That depends, in bullish times people tend to forget the fundamental; where does the money come from?
In order for a coin to just maintain a certain level, then will fresh fiat constantly have to be put into the ecosystem.
I do recognize the dark adaptation and the future gui app.
However I think is very difficult to make any predictions right now, since all the sharks have landed to get their share of the pie.
If you look at the trading right now, the majority of orders are just bots doings their thing.
Don't get me wrong I believe in XMR, not trash talking here - but 2-3 days of graphs is a very thin basis for predicting anything.

Cheers

CI always makes some epic auctions 
I have stayed up many nights to participate in the action.

It is really amazing to see XMR explode.
As always you think "I should have bought more", lol

However, I do believe we will see a dumb at some point.
Don't get me wrong, I am a strong believer of XMR on the long term,
but eventually will some bagholder cash out, once the XMR-USD get too
high it simply get hard to resist.

Good luck to all of us, cheers.   

You don't say? +76% since you posted this message 1 day ago

I go to Sweden on a regular basis, I could properly help you out.
But it would properly be more convenient if you find a Swedish based user that can just go down to the local store (which normally also work as postoffice) and send out a few rolls for you.

P.S. Will you pay with Casascius coins? 

Your friends calculator needs a quantum core if he wants to predict private keys.

Obviously your friend does not have an academic background, the math which bitcoin is based on is not just something Satoshi came up with.
This type of math have been studied for decades and thousand of academic articles have been published.
Really no need for me to go into technical details, your friend will obviously not have to background to understand it anyway.

The picture of the sun posted above is the best way to illustrate how secure bitcoin is for people with none academic background.
 

Do you mean "If one day BTC cannot be traded for cash, what will you do?" - Because it is illegal, there is no one to buy, or other reasons like algorithm is broken?

Obviously if BTC for some reason becomes illegal in the country reside, then will you have to respect the national legislation, that is a no brainier.
No one to buy: that is very unlikely, as long as the network is running then will there be BTC trading, if it gets so unappreciated that BTC will not trade on
any exchange then will there with out doubt be some 2nd market trading.
If the algorithm is broken, then are will there without doubt be a fork very fast.

Last aspect is the large amount of physical BTC out there, there is a significant amount of BTC tied up to physicals.
These are in principal un affected by the status of the network. This can always (and will always) be traded for cash.
Since they are historical objects.

I got into XMR just after smothie released this series (+ a good friend insisted that I should get some XMR and learn the fundamentals).
When I first heard about XMR was my reaction; just another alt.
But when smoothie made so much effort into creating this series, then did I consider if there was more to it than "just another alt".

I must say, the timing of releasing these coins have been perfect, these coins are worth a small fortune now in face value alone.
The early buyers (specially those that paid in BTC) really got rewarded.

Not sure if smoothie has a crypto-crystal-ball - in any case well done sir

Hvordan vil du bevise at lodtrækningen er retfærdig?
Hvor mange billetter er der per lodtrækning?
Hvad sker der med præmie summen hvis du ikke sælger alle dine billetter?
Jeg regner ikke med at du lige hiver 615 BTC op ad lommen og betaler ud hvis du ikke har solgt for en del mere.

The attempts so far to make a high value collectible raffle has not been successful.
When the stakes get too high, the tickets simply don't sell.

Is there any CryptoImperator MS70 out there?
I have not seen any yet.

Yes, please PM if these goes on auction, don't want to miss this one

How long does it (practically take) from you bitcoin tx is confirmed on the blockchain to you can spend the cash on the cryptopay card?

So, there is a name on the cards - but it is just not yours? That sounds a bit shady to me.
I had the impression that the card was just "blank" (no name written).

Hi bitcointalk community,

I have for the last few years seen an increasing sale of anonymous VISA cards.
To be honest I have more or less assumed that these are used for shady business only.
But I can see a good use for these if you are using bitcoin already.
However, it must be perfectly legal, else is it irrelevant for me.

My first and most import question:
Is anonymous VISA cards in any way illegal to obtain and use under EU legislation?

If no, then:
What solutions exist? I have the impression that you can get them with both SEPA and Bitcoin transfer.
If using bitcoins, how long will it typical take for the funds to be credited?

I am also interested in knowing if "semi" anonymous solutions exist at a well know and trusted company, were you register with your name and true identity, but physically gets a card name written on the card.
I am fairly sure that no banks in Scandinavia offers this service.

