Well, potentially, they could put out slightly different voltages and destroy your hardware.  But many people do it without ill effect.  I'd go for it if it were me.

Still running my 2.6GH/s one, along with the three 60GH/s singles...!

Huh?  We don't currently have a system like what is describe in the bible as the mark of the beast.

Hey now, you said you sold/gave away all your coins!

Pointless?

Until a proper replacement for Burnout 3 comes along, it is far from pointless!

They may do something along the lines of requiring sellers to keep a balance on-hand equivalent to X% of their sales over the last 90 days.  That percentage could fluctuate depending on the seller's history and reputation.

Man, what he said apparently flew over almost all of your heads.

Matt Miller referred to Bitcoin and how there would be no reason to use Paypal once everyone's using Bitcoin.  Donahoe responds by stating that "You can use digital currencies in the Paypal digital wallet - that's in fact, what Paypal is doing, is building a digital wallet that can take multiple types of currency."

Let's break this down.

- Donahoe responding to Miller's question about Bitcoin by using the term "digital currencies" implies that he is talking about Bitcoin and other digital currencies when he says "digital currencies".
- Digital currency is what we (the Bitcoin community) wanted people to call Bitcoin instead of virtual currency as the media has been doing, further solidifying the above point.
- Donahoe almost says "Bitcoin" before he says "digital currencies".  You can see the "B" on his lips before he realizes what he's about to say and words it differently. (3:52 in the video)
- Donahoe further stats that Paypal is "building" a digital wallet.  This means it is not done yet.  It is in process of being built.  Therefore, he cannot be referring to their existing wallet with its existing features.
- He cannot be saying that Paypal building a new digital wallet that can contain different government fiat currencies, because that is already possible (storage of multiple government fiat currencies) with the existing Paypal site.
- Furthermore, his answer wouldn't make any sense in response to Miller's question if he was referring to government currencies, as it does nothing to counter Miller's point that people would use Bitcoin instead of Paypal.
- However, if he IS referring to Bitcoin and other digital currencies when he says "digital currencies", his answer makes perfect sense in the context.  Paypal absolutely still has a place in the world of Bitcoin, as they can continue to provide integration simplicity (as Bitpay/Coinbase do) as well as escrow and dispute resolution services.  Essentially, the only part of their service that Bitcoin would eliminate is person-to-person transfers in which escrow and merchant integration is not required, which is likely a very small amount of their transactions to begin with.

The only reasonable conclusion (and I'd put money on this) is that Paypal is indeed building a new digital wallet that can contain multiple types (and types here referring to digital currencies and government fiat) of currency.  And the reason that Donahoe avoids stating Bitcoin directly is because he doesn't want to explicitly announce Bitcoin to the media yet - Paypal would be better served if they announced it at the time of its release, so as to ride the resulting media hype with an increase in users.  If they announced it now, before they are ready, then the hype would be over and many people wouldn't remember about it once it is released.  There's probably an element of competitive advantage relating to the timing of announcing Bitcoin integration as well.

You can tell Donahoe is excited about this development.  He's already stated multiple times in the past that he thinks Bitcoin is excellent, and the only reason that Paypal hasn't integrated it is because the market was too small.  But that was a while back, before the market grew to be as big as it is today.  Now we know that Paypal is already programming and preparing to integrate Bitcoin.

Winklevoss lawyer said that the ETF is 99.9% not going to happen this year, sadly.  2015 is probably a good target date though.

I'm actually betting that Paypal will implement Bitcoin this year.

The specs surpass a console, sure, but remember that you're not running the console's code, you're emulating it.  If you built your own console that could run PS3 code directly, you could blow the visual quality of it out of the water.  But a computer is not capable of running PS3 code directly, only of emulating what the PS3 is doing.  An emulator takes each bit of code for a game, and says "ok, if I was a PS3, what would I do with this?"  This happens in real-time, and only using the CPU, not the GPU.  Because it cannot use the GPU, the graphics are difficult and slow to render.  It is way, way, way, way less efficient than running the code directly on the console, which is why even the highest-end computers couldn't emulate the PS2 until a few years ago, and why today's highest-end computers aren't even close to being powerful enough to emulate the PS3 yet.

Another way to look at it is our modeling of the physical world around us.  Scientists can emulate a brain's neural network, but it takes hours to emulate a single second of brain activity, even on a huge supercomputer, because computers work differently than our brains.  Brain activity running on brains is really fast, because that's what brains are made for.  Brain activity running on computers is really slow, because that's not what computers are made for.  Likewise, console code running on a console runs fast because that's what the console is made for, but console code running on a computer is slow because the computer has to pretend it is a console, and it's not possible to actually fully utilize all of the hardware that a computer can offer.

Think about it this way.  Emulators cannot use a computer's GPU chip.  It uses the CPU to do both CPU work AND graphics rendering.  The PS2/PS3/PS4 has a dedicated graphics chip for handling graphics.  Until the CPU is fast enough to emulate what the built-in graphics chip does on the console, it cannot render those games properly.  And CPU's are generally TERRIBLE at rendering graphics in the first place because they aren't special built for the purpose (and no, the built-in GPU on the latest core processors can't be used for emulation either).

So, emulators use sheer CPU bruteforce to emulate graphics that would be much more efficiently emulated on a GPU made for the purpose.

It's like using a sail to get a car down the dragstrip instead of an engine.  If you have a big enough sail, you might be able to go faster than a Ford Model T, but you're still not going to be competing with modern vehicles that have the proper propulsion for the application.

If people gave up waiting to reach payout, then no coins have been sent anywhere.

None.

There is no emulator that will properly emulate PS3 games at this time.  PC's aren't powerful enough to emulate the PS3, and won't be for years to come.  It was only recently that PC's became fast enough to emulate the PS2 well, and the PS2 is (obviously) far behind what the PS3 is capable of.

My advice is this:  Buy a used PS3, and a used copy of The Last Of Us.  Play through it, then sell it all again.  You won't lose much, if anything, if you don't save it for long.

It's possible that Kraken uses blockchain.info to confirm deposits instead of their own custom implementation?

Where is the bitcoin button?

EDIT:  Finally figured it out, you have to have an account and be logged in to see the Bitcoin option!

You also misread what he was suggesting.

Bit lower than I am looking for, but thanks for the offer nonetheless!

Indeed it is quite early to tell the value.  We'll see how it goes...!  I did spent a decent amount of money acquiring this in the first place, so hopefully that wasn't a waste. 

I've been there, done that when I first got into Bitcoin too.  Everything I made was sold or spent.  I didn't start actually saving anything long-term until 2013.

Of course, if I was a Bitcoin millionaire, I'd probably tell people the same thing (that I had very little left), so as to make myself a less interesting hack target.  KnightMB did that with his 371,000 BTC.

The mystery always remains...

Have had one offer so far, anyone else interested?

Sorry - I am so used to reading that particular suggestion that I automatically jumped to the same conclusion reading yours!

Yes, that would be an interesting analysis as well.  It is most certainly doable.