As in "The FED announces it has all USD backed by 18kUSD BTCs"? Do the math how far off you are even if they had 21 million bitcoin by that date. That would put US M1 to 21MɃ * 18k$/Ƀ = 378G$ << 2.7T$

I suggest you do this using a subreddit with these rules:
please post new articles with comment function (and only that) here.
please up-vote those that need more man-power
please down-vote those that are being dealt with sufficiently (to free up resources)

Like-minded people might help you, but expressing the concern in your OP will not get those informed to post more to the right spot. And yeah, I agree that we don't focus our posting-power to where it's most effective. I, too left conversations because they were just so far from having a glimpse of what is bitcoin that my comment would have been something like "You know what is a computer?".

As much as I hate Dogecoin and all the other cheap copies (anything short of mind-blowing innovative but incompatible with bitcoin itself should have no chance against the network effect of bitcoin. anything more or less innovative but compatible with bitcoin should be considered a test-coin that will be integrated into bitcoin and thus as being obsolete or die before, due to network effect.) there is the remote chance of "somebody" pushing a joke into the market. Thought experiment:
You have 10 billion dollar and want to have the biggest share of the future money. Will you jump on the bitcoin bandwagon, buying in to get a 20% share or would you rather pump a joke-coin to 50 billion market cap with you owning at least 50% in an attempt to dethrone bitcoin? I find option #2 quite tempting and the more money you have the more tempting it is. Although Dogecoin's distribution is far from "fairer" simply because it skyrocketed that fast, many of its users promote it as being fairer and who wants unfair bitcoins if media pushes such a twisted idea? I see no reason to ignore any coin that "started as joke". I see every reason to not over-glorify xorxor's take on each of these coins.

Is this a suggestion to Bloomberg? If so, they changed their title.

The URL still reads http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-11/the-glitch-that-will-kill-bitcoin.html so I assume the title at least was like the title of this thread here.

My creation:
FluxBitcoin Widget features a Sony Smartwatch 2 extension and both in the widget and on the watch you get latest rates of 4 exchanges (currently Bitstamp, MtGox, Huobi and BTC-China)

Edit: … and it's open source of course. Talking of that: Please, if you go through this list and try out the widgets and stuff, don't just judge based on the developer claiming to have it open-sourced. "Nobody" uses the source version, so a trustworthy app is not an open source app but an app that you can punch the developer in the face if he robs you. Open source only helps people that actually can code.

Edit 2: Yeah, in theory open source helps the rest, too as a more trustworthy person could cheaply provide a more trusted binary and people in general might be able to monitor the binary but open source does not equal save to install from google play.

FYI: I suggested to un-sticky this thread.

I suggest to unsticky https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179

User xorxor started a great project there but it has outlived its purpose by not really staying on top of new cryptos that pop up every day and others doing it bettertoo.

I assume all these:
http://coinmarketcap.com/
http://www.cryptocoincharts.info
http://cryptometer.org/
http://www.cryptmarketcap.com/
http://www.coinchoose.com/
http://mapofcoins.com/
http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency
http://dustcoin.com/mining
http://www.wheretomine.com/
http://800996.com/btc/
have their threads here in the forum, too, and some of them show much more coins and kind of more objective criteria than xorxor.

I'm not arguing that xorxor's contribution isn't valuable but a sticky post for his opinion is kind of putting things out of proportion

The chart shows how much people value the MtGox non-redeemable BTC tokens expressed in MtGox non-redeemable USD tokens.

While before people were rushing to BTC on gox as these were redeemable, maybe they rush now to USD as these are more likely to be enforceable in a court of law.

A firstbits address bloats the blockchain if it is never used subsequently but the incentives to grab it without using it are very very limited thanks to addresses not being really transferable, so I don't see a big issue there. With the current rule that you can't grab it with just one Satoshi further reduces likeliness of blockchain bloat.

Please use your own thread to advertise and discuss your service. This post should be considered as spam as you ask for feedback on another thread.

how does firstbits bloat the blockchain? you do your vanity addresses offline and if you want to "reserve" certain firstbits, sure, you have to do a transaction to it but what is bad in having an incentive to do a transaction? Don't worry about the toy traffic you see now in the blockchain. In years from now you will laugh at it.

Not quite. It is indeed more compact but also more error prone.
More compact because all bits up to the maximum number point to valid addresses.
Longer in its string representation as the alphabet is smaller compared to firstbits.

Disadvantages are that any number up to the count of such addresses is valid and you can't provide extra info to error check.
With firstbits, if 1abcdedefghijk… is your address and 1abcdef is your firstbits you don't necessarily need to know that and simply type 1abcdefgh and the system could just show you all firstbits addresses up to that while you type. Big help when having to type addresses but haven't seen it deployed yet.

Thanks to a checksum, chances of accidentally typing a valid bitcoin address are far less than 1%, so you should always be fine to try and type them in manually.

Where did you send it to? Do you have the transaction ID? Did you ask bitpay about it? Yeah, it happens that they don't see transactions but when you show them, they so far always manually fixed it, so don't worry but just talk to them.

(What worries me about this and prior such reports is, how bitpay profits from anonymous donations to charity that "didn't go through")

I have yet to see any non-sock-puppet (member with some more real posts) who would vouch for this "service". For me this is a scam and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY4XPdcoZRw smells scammy from a mile away.

Ok, so who are bitcoin's spokes persons in London? Amir, Max and Stacy? Maybe this ranting is just a cultural thing there? I would be happy to have some locals here in Chile being interviewed on national TV on bitcoin and we are still in the phase where all mass exposure gives us visibility and both a clown blatantly lying about bitcoin or some professor giving financial advice to buy in will give us visibility with people who never heard a thing about bitcoin before and can't do any real harm.

Lol. Bitcoin is evil. When you made 'nuff money with your business, you close shop. Heard that about a good restaurant that accepted bitcoin for a year, too  

Feature request: Filters for quantiles. I want to be able to hide coins that have less market cap or less 24h volume than the median coin. Now, sorting by sorts the most volatile aka the smallest coins to the top and the bottom of the list and I couldn't care less about the smallest coins' market cap or 24h volume. These small coins are interesting by other attributes such as why they are unique.

(1574 posts is definitely too much to skim through to look if that suggestion was here before.)

The Chile-based Bitcoin exchange Coin4ce joined with a $100 donation. Thanx to them.

Yes, I ask for donations. I spend my bitcoins and my time on this and think others should too. Bitcoin will become big no matter what. The window of opportunity to shut it down is gone. But we can influence where the journey goes. Even if you believe in conspiracies about some mysterious country pulling off this whole bitcoin thing, with that country trying to acquire the biggest share of the future currency of the world for themselves, they can't have more than 50% up to now and if Bitcoin adoption happens faster than they thought, fiat will collapse faster, spoiling their evil plan or they have to buy slower leaving more to people who don't know that this game is rigged. This conspiracy is my worst fear and I hope Satoshi reveals himself to be some very ethical good guy but I'm almost sure the truth is somewhere in between these two extremes.

And by the way I don't mind you posting here. If you read the post searching for a business opportunity I'm sorry I can't offer that but your contribution is welcome.