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http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/03/12/brainwallet-the-ultimate-in-mobile-money/

as Mushroomized says is the way to go for say > 10,000 BTC with multiple backups & death/dementia switches in place

PM answered, yep spending Bitcoins from any wallet an easy way is just to enter the private keys in Mt. Gox if you wished to sell at spot & cash out in $ for any amount, I missed covering Bitcoinica in your OP - personally I would never park money there, if you are gambling on the site you will know your own risk tolerance, but I believe that there is a strong possibility given their MO that they could well go TU if the Bitcoin price were to quickly double or triple - which I also believe is bound to happen one day or at least isn't something that I'd like to bet against

cool, any further details needed just ask, the blockchain.info wallet may not be working 100% for a couple of days but once they sort out their glitch they are the best, back the wallet up encrypted by email

for day to day petty cash, say < 400 BTC then blockchain.info wallet (they have some issues just the last couple of days but are good)
for say < 5,000 BTC Mt. Gox with a Yubi key & PW from lastpass, also with a Yubi key & dedicated reset email addresses from gmail with 2FA
for > 5,000 BTC then Armory wallet on a dedicated offline laptop with USB flash drive & paper wallet backups in different locations & with deathswitchs

for 100 - 2,000 BTC + consider lending some out to Pirate or one of his feeders (I can do this if you wished), top rate paying 7% per week interest

I've moved 5 figure amounts to Gox via Dwolla but they can be a bit skittish & need a bunch of KYC, for large amounts just wire to the exchanges, I use http://www.xe.com/xetrade quick, cheap, efficient & easy - charge less than banks 1.4% over mid-market rates for currency conversions, most types of transfers are free & all arranged & executed fast online, assuming that you have Internet banking with your bank then that's all you need

thanks for the tips, it's really not working though today & I've tried everything - I've wasted hours as I assumed it must be my computer misbehaving - I see there's another thread on this in tech support so I'll follow that

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78583.0

yep, I've been having problems with it the last few days & today can't get connected live to see tx etc though it shows my account

Hi GR - I'm very glad that you appreciate it, I was about to cancel the offer due to the lack of interest, it seemed to me peeps would just stick their hand out for some free tiny Satoshies but wouldn't bother to make any small effort to gain some & learn about how Bitcoins work in the process even when offered many times more, as for just how the BE & wallets work I'm not an expert on that so it's a learning process for me too, I'll let someone else explain if they'd like to or maybe you've worked it out already - I'll look in to it too but I don't even use the Bitcoin client wallet atm, I use blockchain.info wallet which I'd highly recommend & there your sending & receiving address are the same & show up in BE

Anyway while there's still some confusion about how it works then it's best to do as you did & post here the amount you've sent along with your address to receive the 0.1 BTC, which I'm sending you now to 1AhWgEPJx2rCoUcgeLGQhQbnA7wjiuTfNs & good luck for the 1 BTC prize, your score is 0.023 * 10 = 0.23

BTW - I'd also sent 0.05 BTC to most all the newbies who asked here over the last couple of days, but am stopping doing this now due to the reasons in my first para above

Thanks again GR! A+ for you  

If there are no other entries in the next 24 hrs then I'll cancel the game & split the prizes between you & ILC

edit: the blockchain.info wallet is having some issues atm, see other threads, I'll send the 0.1 BTC once they sort this out

I agree with DA & also pledge to donate 3% of any winnings to bitlotto for site development etc, if we could get this established as a voluntary but accepted good community practice here then maybe we'll help fund it without harming it's powerful 99% edge

Congrats, that's good going in 1 day or so, say with an average 10% discount on ticket sales price then that's about 92 BTC or $454 atm pulled in so far & the forum now showing adverts for it too I see, you should cover the Single's plus ad's costs in no time at this rate

following

as no one has started yet I've edited my post above to tweak the 1 BTC bonus part so as to advantage those who participate earliest - note that the first 2 tx on the BE were prior gifts to ILC & so are not part of the competition though these senders are welcome to send a little more & so join in if they wish

I have a couple of Bitcoins to give away, so here's how I'll do it, I've picked the random recent newbie ILoveComputers for any of you to send any token amount of coins to, like say 0.005 BTC but any amount is fine, then for the first 10 tx to show up in BE I will send 0.1 BTC each to the addresses that sent a donation in (one per tx - if sent from multiple addresses I'll just use the top one)

As a bonus I will send 1 BTC extra to whichever address gets the highest number when one multiplies the amount of their donation by the inverse of their entry number (so if the first person sends 0.05 BTC that's 0.05 * 10 = 0.5 & if the 10th person sent 0.3 BTC then that's 0.3 * 1 = 0.3)

http://blockexplorer.com/address/17Fa1nP7yTBtBjHdzrMP2Lz6Fiv8LygGPj

You also need to post here your sending/receiving address as it's one tx per forum ID, open to everyone who has a forum ID registered before this post, if it overshoots 10 donations then you've just made an extra free gift to ILoveComputers  

"what would you do with your winnings"

another bonus for the winner in taking an instant BTC cash prize option instead of mining for a week is that it gave him the potential to sell those 300 odd coins (haven't checked prob 220 - 250 but same principle) @ > $5.10 then short 10:1 on Btca with the $ equivalent of 3,000 coins margin, buying back in today < $4.9 for a clear $600 profit on the short, so now holding $2,130 or 435 coins, one third more in just 1 day after the spreads say, so that even BTC bears may want to play

subbed & waiting until the 4th of May to decide re how many tickets to purchase

Well this is an excellent idea, it is no easy thing to get the furthest possible hash from the winning one, though it doesn't in the least surprise me that it was one of my tickets (from 369 to 413) that scooped the booby prize, thanks to the OPs for a fun game & whilst not the best in town I still enjoyed it.

Congrats to cncguru, Bravo!  

Edit: & re offering a BTC cash alternative prize option after the draw, I don't have any problem with this - if it's what the winner wishes to choose then that's an extra benefit to him & if someone else had won it & choose to go with the mining contract then the OPs would honer that & help set it up for them if needed so np, same for any future BTC cash equivalents - they're a bonus that's all

I think that it's 4am CET close atm (which I'm on) & @Burt thanks for looking in to a possible move

edit: you're right it's 3am as we're on CEST atm apparently http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/eu/cet.html

edit edit: nope, I'm still confused, if it closes at 2am UTC, seems to be in just under 6 hours time, which for Spain makes 4am   whatever I hate to try sniping drunk - which I would be if I stayed up until then

how about moving the end time forward 3 or better still 4 hours in the future to make it more Europe friendly, it would still work OK for the States &/or put it on a Sunday or something if it clashes with US work hours, say finish UTC @ 10pm Fri = 6pm Fri NY, 3pm LA & 11pm Fri UK, Midnight Fri CET

Hiya Mo, many thanks for the 1 BTC gift that's most kind of you, doubled my money in 3 days 

a very nice surprise & first time that anyone has ever tipped me on the forums

https://blockchain.info/address/1NNZZyispBmiQECYX2FRBDjAaRoyswaDxs

Good Luck!!!

It's all back to normal now phew! Opened it in another Window & it was fine, sorry for the panic - the tab it was open in before went weird or something when I re-booted the comp I suppose, would just happen to be when the only time I was moving a lot of funds through it