Why exactly is Bitcoin rallying? Nothing has changed.

CCMF   

Kind of takes the shine off what we're trying to do here.

Why would you want to buy a boat?
How many times a year are you going to be out on it?

Just hire one as & when you need it.

I'd be City hopping not cruising around if we went to the moon.

Always buy a boat smaller than you think you can afford. It will usually prove you wrong... And it's about the time of year to have mine serviced again. :/

100 btc payments is not the same thing as 100 btc in payments ... right?

You definitely have to be somewhat batty to go into large boat ownership unless you have major money to burn. It's a much better plan to butter up to a future BTC trillionaire, use one's masculine wiles to marry them and then sail away into the future with their gains.

"Wordpress received only slightly over 100 BTC payments in 2014

Commenting on the recent removal of the Bitcoin payment option from the Wordpress subscription screen, founder Matt Mullenweg revealed the site received only two payments a week in Bitcoin during 2014, but plans to reinstate the payment option for “philosophical” reasons.

"The volume has been dropping since launch, in 2014 it was only used about twice a week, which is vanishingly small compared to other methods of payment we offer. […] We supported Bitcoin for philosophical reasons, not commercial ones."

      
    
 

Because we all know what security is, please don't entrust your bitcoin wallets ONLY on SSD drives. They tend to fail too... What's more important is, that they're harder to recover.

Regardless I would choose SSD over HDD for any application. You simply can't go back after using them. Plus you get hardware level drive encryption.

What he's referring to is the startup where blocks are verified during the splash screen, in this situation an SSD is massively massively faster. I did exactly the same thing a while back during the 0.9.x-era and noticed the same.

Any other Brits on here?

Ps: i recently moved my blockchain files from my 128GB SSD to an HDD, and was shocked how much longer loading bitcoin-qt took. It went from being about 40-60 second loadtime to 3-4 minutes. SSD drives are the future, and will make read/write/storage of the blockchain quick and simple

He probably got that/or had it form someone else. He sounds like a runner to me., with the exchange service as bullshit. 

This is why it is so fascinating. The most logical thing for them to do is to default HARD on that debt, start from a clean slate, and we will all be vacationing in Greece next year due to the affordable prices. The Greeks are already in the worst case senario, it can't get much worse economically - the only place where it can get worse is that the Greke population may take a haircut on their savings by converting to Drachmas. If I was in charge of Greece, and I was brave enough, I'd default.

This is why it is so fascinating. The most logical thing for them to do is to default HARD on that debt, start from a clean slate, and we will all be vacationing in Greece next year due to the affordable prices. The Greeks are already in the worst case senario, it can't get much worse economically - the only place where it can get worse is that the Greke population may take a haircut on their savings by converting to Drachmas. If I was in charge of Greece, and I was brave enough, I'd default.

The astronaut here cannot possibly be hurt as his suit can well protect him from electric shocks.
Important to understand the risks...

If they were such terrible debtors, why we were so eager to lend to them? It's no good painting them black and us white, as we were more than happy to lend irresponsibly to southern Europe, even when it was obvious the money was being squandered. Now we expect them to put on the hairshirt and undertake penance for the both of us.

I know that Bitcoin will be used by all kind of people, but these two fucks holding a big piece of the pie doesn't really make me comfortable at all... I don't like their approach to business in any way.