Those agencies do not work cheaply. I wonder how much they're willing to pay to improve BTC's image. Now I wish we'll know when the campaign will start, to see if BTC's market value goes up.

All the companies which do not accept cash, and there are more and more of them.

The American police forces are paying a ransom? Is this from a comic book?

Amsterdam's definitely a major city so it's look like a safe investment, if you can afford property tax, which can only go up.

I advise on getting a fixed-rate loan. The interest rate shall not change with your occupancy or renting. And don't worry about the euro crumbling. Your loan will not be pegged to the US dollar, nor the Swiss franc.

We've got the same problem here with altcoins. Some people may try to pay you with some unknown, invented yesterday, altcoin, but most folks only accept BTC.

Note that quite many wallets may have been opened just to try the software, and quickly forgotten. Some people may also have several wallets. I have 2 myself.

Payza:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=963314.0;

You bought BTC in 2009, and you only bought 15 of them? Do you remember how much you paid for them?

The Greeks so far have been unable to pay back any of the money they've borrowed, so I'm not sure it's a solution to lend or give them some more.

How about financing a war against Greece, killing all the people, looting the whole country, stealing all antiques and selling them at luxury auctions houses in Switzerland and California? At least, this should be more profitable.

The Greeks have lied, giving incorrect data to get into the Euro zone. I don't want to help liars.

That's plan B. if the Greeks fail to get new financing from the European Central Bank, they will come to this forum, asking everyone to lend them a few BTC. They'll pay back after they will have paid back both the ECB and the IMF, in about 350 years.

You are definitely a newbie. I thought everyone here knew that Paypal doesn't make any BTC transaction.

I sure like the idea. Miners decide. You answered quite correctly about the fork question, but there are other issues. Shall we increase block size? By how much?

Another issue is that miners are no longer individuals on their home computers. They're now Chinese businessmen owning large web farms. Are they friendlier or any better than BTC foundation members?

Well, it doesn't. At least not in the country where I'm staying. Not even for hotel bookings.
I wish I had some info about where you can pay with BTC on Expedia.

Thanks a lot! It looks like Payza can do it. They charge 2.50 % + €0.25 EUR per transaction, and then 2.00 % to withdraw BTC. That's not bad, though I'll look for web merchants who are satisfied with this service before opening an account.


CoinPayments is useless to me, they don't handle credit card transactions.

What do you have besides a BTC address? Do you have an email, a website, a name, a physical address?

I will launch a new service this Spring. Payment will be via BTC, but I'd like to accept credit cards as well. There are many solutions, except that I'm not looking to have any fiat money sent to a bank account. I want my customers to pay with Visa or MC, and I want BTC sent to my wallet.

Anyone offering this service?
Of course, my business is legal.

Those who are against the foundation shall realize, the sooner the better, that bitcoin, as it is, is doomed because it cannot grow. It doesn't scale well. It's very easy to kill bitcoin: you would just need to increase ten-fold the number of transactions. One solution against this is to increase the block size, but that raises other issues, so there's a need for qualified people (not me) to make the right decisions, and modify the code. Who else could do it, if not the foundation?

Great news! It's nice to hear about a major news service taking BTC seriously.

This isn't what I'm talking of. I haven't used Bitcoin Core software for over 18 months. There are other issues.