Fidor bank looks to be investing into bitcoins too..

here come the big boys.. prepare for some ramps and dumps soon.

think about it, anyone in europe can go through a german bank/business without having to currency exchange into dollars to get their bitcoins. this means cheap coins. and also with europes fast wire transfer services. it means instant coins..

all good news

the btc-e P'nD'ers do at least hint what's happening. to warn people that don't understand the process, to stay away.

so if you don't understand the word play they use to create panic then, when they shout out a certain coin is gonna P'nD'. Find a different coin to play with for a few hours.

its all about reverse psychology and causing others to make the movements so you don't have to try as hard. and then profit before causing the reverse, to then profit a second time.

as for creating a group collective of 'little guys'. this will not work as well. for these reasons.

big fish only put in 10% of their funds into a P n D purely for fun or to get an easy 1-2% profit (10% of their 10%). getting little fish to put in alot more of their funds would cause a few of them to be scared of losing their funds and some will react sooner then expected.

the other part is that unless you have a pair of pliers locked onto their genitals, most people have their own minds and plans to profit. so if they see a opportunity to get an inside scoop of when a P n D is going to happen. they will all try to be the first in first out of any plan. so unless you can control a group into conforming like robots to only trade on command. then i would think any collective of more then 3 people will fail.

please remove this.. has nothing to do with bitcoin.

only proves what true tin foil hat people talk about

bitcoin.org is aimed at the noobs..people wanting to get into bitcoin, basically. wouldn't you find it more irritating that a site that teaches noobs would only list places that allow you to sell bitcoins.

once people go to bitcoin.org learn about bitcoin, BUY bitcoins etc, they start to get a grasp of the community to then know where to sell them or how to sell them.

the other point is that bitcoin is aimed at getting people to adopt bitcoin, not divorce bitcoin. So of course it will be more aimed at buying in rather then selling.

imagine it like many other things.. EG Apple Ipods. their website wants you to learn about them and buy ipods, yes many people already have ipods and want to sell them on to claw back some FIAT, but apples job is aimed at teaching people the new technology and get people to adopt it. once you become one of the cough elite apple users, you certainly start to find many ways of selling apple stuff just by asking around.

so dont cry that bitcoin is worded for noobs entering the economy, until you have made a complaint to many other new technology start ups that also don't make a big deal out of telling you how to sell your stuff.

a bitcoin ASIC can mine any coin that is SHA256

a litecoin ASIC can mine any coin that is Scrypt

i have yet to see an ASIC that is released and being used that can do both

i have a batch 2 avalon. i make more then $90 a month lol for me its near on a bitcoin a day. thats $90 a DAY!!

my reply.

DFS found millions upon millions of US Dollars related to drugs / terrorisism in the period from 2009-2013.

DFS found less then 12btc related to drugs / terrorisism in the period from 2009-2013.

Q)what terrorist problem do you refer to which are linked to 'virtual currencies?
1)the credit card thefts of US FIAT used in illegal activities by vandalising ATM machines to get card details.
A)bitcoin does not require ATM's

2)the millions/billions of currency used to buy weapons
A)so far NO bitcoin has been linked to obama selling weapons to enemies. bitcoin remains public property not government, which makes it harder for obama to cover up his war games.

robbing noob peter to pay president paul..

can anyone cough pyramid under their breath, i sure did when reading this

i have invested into bitcoin businesses, directly and indirectly. the main lesson to learn before investing is to learn WHO your investing in.

many businesses can claim utopian dreams, or the next big product to revolutionise the world. but if you don't know the difference between a basement dwelling teentrepreneur sat infront a computer in his underpants... and a truly experienced business person who knows how to forfil on their proposals. then you should not be investing in people.

take the bitcoin island brain fart idea's that a few people have come up with.. they lay out a large investment cost to buy an island, and they tell you about the uptopian dreams of having library's courthouses, schools etc. but when asking about the persons own experience, you soon find out they have never layed a utility pipe or cable in their life, or a brick, or even a business plan.

the best investments are not those based on selling you a dream such as a private island. but selling you a reality such as a usable product for the whole community. this requires having a detailed business plan, costs not just of the basics. but EVERY aspect of the project, right down to the nuts and bolts costs.

i ask for ACTUAL address/ID information, and if travel is only a few % cost of the investment request they ask for, then i have and would travel to meet them.

even a skype call to see their so called office/working space can make the difference of buying in or not.

yep satoshi's mind was not on the thought plan that mining would be the only way to make money, but for people to open up retail businesses and make profits selling goods for bitcoin and keeping the profit margins.

just like the days of the wild west everyone was obsessed with gold prospecting and there came a point where everyone was getting angry that is was not longer profitable to get gold with just a pickaxe and a bucket.. yes some people moved onto dynamite and excavators. while the majority began selling products..

and that is the future of bitcoin... retail, not mining

wasnt the 'bitcoincompany' involved with a prepaid card scam a few months back. where a french guy was offering a UK debit card funded with dollars, on a very shady looking website?


edit
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=189119.0

ah yes now i remember, registration address was baker street, london(sherlock holme's neighbour lol) which is a POBox address. they were asking for 500BTC for a 5% share of company 'profits' not 5% of company ownership. making it truly easy for them to 'say' they only made 2 satoshi in profit in year one, giving no return to investors.

