You want me to sell all my coins? Down to my last satoshi? Okay, my price is 5 million times Earth's gross planetary product. (Some people here say they'd never sell their last satoshi, not for all the money in the universe, but I'm slightly more flexible on this matter.)

Actually, I've found that grabbing money is indeed a similar feeling to grabbing boobies (emotionally, not physically).

Probably because "symbiotic relationships" includes all the blind people who will simultaneously shit themselves when their guide dogs all suddenly drop dead?

Are you actually running your bitcoind server as a daemon (with the -daemon argument)?

It won't show that the cardholder received the item, and that's what you need to prove in order to refute a chargeback claim. It's not good enough to prove that somebody received the item - that somebody could have stolen the card. Physical delivery to the cardholder's address is good enough proof, but is vulnerable to the scenario I mentioned earlier, and if there's no physical delivery, you've can't prove that the cardholder is the recipient.

Your coins were stolen months ago, and there's nothing you can do to get them back. I notice your wallet is not encrypted. This fact plus all the malware you have is almost certainly how it happened. (Note that even encrypting your wallet won't help if you've got a keylogger, hence the importance of keeping your system free of malware.)

No, but they can get away with returning the product while claiming it is defective, and they can obviously prove they returned it. They get their money back and you get your product back, so everyone's even. Except for your bitcoins, of course, which you'll never see again. Oops.

Ah. GIF doesn't actually support lossy compression; what PS actually does when you use this option is replace detailed areas of the image with repeated chunks of pixels which can be compressed more easily, turning your image into crap for not much of an improvement in file size. It's not even remotely necessary anyway; 700 bytes is plenty small enough, especially since your current avatar is more than double that. Are you trying to break my record, or what?

Prepare to be impressed. My strategy is good old-fashioned asset allocation: I aim to keep a certain percentage of my portfolio in bitcoins; if the price goes up too much (increasing the value of my bitcoin holdings compared to other assets), I sell until I'm back at my "target"; if the price goes down, I buy for the same reason. The result of this strategy is that I sold a shit-tonne of coins during the April peak, and I'm up 74% since 1 April 2013. What do I win?

Lucky for me (and 6.8 billion other people), Sam is not my uncle.

For the rather obvious reason that mining isn't a sure way to make money (bitcoin price may crash, difficulty could increase dramatically, other unforeseen events may happen), while selling miners is a sure thing. In a gold rush, it's not the miners who get rich, but the guys selling shovels.

Huh? GIF doesn't have quality. GIF compression is lossless. Blurred edges will increase the file size quite a lot, as it requires more colours. I can't even guess what you're doing wrong; can you upload your file somewhere or base64/uuencode it and post it here?

WTF? A 2-frame 80x80 GIF is only 14 kB uncompressed. How on Earth did you blow it up to 700 kB??

Yes, there is definitely a limit on file size but I don't know what it is. I think the SMF default is 128 kB, but I've seen larger avatars here. How large is your image?

Maximum height is 80px, maximum width is 120px. Not sure about file size. Animation is allowed, provided the height and width limits are adhered to - if not, the image will be automatically resized, and lose any animation in the process.

Bitcoin has a 100% chance of survival, if only because it cannot be killed. The real question is whether it will prosper, and how well.

No, it's just time-lapse footage of an ageing building, apparently created for the sole purpose of beating the record for the world's longest movie. I got bored after a few minutes. The Cure for Insomnia is better, though I haven't watched the whole thing, mainly because I don't actually have insomnia.

The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World: 2,880 minutes
The Cure for Insomnia: 5,220 minutes
Modern Times Forever: 14,400 minutes

It won't work, for the same reason price controls don't work anywhere else: because a trade requires both a buyer and a seller. Since there are no buyers willing to pay that price, no sellers will be able to sell. And since the value of an item is only what people are able to sell it for, instead of bitcoins being worth $140 each, bitcoins are now completely worthless. Whoops.

Of course, this ignores the fact that people will continue to trade bitcoins at "illegal" prices anyway, but if you could somehow prevent that, this is what would happen.