looks to me like a demonstration, with 2 salesmen with a machine on a desk. if this was to be an actual machine being used in a permanent location, screwed to a wall that cant be easily removed from. i would be more impressed.

but i bet within 6 hours at most of that video production, that ATM was put back into LibertyTellers car and was not seen publicly the next day.

give it maybe 6 months and they would probably of found a location that is permanent and not just a publicity stunt. until that day, this video has nothing new to offer

BTC-e support is not a 24/7 emergency support team with a 2 minute response time. they are like most other support company with something like a 48 hour response.

i personally have use the support and in ALL instances they have solved the issue.

but when the issue is a hacker having a keylogger on your system or a backdoor trojan from a download you done. still allowing the hacker access to your personal info for as stated by you over a week and a half..

i think you should be advising people not to trust all the downloads that are crypto related unless verified by well known and trusted sources. i bet you even still have the trojan on your system now, or did you finally reset your computer to factory settings?

the answer to bitcoins anonimity is the same question people ask about governments trying to remove bank notes, where everyone is forced to use debit cards.

do you really want your bank selling your personal information to businesses
do you really want to have your wife finding out about that expensive gift you bought your mistress
do you want banks to inform the tax man of that $£100 your gran sent you as a birthday gift, where they would bite £$20+ out of it
do you really want you bank manager knowing you frequent casino's when you try to apply for a loan and be told that your a financial risk
do you really want to have no privacy?

there have been 8 FIAT bankers that have committed suicide in the last month.

1 – William Broeksmit, 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, was found dead in his home after an apparent suicide in South Kensington in central London, on January 26th.

2- Karl Slym, 51 year old Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok on January 27th.

3 – Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old JP Morgan employee, died after falling from the roof of the JP Morgan European headquarters in London on January 27th.

4 – Mike Dueker, 50-year-old chief economist of a US investment bank was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State.

5 – Richard Talley, the 57 year old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.

6 -Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, however the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.

7 – Ryan Henry Crane, a 37 year old executive at JP Morgan died in an alleged suicide just a few weeks ago.  No details have been released about his death aside from this small obituary announcement at the Stamford Daily Voice.

8 - Li Junjie, 33-year-old banker in Hong Kong jumped from the JP Morgan HQ in Hong Kong this week.

this only proves that FIAT is heading in a worse direction then bitcoin. so hold your coins and never ever sell at a loss.

buy it on the exchanges to show actual value changes.. only scammers do private trades, and if not a scammer private trades dont help show global value

yet another boring thread about the female gender.

guys there is no problem when it comes to the gender balance. there are females in bitcoin. the only problem is that 99% of people that obsess about the female gender, are usually the geeks that scare women away from attending meetup's.

and the only reason the OP thinks there is a sudden rise in female population, is because he is looking for them specifically.

its human nature, when your not looking for something you dont notice the 'something' as much. studies have been proven when an opinion that things like red coloured cars are lacking on the roads. but when actually standing at roadsides surveying the traffic, the noticed more red cars then predicted.

again there are women in bitcoin, but the beauty of anonimity is that you wont know who is male or female.

for instance am i a Frank or a Francesca is bitcoinAshley a male name or female name.

you simply do not know, so stop obsessing about it. there are dozens of threads on the topic, there is no need to make new threads on the topic as its getting boring

so none of you are tempted to buy in at 4 to sell at 8 for double money
or buy at 4 and sell at 5 for 25% profit?

another pre-mined coin...

failed before it begins..

..................... bored now

as others have said biometrics is not easy.
1. not everyone has/wants a fingerprint scanner.
2. if i cut my thump and it left a scar, the thumbprint wont match the one on the exchanges database
3. a trojan horse could sniff the data input of a USB port to copy the persons thump print and then use it later.. much like keyloggers sniff usb keyboards.
4. the actual lesson to learn is to teach people not to use exchanges as long term bank accounts.

your blaming BTC-E for your own stupidity.

firstly after knowing you got hacked. you continued using btc-e and their support ticket. DUDE someone had a trojan horse on your computer and you think changing your password would protect you?

im sorry but you should have backed up your personal files and wiped the computer to factory settings. but instead you thought you would complain to BTC-E and then blame them if funds were lost.

seriously!?
instead of talking to your girlfriend casually you should have said "sorry cant talk i need to reset my computer".

BTC-E MAY help by freezzing your account, but its not their rule or responsibility. you need to own up to your failures and secure your stuff.

now for the advice part. BTC-E also have a skype support. simply tell them your username/email to locate who you are in their exchange (they wont ask for passwords) and ask them if they can lock down your account. it also helps if you use google translate to put your request into russian. when i contact them i paste in both english and russian. and they normally respond quick.

skype: btc-e.support

and i would seriously wipe your computer back to day one. its not just a keylogger you got as how would he know your girlfriends name. unless you typed in FaceBook.com/HerName a keylogger would not know what page you were on, all it would see was the messages, so its most probably a screen capture/browser hack or both combined with a keylogger.

