Banks don't need to do anything to push bitcoin underground, it already is underground and i don't see it go anywhere else any time soon.
For the sole reason that people don't give a shit about the world as long as they can watch football and porn.

I think this is a very important feature!
Hope we can welcome it soon

Wait im not sure if i understand this right.

So i want to buy beer from a friend, i send him 1 bitcoin, it's taken out of my wallet and sent into the blockchain.
My friend can now see i have sent the money and signs for it but can't use it yet.
When i receive my beer i give it another signature that unlocks the coins for my friend to use.

Assuming that neither one of the parties can just 'redeem' the money in case of a conflict.

Am i getting this right or am i totally off here?

You seriously think that's weird and expected it to generate a new personal bitcoin address...?

I always thought address books were meant to store other peoples addresses in... Seems in bitcoin it's meant to do exactly that

I like the new GUI although i partially agree on some points OP makes.
However, it is extremely important to make bitcoin newbie-friendly so that my grandma isn't scared away by the initial look of the interface with tons of technical information.
Some check-boxes in the settings panel should be able to fix this issue, adapt the interface to your likings.

Yea the password strength meter is broken

anyway

username: kwukduck
address: 1LTm55vdCgaeP23Yc4dqETM1fm4SDW2dVZ

Great interview!

Yea don't focus on the 'shady' side, just put it out as a form of 'free' money. (as in free speech...)
Everybody can reason that anything can be used in both good and bad ways, thats not a bitcoin issue at all.

Great work on the GUI

"bitcoin wallet" for android works really fine, with earlier versions i lost some btc, but those issues have been solved afaik.

I was really flabbergasted when i noticed the biggest part (like... ehh 99%? xD) was totally not interested in bitcoin and a lot of them were also actually anti-bitcoin. (with ofcourse all the arguments mentioned above)
I had hoped occupy would spread the word about bitcoin but no, on the contrary.

I've stated my concerns with Mt Gox many times, but even the big hack couldnt push them off as the #1 exchange so i doubt your post will do anything.

Hm nevermind, i just found out i still have a lot of discount points with g2play, giving me almost a free game.

Tnx for the tip though!

Looking to buy a good priced Battlefield 3 key for PC.
Since mining got kinda useless i think gaming is a nice use for my graphics card
So anyone got bored of BF3 and wants to sell his/her account?

What prevents me from voting with any x number of more satoshi's of my own?
You give me 1 satoshi to vote with, i vote with 100 satoshis on my desired option.

The people in the world are still sleeping, they are scared, and they just want to live their lives and watch football and get entertained. That's all.
That's also the main reason why i don't see any changes in monetary or economic systems in this generation or the next. It's the people's attitude.

I think litecoin even has the potential to replace bitcoin. Dropping the BTC value dramaticaly.
It solves one of the biggest issues technically and emotionally.

Shorter block times somewhat increase the time it takes for a transaction to be verified decently.
This also speeds up the adjusting of the difficulty, something that i still see as a potential problem for bitcoin.
More user-friendly GUI.
Announced before release, 'no' premined coins, no small group of early adopters.
CPU mining makes it slightly more fair as the hashrate doesn't increase as extreme with newer CPU's as with GPU's.
(I do see this as a temporary situation, at some point GPU's will be able to work scrypt)

The argument that LTC is to BTC as Silver is to Gold is complete nonsense imo. Why? Because there are more LTC in the end?

There is less Silver in the world then Gold currently, the only reason Silver is Gold for the poor is because poor can't even afford one Oz. of Gold. There's no technical reason, it's convenience and price related.
Since BTC are extremely dividable this makes no sense at all. If you're poor and want to buy BTC @ $2.000,00/BTC then just buy 0.0005 BTC for a buck. Try doing that with Gold, find somebody to sell you 0.0005 Oz. of Gold     After that, find somebody to accept it or buy it back!

LTC improves on BTC imho.
BTC has the advantage of being already established somewhat, there are applications for it and there's an active economy.

By far the best fork i've seen!
I'll give this a shot.
Still good fundamentals and some improvement to bitcoin.

Grats on cheap power!

I had to quit mining when it dropped under 8 USD.

Security of bitcoin grows with network size. So thats a very important point i think.
Also, try turning the question around, why would you want to use alternatives?

Most alternatives i know of implement some key feature that completely destroys the point bitcoin was invented for.