If it was a business account, anything from zero to £1.20 depending on volume, account type, account age etc

Sell them to a person not an exchange, in person at first, spend the fiver on a pint

I asked them, the voices said No...

I only just found out computers did colours - I thought everything was supposed to be green-on-black

Only those that get widespread adoption as "accepted" for purchase of goods/services, and are readily exchangeable for other currencies (of any type)
Otherwise they're just "bits"

I recently moved to a new laptop following a fatal hardware issue.
Install bitcoin, started d/loading the block chain over 2 _days_ later I was sync'd again.

Knowing in excess of 80% of that is SD when it's not a service I use or care about is annoying.

Now scale that up to more common acceptance of bitcoin - and people wont bother

There are only 2 solutions to ease adoption
# initial blockchain d/load has to be better handled, like a set of "hubs" with everything to X date in a single downloadable file - with the appropraite hashing/cross-checks to other "hubs"
# limitation of the blockchain to what needs to be in it - servcies like SD woudl work perfectly as well with an "account" based system like every other gambling site
- this benefits them - people leave their money in the gambling site(s) rather than constantly withdrawing it - means more of it to gamble
- this benefits everyone else - as it will limit the number of "public" broadcast transactions

Win-Win as they say.

Coins change hands many many times before loss/destruction/sitting in a jar forever.
This _should_ be no different for bitcoin

Sadly the current system is equivalent to everyone having to carry about a photograph of every coin ever exchanged - there are of course benefits - but it's also a problem.

I've no issue with enforced fees, but using the standard windows client, doing some testing with bitcoin, have paid more than 5 times the transaction value in fees - somewhat disproportionate - makes it just like a bank

Pure genius

We added bitcoin as a payment method for domains, hosting and servers on client request, as many customers are also miners - nothing but praise for bitpay and the ease of integration.

Which is typical FUB used to get people to sign up to pyramid/mlm scams

I'm not sure which is more worrying - that people still think pyramids are going to net them millions, or that there are still people stupid enough to join them.

Finding 5 things to answer/talk about in the newbie section without being spammy - harder than finding your first block

Surely just 1 LED would do ?

I have multiple addresses (each with a different purpose), and they get used over and over just fine, your issue is specific to the way your wallet provider system works.

That's likely to take a lifetime to create ...

Easiest is to "swap" your spend-it-anywhere currency for some spend-it-someplaces bitcoins

Five.

Low-tech method is get the windows bitcoin client and just click "add" as many times as you like

Slighly more high-tech is to use https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34028.0

Whilst I understand the claimed  link between anonymity and bitcoin, not having the details of clients and yet providing hosting to them is asking for law-enforcement to turn up at your provider and have the VPS pulled from the 'net

Great - I spend 15 minutes writing a long answer to the post about bitcoin taking over from all fiat currencies, and on submit get redirect here due to having only a few posts

A popup on the homepage would have saved a lot of grief !

Go and try that at your local amex ccy exchage - change all your USD into XYZ - see if they change the price ... they dont.

If every bitcoin possible was already mined, at todays value, it'd add up to the debt of Mexico, under 1% of the global economy

Professional criminals employ people much more clued-up than you about all of this - they're already using bitcoins

Right ...


No.

Income is (in most countries) still taxable, irrespective of the payment method.

You do understand that every bitcoin transaction can be tracked ?

No, he's just paying you in a different way.

Is there a special name to this magical world ?

As the value of bitcoin changes over time, it has an "interesting" relationship to inflation - if you can buy all the ingredients for a loaf of bread for 0.0001 BTC and you sell the bread tomorrow for 0.00011 BTC (making 0.00001 profit or 10%) what will you do when to repeat the process now costs you 0.0002 BTC due to the change in value ... it's still "inflationary" ...