How old is your mom? I've never met anyone who's parents can't send a text message. Heck, my grandparents can do that. I wouldn't trust either of them with bitcoins, though  .

I'm not sure this is a good idea. What about people who can't really afford £10 or how about if somebody puts off going to the GP or hospital because they don't want to pay only to later find out its something serious. There are plenty of alternative ways funds can be raised without just making people pay so they'll hopefully stay away. These things always penalize the poor most.

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Well yeah, that's exactly what's wrong with fiat, but bitcoin cannot be issued and controlled by a central authority so they don't need to worry about this. I doubt bitcoin had anything to do with any governments or corporations and was just invented by a smart guy trying to offer a solution to current fiat cash problems and their payment systems.

Exactly. IT doesn't really matter at the end of the day, but personally I would rather buy things with my coins. Hopefully if/when bitcoin hits 1k again there will be plenty more shops where you can spend your coins directly so people wont have to 'cash' them out.

That picture of the mosque still standing is a perfect example how people will latch on to things whilst ignoring all the rational reasoning around it. Allah floos the place but washes away everything else but the mosque? How many innocent people were killed during the tusnami. How many other mosques have been destroyed in floods before? None? I don't think so. I'm sure plenty have been flattened by bombs before.


Laughed out loud at that. Thanks.

What nonsense. How will this fight have any effect on the price of bitcoin whatsoever? I could imagine if bitcoin was being promoted alongside it somehow or the prize money was in bitcoin. I don't doubt some people will be betting on it with bitcoin but no more than usual bets on a big football game or something.

Reading that article has actually given me some more hope and optimism about bitcoin now. Had no idea about some of these projects. I still think the remittance market is going to be the biggest industry for bitcoin's adoption. Surprised it hasn't taken off already, though.

It's hard to tell whether these people are just trolling or crazy. I think this forum is starting to need a 'conspiracy theory' sub section. And to answer op's question, no, they're not the creator of bitcoin. They don't even have much of an infrastructure to support it given the lack of internet there.

Are the number of slots still correct in the op? I may take a Junior place if so.

Those people who believe everything their government tells them and never question it are even more retarded. I don't believe they had bombs in the towers but I don't believe it had anything to do with Bin Laden or that it didn't have anything to do with various American agencies. You've always got to look at who it benefited the most and what was the outcome? War that's what.

But this is not the way it should be. Clearly this is a MASSIVE breach of privacy and is downright illegal. If a citizen hacked into these companies or the government they'd get sent to jail for a very long time. People really need to be up in arms about this illegal behavior and abuses of power because where does it stop? This is far worse than what Orwell ever envisioned.

If they want to stop it or severely limit its use they will just make it illegal to use or accept as payment or at the very least restrict its use with legislation and restrictions etc. Simple as that. I'm not sure if it'll ever grow to be a threat but it could become a alternative means but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

It might not have been relevant in this trial but it is relevant to his character, so they can think he deserved prison time based on that.

I don't think the banks are that concerned about bitcoin, or won't be for the considerable future. I think btc certainly has the potential to worry them but I think it will always be a niche thing or will operate in tandem with fiat.

You could probably earn 4 bitcoins from signature campaigns. Some pay about 0.4 at the moment but apparently there's higher paying ones coming soon. I think you'll need to earn more than four to become rich in the future but becoming a millionaire shouldn't be a goal because you'll probably just become even more depressed when you don't become one.

This is what I want to know. Are they going to be using the actual bitcoin blockchain or creating their own. It's nice to see people are seeing the potential in the technology but surely we want them to use the actual bitcoin one?

But there's always a continuous flow of people waiting to get into bitcoin so this is their time. Regardless of the price some people still can see the value of bitcoin and it's possible that the price wont always keep dropping. IF it catches on hopefully the opposite will happen.

Text message confirmations? What's that? You mean like when you sign up to a website and you they need your number? 0.01 seems pretty expensive for that to be honest.

I never understand how sites like this can make money merely from tiny ads. How many people actually even click on them? Baffles me.

Say what you want about the recent blockchain.info trouble but at least they can be trusted to make amends and reimburse customers lost funds. Can't really say that for many other web wallets, and their bounty program gives me more faith.