Much smaller market and therefore easier to move the price when there's demand.

They need some Hawala.

Because he's from the internet, dude. They know everything there.

Transfers are fine within Greece by the looks of things.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/29/greek-debt-crisis-key-points-athens-bank-controls

You can't send it out of the country. I wonder what the rules are about receiving.

I'd go for a suitcase full of Euros myself. You'd need to budget for surgery after your hand had been bitten off.

I wonder why it took so long. You would've thought an ATM operator would've taken a speculative punt a year or two back.

I can't see it being a huge success right now. The poor old Greeks won't want to be giving up any scraps of cash any time in the near future.

Yes. It's a very twitchy page. It constantly wants to resist where you want to go. 

Depends. Folks on here tend to be prone to two things.

1 - massively underestimating eventual values if it truly succeeded.

2 - the amount of time it would take to truly succeed. I think it's going to be an awful lot longer than many presume.

We tend to think of online commerce having taken over the world. In reality it's only 7% of US retail spending. A fine proportion but not that vast considering how long the concept has been around for now.

Obviously it's much higher if you take groceries out of the equation but there are still millions there who'll have nothing to do with it. If you can't sell them the benefits of lower costs and conveniences, a whole new type of money is that much more alarming to them.

Anyone with a modicum of awareness should know that it's not all that viable to continue as it is. No point in wasting further money when we know what'll happen.

Why not use the money to dig a few wells in Africa instead? It adds a little more to the wellness of the world.

It already happened in China. A very few places were starting to take it as payment in 2013. All the government had to do was order merchants not to do it. Hey presto, end of actually useful BTC economy there.

I'm sure it could continue just fine between private individuals, but any time interacts with any area where authorities watch over it such as banks or businesses it's easy enough to turn out the lights.

Considering what a mucky shower of shit the existing fork talk has been, it would be far healthier to come up with the one and final fork that does its best to take into account as many future possibilities as possible.

I dunno how viable that is, but BTC is still tiny enough to be thrown around a little still. If there were tens or hundreds of billions in vested interests and it had started to become a real player in international money then lack of consensus could either freeze it in place and eventually become an irrelevance or shatter completely.

2.7 tps means it either ends up as a plaything of elites or just a proof of concept and technical backwater while something truly scalable blows it into the weeds.

Mr Miner wants a 0.1 BTC fee so I can spend my coins? I would spend that on sending all of them to an exchange and leaving Bitcoin behind forever.

Nor has it been one of the healthiest in recent times. The yen is also pretty darned volatile compared to other major currencies. It wouldn't be a great candidate for the job.

Even if it officially reverts to the drachma, they still border plenty of countries using the Euro and it has far more utility. I assume it'll be like so many other countries in the world. The local currency runs in parallel with the more useful one.

It's a fine tradition. Why stop now? People seem to enjoy it.

Innovation is lovely. Doing actual BTC business in the UK is lagging pitifully behind the US. I wonder how long all the shaky workarounds with EU banks will have to continue before an actual UK bank breathes some life into the whole thing.

They often claim to be waiting for regulation. I assume they'll just claim to be waiting for more when something does actually arrive.

I don't really get gold as an investment but I would love to own one of those for the pure joy of it as an object.

If you deposit my 10 BTC with the right escrow before anything else happens then that would be lovely. Other than that, french kiss my ring piece.

It's that much of a dead cert why bother sharing it with anyone else?

Aren't the 5s slightly different in that plenty of unfunded ones were made? It would be nice to have one with the hologram still. That adds some credibility for the time when someone's cranking out fakes by the ton.

Ebay prices are pretty insane. I would hazard to guess that many buyers are that dumb they still think they're getting a bitcoin to spend despite large letters in the ads.

You'd get a better deal if you could find one on here. Everyone's more clued up. I've seen prices of around 0.1 BTC for redeemed brass coins.

It was an anti spam measure.