Opera 35 was just released so 34.0 is not supposed to be out dated yet.
since the error is saying "unsupported protocol" i think there might be some issue with your ssl configuration. i don't have any experience with opera but the same thing can happen in IE and enabling "use ssl 3.0" from internet option > advance fixed the issue. Opera might be using same configuration as IE

i am thinking the same way. but i say it totally depends on the situation that might go down. for instance if bitcoin died due to a security issue or something wrong with the whole cryptocurrency idea (which is not gonna happen) then all of the altcoins would have died too. because people are not going to look for an alternative for a failed thing.

but if dies because of circumstances like a worthy competition like an altcoin which actually offers useful features (nothing found yet!) that particular altcoin can replace it.

usually when we talk about buying bitcoin, we mean buying bitcoin to hold for the future. not trading it. if you are a day-trader, yes it is what you do, you buy bitcoin and sell it higher to convert back to cash and use the cash. not use bitcoin.

very interesting topic. and it is funny because i was actually thinking about this. on how many people are "earning a living" not just a small amount as a side job hobby thing. i hope they come forward and tell us about it.


i myself have been earning small amounts through signature campaign and trading part time in small amounts so far. so i can not call it earning for living by as i said on top, i am really thinking about it.

miners get the block reward (currently 25BTC) plus whatever is the total sum of the fees of the transactions in the block that they have mined
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining


every two weeks ranks will be updated. you can get 14 (one for each day). unfortunately selling accounts make scams easier. the only thing you can do is to always use a trusted escrow to lower the risk.
ranks detail: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.0
escrow list: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=108716.0, and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855778.0

check here for all of them: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0

choose any of them that is accepting your rant (Jr member) and click on its link. the campaign explains what you should do and what rules you should follow

c-cex is the worst platform for trading anything.
it has the worst design, it does not look good or easy at all.
worst of all is its API, it is total crap. you can't get and easy orderbook. and worst of all is the 5 second mandatory delay between requests.

and don't get me started on bter, after the stolen 7170 bitcoin the exchanger is dead.

these services have always been like this, their rules have all sorts of loophole that they take maximum advantage of. since they are not earning enough money ever, they try and force their users to not withdraw so they don't have to let money out of their pocket. like what they are doing here by forcing you to invest in their service!

we would all be happy if bitcoin were rallying. but sadly it is not. 

currently there is a lot of stops that are preventing it to go up as we all were speculating because of the block halving. the resistance around $400 is big that it needs a large amount of buy orders to break it. and not to mention the recent bitcoin classic drama that has everybody confused and worried.

i am very interested in Multisignature Wallets these days. they sound awesome. you create a wallet which will require two sets of separate signatures in order to spend the bitcoin, then you keep the two wallets (two signatures) on two different machines. they can be both offline too. then the chance of both of them getting infected is reduced dramatically.

there is no good strategy in dice but there are strategies that you can use in order to play better and your win won't be a total bullshit. even the popular method of martingale can be considered a strategy (not a good one) but it is still a strategy and In my opinion is better than playing just randomly.

oh, thanks for the reminder. i have forgotten about receiving the giveaway. of course i have only participated in one of them (the 0.005BTC giveaway).
now i am going to put some autobet strategy on and test out my luck after a long time. if history is any indication i am going to lose all of it in a jiffy

i don't really see any way that price can go high above $400 as long as there is this block size debate going on. especially since the classic was released i am waiting to see how it is going to affect the market.

p.s. no significant move so far though!

the only thing they can do about bitcoin anonymous transactions is to force businesses like exchangers and such to report their transactions. they can't to this to regular people. besides i am sure part of it is because they want to take taxes from these businesses which they could not control if it was anonymous.


then stop using coinbase and set a bitcoin wallet yourself!

i know that it is an strange thing to say. but what is the point of mining with no reward. mining is going to need electricity so it will cost me. and i am not even looking for a big reward (profit), even a small amount which could cover the electricity cost. this way mining would not be centralized by mining farms.

besides if i want to support bitcoin and blockchain i would run a full node, not mining without reward.

what you are describing as your trading strategy is the classic "buy low, sell high" that everybody knows and they talk about it. but the problem is with the risk it involves.

when you buy those coins at low price there is always this risk that it goes even further down, and you lose your investment.

the magnitude of the effect on price would depend on the amount spread which you have in mind. but how many poor are we talking about or how much bitcoin per person?

the only possible way that can be good and effective in my opinion is donation to a "charitable organization". i have seen a couple of them in DogeCoin community but never seen any in btc.

the problem with this is that not everybody knows what mili, micro and similar things mean. i have seen topics about what does mBTC or uBTC means and how much are they.
for this to work, everybody needs to have an understanding of the units. but satoshi or using decimals is going to be universally understandable.

there is going to be a lot of problems with that.

i am assuming you are talking about satoshi spreading his "bitcoins" among poor people and not "cash". in that case it is going to wreck the market and the price of bitcoin is going to fall so hard, making bitcoin nearly worthless.

why? because those people can not do anything with the bitcoins they receive, like paying rent, buying necessary stuff for their living, etc so they would convert those bitcoins they have received for free to fiat, in other words a massive amounts of sell orders on the market (supply) which will push the price down to oblivion!

one big problem that i have with bitcoin is difficulty, which will lead to this situation that i as an individual with a pc at home (no extra mining equipment) can not mine bitcoin, so mining becomes a business that a few (mining farms) can only do it.

can't say if it is all a bad thing, but i wished that mining of the cryptocurrency that is supposed to be decentralized could be done by anybody who wanted to do so.