Wow @ the poll.... 2 of the choices are completely anti-bitcoin, only 12% of people are positive about bitcoins...  

All I know is it holds history of every transaction bitcoin has ever made, but nothing else...  what's the idea behind it, where does it stay, and how does it work?

I'm not sure if anyone here does it but on reddit I see threads about how people are getting X company/store to accept bitcoin all the time. If you wanted to get a merchant to accept bitcoin, how would you do it? I'm just wondering because I would like to play my part in helping bitcoins gain popularity become adopted.

Big news indeed. This guy invested in Facebook, Groupon, Twitter, Skype, etc if I recall


Quick question though, what is the main difference between Bitstamp and Coinbase? How come Bitstamp allows buy/sell limits but Coinbase doesn't? Is there a reason Coinbase has a limit to how many BTC you can buy? Does Coinbase also allow business to use bitcoins like BTC-e?

Just trying to understand the difference between these exchanges and how/if Coinbase falls short. (Sorry not trying to derail the thread)

With all the good news this week (below) I'm surprised we are at $850... I'm planning to buy some more right now but I'm wondering if we are falling into another dip for some reason?

Any thoughts?



Good new form this week:

I think this entire week was full of good news, the 5 main ones that come to mind in no particular order:
1. Switzerland voting to make BTC a foreign currency
2. Baidu (china's yahoo) adding a section for bitcoin in their main page
3. http://www.usatoday.com/ adding a bitcoin logo on their main page (their high traffic, along with baidu's will definitely help increase awareness)
4. News about WallStreet and hedge funds getting into bitcoins in 2014
5. Fidelity allowing customers put bitcoins in IRAs

I would expect him to give me the ticket first because if I pay him I cannot get my money back, unless I beat the shit out of him and make him transfer it back to my address

So simple solution:
1. Get the item first
2. Beat the shit out of him

this


it was going to happen, but early next year is sooner than I thought, this is bigger news than the recent crap that everyone keeps repeating

Bitcoin's payment system will free us from the banks and make the world a better place for the general public.


Of course these crooks/scum are going to try to downplay bitcoin and create alternatives that allow them to keep their dicks in everyone's mouth.

Coinbase and Bitstamp.. fuck mount cox

I want to see Bitcoins destroy the banks first. Banks will try to jump in the way of the freedom bitcoin is creating by trying to stop it, regulate it or simply copy it. Like JPM, more will try to create their own virtual currency that acts revolutionary.... but really just provides half the benefits of the decentralized p2p system of bitcoin, while charging an arm and a leg to the public and by keeping the masses and small businesses in debt.


I hope no one supports any of these bullshit "warnings" or alt currencies the banks try to bring in the next few years, and that people realize that banks are a parasite that needs to die. Bitcoins can allow that to happen if everyone plays along

apparently this patent was filed in 1999.. it's not the same as bitcoins and it is still backed by a credit card

So is this basically another crypto-currency w/ the same accounting capabilities as bitcoin, except centralized by the bank?

 

1. Apple is going to push for their own online payment system, they are just killing any roadblocks or competition
2. They would rather have you use your credit card to purchase than bitcoins

bout three fiddy

All newbies looking at this thread... looks like a vast majority of the people here think bitcoin prices will increase a lot next year. So get hyped and buy some coins and drive the price up for the rest of us you assholes!




In my opinion I don't think it does.


It's much easier to go from pennies to 100 or 100 to 1000 than it is to go form 1000 to 10,000... I'm not sure how we can see exponential growth like we've seen this year and the year before.

On another hand there is no limit, for all we know bitcoins could replace all liquid wealth.

Coinbase still says $963.67.... so wtf are u talking about?



And no, I wouldn't be surprised if we hit 3 digits again in Jan 2014


Screw the 4 digits... the real question is when will we get to 5 digits?

We've had our fun for 2013...

I expect greatness and new ATH's in 2014



I'm worried about companies like Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Apple all jumping in to create their own virtual currencies. They're not decentralized global p2p currency with as many advantages of bitcoin, but these companies have strong advertising and the avergae joe won't know the difference. Do you guys think this will hurt or slow down bitcoin adoption?

Can someone kindly explain how to do 2 factor authentication?

Wtf is up all these companies (Amazon, Apple, JPMorgan) trying to create their own virtual currency!! Fuck them. Is this bad news for bitcoins? Does that mean it's unlikely that Amazon will accept bitcoins as payment? But I don't think their currency is the same kind of crypto currency that bitcoins are, they're not programmable and provide the same world wide peer-to-peer benefits of bitcoins right?

Let's hope that changes by 2014 or 2015. Bitcoins linked to Paypal, Ebay and Amazon = huge step forward for adoption, increase in bitcoin's use, more fiat coming into btc and btc value increasing substantially to support the larger market share.  My fingers are crossed