Never. I wouldn't trust them even with 1 bitcoin.

Sorry, but I tought the statement to be condividible and I tought we could start discussing on the reason on why the bitcoin price will probably *fall* soon.
By no meaning I was willed to offense or to create confusion.

Sorry, but I'm not an expert in financial instruments, a link please? I also don't have a lot of trust on the privates making these instruments, I think that buying bitcoins directly to be better.

Again, this want be a topic about financial suggestions for me, rather one where we can discuss the reason that will bring the price down shortly. If that was due to happen, off course.

Thank you everyone for the replies, it's becoming an interesting thread.

Yes, I meaned fall and not fail. English is not my mother language.

10k would be what I'm willed to lose, but you know, not to lose is always better than to lose.

People usually buys during the peaks because they think the value will raise again, just like in trading.

I also think the "buy a little bit today and a another bit tomorrow" to be a great strategy.

You could even swim across the ocean.
No kidding, there are some guys that did it.

What you are missing is that there is about one billion people using Euros and having it's belief and work of a lifetime on that concurrency.

You are missing this.

I could agree with you that the Euro, along with the Eurozone, is a thielf to our national sovranites, and that a group of bankers has control of our lives, and that is bad.

Still, your post is meaningless for me.

Not to talk about the USD.

Bubbles.
They tends to explode.

One Bitcoin was quoted @ 4€ just a few months ago, now it's @8€.

I'm one of the guys that believes that the value should be much bigger, but i'm not confident on buying a big number of Bitcoins because i believe it will fail another time.

My goal isn't to speculate: i would like to buy 10000€ in Bitcoins and if from now to the next 5 years it's value will stay the same i would be really happy. But i'm really afraid i would lose my investment.

During the peak of the last summer, it was a rumor of the biggest excange getting closed down to make the price fall.

What could happen now?

I would like to say that anyone  who is going to completely write a forum project out of thin air is most probably gonna finish bad. We could all do that. But why to reinvent the wheel? Just to meet with common problems that had already been solved over and over by people more experienced than us?

There are several forum projects that could be easly expanded to meet the admin requests for this forum. These are, in my mind and in order of preference:

#1 XenForo: light and with a minimal set of state of the art features. It would be my bet in case i would do this project.
#2 Vanilla Forum: even lighter. It's anyhow missing some of the features that are really useful on xenforo, such as user notifications FB-style.
#3 IPB: heavy but not for this slow. Well coded and solid like a rock. It has an amazing feature set, it's the only one who could compete with vBulletin on this level.

So this is my bid:
# 500-1000 bitcoins. I would like to have a fair reward for this, but i don't want it to be at a fixed rate. If the community will be happy with my work they will better compensate it. The other way around too. Also, i don't want to work for nothing. As far as i know it's possible that when i will receive that amount the exchange rate will be 1B=0.1€. That would be unfair for people putting such an effort on this.
# I would use XenForo and expand it on the missing features. That's all. You can look at XenForo to see what you are missing as of now on this old board.
# I will provide link to websites i coded privately
# I will work part time on this, sending the code i wrote weekly to the admin of the board. It could take 3 to 6 months at the speed i work. I'm not a full time developer, nor it's the thing i love more from life. I would do this project only to help the Bitcoin project, whom i have belief in.
# English is not my mother language. I'm italian, and i'm really poor on spoken english. Take that into account.

This is my first post as non-Newbie, so Hello Everyone!

Regards.

Sorry, I didn't realized that.

Anyway I will wait the bugged hourly counter to go up a little bit more and post on the right section

The problem here is not system x y or z, is how we use it for doing what.

That being said, osx is still a lot more safe than windows.

You should be able to ignore posts from a determined forum by admin request of its new board software.

I wrote that i wrote, not that i wrote *articles* on Bitcoin.

Mostly i wrote on forums, italian & english ones. I don't care to share.

Thanks anyway.

You should realize that whatever is the os you are using its unsafe if you use it for other except your bitcoin wallet.

If you had a big wallet, you shuld use a cheap pc (pandanoards for example) with some *NIX stuff in it and a browser with JavaScript and Java disabled (not talking about flash).

Your hardware should be dedicated, your os too.

BIOS malware is not only on movies.

I would like to ask about buying bitcoin vs mining, in my particular case.

But I don't mind waiting a few hours.

I would trust that.
I wouldn't trust the pc I was booting from, nor the network and/or the DNS I was using.

Just being paranoid for a reason.

'99 model here.

Interesting story.

I've spent a lot reading and writing about bitcoin during the last year, while I decided only now to register.

I found this to be frustrating, anyhow I will accept it.