Cheers

First of all I have a lot of respect for that you come out and not just assuming that everyone should trust you, "just" because you are making a coin.
I am sometimes surprised about how people are willing to trust new coin producer with their bitcoins, I am not talking about payment but the security of the private key.
When you confront a coin maker about the security, they always say something along the line: all private keys are destroyed, but there are never any kind of clear manifest about the procedure.

I personally think it is reckless to trust a random person with a private key containing anything more than a few bitcents - especially taking the coingraphic indecent into consideration.

The thing that makes a physical crypto coin unique is that it has a private key and it was funded at some point, which is documented in the blockchain.
From this point of view does it not make any difference if it is funded with 1 BTC or 0.01 BTC, however funding the coin with 0.01 BTC reduce the risk significantly for both buyer and producer.

The idea about 2FA or the buyers creates part of the private key takes the risk away from the producer, but it kills the 2nd market for the coin, instead of solely trusting the producer, then will you have to trust the 1st buyer as well, if the passphrase or partly private key is flawed then can the funds never be redeemed by any subsequent buyer.
 
TL;DR: I like small denominations best (0.01 - 0.05), private key created by producer with a clear manifest of how private keys are handled and destroyed, for the reasons stated above.

I think it is the fair to assume that the biggest trading volume in bitcointalk is within good and collectible on the market place.
In the collectible sections; you have to look very hard find a DT member abusing alt accounts and doing shady business.
Most trades in collectible are done entirely without escrow - we don't talk about selling shitty accounts or stolen gift certificate worth 0.01 BTC... physical coin trades are often 2-10 BTC, sometimes +30 BTC or higher; paid up front, without escrow, completely based on trust network and reputation.
So the trust system is not "stupid"... at least in the collectible section.

This "scheme" will not last for long, in the example in your link, then will it not take long before "Otong" is no longer on DT.
It does not take many misstep before you are not on DT, actually even a single misstep is rarely forgiven.

doogie used to publish graphical representation of the DT network, they are real interesting:  
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1062052.0

It becomes very clear from the pictures if someone DT member are "isolated" in his/her own personal cluster.

You should arm your self with a lot of patience, admins have most likely more important things to do than recovering your account.
Keeping a good and professional tone is your friend.

Som hobby projekt behøver du ikke så meget research, men du skal have fokus på at holde prisen så langt nede som du kan.
De to vigtigste komponenter er Power supply og GPU, prøv om du kan finde et AMD graphic kort som ikke er mere end 2-4 år gammelt, f.eks. et AMD R9 280x, det skulle man kunne købe brugt for ca. 500 kr. Men hvilken som helst AMD kan bruges til din første miner. Så skal du have en PSU som er kraftig nok til at drive den GPU du bruger, ca. 500-600W for en R9 (hvis du sætter flere GPU i din PC skal du selvfølgelig have mere power).

Hvis du har en AMD CPU så kan det anbefales at køre CGMINER:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0

Det er en klassisk miner optimeret til AMD (hvis du har NVIDIA så er det bedre med cudaminer, men AMD er bedst til scrypt).

Motherboard og hardisk er ikke kritisk, du kan bruge hvilken som helst af nyre dato: antallet af PCIe slots afgøre hvor mange GPU du kan tilslutte.
Typisk har et almindeligt office motherboard 1 x PCIe16 og 2x PCIe1, du kan godt bruge PCIe1 (1 Lane) men det kræver et adapter kabel, grunden er at det kræver ikke særlig meget kommunikation mellem motherboard og GPU at at mine. Dvs. et almindelig mother board kan understøtte 2-3xGPU.

Det er lige meget med en PC case, faktisk er det bedre at have en åben opstilling, du vil finde ud af at køling bliver en udfordring. Når en GPU køre på max, så bliver den varm, meget varm!
Derfor er der mange miner som primært miner om vinteren og bruger deres miner til at varme huset op, det giver mening da man alligevel skal varme huset op, så overskuds produktet ved mining (varme) kan bruges til noget nyttigt.

Du kan få inspiration her:
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/beginers-guide-to-building-a-mining-rig.73/

GPU performance (kHash):
https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

Det gælder om at holde cost nede, her PC case sparet væk:
http://www.cryptobadger.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/step04.jpg

Dette er et klassisk eksempel på en GPU miner rig:
https://goo.gl/2Uiqru