In the linked post he talks about mining for a few days and then stopping, not liking the effect it had on his computer. He then writes about forgetting about Bitcoin until over a year later.

I'm surprised at that as I remember him saying he'd been waiting for many, many years for something like it to arrive.

At the time it would've been just another project popping up, albeit an extremely interesting one.

You can't. It's each merchant who integrates Bitpay. If they don't do it then you can't pay with BTC.

The closest alternative to Expedia available to pay with BTC will be lastminute.com as they sell hotels and flights.

You can buy gift cards for Bitcoin for it here - https://giftoff.com/gift-cards?filters%5Bsort%5D=alpha&filters%5Bcategory%5D=15&filters%5Bcountry%5D=80&page=1

Nah. Your English is fine.

The point people are making is that we see a lot of people here who become convinced of their belief and refuse to let go of it. If you stick to one point of view, bullish or bearish, at some time you will be categorically and catastrophically wrong. If you're using margin trading that's very dangerous.

The market doesn't care what anyone thinks about anything. If you can win then great. There's a strong chance of losing too. I prefer to sit back, have general faith and do nothing.

Even if you didn't look up his multiple aliases most people would be able to tell that here is a person who regards others as marks to be milked and discarded. There's something about his manner that tells you he is not someone troubled by his conscience. Cos there ain't one.

Not sure. I do seem to remember that they were tracked down and threatened with 'swatting' if they didn't give in to the extortion attempt.

As above I wonder how much of it was eaten in medical costs.

And this is exactly the same for any market in the entire world. There are a few at the top and a bunch of nobodies below them. It's how everywhere and everything works. Framing it as some type of revelation has failed to shake my world.

Those at the top are more keen to screw each other than the nothings. The nothings come along for the ride.

We seem to get posts like this fairly often where the author believes they've uncovered a truth no one else has ever conceived of. Then they usually pursue it as far as they can take it and go down in flames. I prefer to sit back and let be what will be.

The man himself has the answer.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.msg1643833#msg1643833

He mined a bit but soon stopped. They were a worthless curiosity when he mined them though from reading his exchanges with Satoshi he was clearly thinking about future value.

At the bottom of the post he mentions he's left the coins stored in a safe deposit box.

Cheapair doesn't list many budget airlines in Europe so they're effectively pointless for Europeans unless they're going long haul. Budget airlines are usually 2-5x cheaper than the obscurities Cheapair throws up and are vastly more numerous in the times and routes offered.

And I still don't see why anyone should be paying a premium for the honour of spending BTC. On checking one flight there, London to Boston, Cheapair are $50 more for the exact same flight.

Unlike the US companies in Europe are delighted to let people destroy their lives by using cards to deposit to betting sites.

This thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1904432.0  references using them with a betting site. Wirex are on there and they say nothing about it being a problem. Don't listen to me though.

After no matter how many updates the app still takes 3-5 minutes of warming up before it'll show me any content. It's the same on a tablet so it's not the phone. I haven't used it in quite some time.

This phrase is everywhere and on other trading sites it's often the go to reference for the Bitcoin price.

I could read about this but since you're all so sympathetic to my Trump-style cognitive decline you will do a better job explaining it.

What is it and why do many believe it's now the number one price controller?

Flightgift prices have one of the worst premiums attached to them I've ever seen and that goes for every single flight I've ever checked. Sometimes it can be more than 25%.

There are not many travel gift vouchers available for Bitcoin but lastminute.com vouchers are available from Bitrefill and Giftoff and their pricing is at least competitive with the normal market. Even then they can be not so good. They also do hotels as well.

As for the original question, Expedia only experimented with hotels for BTC, never flights, and as above they don't do it any more.

I think this is something people should be a little more conscious of.

In places where BTC could be most needed people may wind up with a useless string of characters unless they find a way to leave. Governments seem to be getting bolder with this as well.

Look at Kashmir. There's been an absolute internet blackout since August, not even landlines or cable TV are open. Eritrea is extremely blackout happy too as are a few other countries.

In Africa in particular there is no alternative infrastructure. There might 1 or 2 mobile internet networks. If they get one dirty phone call from the secret police the entire country vanishes from the map.

Take out exchange addresses and custody addresses like Grayscale, Coinbase, Bitgo and Xapo and you're left with a less mad figure. Probably vastly less mad.

Even if we ignore that, 0.53% of 18,100,000 or so coins is about 96,000 addresses.

I'm sure quite a few people own more than one of those. All the same you're trying to tell us that a few tens of thousands of people will all collude as one against everyone else?

Righto.

I'm also looking forward to the new opportunities coming their way and hope to profit on anything they introduce me to.

Let's face it, the time is coming again and they now have a living to make.

I like a bit of anarchy and she's bringing it.

And the memes are good.

I'll be in the market for Harry and Meghan's post-sex musk when it comes out.



However I'm not sure they've ever actually had live in person sexual relations.

I've been using Mycelium for many, many years now. It has never had that issue in my experience. It does occasionally require reloading the account to show a new receive but that's it.

That's on Android. Mycelium on Ios has been abandoned and no one should be using it.

As for OP, set the price in Mycelium to Bitstamp which for most is the reference Bitcoin market price.

I've always found it amazing how tech manages to fill the gaps as fast as it creates them.

More processing and memory? Hey, let's make programs fill that shit to the brim again even though they don't work any better. More bandwidth? Get some 4K. We can't be having any spare capacity now.

As for the article, I don't trust the cloud at all and find people who are cloud and nothing but seriously weird. Partly that's down to my being in the sticks. If I needed to stream my music and photos I'd never have access to the fucking things as there's no signal. Even on major roads and rail routes signal constantly fails.

I don't trust any subscription model and intensely dislike the modern trend for leasing digital content rather than actually owning it. All of these services that once upon a time promised everything rescind it as soon as they change ownership or can't make their business model pay.

If we throw in the cloud AND depending on a bunch of 'decentralised' strangers being bothered that morning to turn on their uploading that's a double turn off. I'll manage my own fully offline content, ta.

My guess is that looking back from our brains relaxing in jars in 2140 this halving will be the biggest of all. The first properly low inflation rate matching infrastructure that's slowly coming good just as the world is starting to make sense of it all will be a one off in Bitcoin's life.

It's possible that all might be postponed until 2024 but I think many things will be more settled by then. The next few will still be significant before they start to fade but none will have the same convergence of circumstances.

I find all the murder stuff pathetic, not that I necessarily doubt his desire to do it.

1 - someone is willing to kill an anonymous stranger by walking into a situation they know nothing about on the word of another anonymous stranger.

2- make up a load of bollocks in return for a large amount of money with zero comebacks or risk.

I'd love to know if one single cold called 'dark market' assassination has taken place anywhere in the world.

More likely a bunch of 11 yr old scammers in Siberia have done rather nicely.