Haha what crap did you buy? This is one of my main fears of spending BTC right now. I've already made nearly 1000% profit on my BTC, so I'd still getting a ridiculously good deal for my coins, but I don't want to order a pizza and a few months later have ended up essentially paying a stupid amount for it.

The opposite is also true; some of them have no unique features and nothing behind them in terms or development or merchant adoption. Most are just clones and get rich quick schemes. Some will survive; some wont; some will become useful and of worth; others wont. It'll be interesting to see what other alt coins merchants start accepting.

It's early days yet. Plus, you'll only be aware of them if you go in. Some stores that accept them don't even state they do or explicitly advertise the fact. Let's see how many stores start accepting them in 2014 - I think you'll be surprised. It'll also be much easier to get smaller independent entrepreneurial shops to experiment with accepting them as opposed to big corporations. I'll probably buy a coffee with BTC the first place I see that accepts them just to try it out and encourage it's use.

Nope, got 150 more to do at least. I started on 84 posts. I'm hustling as hard as I can haha.

Haha, the signature showing up depends on your monitor size.It shows up fully for some and not for others.

Not entirely. With coins, sure, but with Paper Wallets you could just scan the buyers paper wallet and take the funds on your phone or computer.

How long does it take to get verified for a credit card? It takes just as long to sign up for one of them, if not longer. Don't use crappy exchanges if you don't like all the faff. You can buy coins from these forum easily and without any ID. And just because you can't seem to get a hold of coins easily doesn’t mean the rest of us can't. I got my first coins pretty easily off ebay. Paid for them with Paypal and had them within 10-30 minutes. Bitcoin isn't a novelty, and serious shopping can already be done with it, and this will likely grow steadily during 2014.

Uggh, that would seriously compound how much a of joke these new coins are becoming. There's already a Christmascoin and a Sexcoin and a Dogecoin, and it's called Bitcoin! 

I wouldn't call it suffering, but a minor annoyance I shouldn’t have to deal with in the comfort and privacy of my own home. He can do whatever he wants in the comfort and privacy of his own home as long as it doesn’t negatively affect me. It is negatively affecting me and he's often neglecting or not looking after his child in the process.

And no, I'm not trolling. This is the off-topic forum of a Bitcoin forum. Anything goes in here. I was just venting and asking for advice on how to best deal with the situation.

Ha, thanks. That's too little for me, but I guess whatever somebody is happy with is fair as it's free money at the end of the day. I'd suggest you sign up for Stunna's PrimeDice signature and try make the minimum 50 posts in a month for 0.03BTC. The next offer starts tomorrow.

I think that's unfortunately exactly what the US government does and says.

Do they have roughly the same features as the iPhones? I do like the look of them:



Does anybody have any experience of Lumias, and how do they compare to the iphone?

Bitcoin can be used in any way somebody sees fit. Sure it could theoretically take down the banks and/or take power away from them, or it can work alongside them. I'll bet it will work alongside them for many years, but the benefits of Bitcoin will hopefully slowly cripple the corrupt banking institutions and prove to the mainstream which is better. Hopefully Bitcoin wont become corrupted or manipulated and abused too, but only the future will tell us on that front.

You can also pay with physical Bitcoins. If electricity goes down, then so will the fiat credit systems.

I think you're exaggerating the cost or problems of implementing Bitcoin as a payment system. It would be no harder or difficult than training an employee to use the current chip and pin card devices. 'Contactless' card payments are now being rolled out and I can't see how paying with Bitcoin would be any different from that. In fact, paying with Bitcoin will be cheaper and quicker for the merchant as they don't have to pay creditcard fees etc. Obviously it's still early days for Bitcoin, but the benefits are there to be seen by all and all we need to do is wait for gradual mainstream acceptance which is happening slowly but surely already.


Yes, using Bitcoin will become simpler and easier. With every new technology it takes a little while to get used to.

There's a difference between education and qualification. Wikipedia is free knowledge, but it's also free to edit and can contain much inaccuracies and misinformation. It would be currently ridiculous to claim that you studied or got your education from Wikipedia. Obviously you can use it to educate yourself, but without a qualification how can you prove to any one that you are fit for a specific role or job, other than actually taking a new test (which would then negate the point anyway). And when I say education I mean up until University level and to actually gain a qualification. Money should be taken out of the equation for education as it puts those who cannot afford to go at an unfair disadvantage. Also, people should not become brutally in debt for half their life just because they want to better themselves. While obviously qualifications are flawed and can be cheated, a online presence or reputation would probably be much worse.

The Khan Academy is good in principle, and is potentially great for people who don't have access or cannot afford to go to university, but as you say people need to trust the reputation of it before the qualification would become valuable, but at the moment it doesn't seem to be.

Only if you live within a half-hour radius of a distribution centre, so I'm guessing this will exclude the majority of people.

This kind of ties into this:


So that's why they all move along. It also happens because when the coins start rising people start panic-buying and try to buy the cheapest or next best coin, and obviously this inflates the price, but can lead to crashes when the excitement has calmed down.


It is quite possible to mine some of the cheaper lesser known coins then trade them for another currency. It's also possible to mine a newer coin then sell them on ebay for a ridiculous premium, if you're willing to take the risk of using it. Just look at the prices of Dogecoin and Sexcoin and Infinitecoin on ebay. The coins are currently practically worthless, yet they can go for hundreds on ebay. It's nuts.

They will eventually as long as Bitcoin keeps growing. You only have to look at the demand and prices coins on ebay go for to realise there's massive amounts of money to be made from this.

It wouldn't surprise me if Apple bring out their own cryptocoin. iCoin or Applecoin etc.

I think in some extreme cases users who have like 100s of ignores should probably literally be ignored by the forum. If somebody is here to just blatantly troll and cause annoyance then they should be essentially 'banned', and this would be a great automatic way to do it. Would be quite amusing if a troll was just posting away to himself and nobody could see his comments.