Remember a couple of years ago, right after GPU mining really took off, when everybody panicked because of Deepbit? Remember how that turned out?

The entire world's never going to collapse all at once, but the certain parts of it will see periods of extreme turmoil from time to time.

If you happen to be located in one of those parts of the world and see the signs of impending turmoil, it's far better to move to some calmer part of the world before it's too late rather than try to shelter in place.

In this scenario gold is nearly useless, even in physical form. If you really need to leave a country quickly you can't take significant quantities of gold with you.

Bitcoins, on the other hand...

Doesn't this belong in the Altcoin section?

This thread is one of the most successful examples of trolling I've seen in a while.

Where's the option for an offline Armory wallet on a disconnected laptop?

P2P trading FTW.

Stop using wallets that are stored on computers with an Internet connection...

It looks like he's finally got moderator status.

The way to prevent this is to keep all your coins that you aren't currently spending in cold storage, with paper backups.

FYI, you can fix that with better formulas: http://localbitcoins.blogspot.com/2013/06/this-is-first-in-series-of-posts.html

The point is that IPX/SPX is the one that nobody uses any more.

Metcalfe's law means there is little demand for competing networking standards, just like there is little demand for competing cryptocurrencies.

I've had no problems with them cancelling my purchases except for one incident back in February.

Now in the last 24 hours I've had two purchases cancelled, one initiated on the 4th and another from the 8th. The average purchase price for those two buys was $80.01, and at the time of cancellation the price they were quoting for buys was in the mid-$90s.

I'm now at 3 transactions cancelled out of 20 or 15%

All three times have been cancelled one week after initiating the purchase, after the funds had successfully cleared from my bank account, and approximately at the time they had promised to release the bitcoins.

I also tried an "instant" buy last night after completing the new verification step. It's still pending after 18 hours.

Go to the magazine of a public library and pull out all the subscription cards. Sign up the target of your joke for all of them. The December issues normally have special cards via which one can purchase gift subscriptions for other people. Throw in a couple of those for good measure.

It would be possible to do without homomorphic hashes, but I think there could be some advantages when the transaction lists become extremely large because the would that creates the header and searches for the nonce would never need to parse the entire entire transaction list. That job could be performed by someone else.

Either was it would be good to hear an official position.