I actually see it being more of an image issue.

Majority of people out there have heard that bitcoin is used for lots of illegal activities, if not that, then its loved by the anarchocapitalists and ultra libertarians who want to take down the government.
 

Reading through the altcoin postings, it seems a lot don't focus enough on community building. You can't really have a currency without people actively supporting it. One of the postings I saw was just an enumeration of the coin's stats and a download link. It must take a decent amount of work to create a new altcoin, but I think that's only the smaller part of the work involved in publishing an altcoin.

It's the other way around. Woman are generally less interested in these topics.

My wife was there with me so that adds one more female in attendance but she really could care less about Bitcoin. She calls it another one of my "strange hobbies".

Yeah it's a gift meaning you are paying for it out of pocket willingly. Are you going to go back and steal the coins after you've gifted them away? Makes no sense.

The reason there are fewer women in tech is because of sexism.  

You can't present a paper bitcoin wallet as a gift because you already know a private key and can preserve it.

Next to average looks she was also stupid as hell. It's probably in her best interest not to talk to much.

Overstock have stated that as soon as they make a sale and are paid in BTC they will convert it straight to fiat. Now if this a gradual process that will be fine but imagine if for example:

1000 shoppers spend 0.25BTC in 1 day - 250BTC in total

Overstock will then covert this BTC to fiat instantly, I was merely meaning that as Overstock (and other retailers following this practice) try to sell this much BTC in one day, everyday, there will need to be increased demand for BTC to sustain the prices.

Retailers choosing to adopt BTC should NOT be converting it instantly to fiat - in my opinion.

This is one more reason why one should never use a debit card. I use cash, credit cards, cheques and now Bitcoin instead. The advantage of a credit card over a debit card in this situation is that one's bank account is not impacted. As for cash and Bitcoin the advantages are clear. Cheques being an older, and unpopular, method of payment are also way less likely to this kind of fraud.

Indeed. This is one of the largest banks worldwide. Being European is no excuse to have never heard of this one

If I were you I would not store coins online as it is not as secure as storing them on you PC. I would recommend MultiBit for ease of use and you don't need to download the whole blockchain.

No 2FA. I think using google authenticator probably would have saved his coins in this situation.

I understand the alt coin hate, but really having most of the talk here will show the n00bs that BTC was the first and is the dominant (for now at least).

People who end up at the Litecoin forum first think Bitcoin is shit and Litecoin will one day soon replace it, thus they invest in only LTC. 

Also free speech! 

Yeah, you never really know, that's so right. Everything thought DOGE was a joke, and it still is lol, yet, it is still quite profitable to mine it.

This was his first address:
12c6DSiU4Rq3P4ZxziKxzrL5LmMBrzjrJX

This was the first address to ever exist, but the private key for it does not exist (so the money can't be spent):
1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

What's so special about those doge coins? As far as I can tell it's only the name, nothing substantial from the programming point of view.
Other Alt currencies like nxt coin promise to do things (in the future) that are not implemented in the bitcoin protocol.
So why are you guys so much in love with that doge coin?

Why have they limited it to $100?

You're just making up your own religion as you go along. That's a fine concept with plenty of support or their wouldn't be so many different sects of the Christian cult. That's the biggest problem with Christianity for me. If there's something you don't like about it you just don't believe that part and move on. You do that too much and there's no reason to keep believing.

If you take a simple quote like Timothy 2:12: "I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man she must be quiet." That's pretty understandable given the climate at the time but in modern times it just doesn't work so let's throw it out.

Or the likes of Leviticus 18:22: "Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman", because it's bad, m'kay. That's obviously not going to work in the modern world let's chuck it out.

I don't like Psalm 137:9 either: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." I don't care what lesson you're trying to teach or what metaphor revolves around this, just keep kids out of it. Let's just forget that one was ever in there because there is never a reason good enough to kill kids. Chuck it out.

Can we just keep kids out of this Jeremiah 19:9: "And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them." Get this outa there.

Why does HE hate children so much 2 Kings 2:23-24: "23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. 24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them." Obviously we don't need to read about children being mauled by a curse from GOD.

If I remove all of the things that are either sick, disgusting or stupid then I'm not left with enough canvas to paint my religion on. I'd rather just scrap this one and start over.

If there are many people holding Dogecoins, and a percentage of those are pet owners for example, and I were a pet shop chain, I could simply create a promotion saying that you could get a discount by visiting their pet store and using Dogecoins as coupons. The store chain gets what it needs (ie: more customers spending money), and the customers holding Doegecoins get to use them to buy stuff for their pets. The store chain can then use the Dogecoin as rewards for returning customers and the cycle continues.

IMHO, crypto coins are the rewards coin of the future. There will be thousands of them, just as there are thousands of different rewards, airmiles, coupons etc. I would like that TAG become the defacto rewards coin of the future but I am a realist..

I'm giving out BTC and LTC this year, As I am in canada I have created accounts at virtex under the names of my family members/friends and funded the accounts with 1 btc each. Now all they have to do is get verified and there good to go.

In total I'll be handing out about 15 BTC and 150 LTC for Christmas/Chanukah/Chrismakah gifts

Nah, I think it can. They're probably hosting the domain somewhere offshore.