and lastly. for guys supposedly with decades of pre-paid card issuing experience, they seem to be using the most expensive card issuer that google provides on the first page of a google search of card issuers

no this means that there are 706 nodes talking directly to blockchain.info.

each of those nodes also talk to other nodes.

here is a better stats page for the entire network of nodes instead of just the ones directly connected to blockchain.info
http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/

common sense arrives when the majority know about something and know enough to make educated decisions.. computers in many of the 'silver surfer' (gran and grandpa generation) are still new.

many people will develop their own ways of making lengthy passwords.

even if it is using a parents maiden name, a date of birth and a selected word all in one. then to make it different by adding in a part of the website address or something about the website.

EG
obama8461Potusbitcointalk - used here
obama8461Potusbitcoininfosource - used here
obama8461Potusmtgox - used at mtgox
obama8461Potusmakemerich - used at mtgox

those are obviously 'unique' lengthy passwords. which even if you knew all 4 parts of the information (well the website is easy to guess ) the order they are in makes it harder to guess on websites that only allow 3 attempts. this should be the basics of password creation for everyone, even those with memory issues

i know ur trying to trol now but anyways.. common sense is something you learn by living and thinking or something your parents teach you.. its not something that can only be learned watching youtube videos of celebrities..

but that brings me back to my statement about the teenage armchair activists. as you can usually spot them due to all the'facts' they spout out seem to have come from you tube videos

back in the day it was about reputation and common sense.. something the teenage armchair activists of bitcoin spenders don't have.

the number 1 general rule was:
dont post to a P.O. Box, always find their actual business address.

the same goes for bitcoin, if your a legitimate company selling legitimate goods then there is no need to hide behind PO Boxes

from what i can see the freecashsoftware.com site is just a video intro.. no hidden downloads of viruses etc. and from the video it appears to be a give me your bitcoin and ill trade it on the micro ramps/dumps (day trading)

this doesnt prove if it is a scam or not.. but if you have ever come across pirate@40's sales pitch, you would easily start smelling something fishy here too.

remember bitcoin is YOUR money, in YOUR possession. so don't give it to people with the pretence that they can give you profit back. because that is what banks have been telling 'savers' for many decades.

and if you decide to risk it. atleast know exactly who you are dealing with, so that you can slap then with a wet fish or a court order if it all goes wrong.

it is fraud to alter a contract AFTER signing and try claiming it as the original, and yea banks don't like/allow changes to contracts. but anything wrote on the paper that is THEN signed as being fully read, understood and binding.. becomes a contract.. so the banks should have re-read the contract or refused to sign the 'copy' version. making it their own fault.

it is also helpful to customers when these 'contracts' are initially called credit 'agreements' meaning that there has to be some negotiation or agreement on BOTH parts. and not just a one sided 'policy'.

and these days scanned documents can look exactly like the original. after all its only text. its not like its a photograph. im not sure what 600dpi scanner you still run, but these days with high res' scanners and even scan-to text (ocr) software like the free bundled abbyy software most scanner come with, can make a perfect duplicate of a document.

things have come along way from the days of photocopiers that leave a border line down one side.

ignoring NBC's report which is a diluted form of the actual information..

BITCOIN is a CURRENCY. it is not money (government owned FIAT) so it wont be taxed direct, so relax about this point.

but it does atleast validate that bitcoins are a valid possession used for trading. this is like people trading gold for items. or how prisoner's trade cigarettes to avoid butt-rapes.

so if you have ever been duped into a scam, don't think of it as someone stealing money from you, but stealing products from you which you only gave them on the pretence of getting it back

this means just like loaning someone a lawnmower or your TV for a week hoping to get it back, if they dont hand it back then you CAN take them to court. because bitcoin is now a legitimate item and not a mythical/mystical thing with no value.

i would also highlight that you treat them as a item in its own right. and not something of a dollar value. because of this reason:

if you say you gave $1000 of bitcoins to pirate@40 in 2012, you will only get back $1000 (if pirate had any assets left to give anything back at all, that is)
but if you say you gave 100 bitcoins to pirate@40 in 2012($10/BTC), you will get back 100btc or a value to support repurchasing those 100BTC at the time of the courtcase meaning you would get nearer $10,000 (again if pirate had any assets left to give anything back at all)

just read this story, and got inspired.

http://now.msn.com/dmitry-agarkov-outwits-russian-bank-by-writing-own-credit-card-terms

knowing that a contract once drawn up can be amended by both partners. and the final terms are agreed when both parties sign. it is legal to alter terms BEFORE signatures are signed.

so what terms would you add to a credit card contract to benefit you

.....0% fee's
....10% payback (in bitcoin)
....all repayments in bitcoin, if the bank refuses to accept bitcoin then debt is reduced to zero.

add your own thoughts

forking bitcoin if it becomes legal tender would confuse things, and if its legal tender then the fork would become fraud as its copying the exact same features of the legal tender.

the true solution if bitcoin became legal tender is, litecoin.

i personally prefer bitcoin to be a mainstream currency, but not a government owned currency. to work along side FIAT but not be FIAT