My security threat profile was common burglary and my main concern was making sure my wife would be able to sell the Bitcoins in the event of my death.  So, the the vast majority of my Bitcoins were kept in a Trezor Bitcoin safe with the seed words kept off-site.
After searching my house for many hours and not finding what they were looking for, but taking every computer and electronic memory device they could get their hands on, they phoned in a search warrant for my office, which was granted.
Upon searching my office they found my off-site paper backup of the seed words for the Trezor which were there with retrieval instruction in the case of my death.  They took all of our corporate computers and left.
The rest is, as they say, history.

Food for thought:  my attorney informed me that they can and sometime do put people in jail until they turn over a password.  So in reality your passwords are only as safe as your willingness to spend time in jail over them.  After spending 3 days and 2 nights in solitary confinement (in the SHU at the federal detention center) I can tell you that most people will crack in pretty short order.  It boring beyond comprehension.

Part of the total cost shown on my wife's web site ($284,373.00) was the cost of replacing all of the computers and cell phones we needed in order for our business to keep operating.  Of course once we get all the computers back we will then have more computers and phones than we know what to do with.  Anyone want to buy a used computer that was under government control for nine months?

The most popular Swedish news site, Dn.se, has reported the European Court of Justice as stating, “Bitcoin is a means of payment and that the exchange should therefore be exempted VAT obligations.”

Three years ago, Swedish software developer David Hedqvist and moderator of Bitcoin.se asked the European Union if Bitcoin transactions are exempt from VAT. According to the findings of the court:

“Bitcoins also constitute a currency. Their ownership has no other point other than the ability to use them again as currency at some future point. Therefore they are to be treated just like legal currencies as far as VAT is concerned.”

However, the Swedish Tax Agency argued against the Board of EU directives, and said that they have mistakenly interpreted the matter. The Agency appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court and urged it to proceed with a preliminary ruling, the final determination in law by EU courts that can be initiated by any EU member state.

A legal expert at the Swedish Tax Agency announced, "We disagreed with the Board's reasoning. Then we thought it was also important to get a clear understanding about Bitcoin and VAT.”

Due to the Swedish Tax Agency’s actions, Hedqvist took the matter into his own hands and declared arguments against them. For this, Hedqvist is working with Stockholm’s most prestigious corporate law firms and all of his costs are covered by companies in Bitcoinbranschen, because the companies believe that the tax exemption decision would greatly benefit them.

Hedqvist explained:

“It is important for them because it applies to their commission as shifting business to be subject to VAT. It is also important for bitcoin from a broader perspective, if there is to be equated with other currencies. It is also important that the new technology is not stopped by laws and regulations that are lagging behind.”

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Several European Countries already Exempt from VAT

The General Directorate of Taxes (DGT) announced in April that Bitcoin is exempt from value-added tax (VAT) in Spain, United Kingdom and Germany. The DGT stated that Bitcoin is considered as a medium of payment or a financial instrument, and thus is classified as a financial service rather than a simple good or commodity.

Paragraph (h) of article 20.18 of the VAT Act states, “Transactions regarding transfers, money orders, check, promissory notes, bills of exchange, debit or credit cards and other payment orders."

If the preliminary ruling becomes final, many European countries will be exempted from VAT, Including Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Finland and Belgium.

Most bitcoin loss is due to user error rather than software or wallet error/failure. People need to educate themselves to keep their bitcoins safe. People need to run good anti virus software on their computers & not go on dodgy websites. I honestly think so many bitcoins have been compromised due to user error.

Update is being prepared now. No user controlled fees, but improved automatic fee calculation. Other payment systems don't have priority settings, and that's what we're competing with.

I've always wondered why people don't share master public keys to receive payments. Is it not that safe?

Did I understood right? Wallet is saved locally on my phone?

I'm still searching for a good iOS wallet and I'm tired of blockchain wallet. Don't want an online wallet.

I can understand how the price of bitcoin reflexively dropped on news of an agreement, but I think the situation in Greece promotes a long-term shift towards bitcoin by many Greeks, rather than taking them away from bitcoin.

1. Nothing permanent has been fixed - until the Greek government and society get their house in order, they are going to remain a debt-ridden basket case.
2. Greeks have been bluntly confronted with the fact that the banks can and will shut down on them at a point of crisis. They are not going to want to go through that again.
3. The reality of unilateral confiscations of their deposits has been raised, not as a fringe conspiracy theory but as something that was widely discussed. Again, this is going to make Greeks think twice about keeping money in a bank.
4. More and more Greeks are learning about the utility of bitcoin both in a crisis and in normal usage as a result of recent news. So they will continue to adopt it as they have funds to invest or shift into bitcoin.

My prognosis? Modest (at least) increased adoption of bitcoin by Greeks, as well as rightfully nervous citizens of Portugal, Spain, Italy, etc.

This is too much.  SO what if they had a valuable collectable in the safe box, like the original beanie baby or something like that?  Maybe a comic book like superman #1?  Would they take that too?  Time and time again through out history it has been proven that holding too much of your wealth in a bank is a bad idea. 

Does it seem like that number of transactions on the atm is kind of low?  I would have expected more transaction in the first day, but maybe people are still finding out about it.

I don't think Bitcoin and Greek crisis are that much related. I mean look at the price development. The ATM machine is just another community accepting Bitcoin, nothing more. The crisis is still not fixed, so Let's see how this pans out.

Given the current hoo-haa going on with respect to the blocksize, I wanted to think about future HARD forks that Bitcoin will almost certainly encounter.

1) Quantum secure signing algorithm. At some point, I think most would agree , quantum computers will be a reality. We'll have to change bitcoin's signing algos accordingly.

2) Arbitrary precision maths. When bitcoins are worth 'serious' amounts, 8 decimal places won't be enough.. (.. Happy Days..  )

.. there are others, but I'm not sure they are essential to bitcoin's survival - anyone think of any essential ones ?

If doubling the blocksize started a war, which it effectively has, I can't even imagine what trying to implement these features will do.. (Since there are many different ways they could be achieved..)

Will it even be possible to HARD fork so large a change, as instead of 2 camps(Yes and No), there may be 5, 10, or more! and then things will get, very complicated.

We have had full blocks for over 2 weeks............ how does not one give a fuck about this

http://www.coinfox.info/news/2408-bitsoko

Seems like Bill Gates finally went from "Bitcoin is good, but not good enough" to fully embracing it. Im glad people slowly come to their senses and deal with the fact Bitcoin is indeed good enough.