It's been very little time for anyone to fund their accounts if they even do want to buy bitcoins. I'd imagine this week Mt Gox as well as the other markets will get a little extra business once funds start to roll in.

I agree bitcoin is somewhat hard to get into but it's more a sense of popularity than anything. The more popularity rises, and more important the more legal issues are made clearer, it will raise the ability for others to get involved easier. When my neighbors or friends have bitcoin to trade, major markets won't be as necessary. And if you're using something like Dwolla is it really that much harder than Paypal? Besides the fact most people already have paypal, it isn't much different.

Refunds are "allowed", they just do not have a third party controlling when they are applicable. We'll have companies just like paypal that acts as an intermediary, only for your bitcions, so they can act as escrow and control refunds, if necessary.

People hate paypal because they have such control over your money online, but a third party controlling refunds/cashbacks can be useful. We'll have these businesses with bitcoin as well I assume, but the important thing is that when you take away that third party option or if they shut down your account, you still can pay someone online with your own wallet of bitcoins, which isn't something you can do if paypal blocks payments and you have no other way to get money online.

A few minutes or a few hours. Somewhere within that region.

It's spam.

If you're broke, how are you paying for hosting and your websites? And if you're not broke, there's plenty of avenues to buy coins if you need them.

Anyone asking to borrow a loan to build a gambling site should get everyones sirens going off.

Looking at your post history, it seems you're a gambler, and judging by the fact you need a loan, my guess is it would go straight towards that.

I would strongly suggest not loaning to this person. We've seen before what can happen in these situations.

I know! By the title I thought we were coming in here to play some Starcraft or something.

How misleading.

Black and yellow black and yellow black and yellow black and yellow

But seriously, no mix?

You can't win that battle. To them, when the price is rising, a bubble is imminent, and when the price drops, their predictions are correct. They don't leave room for anyone else to be right.

Gents, this is serious biz. Without some female compassion we are destined to to lead a violent life of corruption and greed!

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/03/06/men-without-women.html

Introduce the females to the coin! It will save us from beating ourselves over the head with each others sticks (literally)

Unfair! She was paid to vote that way! Boobcoin representatives do not count!

Why does Mt Gox not have some sort of "News/Announcement" page? would make things a lot easier than having to search through to forum to find any changes.

How I see this thread playing out:

If prices stay steady - "These prices are too volatile. Sell sell sell!"
If prices increase - "This is getting more dangerous! Sell sell sell!"
If prices drop - "I was right! Get ready for the drop! Sell sell sell!"

The end.

Keeping it on your computer will prevent a third party from taking/seizing your coins(not including viruses). Keeping them on an online wallet will give you more options to spend bitcoins (anywhere with an internet connection) and give you an automatic backup in the cloud, but there is a more likely chance of fraud. Depends on your preference and how many coins you have.

This was back in january. Prices were different then.

Well, that's a giant red flag. An employee realizing it would be very hard to track might have prompted the theft.

Well that's what you do when you buy nude photos. You *puts on sunglasses* screw yourself.

 

According to Alexa, the highest counted age range is 25-34 for bitcoin.org, and we have a higher than average representation of people who went to graduate school. I'd hardly say that the main audience here is idealist teenagers.

If a merchant accepts bitcoins, why wouldn't they accept mBTC if the item they were selling was cheap enough? Seems to be making double the work.