You're going too far saying ISIS was supported by the West. Only a very limited group of people in the West have shown a little support in the early days of that movement. There are also some young unskilled and unemployed muslims who support ISIS all over Europe, but those people don't belong much to the West, despite they're living there.

I don't know much about how ISIS is funded, but I'm sure most of the money comes from the Persian Gulf.

Once a month!

I'm in for the long run, so I don't care about day to day variations.

We aren't scared. We just don't want to share details with people we don't know, and who may use those details against us. Haven't you ever heard of identity theft? We have to be careful.

Well, that's definitely an offense. Police forces should only use their weapons against violent offenders, or people bearing arms. Accidents happen so easily.

Lucky guy. I hope I'll live up to 101, and that I will still be able to work by then.
Hey, it's better to work than to lie in a hospital bed watching TV all day.

No. It doesn't work this way. Paypal cannot know you bought a domain name with bitcoin in it. Payment processors don't work this way. They've just seen a payment from your account to a registrar.

Those companies need to change their names. The idea of exchange cannot get along with the idea of fractional reserve, and this is just another reason not to leave any money at an exchange. Exchanges are made to trade, nothing else. I guess some people haven't learned anything from the MtGox fiasco.

I guess the only way to go is to stay underground. I have bank accounts in several countries, and I think none of the banks I'm using knows I'm doing some business with BTC. Actually, only a very little part of my business is in BTC, and I avoid making large movements, only small wires or cash deposits and withdrawals, so it would be hard to notice anything.

I see that your business name is "USA Crypto Coins LLC" so it's more than BTC, and means more misunderstanding to your bank. I'm sorry it 's happening to you, but it's useful to the others. People working with BTC shall stay away from Wells Fargo.

This isn't about discrimination, it's about the right to choose the people you do business with. I'm on the seaside right now, and I see many shops with signs indicating they don't serve customers without a shirt or shoes. It's also forbidden to sell alcohol to minors, but nobody sees this as discrimination.

You don't stay two years without going out, to want to be arrested. I guess he's looking for support, maybe hundreds of people to gather in front of the embassy when he'll go out, with the hope to escape the police in the crowd?

I haven't been doing anything. BTC suffers enough from too many people overreacting to every little value change.

Thanks, but I already have several offshore bank accounts. I opened them by walking into the bank's office and I can't recommend any other way.

I just don't know. It doesn't matter at all.

I don't understand why he announces he's about to move. He should have left without a fuss, now there will be people looking for him.

It isn't the subject, but when it comes about Internet access in public places in Italy, it's easy to get anonymous connections. I went to one Mc Donald's and when I asked the girl who served me about Internet, she had a small paper card on hand to tell me what number and what pass I could use to log in.

A phone number is also required in Switzerland to get a SMS, but I asked the girl sitting next to me if I could use her number and she agreed with a smile.

Back to the subject, there are more and more Russians in Switzerland and France. They're all fleeing their country, and it's easy to understand why. I guess the only people who will stay in Russia are the poor uneducated people who've never been abroad, and who don't know how beautiful life can be.

I do not think today's Internet helps the libertarian cause. Most people are just following others on facebook, and few are rejecting the system. I'd say quite the opposite, they like to be part of it.

I don't. I burned my social security card in 1991, and I thew away my TV in 1993, before I heard of the Internet.

Sounds like a poor idea to me. We already have food stamps, but frankly cash is the best solution for the small shopping a homeless can afford. The blockchain wasn't created to record all the sodas, sandwiches and beer sales on the planet. I would never use BTC to pay for any of those items. Cash is just easier.

You've got to ask first if one's a miner or if he/she gets paid in BTC. If you have to buy BTC to spend them, it doesn't make much sense.

Let's not scare people. The U.S. are still pretty safe but some people in the Baltic states are not sleeping well.