last thing
look at anything you downloaded in the last week that is bitcoin related. and reply with those things. others that may have been hacked may see some similarities. that way with a majority of peoples opinions on the software downloaded around the time of the hack, usually results in a confident final program which you all downloaded. and then warn others to avoid.

i personally never put programs on the PC i use to trade on. unless i compiled it myself. because in your case $3000 is at risk and in my case alot more. so secure yourself better. these exchanges are not federal banks with large insurance polices, and enforcement agencies backing them. you have to be your own security guard.

thats the whole point of bitcoins. their yours to own, manage and secure.

and lastly, if you have lost the $3000 im sorry to hear it. i hope you can take the hackers email to the police, although he maybe in china/australia or wherever. i just hope you have better luck in the future

i think, yes i said think (not sure) that pools spread out the randomness.

eg lets pretend the nonse is a hash of a random number between 1-1billion
instead of all miners starting at 1. they would (or atleast should) tell:
miner A to start at 0 and work to 1million
miner B to start at 1million and 1 and work to 2million
and so on for 1000 miners
that way a block gets solved 1000 times faster then all miners singularly mining from 1-1billion

and if im wrong. then this is how i would program a mining pool

(i know its a bunch of letters and numbers, not just numbers, so replace miner A 0-1mill as a0 to a9blah and miner B as b0 to b9blah(you get the idea))
Edit: i guess it was just numbers then

put simply the OP is trying to say

if you take $10,000 from your bank to put into your bitcoin exchange, shouldnt it be the banks job to see the $10,000 movement and them do the AML stuff, instead of exchanges.

but the point is that both the sender AND recipient are supposed to do all the checks, that way if something was dodgy the chain of transactions could be followed, rather then the last knowledge of the transaction being only the bank.

i am all for having FIAT fully tracked. but when it comes to bitcoin withdrawals and bitcoin spending.. that is not part of government juristiction.

FIAT is the trademark of the country of use, so we have to accept FIAT being tracked. but bitcoin does not beleong to banks or government so they should not get involved with the bitcoin side

so my fellow grumpcoin advocates, who else just tripled their money tonight?

its been a while (before christmas) before we have been able to do that with bitcoin, hasn't it

the ultimate solution would be for the OP in his own town to seek out a grocery store owner and tempt them into accepting bitcoins. and then offer to his state agency that is in control of the food stamps program, a service where he will take control of the food stamp revenue for that town at a discount of the budget.

if played right he could buy cheap bitcoins and give them to the residents at a weekly fixed rate of exchange at the grocery store, so that they do not have to worry about volatility. and obviously at the end of the week he passes the states revenue to the grocery store and then redistributes the bicoins from the grocery store, back to the residents. either buying or selling bitcoins inbetween.

if a success then this could be expanded on a state level bases.

if the OP does not want to do this. then obviously the whole thread is just a theoretical rant from a armchair activist and needs no more input.

i think making a realtime news provider os totally wrong.

there are too many media outlets that read something and post it immediately before even trying to understand what is being said or research if what is said is even true.

there is too much mis-information out there and a real time media outlet will just add to it.

you will not win any reputation or any kind of large following by printing FUD. so your business plan will fail shortly after its started.

a better business plan is to be a rival to coindesk, but where you actually research and counter-argue coindesks failure in their research. this woul lead to you getting a larger following by revealing the truths behind other media sources lies/misunderstandings.

i know this involves some man power to research stories, instead of just coding a bot to search for stories. but we as a community need something different then the usual lazy media that exists so far.

goodluck

how can anyone say a coin needs to be trusted, and then say change the total limit in the very next sentance. changing anything once released makes investors/users/anyone think that if you change it once whats stopping you changing it again. and the whole store of value theory is lost.

prefer to see it on the bigger exchanges
coinex
cryptsy

what are the requirements to get grump on them?

address seems to have received the 0.25 bounty value (total received 0.32)

so COINMARKET.IO soon?

and if so, when?

all he has said is that he is in relationships with organisations.

as said before all he has shown is receipts that are old, and i mean real old.

so what is 2014's organisation?
apart from some middleman converting the bitcoin into fiat, how will the needy on the frontline benefit from actual bitcoins?
why are you even bothering with plastic cards, if people do not have phones/internet how will they exchange bitcoins for FIAT?
if the frontline people in need are supposedly meant to spend the bitcoins on whatever they need directly. have you established this supplier/shop/service is accepting bitcoin?
and what is this supplier/shop/service?
and lastly. to gain exposure of the frontline people in need and bitcoins. is the middlemen going to advertise bitcoins. or is this just your middleman effort to take a cut in the exchange process, and then feed them fiat?

come on after 14 years of pretending to be a charity you should have atleast learned how to pitch a good cause better then you have.

i am not only an investor but i do also give alot to good will too. so i know how this game is played and can spot the holes in a campaign from a mile off. please either plug up the holes and do whats needed or more people will rip into your 'charity'

i agree with the OP...... bitcoin is a joke and here is why

1. it can make you happy and improve your outlook on the future
2. once you hear it you get tempted to tell others, to improve their life
3. there are a few things in life that get spread around the world, and everyone hears about no matter what language, which enriches their lives. and one of those is a good joke.