Please, who are his cronies?

Spread it around, and open up a GLBSE account, research everything there and buy a little of everything with a good track record (dividends, verified, whatever seems important to you).  Diversify.  So if some rob you, the high rate from the other's will compensate.  Everything bitcoin is high risk - which is why the interest is so high.

So all those "100% guaranteed Automatic Payout" are just lies?  I'm too simple to naive?

I have tried to get people to accept it but they also think its overly complicacted, cumbersome and hard to manage and risky 
( all of which any new payment would have anyway )

the one person i know who does accept bitcoins is only accepting them as an "investment" (he knows they will be worth more in 5 -10 years than now )but not as a currency

this is another problem ,everybody cant just hoard coins hoping the value goes up  ,as addictive as it might be 

they have to be traded constantly and thats just not happening enough ,its been said before but if you had a 5 dollar note and a bitcoin in your pocket you would buy your  lunch with the 5 dollar note

the bitcoin needs spendability,outside of silkroad and tax evasion if its ever going to fulfill its potential as a  serious currency 

Gresham's law is an economic principle that states: "When a government compulsorily overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money will leave the country or disappear from circulation into hoards, while the overvalued money will flood into circulation."[1] It is commonly stated as: "Bad money drives out good", but is more accurately stated: "Bad money drives out good if their exchange rate is set by law."

This law applies specifically when there are two forms of commodity money in circulation which are required by legal-tender laws to be accepted as having similar face values for economic transactions. The artificially overvalued money tends to drive an artificially undervalued money out of circulation[2] and is a consequence of price control.

I'm struggling to understand how this is not viewed as an impending catastrophe for Bitcoin. 1MB can only hold so many transactions, and there are already some blocks that are half that size. That would seem to mean that transaction volume can barely double from today's puny number before transactions are queued up for ages or even discarded unless they have juicy transaction fees. Of course a hardfork is highly undesirable, but don't you think it will have to happen, eventually?

I'm on Linux, so I am not worried about virus attacks.  I back up my wallet.dat regularly to several pen drives.

Question:  I am mining so I usually have 4 or 5 transactions awaiting another 100+ block solves before they are confirmed.  Let's say I backup my wallet and something happens / need to restore it.  If I restore the a .dat - that was backed up with 4 partially confirmed transactions, will they be reconfirmed or lost?

Thx

Litecoin is the Christian rock of crypcoins. I'm sure there are people who believe in it, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Yup, that's the kicker.  Lots of new accounts sign up with Dwolla then get frustrated after they finally have a verified account with funds in it only to learn that they can't do anything with it for 30 days.

Soo .....

If you have Dwolla then you are presumably in the U.S.  If you are in the U.S., you might have a Chase bank branch nearby.  If you do, then there is no faster option, nor cheaper, than BitFloor using this cash deposit method.

Then once you get past your 30 day probation on Dwolla, then you have a bit more options.  But Bitfloor will probably serve you quite well.

Looks like Chase isn't fee-free anymore. Logged in, put $20 in the cash deposit form, and got this:
Visit any Chase branch location within 24 hours and fill out a deposit slip with the following information to be credited. The amount MUST be the exact amount listed.
Account name: Bitfloor
Account number: 467594151
Cash Amount: $20.31

You guys are mad at banks for the wrong reason. HSBC shouldn't be faulted for "laundering" money. Laundering money is not immoral.

I wish MORE banks would stick to banking instead of acting as police agents, spying on customers, freezing accounts, and causing financial delays. HSBC should be applauded for their efforts here. There are plenty of things to get made at banks about... this ain't one of them

It's easy to rent a shoe/head stand-in.  You don't even know if it's their own shoe (identity theft - check the shoe size).

And as Tomatocage said, some asshat stole his pineapple - maybe that's why he needs donations and litecoins was just a lame excuse to hide the real reason to ask for 30 BTC.  Still, a 30 BTC pineapple would be impressive.

J'aimerais savoir si il existe une traduction française du vidéo What is Bitcoin ?

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