One of my friends once bought a 200-pack from Bitmit for 0.4 BTC (at that time BTC was around $100). He don't even want to discuss about that purchase now. 

I had 4 pegs of Staroplzenecky Absinthe. Bought with my CC, as they don't accept BTC.

What is the difference in doing these sort of things for $10 or 200K. Everything is the same. You are not different from someone who is doing it for $10. 

Hmm... I don't want to discuss about authoritarianism. But liberals were the ones who strongly supported the banking bailout. Sinc ethye are so much strongly behind the financiers, why should they support the Bitcoin?

The Chinese history texts and schoolbooks don't even mention about the tens of millions of people who were killed by the communists from the 1930s to the 1950s. On the other hand, they exaggerate the Japanese atrocities. It is easier to exert control over the population by whipping up the nationalist passion, and this has been realized by the current government of China.

Right up to his execution for ordering the assassination of the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Muslim brotherhood stood behind Sayyid Qutb. So you can't say that he was an outcast.

Yes. If you are inactive for a period of 12 months or so (you can specify that), then the access to your email account will be passed on to someone of your choice.

The most well known case of refusal to recognize the patents by Brazil is that of Efavirenz, one of the ARVs used for the treatment of AIDS. Efavirenz is a complex compound derived from petrochemical reactions, and has nothing to do with Amazon rain forest.

That depends on which media source you are reading. According to the one I have access to, Tymoshenko is not only corrupt, but she is also one of the world's topmost corrupt leaders.


Compare the EU visa regulations for citizens from Moldova and Ukraine. You will understand.


I think it is the other way around. In EU you have banks taking away cash from people's savings accounts. Is this what you call more personal liberty? The price of gasoline in the EU is among the highest in the world. VAT is astronomically high, and so is income tax. Personal liberty in the EU is just an illusion.

And the argument that Ukraine will have greater independence under the EU is laughable. It is just 3 or 4 big nations which hold all the power in the EU. The remaining states don't have much of a voice. That's why countries like Hungary and Poland are being forced to accept mass immigration from third world nations and legalization of homosexuality, although 90% of the population is against it.

In case with countries like Brazil and Botswana, the main issue is with AIDS medications. Around 1 million are HIV +ve in Brazil, while in Botswana a quarter of the population is infected. The government can't afford costly ARV medication. So they gave permission for the mass production of cheap copies.

Nothing to do with Amazonian plants here, but that occurred in some other instances.

Google might keep an encrypted backup. But only the user can decrypt it with his password. Possible.

Also, recently Gmail introduced a new option. Once you are dead (i.e your account is not active for 12 months or so), you can chose to give your mail access to someone you trust.

The damage he has caused for the US foreign relations is very significant and severe. So I wouldn't say that he is not even worth a drone strike. But that said, if the US does something like that, then it will be far more damaging for them.

I got my dozen or so coins when BTC was going for $15 apiece. And I am going to hold them until they reach the 1 million mark. If that doesn't happen in the near future, then I'll give the coins to my children.

Another biased article trying to spread scare stories about Bitcoin. It covers in detail the crash Bitcoin had when it declined from $1,200 to $700. But not a word on how it rose all the way from $15.

I need information from someone in China. I was checking the BTC-China volumes. I found that although it has declined heavily, the trade is still going on. Yesterday, around 3,000 BTCs were traded. Can anyone confirm this?

Yes. I agree. It is next to impossible. Even if you track its movement, you can't do much if the thief uses a mixer.

Happy new year everyone.

I'd have been extremely happy if BTC was hovering around the $1,000 levels as of now.... unfortunately the current exchange rate is somewhere around $750. But still.... I believe that we are going to reach five figures by the next new year!

It is not the French politicians who are retarded. As a matter of fact, the French politicians are one of the most shrewd of their kind.

It is the common people of France who are retarded, for electing these sort of leaders.

France is currently ruled by the Socialist party. There is a methodology adopted by the socialist parties all over the world to retain power. It is like this:

1. Tax to death the 10% hard working people and squeeze as much money as possible.

2. Give this tax money as benefits to the remaining 90%, lazy people.

3. After a few years, most of the hard working people will run away and the economy will collapse.

4. Now blame the economic collapse on Capitalist forces

5. Brainwash the remaining population (by this time will be living in ghettoes and slums), so that no other party will be elected to power other than the socialist party.

This has been successfully conducted in many of the world nations. Let's wait to see whether their experiment in France will be a successful one or not.

Definitely. For Armory (both online and offline), I don't even think that they have 100,000 wallets, while Blaockchain.info is having more than 1 million active wallets. This guy is probably the PRO from Armory.