once? you do know that ebay owns paypal right? no one's going to shoot themselves in the leg, at least voluntarily.

i've heard some stories where the postal service will send an undercover agent and ask for your signature.. that's how the prove it, apparently.

i wasn't clear about that.. i don't have a problem with wikipedia soliciting for donations. but it's just that they are too dumb or lazy to actually try out BTC. i mean they could get it converted to fiat easily, but they still won't do it.

if i had a lot of coins, i'd do this. and i'd remind them of the stories of people who had bitcoins, but lost track of them.. and ended up losing millions of dollars because, at the time, they thought it wasnt' worth much.

was he sweating that he somehow sent it to the wrong address, or that somehow the coins wouldn't be there? what is bitcoin's pro is also its con, but i'll take it over paypal or any other junk corporation any day.

to me, anarchistic ideology is a bit too simplistic. i get a lot of retorts, when they can't respond to my assertions, of "well government does that too." it's like saying you want to replace a faulty system with a faulty system.

oh, and "arming everyone with guns" is probably not going to be a panacea for world issues. someone told me that in doing so, you could prevent a big player from militarily overtaking certain regions.

i thought this guy was going to give BTC to poor people so they can eat.. not bitcoin the religion.

i think that by the end of 2014, at least a few major retailers will have adopted BTC as a form of payment.. and wall streeters will have poured their money into BTC. so i'm going to be a bit conservative, with these assumptions assumed, at around $5,000. that's just my uneducated guess though, what the hell do i know?

this is the kind of thing that someone who does not understand something says. along with "it's not a good investment since government doesn't back it." it's actually the opposite.. it's a good investment because government DOESNT back it.

how does this even work anyways? do the funds sit in a wallet? in that case, who has access to the wallet and pw? couldn't someone just transfer that money out to their own wallet, and no one would know?

at this point, i'm not sure if even the wall street guys will even trust chase.. they have to know that whatever chase does, it is for its own benefit.

well, i wasn't the one raising arms over the issue. i don't know the numbers, sure, but i wouldn't be surprised if smart people liked family guy.. but from my anecdotal standpoint, a lot of potheads watch it and pass it off as "smart comedy." but hey, to each his own.

has anyone realized how lopsided btc china is? when is there going to be competition there? that exchange by itself, when it's daytime there and night here, is bigger than every other exchanged combined.. that's nuts.

score.. they are trailing behind bitstamp by about 9 million. i love when this happens, as the onus is on them to improve their system.

that's a really easy task for me.. i don't have to do anything. i've never owned any apple products, except for 2 weeks with a second hand 1st gen iphone, which i sold and bought a galaxy s with.

i was a bit lazy to do it, but then i felt bad for being too lazy to click on "forgot my password" and type my email in. i doubt the white house will really do anything, unless they are desperate for PR. still though, better to sign it than not. you might want to create a topic on reddit too, you could possibly get well over 100,000 signatures.

i never said family guy jokes are dumb. i just i've seen not so bright people use the reasoning of "you have smart taste, you like family guy." family guy references/jokes are okay with me though, but they are basically non-sequitor pop reference jokes.

this is mentioned quite often.. it sure would be fun as hell to go to mars, but it doesn't seem realistic for this to happen within our lifetime.

snow is nice and all, but damn i do not like extreme cold temperatures.. i'm starting to prefer hot summers over extreme cold winters. then again, who am i to complain? i'm from california 

sorry, i don't mean to offend anyone, and while i do admit apple is great with design.. they want to tell you what to like, what to want. i feel like a sheep enjoying their products. and they all look the damn same. still better than most android phones.. at least aesthetically.