But does it? With the volatility of late, would you spend this coin on something mundane like a tank of gas? Or a cheeseburger? So that tomorrow, when the price surges even higher, you realize you could have spent less for the items you just purchased? People use things as currency that have a rather stable value over the long term. This is still an issue with bitcoin as well, even in this narrow price range (considering its btc) the price is entirely too volatile.

Freedoge.co.in. Pays out weekly, directly to your wallet. They recently lowered the claim size from 7 doge per hour to 3, it may be temporary however, It's gone up as well in the past (it was 9 for the longest time)

Edit: came back to drop my ref link. Appreciate it if you would use it, so I can capitalize off of your efforts
http://freedoge.co.in/?r=488419

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 I'm waiting for it to have a grand mal, after people hasten to get their piece of the .03 and beyond pie. It keeps retracing, but as long as this Slock.it DAO thing is still kicking, I guess a  general uptrend is to be expected.

Lol, I finally clicked through to play that video. When I heard a pending bass drop, I knew what I was in for.

I'd invest in the company that sold them that beat.

Usually rappers tells us about their massive fortunes, not solicit them from us   

Mature perspective. While I'm pretty sure there is little love lost for the likes of ISIS, this way is not the way to go about this. Poor publicity given the media loves to emphasize all the criminal applications of bitcoin. Why fuel the fire? And hell yes poor bank. We like to vilify the banking system, but it's not the system, it's the bad actors within the system that make it a shitshow.

The wages of sin are never positive, in my limited experience.

I disagree, but not with malice. If the bitcoin price were more stable, traditional finance would be less reluctant to invest. The risk due to volatility is simply too great, there is much to gain, but so much that can be lost. Also, I think consumers are used to fixed fiat prices, it's still a little weird that I can lose 1 to 3 percent of my value with a tiny price fluctuation. If the prices at Wal-Mart did that, I'd blow a gasket in short order 

Well spoken. Simply purchasing BTC and holding it is an investment. Gambling is entertainment, there should never be an expectation of return. Putting money in a known ponzi (notice I didn't say investing) is a fool's errand.

Yet there is a Subforum dedicated to it  

Hehe, I chuckle every time I read one of these click bait ass topics. Bonus points if it's in broken English (I jest, no shade being thrown). These things drive the signature campaigns, btw.

My current fav is the "how to motivate women to use bitcoin " thread. You can taste the lack of gf/wife/any female presence in the responses 

It's magic internet money friend, that's all you really need to know. All that blockchain and encryption stuff is, well, hard

I concur, and this man deserves a cookie.

I had not considered bad actors as custodians of the data. It truly is best to keep this data as far away from a connected device as you possibly can.

Take a few coins and trade them through a p2p bitcoin exchange like local bitcoins.if you use these services, you'll notice 10 percent markup is common. Do that 10 times, and you'll have doubled your money (provided you can purchase more coins at the normal rate on a different exchange).

Try not to sell to the feds however, they are feeling some kind of way at the moment about unlicensed money transmission as a business. It's just trading until you make the exchange in person.

It's about time, but I think a bunch of low level traders will take the heat for this, rather than the guys pulling the strings. Despite how much havoc they cause, top level banking executives seem to have complete immunity from prosecution. Emails get deleted, memos get shredded, and it's not a problem anymore.


And this will be drowned out by election news and gender rights stories, and fade to the back of the public consciousness in a few days. The Kardashians are still alive, that's a lot to compete with 

Fuel. Groceries. Medical care. Insurance. And to be able to pay taxes and utilities.

Basically, the things I spend the most of my fiat on.

And securities. It'd be amazing to fund my trading account (real stocks) without the three day wait.

I agree that a well encrypted file is pretty damned secure, but even better to not have the file available to those that don't need to see it.  Better to keep your keys as private as possible.

With all the profit that has been made, one would be silly not to sell as soon as liquidity emerges. If you don't, certainly others will. I don't care how much I love an asset, if I can get it cheaper, I'm selling and rebuying later.

Anyone "could" become one of these great things, but few people will. The ability to do a thing does not confer the prowess to see that thing through. Most businesses fail, the reason for this is that they are mismanaged. Not that the initial idea was poor in any way. Business is a degree for a reason.

Ethereum is a wonderful idea. I have never said otherwise. I just don't think the idea of a Corp that functions independent of a trained director or board is a good idea. Also, unless the blockchain is about to grow legs and arms to sign some contracts and pay some bills, you will need human actors to perform real world functions, and oracles to report binary outcomes back to the blockchain. Human actors are subject to fail. We aren't even talking about coercion or subversion.

To me, the DAO only seems to provide a more elegant form of voting rights in a Corp. A token is a share, with voting rights. What else does this token do besides that? Despite all the innovation that eth may provide once it's potential is fully realized, this token is a tradeable voting share of a company that's on a public, verifiable ledger.  

Kinda like a stock.

Which makes this a security.

An illegal security, as it is not regulated by the SEC.

Yahoo is still crazy popular outside the States, btw.

Before I jump overboard, let me say uber is testing autonomous evs as we speak, sans blockchain. Teslas latest offering is also of the same vein. No company in this space has the r and d or capital expenditure to compete with either of these behemoths.

Blockchains are publically verifiable ledgers. If you don't really need a public ledger, you don't need a blockchain.

If the technology existed (these vehicles), I could simply call up an agent that owns these vehicles, rent the same fleet with my credit card, and flirt merrily from point A to point B. After which the car could return to its point of origin, or blow up, I give a wit either way. Simply trying to convey there are myriad more mundane and recognized technologies that don't need to be developed in order to do this. Some of the use cases seem almost a stretch to implement blockchain technology.

It's not that I'm not passionate about what bitcoin means to the future. It's just tempered with practicality.


Also, from experience, you don't want code spending money for you. You want code to indicate to you how or when you should spend your money. So that you can weigh variables outside the code, and use your intuition to decide.

Oh yeah. That swim.

splash

This alarm bell went off in my head as well. Why now? I'm never mad at a company changing focus, but at such a critical /uncertain time, given blocksize/halving/eth competition concerns, why? Is someone aware of something we don't know? Because this transition is not free, capital and manhours will be spent to accommodate this rebranding/restructuring. and given how shrewdly this company has been ran, I don't expect a capital outlay without commiserate return.

Hehe, you beat me to this, was going to start a topic (this popped up on my news feed) but got distracted with a reply. Was going to put this in Press, btw.

This shows a great deal of maturity. This doesn't excuse the initial fuck up (theft), but surely the Lord smiles on a contrite soul.

Good shit Although I wonder if legal pressure didn't have a hand in this 'act of mercy'.

Edit: took a look in the Press sub, we both got beat to the punch :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1478353.0

Be careful. Examine the motivation behind this action: would you send someone a "random ass money" with no instructions? More likely this is malicious code, designed to rob you of your value.

If you are curious (and remember what curiousity did to our favorite feline), open the file in a virtual machine for further investigation.

Nozir. Gold is accepted worldwide, is inherentiy more stable, has not been banned or made illegal by any major state actors (although it has been subject to much regulation) and has been an accepted form of currency since the dawn of civilization. Does not require a blockchain as physical ownership is sufficient, and most importantly, it's zombie apocalypse/shtf proof. If you don't have internet connectivity, you don't control your btc until you do. And the gold has a bonus, it's actually a physical object that has substance, you can use it for a lot of other shit like art, or technology because of its unique properties.

Not a personal attack, just some points to ponder.