Compré tres. Soy muy contento.

In many European countries, the dot an comma are used the other way around compared to how they are used in English-speaking countries. It's not a typo.

Precisely.

For the record, I have BTC available to send immediately to Matthew in the unlikely event that I lose my side of the bet.

Bought via BitMit. Thanks!

Country names are not a good choice because they become obsolete. No-one talks anymore about Ceylon, Bechuanaland, Rhodesia, Siam etc anymore - yet these country names were all in use when I was at school.

Yes, of course. I was posting tongue-in-cheek. People will certainly learn that Bitcoin needs a different kind of security than the traditional western financial model.

My serious prediction is that there will be a very unstable phase after Bitcoin goes mainstream when many imitators will arise, created by governments and large corporations. I'm not sure how much Bitcoin will suffer during this phase, but I expect it will emerge stronger.

Not only is this a big mention for Bitcoin, it's also probably the first time Pastebin has made it to the mainstream media

Not hacked perhaps, but these "security experts" managed to leak a list of all their users' email addresses.

I think you mean "any four of the eleven".

I'm not an American, and I don't know much about Gary Johnson. But a quick look at his policy page reveals plenty of weasel words. For example, he calls for an end to "bloated stimulus programs and unnecessary farm subsidies". No problem then with stimulus programs that are not too bloated, or with farm subsidies that are "necessary"? And he wants to eliminate "needless barriers to free trade", which suggests that some barriers to free trade are "needed".

Also, campaign promises are not legally binding and the historical track record of elected candidates is not good.

And he doesn't seem to have a problem with accepting a comfortable salary extracted under threat of force from his constituents. Just sayin'.

How do you make sure you don't have a trojan that's reading the scanned keystrokes?

What kind of security guarantee does one get for a few kBTC/year?

Voting for a third party says "I support this broken and corrupt system and this is who I want to be in charge".

Not voting says "I don't support this broken and corrupt system".

Satoshi, nefario, freemoney, vladimir, meni rosenfeld, yochdog ... there are plenty more, but you asked for five and I already gave six. I trust those >99%.

I trust Matthew about 95%, a factor which I took into account when wagering with him. I never trusted pirateat40.

The saddest thing about Bitcoin is that Satoshi Nakamoto is probably too scared to come out of hiding.

For comparison, the average P/E (price-to-earnings) ratio on the London FTSE-100 is just over 20 to 1, and the average P/E ratio on the Dow Jones Industrial Average is over 15 to 1.

If you think that Satoshi Dice will continue to earn at or above its current rate over the long term (a couple of decades, say), it would be a great investment at a P/E ratio of 10 to 1.

Aye, but there's the rub. A decade is a long time in the Bitcoin world, and many things could happen to Satoshi Dice during that time. For that level of risk, 10/1 was too high for me. I would have invested at 5/1 though.

There's plenty of opportunity for surprises between now and September 9th.

Here's one unlikely but not impossible scenario: Suppose Pirate has another similar operation going within another community. He could use funds from there to pay off this operation at the last moment.

Couldn't we just encourage Pirate to have sex with some women in Sweden, then let things run their course?

Do you mean the same Patrick who rated pirateat40 as "10 trustworthy" on the bitcoin-otc web of trust?

Oh how I wish that was true! I have so many Bitcoin businesses I'd love to operate if I could figure out how to do so without risking being caged.

The UK's financial legislation is roughly along the lines of "No one shall offer fianancial services except in accordance with the following regulations". That's broadly equivalent to "it's illegal unless we permit it".