These are not engineering samples, but self-contained, electronic products. It's a commercial product you are selling. Don't act stupid. This is no way to do business.

Just to drive one of Phinn's points deeper into everybody's head:

"Sales are final" does not apply unless there was an actual sale taking place. If you have not received your unit, there was no sale - only a (pre)order.

Pathetic, politically correct pretense.

What are the chances? Just last week I have updated my notes, but didn't bother posting here at the time.

Here it goes, in log scale, based on daily weighted values:



By the way, I heard through the grapevine that certain fractal analyses are successfully applied to price-vs-cummulative-volume data like what's shown here. Presumably, self-similar triangles are more apparent this way than in time series. If there are any experts out here, please go ahead.

Wait what?!

There appears to be a slight intellectual advantage to the bears. Among the bulls, there is the "just because" crowd who just screams without any justification or explanation. The bears at least try to rationalize and support their pre-decided position.

For the past few years I've been enjoying the steady supply of well-researched, informative, free documentaries from Scott Noble: http://metanoia-films.org/

The topics revolve around State violence, propaganda, surveilance, crowd control, public relations, and freedom.  I think his approach and interests resonate well with the current Bitcoin crowd. Strangely, he is not accepting bitcoin donations yet, and has not responded to an inquiry about a year ago.

Have you seen any of these?

Which one is your favorite? Mine is the "human resources."

Any criticisms of the information, directing, etc.?

What Peter Lambert said. I'll just add that some larger businesses appear to recycle addresses after a while (resources are not really infinite).

This thread only makes me think: Bitcoin is too much. The possibilities it opens, technologies it enables - it's all just too much for businesses and governments and people to grasp easily.
Having said that, it is precisely these kinds of threads that help us digest bits and pieces.

Thanks Mike, retep, and everyone else!

The only limit is how fast you can generate them from private keys.  See "vanitygen" for example.

It's off-topic, but online wallets are as safe as the owner is trustworthy and competent. People here will usually yell "trust nobody!" by default, but it's not as simple. In some areas I trust my own skills less than those of certain individuals behind certain companies. You need to decide for yourself. Just keep in mind that some online wallets fully own and control (and risk) the private keys to your coins, whereas some services store private keys on your local machine, and only take care of the blockchain management for you.

If you decide to run a local "full" client, plan on leaving that PC on all the time, plan on waiting up to several days for the initial sync, and plan on having lots of disk space.

Strange things happen when a collision takes place. Stranger than being struck by a lightning once a year, for ten years in a row. See above. Do the math. Try some comparisons. Please.

This thread has been hijacked and wrecked.

It was supposed to be about the media, now it's about the inertia, acceleration, vacuum, and gravity.

Precious, thank you.

Why did you include "mainstream" in your statement? Are you implying that other forms of media are less prone to bullshit? I'd say no, they are not less prone to bullshit. It's just other biases - more personal and more chaotic - that drive the bullshit in the alternative sources of information. In other words, big media is driven by the big - and more orchestrated - interest groups.
From mainstream media, you could "prove" particular stories as true. From the alternative media, you could prove any story true.
The trick is to observe and keep track of whom to trust, and to what extent. No media can beat my direct observations, but even those are prone to my own biases and wishful thinking.

In reality, anyone with "I support our troops" sticker is much more guilty of threatening the innocent with violence and murder.

Can anyone from Kenya confirm a successful M-Pesa transaction through this Website?

Thank you for mentioning this.

Define "individual" first. Say, a mushroom is an indiviual organism? Or is it the whole fairy circle? Or it includes the soil, too, as it wouldn't exist without it?

Also, when you think of yourself as an "individual," do you include all the extremities? How about that air in the lungs - surely you wouldn't be yourself without it? And where the air comes from?

I hope you see where this is going. There is no such thing as "individual," only your illusion of such.

If you use an android device, consider Bitcoin Spinner (or the latest, beta version called "Mycelium").
Again, private keys are only kept on your device. Just make sure you back them up.
Bitcoin-qt client is fine if your computer stays on most of the time.

Making false statements that involve Bitcoin is rather tricky due to the public ledger. It won't be long before your Revenue Agency learns this, and from that point on your strategy will depend on luck, unless you exchange for cash or spend coins directly.  Even then you need to count on your trading partner not reporting the transaction.

There is one sticking point, though: bitcoins are fungible. Thus, you could always claim to have sold at least some of the "old" coins, as long as you've been trading for over a year.