I saw a video saying that the coin you make yourself is the best altcoin because there are almost no altcoins that have a purpose outside of the bitcoin community

If there's a finite amount of btc's to be mined... what happens when they go missing? for example the guy who lost millions because his HDD got thrown out. Or other methods such as lost keys ect.

I don't think that 100k will be reach...
Imagine, you could get 50 btc every 10 min at the beginning with a laptop.


50 btc at 100k = 5 million $ lol

Where do you see bitcoins in the next 2 years?

It would really help if there was a secure, fast, and easy way to buy BTC

I am uncertain as to how to do that. I can not find a wallet.dat file. I see wallet.cpp wallet.h walletdb.cpp and walletdb.h.

Could you be very specific on how to do what you say?

On topic, I recently became interested in alt coins and quite frankly bitcoins are far too expensive for me to be making profit without alot of potentially dangerous buying, but litecoins, at an average of £20 for one seem worth it, especially seeing as the low difficulty at the moment is enabling people like me to use a bog standard graphics card to actually mine fairly efficiently, even if I am about to complain about my hashrate

So I've got cudaminer working, i've got a gtx780 but the hasrate is only ever 250 kh/s
how can I improve this? i'm running the april version of cudaminer as I can't seem to find a place to download the latest version, I understand there are a few people are getting up to 450 kh/s with the -l T30x16 kernel command but i don't seem able to force this code to work, which may simply be because of the older version of cudaminer
any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have the same question here. Putting 50% of my FIAT into BTC? Or something else? But what? Gold? The US Government manipulates the Gold price how they want. But I´m sure if BTC gets big enough, they will do the same with BTC.

yes but should the government decide to regulate BTC, they might track your transactions and bust you later down the line.

i don't think were going to see it going much lower than $800 any more and they way to go is UP

By the end of the year probably.  People always try to say things like "The Senate hearings caused a spike in bitcoin prices" or "Baidu accepting bitcoin caused a spike in bitcoin prices".  I don't think much of this really matters as much as dinner table or water cooler conversations.  The Chinese government stamp of approval was one thing that had a huge impact on demand, but little stuff, like the positive Senate hearing doesn't impact the price all that much or at least not all that quickly.

This. I keep telling this to friends who lament not getting into BTC when it was ___ price that was cheaper. They keep not buying.

I had about 3.8BTC in my wallet before my computer broke a year ago, but I didn't think much of it. Really depressing knowing that would be worth over $1600 now! Although I can only predict a steady rise in the near future, I'm praying for a huge drop so I can recover.