A fairly obvious one you have missing from your list.

Food:

Groceries, specialty foods (deli, spice shops, bakeries etc), fast food and food court.

Tipping wait staff in clubs and restaurants (photo of employee at the payments desk along with a QR Code for each employee to tip.)

Metro Travel Cards (ie weekly top-ups)

You don't get out much do you?

That would be like suggesting you could only go into a shop and pay with Visa instead of MasterCard or Visa-versa and then saying to the customer "Well, even though you have the right card, your money isn't the right type of money.

Which fork would get to retain the right to call itself BitCoin?

I love these end of the world predictions...

None of them ever make it onto the dart board, much less hit the bulls eye.

The price is back at $ 600 USD and people are again heading for the hills with rapture just around the corner.

Banks have had digital versions of fiat money for many decades now, it is called your bank account and is used to instruct an ATM or teller in another location that it is OK for them to hand over cash to you when you request it.

BitCoin on the other hand frees a person from the hassle of dealing directly with a bank so enabling each of us to conduct transactions without banks overseeing our transactions.

Without a doubt BitCoin will overtake other forms of online payment methods due to its irreversible nature which is why we should all treat BTC like it were cash in our pockets.

Read up on statistics.  There's a 100% chance you will get 100 as there is you will get one or any whole number in between.  And the next time it will make no difference to the time before.  You have no way of knowing if the slots you played were modified during play, did you read the sites "provably fair" statement?

Don't bother going back there to try to win it back, if that site is fiddling with their games pay-outs, then they have you marked as a soft touch and you'll loose even more.

Thanks for the link - I've only heard of about half and of those I hadn't actually seen a couple, just by reputation alone.

The last one looks very flaky (the Pi-Wallet) eventually you'll have to connect to the internet so it's no different from the second Multibit which can run off of a USB.

Unless I'm missing something?

I hadn't realised people would trade such amounts on a day to day basis, they must be early miners playing the markets to keep the price stable perhaps?  They wouldn't trade all of those in one session though, would they?

The buyer will hardly sell below $ 586 in the short term, so that will only be a bench mark for them to watch.

I have no doubt perhaps 10% will be palmed off quickly (at cost) to minimise the cost outlayed.  Having said that, if a consortium pooled their funds, it could be broken up post sale and the BitCoins could go out into the world for all to use.

From the little I know about Ether, they've been badly bruised with their rollback fork, so any good will they once had has been eroded.

That's not to say they won't regain trust over time, but it left a lot of long term investors smarting with the way things were handled.

I don't see the price of ETH regaining to pre fork levels any time soon.

Agreed that mass adoption in BitCoins is the way to go forward - people need to understand it can be used for secure transactions - explain its features of confirmation and diversified block chain.

The average fiat user wouldn't have a clue how financial transactions occur, so there needs to be an education initiative.

Only then will it hold above $ 400.

Someone will still have to front up with funds to start the whole process off.  A better question would be to ask if there are any users or groups who offer the service - and what would their fees be? - that would be a better way to go.

Nothing's turned up in my Wallet either

OP might have tried out a few of our suggestions and come unstuck perhaps?

Regardless, it looks like we're fresh out of ideas.

Nice logo - who did it?

Am hoping the price won't bounce around too much at halving - Maybe gain $ 100 over night?

The trouble with leaving a device in your own home that is left playing loudly (and the neighbors are clued in that you are not home) is that they can then report you for having loud noise.

If it's something similar to their own noise (and we don't know if it's them talking/arguing/watching TV/Humping/practicing for Choir/Even Praying or Chanting/playing a rusty trombone/MTV...) it might annoy them enough because it's disrupting their own concentration.

Then again, are they elderly?  You could get them some headphones hooked up (via WiFi/FM transmitter) to their devices that are making the noise and they can listen at any volume they want and you won't hear a thing.

Might have to give up on this one - doesn't sound like the OP is going to come through with the goods.

Sounds very old school Spy Vs Spy stuff.  There's a device for sending sound through the ground that can be heard at a distance. (Only trouble is others could hear it).

Parabolic dishes can send sound further and can pick up whispers.

You might have to come clean on what you want it for?

What's on the T-Shirts?  Words? Images? What size etc?

Even when the market is rising you can buy while it's going up, you just have to be prepared to wait a long time for it to come back down.  And that can be a very long time.

You want to pre-mine 90% of the coins?

You'll still need to have residual mining occur to cover the transaction fees etc.

Agreed, the only catch is when the bubble bursts (as it did after reaching $ 1,400 a year ago) The trouble is most here have no skill in playing the markets like those on stock exchanges do.