yes I see that I misunderstood, it'd be cool if a private key could be represented by the 52 cards in a standard deck but I guess it can't, how about a 78 card Tarot deck *goes to add up A-Z & a-z & 0-9* brb

EDIT: hmm, 58

OK - so aren't those chars used in private keys, prob I didn't understand & it's for password generation & wouldn't work for private keys

um, don't you need a 1 & 0 maybe?

EDIT: & y z

I looked in to embossing on metal, like dog tags, but found a better solution looked like being to laser engrave - here it's on an aluminium credit card size, titanium would be cool, a free business idea for Casascius or someone to provide

http://www.ebay.com/itm/50-Custom-Design-Engraved-5-Colour-Metal-Business-Cards-/220913772921

The problem here though is that it's for 50 identical cards whereas a run of just 3 or so with each private key would be fine as a backup physical storage, I see they also offer engraved rings in tungsten or titanium which would be cool as the private key could be hidden on the inner side & worn while a backup kept in a safe place & engraved inside a gold ring would be a most desirable object - like a posy ring

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320697957397

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=possy+ring

Mon 2nd Jan is the next Japanese hols making a long New Year's weekend there & then again on the 9th Jan, looking at my new diary & see that Russia gets over a whole week off - that's a lot of partying

knowing next to nada about trading but how about if some manipulator did a giant sell order to flush out a bunch of sell stops because he was basically long & wished to spook them & then a few mili seconds later made equal or greater buy orders & maybe was betting with leverage on the price movements or wanted to see if he could trigger a large instant bot panic crash & buy back in lower if that happened

Re: How an EURO melt down will affect bit coins?

When the € goes tits up expect protectionism & monetary controls to be the order of the day

Bank of England's working paper argues that it might be necessary to impose capital controls to repair the global financial system

Bitcoin may then come in to it's own as it is very hard to enforce monetary controls on it's almost instant international free flow of funds

many thanks mmm 4 Btc incoming

Edit, 1st April 2021 to add: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/3bf64ae9ff581e7eb508830c0a691dac5c9e09bde5ee42563c30eb15142eb882

lol, happy Lambo time MMM https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27072/lot/113/?category=list&length=96&page=1

if you held  

the Btc Mt.Fuji chart c/o Mt.Gox



it's a sacred ritual for every new crypto currency to attempt to climb it

year unknown

.かたつぶりそろそろ登れ富士の山
chibibtc soro-soro nobore fuji no yama

little bit coin
inch by inch, climb
Mount Fuji!

guess that I underestimated so doubling the bounty to 4 Btc for best posted tail twitch & 2 Btc for any decent runner up, kthx

Hiya, my very first BTC buy/sell/offer of goods/services, I'm offering a couple of BTC for a simple animation of this image - turning it in to a GIF maybe (I know next to nada but assume that it's easy to do, it's just for fun not commercial)

https://imgur.com/a/hVKOkQk

Sometimes I see an image like this and I think, "Is that one of those pictures where one part is animated in an eerie way?" and then I realize it isn't, but it should be. The tip of that cat's tail should be twitching slowly.

If more than one entry then the best wins it, by consensus &/or my final choice, 1 BTC for the runner up too in that case

Many thanks

Otoh (on Euro time)

the manipulator listing on eBay, naturally he hides his icy image

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170740576988

one of the best ways to short the US$ is to buy gold, oil, (options or actual) or a basket of strong alternative fiat currencies - except most of them are also basket cases atm, € cough cough

so say buy $1,000 worth of Bitcoin (400) & if it's price rises for example from $2.5 to $3 per BTC then take your $200 profit out by selling 66.6 BTC keeping your original 400 BTC stake unchanged, then buy physical gold or similar with this $200 on bullionvault.com

repeat as & when you see BTC highs & gold lows

suggested because Bitcoin atm is far from being an inverse play upon the $ so you'd have to do it via a proxy asset

in the future, well it's the dream of many here that it may one day be

~ I'm long BTC

Edit

~ I'm also $ long in the short term

another way would be to put said $1,000 in to gold on bullionvault.com & if the gold price rose say 20% (as it has every year since I've invested there from March 2007) then take your $200 profit & buy Bitcoins with it, again timing on gold high rises & BTC troughs

Note that there are withdrawal limits. Here is the detail of your limits:

You can still withdraw up to 900.00000000 BTC provided you have enough on your account (your limit is 1,000.00000000 BTC per 24 hours )
You can still withdraw up to $10,000.00000 provided you have enough on your account (your limit is $10,000.00000 per 24 hours and $50,000.00000 per 30 days)

I haven't tried to talk with MagicalTux about raising my individual limits as molecular keeps suggesting because I don't know how or care to spend the time to find out, I communicate with & through the MtGox web site & am happy with the present limit though really don't see why there should be one at all when I use an MtGox Yubi key to log in & again secondary Yubi key long press of it to initiate a withdrawl (when I logged in just now to C&P the updated W/D limits I'm sure the random code that the Yubi generated for this that flashes past started with 'lmao...'  it's probably mocking me)

well finally verified 7 hours ago, it took 3 days as the first scan of my passport was rejected for no good reason (banks find it fine) then multiple attempts to upload a high res photo trying different file sizes of it didn't work all day yesterday due the some MtGox glitch finally with an apology & no explanation I received an email that my account had been verified today. Incidentally a couple of days ago I couldn't even withdraw the daily limit of 100 BTC due to an erroneous error message that kept reporting an invalid address to send to when it was not, just like as in the past one needs an appreciation of farce & a strong sense of humour when dealing with the Gox

Edit to add, the utility bill that I uploaded was my land line phone/Internet bill & was accepted so I assume the person above who's wasn't may have tried to use a mobile/cell phone bill perhaps?

