My pitch is: BUY BITCOINS OR DIE. I then tell them about the impending apocalypse and collapse of the economy and fiat money  .

Surely you can't have one with without the other? Without the payment in bitcoins why would people keep the network going? I agree that the blockchain is more useful than just a money transmitter network, though.

Except it was simple and not crowded with the addition of bitcoin. If you look at the picture in the link it was just a barely noticable option to donate at the bottom. I doubt most people will have even noticed it.

I think the answer is 'not many' at the moment. I think this will grow over the years though.


 


What's a scam? This


I haven't clicked on it (don't trust many sites round here) but isn't it just advertising or is there something malicious?

I wouldn't trust any of these bitcoin/paypal sites, but there are trusted people on the marketplac here who will exchange your coins for paypal.

I'm inclined to believe this. This hedge fund could be irrelevant or even false, but all it takes is hype or bad news to send the price one way or the other.

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I'm not sure the ride of our life is going to happen but I'm sure what goes up most come down eventually. Hope to see it keep rising up before it comes down a bit, though  .

I don't know how I'd feel about actually getting paid in bitcoins. I think it'd be too risky to take all of it in btc, but maybe a small percentage of it instead. I like to buy a little everymonth but I decide at the time and depends on the market rate.

Looks like bitcoin police is doing a good job. You should put your bitcoin address in your signature. You never know you might get a few tips  .

Just use any lite client that doesn't download the entire blockchain and then keep the wallet.dat file offline and backed up several times and you should be fine with that.

What is bitcoin's original value exactly? And the price did rebound, then went down a little, then up a little, then blah blah blah. Bitcoin does what bitcoin does - goes up and down. No point trying to find logic in it or reasons why it does what it does.

Mainstream adoption means adoption by the mainstream. Most places need to accept it and you need to be able to spend it. At the moment there very few places where you can do this.

Under what legitimate grounds do these bastards even have to make something like bitcoin illegal?

Some in my bank, some in my wallet and some under my bed. I've got about 50/50 of my wealth in cash vs bitcoin. I don't plan to sell bitcoins for a while though.

I don't drink or smoke so I already save a lot of money  .

Yes it's the right time. If you're hoping for a collapse before you buy in I think you might be out of luck. I think it's only a matter of time before we see a big price spike.

Good news. One thing we need for bitcoin adoption is cheap and affordable smart phones for people in the developing world.

I'm sure they know better than to take these sort of photos.

Well it could further smear bitcoin in the eyes of the ignorant general public who think all it is used for is 'bad stuff'.

Just hold it till it goes back up. It's no biggie and that's the beauty of bitcoin.