Selling what little BitCoin I was able to mine with the equipment I had at the time and selling many months later.

ROI for mining BTC requires a few thousand dollars now and a willingness to mine for the duration without any likely dividend.

Most people are probably going to say faucets and that's probably still how most people will come but their first coins.

I think your question has been worded poorly.  You ask "if you buy BitCoin is BitCoin going to make you more BitCoins?"  The answer is no.  BitCoins don't payout interest.  Not now, not ever.

If you actually mean "If you buy Alt coins (be it with Fiat or BitCoins) will they (Alt Coins) make you money?"  If that's what you're asking then the answer is no one knows.  That's why there are so many Alt coins being created and people gambling the house on that Alt Coin being the next big thing since BitCoin.

It's like holding onto a stamp or a painting or sculpture, you're waiting for the price of the object to increase without it paying you anything such as a dividend that shares purchased on the stock exchange would payout.

Most people are really only paying for the privilege of using BitCoin with over inflated prices for a handful of dollars (or even just penny transactions) with there being no real difference between a large or small size BitCoin transaction.

Like the proverbial glass cookie jar, put a little bit away each week and see how it accumulates over a year.

The block-chain is it's own worst enemy.  Having to download multiple Gigs of data that other people have created is both a blessing and a curse at the same time.

Increasing the size of blocks to process even more transactions may actually slow down the number of blocks created, but will cripple the network as people run out of hard drive space to house the information.

Well, the best way of proving or disproving is to get your friend to actually sit down with pencil and paper and demonstrate how its done.  No doubt there are people in the BitCoin community who will be eager to peer review their work and they will go on to much fame.

I look forward to seeing their results in the not too distant future.

Thanks for the information, are you planning on reviewing them all?  What are their strengths and weaknesses?  What do you use them all for?

People leave their phones on trains and buses and park benches all the time.  I'd suggest shifing some off of your phone to a more secure location and just keep some day-to-day funds there.  Buy all means keep a few BitCoins on your phone, but not all of them.  (Would you carry all your cash in your wallet?)

Apple opened shops in cities and passing trade went in to see what all the hype was about.  People had heard about Apple's various products, some may even have had a friend with one of their devices, but until the public can see BitCoin in every day use then it's going to be very hard to get the message across.

The media don't care if BitCoin is good, bad or indifferent, they only print a story about it when it has a headline catching title "Mt Gox exchange robbed!" that sort of thing.  The media aren't going to do a puff piece on "Joe bought a coffee with BitCoin."

The media *would* do a story about "First BitCoin store opens!" I suspect.

There are already sellers of physical BitCoins and they are always asked "Have the coins been redeemed?" or at the very least, they state whether or not they have been (redeemed already)

Given how many people have already made gold/silver/copper coins and bullion bars, which one do you accept?

If you don't like the idea of partnering with a money exchange, You could always try second hand shops or thrift shops?  They usually have a small band of volunteers that can spread the word, they are usually tech savvy and you wouldn't have the overheads of establishing a shop and they can sell on consignment.

You can even arrange to have a BitCoin ATM to be in the corner.

They have them already - they're called BitCoin ATM's.

If you want a "shop" any of the TravelEx / Thomas Cook / AmEx currency exchange kiosks around town would be ideal as they are accepting large sums of cash with on the spot rates.  You just have to talk one of these into accepting BitCoins.

So what you are really saying is that you want to buy BitCoins with your PayPal funds and you are offering a 53.8% mark-up ( 100/65 = 1.5384 )

Someone could hand you a coin with the words "One BitCoin" written on it, but unless you had access to the block chain to verify that the Wallet Address did indeed have BTC 1.0 in it, then you would have to really trust the person offering you the coin.

If you had access to online, then why the need for a coin?  So that it can jingle in your pocket?

At least with printing a Paper Wallet you have a QR code you can scan and verify the contents of the Wallet.

Looks like it's got a way to go yet.  Can I get either a copy of the signed message you've already given out, or the Bitcointalk Account Price Estimator report please?

You're really only hoping to get 0.021 and if you get some extra dust I'm sure you figure is a small bonus.  Otherwise, why such a tight band for your bids?

Any User ID/Token from Bitcointalk Account Price Estimator that we can have a look at and see what the report says?  There's been a lot of vague estimates made recently, so it'd be nice to get a clearer picture.

You'd really have to hand over the private key of that staked address to make it viable to the auction.  It's always random when someone will be asked to sign a message from a staked address.

I might be stating the obvious, but without a merchant version of Bitcointalk Account Price Estimator we only have your word for the details.  There's a few others who have been trying (unsuccessfully) for a while now to sell low UID numbers here.  Have a scroll back through the auctions if you don't believe me.

• 1. Very Poor
• 2. Good
• 3. Very Poor

Ignoring 1 & 3 - a full quarter of two's posts are in the Indonesian section, so it's unappealing to me as I don't speak that language.  While a full third are in the gambling section.  Kind of raises red flags if a buyer stops speaking a language or doesn't gamble 

A link with these details is much preferred - you can select the "Merchant" option and then we can have a look at just the relevant details.

And if its only a potential Senior Member, your OP header should say so to save those who aren't looking specifically at that level.