You people who plan to go and are organizing this conference are better using that money to further bitcoin, not have fancy conferences where you basically tout your LEET skillz in making tonz of moneyz.
Having a conference in fact is using money to promote Bitcoin. Bottom line, people are better off keeping their finances and conserving than attending a bitcoin conference.
Only in the same way looking at porn is a better way to enjoy sexuality than going out on dates. In smoothie's defense, paying people a large sum of money just to socialize is usually associated with prostitution. Your analogy can go that way as well.  Also, no harm intended. I hope the conference is enjoyable. |
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$300 entry fee to go to a conference?
This smells like elitism. This is a pretty normal fee. If you're organizing a conference, you're lucky if the registration fees you collect as well as the vendor sponsorships are enough to pay the venue's 5 or 6 figure bill when it's all over. It's also not outrageous when you consider that the average person is already paying $500-$1500 to get there when you consider airfare, ground transportation, and hotel. If the conference were held in a public park, it wouldn't be $300, but it would also be so stupid as to not be worth traveling to, and the media would show up to laugh at us. The only way to call it elitism is to be oblivious to the economics of organizing a conference. It's totally normal for a conference venue to charge, oh, $25 a plate for every plate taken at a buffet line, or $5 for every soda taken from the courtesy table at the back of the room. Not kidding! That's how the hospitality industry works. The food is served as though it's free but it's totally not. The fee literally covers the cost of the venue. BTW, I just bought my ticket. I'll be driving out. In my Porsche with "Bitcoin" vanity license plate. Because I'm elitist like that and all. I just thought Bitcoin had a grassroots-esque and "open to all people" type of thing going for it. I thought a conference would be a no-frills and "let's just get together and discuss Bitcoin". This however has an industrial vibe going for it. It doesn't seem open to the low-income, volunteer open-source developer. If the Bitcoin Foundation wants a "Macworld" for Bitcoin, I guess that's okay. |
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$300 entry fee to go to a conference?
This smells like elitism. |
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Yesterday (UTC) closed at $16.89 BTC/USD. Will the 25th close higher or lower? This is based on UTC/GMT time. The closing price is the last price of the trading day. Yesterday's poll: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=138563.0Edit: Closing price is $17.40. |
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Today closed at $16.89! Lower wins!
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2 hours left in UTC/GMT until the 25th.
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In no other market is there volatility like this. I love it. Also, I should've listened to my own advice when I said sell at $19...
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uh, shouldn't voting close BEFORE the end of the 24th, not after?
There are limits to the polling software. |
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1000 BTC purchase.
What a nice way to start the American morning.
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Is it wise to never consider a possibility based upon a current lack of evidence?
Considering something by admitting it's (almost) impossible based on the lack of evidence / evidence for opposing theories, is of course not. Is absolute certainty always necessary in all schools of thought including general science?
Absolute certainty is never possible in general science. All evidence pointing at one theory is. Also, I never claimed to believe in anything I have espoused.
See 1. Very well. I concede your point. |
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Based upon everyone piling on sells at $19, there is a general market expectation that things will continue to be bullish. There is a cost in wanting to sell and placing it at a unreached high.
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 Best fitting Avatar ever. Why is that? Two posibbilitys: 1. My Sarcasm Meter is defect, then you just like to amuse us and you are the Jester Kind of Fool. 2. You Really just believe in everything you like, Aliens, reincarnation, Super Hero Tesla and so on. Just like, I like it so it has to be true, well then you are the other Kind of fool, or < 6 Years old. Is it wise to never consider a possibility based upon a current lack of evidence? Is absolute certainty always necessary in all schools of thought including general science? Also, I never claimed to believe in anything I have espoused. |
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Best fitting Avatar ever. Why is that? |
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What if I told you that Nikola Tesla was a reincarnated extraterrestrial who came to Earth with the explicit purpose of bringing a limitless energy supply to the human population?
What if I told you that despite his intentions of bringing his innovations to the mass of the public, they ended up exclusively in the hands of governments? And that to this day the governments of Russia and the USA have the ability to remote control craft faster than half the speed of light along with utilizing other weapons of mass destruction that are beyond our comprehension?
What if I told you they may be waiting for the day to "save us" from an alien invasion with this hidden technology and bring greater support to their power?
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Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh (often contracted in English as "I AM") is one of the Seven Names of God accorded special care by medieval Jewish tradition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_that_I_AmEnki is a god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology. 1)Enki lives in a paradise until he eats a bad plant against the warnings of the other gods. 2)Enki was responsible for fashioning the first man from clay. 3)Enki was responsible for introducing multiple languages. 4)Enki was responsible for saving humanity from a great flood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnkiYeh that is some nice stuff bitcoincoinbitcoinbit. Summerians is some really interesting stuff suprizingly we neve get taught about these people in schoolwe get taught about the egyptians the romans the greeks but not summerians  These people laid the foundation of civilization. Schools laws farming you name it. This is where the first real societies were formed as we know them today plus a whole frigin other heap 0f basics like structuring the concept of time into minutes seconds and hours etc. and brewing beer .. Oh of course they also believed in aliens or at least mention them and describe them. And they laid the groundworks for the bible 2 thousand years later, In fact i think that Abraham was from the land or area of summer. I guess that why it is never taught in class. The Jewish Talmud claims there are over 18,000 worlds. |
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Tonight's going to be interesting.
And thanks to whoever sent me 0.1337 BTC.
Tell us more  Dumping !!?? Dumping is boring, thats what always happens. Might be different this time. The dumper/manipulator/whale may have blown his load with this 15k sell off that did nothing to move the market.  I sense a very angry man. |
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There's still a ton of pressure on the buy side. We just need another spark to get things going again.
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