'b' - Kaboom! 'b' is a sudden, powerful beginning, high spirits and hot tempers.

'short i' - moves up-up-up, light and a bit tense

't' - Temptation. 't' is the letter of the dreamer, the designer of grand schemes, the traveller| who follows her star


'c' - if pronounced like in 'Cecilia', see 's'. If pronounced like in 'Cathy', see 'k'.

'k' - a room where some things are allowed in or even captured, and where other things are definitely not cool. The 'k' is in the know and keeps its secrets. It's the most caring and intimate of letters, but when it's not careful, 'k' gets snobby and cuts people off.

'short o' - the most fundamental sound, the source and beginning of all things

'short i' - moves up-up-up, light and a bit tense

'n' - 'n' is like a line that gets closer and closer on to something. It's subtle, thoughtful, wise and noble.



http://www.trismegistos.com/MagicalLetterPage/Names.html

btw the FRA link in your sig is a 404 - Page Not Found, you might want to fix that

http://financialriskanalytics.weebly.com/forum.html#/

Edit...

'We monitor financial markets minute by minute throughout the investing day to protect you against any sudden surprises in financial conditions.

We will also introduce you to the new and exciting world of Bitcoin, a revolutionary digital currency of the future that has the potential to change the world.'  

removed repetitions of 'also' & 'new ...' for you

$2 just got pwned about 10 minutes ago & continuing

just ran up against this 100 Btc limit today when I wished to do an arbitrage sell on another exchange & hence lost the opportunity, have now uploaded pics of ID & utility bill today for verified much larger withdrawals - will post how long this takes & any hiccups, also really what's the point for Mt.Gox as when withdrawing in Btc any random uploaded stuff would do & probably for $ etc too - it's not like they can confirm any photo of an ID or address is actually tied to any specific account holder unless they're the CIA or something, so it's just an inconvenience & breach of privacy for normal users & np to spoof for bad guys just like 99% of these restrictions that companies cook up in the name of security unless I've missed something here, real security would be offering to let you permanently set an irrevocable dedicated Bitcoin address that you can only W/D to for high amounts & the same for $ etc W/Ds, my favourite is bullionvault.com where funds can only be W/D to the exact same unique bank account that they were originally funded from

down about 35% since starting in early August 2011


My Btc trading history in $s

First heard of Bitcoin June 2011
with the Wired piece about TSR

Bought 3 Aug 2011 - Britcoin

1 @ $10.33
1 @ $10.00
5 @ $9.84

Balance 7 BTC

Bought 6 Aug - Britcoin

50 @ $8.70
70 @ $8.22
8 @ $8.53

Balance 135 BTC

Bought 7 Aug - Britcoin

10 @ $6.58
13 @ $6.56

Balance 158 BTC

Bought 15 Aug - Mt.Gox

145.19 @ $11.20

Balance 303 BTC

Bought 16 Aug - TradeHill

0.525 @ $11.10 (free from referral commissions)

Balance 303 BTC

Sold 27 Aug - Mt.Gox

145 @ $8

Balance 158 BTC

Sold 27 Aug - Britcoin

145 @ $8.19

Balance 13 BTC

Bought 7 Sept - Mt.Gox

95 @ $6
55 @ $5.75
48.645 @ $5.50

Balance 211 BTC

Bought 7 Sept 2011 - Britcoin

95 @ $5.96
59 @ $5.64
48 @ $5.24

Balance 413 BTC

Bought 16 Sept 2011 - Britcoin

33.278 @ $4.74

Balance 446 BTC

Bought 25 Sept 2011 - Britcoin

33.278 @ $4.66

Balance 480 BTC

Bought 28 Sept 2011 - Intersango

10 @ $4.73 (free with profit from Bitcoinica)

Balance 490 BTC

Bought 8 Oct 2011 - Intersango

36.364 @ $4.28

Balance 526 BTC

Bought 8 Oct 2011 - Intersango

40 @ $3.89
31.6 @ $3.89

Balance 598 BTC

Bought 17 Oct 2011 - Intersango

50 @ $3.15
100 @ $1.57 (even though the price on MTG never fell below $2.26)

Balance 748 BTC

Bought 22 Oct 2011 - Intersango

253.93 @ $3.14

Total Balance 1,002 BTC

1,002 BTC @ $3.10 = $3,106

$3,106 + $25 cash (free profit from Bitcoinica) = $3,131

total invested so far £3,000 = $4,800

loss atm $1,669 ~ about 35%

it needs a price of $4.77 to break even