If you make paper wallets then it's just a matter of physical security.

Easy to buy BTC with fiat or sell BTC for fiat. Bank transfers are slow in today's world.

More Bitcoin ATMs?
I've seen other financial institutions have other businesses like UPS stores, Gas stations, etc... accept cash for deposit on accounts. Maybe an exchange can set something like this up?

I've always wondered if they could implement something like if coins are inactive for lets say 10 years they are recycled back into the system, and if you are holding all you'd have to do is remember to move your coins from one of your wallets to the other every decade and you'd be fine. Just a different idea, maybe an alt coin will use the idea at some point.

Keep your auto payout as low as possible, this goes for every pool you ever use. It's not a bank or wallet...

I am wondering this as well, some of us donated with an urgency because we wanted to see this article get out there as soon as possible.

This is why you set your auto payout low. Things happen, and the pool is not a bank.

If you read the Terms of Service on hashrapid or most pools you'll see this:

I have seen people horde tons and tons of coins on pools, like 5+ BTC value worth of coins. For what reason? Wallets get corrupted, hard drives go bad, etc... and then people freak out. It's not your wallet, get the coins off there as soon as possible. Most reputable pools will reinforce the idea of a low payout, because they know that shit breaks.

Now, I am not saying there is not corrupt pool operators out there but that's a whole other issue.

BitCoin's transaction times are too long. Credit Cards still works faster, and the store knows they have received an authorization right away. No one is going to want to wait around for 10 minutes while a transaction waits to be confirmed.

I own Bitcoin, so I do not want it to die however it's just to slow.

People used Gox because it was mentioned in the media a lot. I think everyone learned there is better exchanges now, and hopefully the media follows suit and forgets about Gox.

Hey, do not forgot to vote for TIPS on Mintpal.

https://www.mintpal.com/voting

You can vote 3 times per hour without registering.

TIPS was introduced to a whole other market (chinese) on bter.com yesterday. This is helping a lot with the price jump.

We need to release a chinese version of fedoraco.in as well as other languages.

I think the price is starting to stabilize if anything, which is still amazing. We were in the 30's 24 hours ago.

This is some good news.