like it's illegal to print your own money.

Yeah, there's tons of that sort of thing on bitcointalk.  I guess a lot of use have become inured to it and have come to expect it.  And yet still there are so many suckers willing to believe anything.  Any claim that you can double, triple your money, whatever, they run to it.  It's crazy.

Not sure why this thread got necrobumped, but I do like seeing these old ones. 

Bitcoin doesn't need anything backing it, and it's the same thing with other currencies in the world.  Yeah it used to be the case that each dollar had an ounce of silver behind it, but that turned out to be unnecessary.  If people decide something represents the fruit of their labors (that's what's behind it), it's money.

I'll confirm he's a retarded spammer, but I didn't know he was a scammer.  He's been on my ignore list for a while for never making any posts of substance.  It's all gibberish. OP, hope you get your $ back.

Oh boy, I see a lot of potential scamming in this one thread alone.  Everyone be extremely careful with the paypal transactions and especially with newbies!!

How many scams have to be perpetrated before you folks wise up?

My man, I'm not crashing your thread and I'm actually giving you 1) bumps and 2) good advice.  How long have you been a member here?  Why should anyone trust you enough to send you money instead of the charity??

Let's see, a gambling app that supports bitcoin for android/IOS?  You'd be able to lose money wherever you are, at all hours of the day and night.  Lol, this will serve to help problem gamblers end their addictions.  Ugh. 

I might check one out if I can locate one.  I'm not a big gambler and I like holding onto my bitcoin tho.

Drugs and child porn.  That's what people not familiar with bitcoin think about it, at least in my experience.  And there was some bullshit publicity about ISIS or Al Queda using it.  What most people are unaware of is how many fucking degenerate gamblers and small-time scammers are using it to fuel their dark desires.  And some people make t-shirts with bitcoin as a theme and then there are the computer geeks.  The media rarely reports the real uses.

Maybe send you a paper wallet in an envelope with a stamp on it?

Ohhhh, people with higher rank than you, with more trust, have run off with money.  I am not directly accusing you, but this here forum is one of scammers and people who are--and should be--extremely paranoid when it comes to bitcoin.  So don't take it personally.  Offering to use an escrow is a step in the right direction.

I don't know, honestly.  I'm still reading about this drama and trying to figure out what transpired.  But I stand by my opinion in your case so far--not that my opinion matters, I'm a nobody here.  It's up to the mods to weigh in about this if they choose to.

Leave it to the Chemistry department.  The religion department would have been cowering under their desks, pants a-pissing.

Yeah, more or less dude.  Do they not have an education system in whatever country you reside?  If they do, you should avail yourself of it immediately to fill in what's lacking.

TL;DR:  You are a dumb fuck.

Send the bitcoins to you?  I don't think so.

I came across the suchmoon/makebelieve drama just recently in that thread where makebelieve is offering people to basically be paid trolls.  I posted my opinion there that it is in fact paid trollwork and I can't see it being anything but that.  He's paying people to express an opinion that they most likely don't have.  I think he called it "diluting her bullshit" or some such phrase, but it is going to have the effect of multiple people trolling everything she posts and that is against the rules I think.

This.  Plus in person cash money is always a good way to stay anonymous (at least from government eyes, and even then only most of the time).  If you need to buy something over the internet, definitely cryptocurrency.

Feels like I've posted in a zillion of these same threads.  This was a dip, welcome to the markets.  This sort of thing happens in all sorts of markets, are you new to this?  If you are, just get used to it.  I think as I write this, we're at like $420, which is where we were last week, so this isn't momentous or anything.