Sounds like a fair move if the claims are true.

If he's making racist comments on the air or while working his company definitely has the right to let him go.

Xi Jinping.

Although Putin acts like it with his hit mob activities.

Xi Jinping leads the world's most populous nation and likely owns the most of the US debt.

That's $25 a day at current BTC prices for a hell of a lot of work. What's the scheme you're trying to achieve here?

At the current price of $297, I'd say you should have at least BTC15,000 to retire (that equates to ~$5,000,000). It's certainly possible to survive in retirement for less, but why retire (if you don't have to) if you can't enjoy it? A $5M target protects you from inflation of prices and the longevity that a healthy and happy retirement will provide.

If you want to live without a worry I'd work to get double that amount, BTC33,670!

What's the liquidity problem you're seeing? Are you having trouble getting the quantity you need? For majority of people I think there's plenty of liquidity available...plenty of supply, easy access to exchanges and sellers, etc.

Also, do you think people are influencing price with big trades (you referenced 100k)? Where do you see it happening?

Forgive me for being naive here, but who is Chris Dixon and why does his price prediction have weight? Or why should it have weight?

I'm not being a smartass, what expertise does Chris have that leads us to believe that his $100,000 per coin estimate is realistic?

It's a great flyer!

A lot of debate exists about this. There's no value to be gained if BTC is primarily a currency, much like investing in currencies isn't a thing people do. People speculate on currencies to take advantage of short term differences in value between two currencies but if you hold Euros, you're not earning a return. BTC could very well be an asset class if it remains an "alternative currency" to fiat options. If it replaces fiat options we'll see the currency reality you're predicting.

Hahah, definitely not an "invisible hand" kind of thing, but that's pretty funny.

What kind of inside information? There's no "news" to be on the inside of for any of these coins. This is just price manipulation. If create PossumCoin I can do whatever I want to the price to satisfy whatever motive I want. It's definitely a shitty move on my part, and not likely to lead to PossumCoin success but criminal activity is always possible.

The only guaranteed way to get a return is to invest in yourself.

I feel like that's way, way too many. There's no need for ANYONE to be aware of that many sites. Most are pretty dodgy, insanely low payouts (by faucet standards) with incredibly high minimums to withdraw. The best faucet is at freebitco.in....that's all anyone needs!

iamback, How are you calling me out? For what? This is hilarious, because here you're calling me an "Academic Cathedral Pompous Pussy" but on another thread we're basically having a civil conversation.

Just because you believe what you're told, like a child, doesn't mean us adults do. I subscribe to facts and logic, if those are only available in spoon size portions I'll only be consuming one spoon at a time.

Don't be an ass. If you don't like what I have to say ignore me or mind your own fucking business.

Grow up little kid.

Bad idea! We can all track our payments on our own either through the Bit-x account site (where payments are received) or in our personal wallets.

Thanks for the update Marco, my quick thoughts:

I prefer weekly payment. I think the same payment date for all sounds find. Some people will end up with short week or a long week the first time around but I'm sure it makes the business end of this thing easier for you to manage when one day is pay day, rather than every day.

Perhaps to help you "police the posts" and to prevent people getting banned or the ad campaign getting penalized we, as the participants in this campaign, can take the lead on providing feedback to fellow participants we feel may be crossing the line from meaningful to spam posts. Obviously there's room for interpretation (e.g., are one liners meaningful or not?) but it's important for us to show respect for the entire forum community.

Thanks.

The craziest thing you can buy right now is the space reserved for my signature on this forum. Seriously.

Also, as you make your decision, don't buy from a "middle man" who will then cash in your BTC and buy whatever you want with fiat. That DOES NOT count as buying something with BTC. The best example is the first time someone "bought pizza" with BTC. They didn't buy pizza. Their friend bought pizza, used fiat to do so.

CoinCube, I have a question about Finance Part I:

In the most basic terms a bank can't lend money unless it has money to lend, they need to physically have the cash to give to me (for example) for a car, home, etc. So how can those funds be spent if they're made (out of thin air or accounting wizardry) as a deposit in my account upon their grant of the loan? I take that deposit, give it to the person I'm buying the car from and the bank has to payout that payment.

I'll keep reading, but I'm sure you've had questions like this before.

Edit: It's because banks can borrow too, isn't it? They can put a deposit in my account for an amount they can't cover today because they can borrow that amount tomorrow. Do I have it correct? And if so, what keeps Coinbase from doing the same thing with bitcoin, The public ledger?

So how much was stolen from you and when did the attack occur?

I've tried to get people to agree on a stable valuation for the different coins, but honestly it's not realistic. It's not right to control prices like that. It's all about what a buyer and a seller agree upon. Personally I believe a 2-3x valuation is appropriate for a loaded Casascius coin in mint condition. You're paying 1x for the face value of the coin and 1-2x for the numismatic value that is "Casascius".

There is some information you can use to help you understand what to bid, based on the size of the mintage (some coins have lower mint numbers and therefore are more rare). You also want to consider the condition of the coin.

This is the most concise source I've used: http://www.spotcoins.com/bitcoin/casascius

I don't think that "money" is the problem. It's how people use it or exploit it that's the problem - and that misuse comes from government and regular people alike. Both can get into too much debt, both can spend too much, but can be careless.

The ability to use currency as a means to buy goods and services has allowed the world to go from subsistence living (i.e., creating what we need to survive, each of us individually) to more productive, specialized living. It's given us the advancements of science, math, industry, etc, that make the world such a brilliant place to live in.

Don't blame the tool that is money, blame the people that abuse it. And I'm not talking about the 1% or the 99%, I'm talking about irresponsibility.

Well the options ARE hilarious, that's undeniable. If the options are mutually exclusive then two people can believe the same answer but choose different choices, which skews your results...it provides inaccurate information.

So when is the economic devastation and one world conspiracy stuff expected to begin. I know a lot of the signs are pointing in a bad direction, is there any talk on timing or triggers?

There's no easy way out of this situation. The problem is the government is spending too much and portions of the population aren't paying their taxes. To fix it, everyone is going to have to deal with less. It sucks for those that aren't getting their benefits...but they could take their benefits and let the entire country/society fail or they could do the patriotic thing and do with less to save the society. This last part only works if the government and society make strong and immediate plans to improve things.

This also sets a nice example for all of us to not rely on the government for a future stability. We all gotta look out for ourselves.

IS there a place we can follow the growth of this company and their work in Bali? It really just comes down to getting the hotels, retailers, etc. to accept Bitcoin. Is there much more to their operation than that?