thanks for the info, i think i'll probably pass on it for now. looks like it would cost around 0.34 btc to buy a normal silver wallet, which would be a big chunk of my current btc balance. 

those silver wallets do look pretty cool! i was just reading on their site, and i think they would be pretty secure as long as you generate your wallets on a safe offline pc, and keep the coin in a safe place too.

in that case i think that they aren't banned because then they'd just make a new account to scam people with. at least with an established account they have a red trust. with a new one nobody would be aware that they've scammed ppl before.

i don't think he did. i think he's just an extreme HODLer. i think that if he moved those bitcoins at all it would raise a lot of questions in the community.

i try to do what others do: spend my btc on things i want, and then buy back the spent btc as soon as i can. it works fairly well.

haven't the chinese owned a large portion of the network for over a year? i remember seeing one video about a mine in china where all the miners were setup alredy hashing, and the warehouse they were in hadn't even been finished yet. seems like it's sort of taking away from the idea of decentralization that bitcoin is all about. but i guess, the introduction of asics was when decentralization started to become a problem with the network.

cake day is a reddit only thing. it happens on the date your account was registered, and then you get a little cake beside ur name for 24 hrs. 

personally i like the site how it is now. on other sites i've gone to sometimes ads open popups to malicious sites. but i really hate when i'm on mobile, and then ads redirect me to the app store, even when i don't click on anything. plus the ads on this forum seem more relevant to the topic (bitcoin) and i'm thinking that there are fewer scam ads here, compared to google adsense.

i am sort of experiencing the same bug. sort of as in i see a bunch of text on 1/15 of the pages i load. the other 14 pages load fine, and display the text how it should appear. not sure what's causing it but hopefully it can be fixed soon.

they're saying that sometimes people try to buy and sell in the newb area. i'm guessing not all newbies know that there's a trading section, and might fall for some scams in the newbie section.

i would recommend electrum. you don't need to download the whole blockchain, and it offers change addresses too. plus it offers a bunch of additional tools as well, so you can make custom transactions, sign a tx from an offline pc and then broadcast it from an online one, etc. overall a great wallet imo.

thats a good point. i guess people could invest in wind or solar power if they wanted to? or maybe they live in an area that already gets its power from a renewable resource.

don't think it would be useful to run a bunch of desktops to mine for bitcoins. you'd probably be better off doing what Dabs said, or renting them for ddosing or something blackhat of that nature.

wouldn't some people have botnets too to get a little extra bitcoin from faucets? i'm sure some bots would be able to crack capthcas on some of these faucets. i'd imagine they'd make a good amount of bitcoin by running a botnet on bitcoin faucets.

i think its possible to sweep private keys with certain wallets. i dont know if thats what ur wanting to do though, but its an option.

sounds like you were the 'hacker' of the account. if you want to get the red trust away from your account repay back the guy who was scammed by your account and hopefully the people leaving red trust will take it away from you.

i wouldn't say blockchain is a 'very safe' wallet. they had some problems lately where people were able to steal coins by reusing r keys or something like that. anyway in the end luckily a whitehat hacker named johoe (on this forum under that name) saved most of the coins and returned them. i'd recommend electrum instead, or mycellium/breadwallet for mobile phones, depending on the phone operating system.

try checking out satoshi's whitepaper as others have said. along with that, try checking out the bitcoin github as well as the bitcoin wiki. both of those places seem to have solid resources for learning about bit coin.

i think i've heard of something like this being developed. it was either this, or a way to send bitcoin via sms.  not sure which of the two though.

oh ok, thanks for answering my question. i have a rooted phone so that's why i was wondering.