Also: preventing banks from laundering money for terrorists and drug cartels.

great to hear you've officially used Open Bazaar! you're one of the first customers that I'm aware of making a physical purchase. hope to set up my own store there eventually though it will probably be just digital goods.

use btc-e and localbitcoins for btc trading and for alts I tend to use cryptsy, bittrex and poloniex. never had many issues with any of these exchanges apart from the odd delay with withdrawing coins.

The XT threads were moved over to the alt section and have since been moved back: 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1090801.0

never used circle myself but I have heard a lot of positive feedback from other users. far as i know it's only for US customers which is a shame, maybe I'll get to try them out one day. like odolvlobo said, Electrum is one of the easiest wallets to use. if you download a wallet app for your phone just make sure you don't keep too much btc on there.

i'm fairy sure OpenBazaar will get forked so there will probably be quite a few different versions running in the future. personally I hope OB stays fairly legit so that it doesn't alienate people from using it. got no idea how they could enforce that though, maybe they'll setup some kind of report mechanism to shut down sales of cp and guns etc

count yourself lucky, most women I've slept with end with a sigh and a whispered "Is that it?"

not as far as I know, could try https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenBazaar/ for some more info. wouldn't presume it's only for darkmarket shennigans, I'm hoping it's going to be a more legitimate way of buying and selling. if lots of people start selling drugs on there it isnt going to be good PR for bitcoin...and it wont help convince Ebayers to switch over.

dude you shouldn't be using Windows to create paper wallets. a much easier and secure way of doing what you just said is to download Tails OS and run it from USB or DVD (it already has Electrum installed). no need for you to keep installing windows.

Done. I had to remove some of the spaces to get the personal message to show up properly, not sure why it did that, maybe it went over the character limit?

signing up

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thx

hope you guys have some decent proof-readers judging by the shoddy english in the op

how many writers are you looking for? i've got some spare time to write a few pieces if there are any vacancies available.

maybe an emotional fat kid threatened to sue reddit? wonder if they're going to start a crack down on all the racist subreddits?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoonTown/

couple of thread titles: Niggers can't read, Nigger Fairy Tales, My Local NAACP President is a FAKE NIGRESS

wont hold my breath

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/portugal-decriminalised-drugs-14-years-ago--and-now-hardly-anyone-dies-from-overdosing-10301780.html



Portugal decriminalised the use of all drugs in 2001. Weed, cocaine, heroin, you name it — Portugal decided to treat possession and use of small quantities of these drugs as a public health issue, not a criminal one. The drugs were still illegal, of course. But now getting caught with them meant a small fine and maybe a referral to a treatment program — not jail time and a criminal record.

Among Portuguese adults, there are 3 drug overdose deaths for every 1,000,000 citizens. Comparable numbers in other countries range from 10.2 per million in the Netherlands to 44.6 per million in the UK, all the way up to 126.8 per million in Estonia. The EU average is 17.3 per million.

Perhaps more significantly, the report notes that the use of "legal highs" – like so-called "synthetic" marijuana, "bath salts" and the like – is lower in Portugal than in any of the other countries for which reliable data exists. This makes a lot of intuitive sense: why bother with fake weed or dangerous designer drugs when you can get the real stuff? This is arguably a positive development for public health in the sense that many of the designer drugs that people develop to skirt existing drug laws have terrible and often deadly side effects.

Drug use and drug deaths are complicated phenomena. They have many underlying causes. Portugal's low death rate can't be attributable solely to decriminalisation. As Dr. Joao Goulao, the architect of the country's decriminalization policy, has said, "it's very difficult to identify a causal link between decriminalisation by itself and the positive tendencies we have seen."

Still, it's very clear that decriminalisation hasn't had the severe consequences that its opponents predicted. As the Transform Drug Policy Institute says in its analysis of Portugal's drug laws, "The reality is that Portugal’s drug situation has improved significantly in several key areas. Most notably, HIV infections and drug-related deaths have decreased, while the dramatic rise in use feared by some has failed to materialise."

Thought this was very interesting, I heard about this a few years back but didn't think anything of it. Maybe the next step will be legalization?

yep, scaremongering clickbait article from an unknown media site...nothing to lose sleep about

bet your left gonad ISIS are much more likely to have bags of $$$$ than btc.

I'm sure we can expect condemnation from Obama sometime soon......maybe not. Must be nice being an ally to the US, you can get away with murder with zero repercussions. Money talks

it's more like guilty til proven otherwise, especially if you're black or even remotely look like a muslim. the US has turned into megacity one, every cop is the judge, jury and executioner.

still, I'm not a fan of giving out phone numbers, never had to give any ID info to exchanges before so I'm a bit reluctant to do it now. having no post limit is a bonus though if you make a lot of them, pretty happy with the bitmixer campaign as there's no minimum post requirement.

Ahh I get you, thought you were referring to a paypal account linked to your ID. As far as I know I don't think paypal would follow the money, the pp account would probably just go negative and that's it. For such a small amount of money it's not worth the hassle. If you're talking $100s or $1000's it might be a different story.

like Rappelz said, if someone does a chargeback to your paypal account and you have $0, your account will go negative (and fairly sure the money will go back to the other person). in effect you would owe paypal that money and your account would likely be frozen til you've cleared the funds back to zero. if your paypal acc is linked to your bank account they might even try to debit it to get their money back (assuming you set up a direct debit when you linked the account). if you dont clear the negative balance after a few weeks they will pass it onto a local debt collection agency.