I just realized I'm actually in one of those. 


"The Bitcoin Phenomenon" (April 2014; length: 35min) Sq1.tv

I thought gay people were already people?

EDIT: oh, I see now. A guy in a sequin robe has made a ruling about gayness. 

$700, That is what I would sell 1BTC for right now. So my bitcoins are worth $700 each.

That's what I would suspect. A lot of it going on right now. I guess it kinda works. We're talking about it.

We do have such a coin, it's called "bitcoin".

Money is a store of wealth. It is not wealth so you can't just print money and be rich. Your idea of donating a mining machine might work, however. It would work because mining is a productive economic activity. The problem will be the donation. That is where the wealth comes from in your system and someone will have to give their wealth away to make it happen. If the new miner grows his/her business and expands or diversifies then you could help someone out of poverty.

It seems like a better idea is a micro-loan exchange that requires repayment if the business is successful. The hope of repayment with a little interest will bring much more money in the door, even if the primary motive of the investor is helping the poor.

There is no such thing as tax free income. You will have to pay income tax on bitcoin you earn from work, and capitol gains on any appreciation in value. Of course you can claim a loss if bitcoin depreciates.

I'm also willing to drown in profits. 

I always point out to the perma-bears that no one knows the future. Unfortunately that applies to perma-bulls also.  

A lot of people think this. In fact most urban cops shoot very little and when they do they shoot in some cramped indoor range. If you are a serious amateur then you know I would not be bragging to say I shoot way better than most cops. My dad was a cop (St. Louis county). Even as a kid I shot better than almost all his cop friends.
The secret is trigger time. I shoot a few hundred rounds a week. A typical cop may take 6 months to shoot that much.  Because cops do not use their guns much at all, they do not need to practice all that much. A cop's pen, or a their radio is far more useful.

Jesus Christ people are gullible. 

I work on pandemic flu response. It's no joke and one day it will break out and kill millions and millions of us. Flu is a threat magnitudes of order more dangerous than Ebola. I don't know where you get the idea that it is a "scam" or pretext of some kind. SARS is 9-10% fatal and that is beyond serious when you consider that each year that about 10% of the U.S. population is infected by flu. If a hybrid variety like the H5N1 + H1N1 hit us, we might see something like 30 million dead in the U.S. alone.

It can happen, it does happen, it has happened. Almost all people who study this agree that the odds of another huge, worldwide, deadly flu outbreak are near certain. You wont call it a hoax when your piling up bodies on the street with the garbage collection. Think it can't happen?  In St. Louis, where I'm from, the death carts roamed the streets each evening during the "Spanish" flu outbreak. It killed about 70 million people in 1917-18. So many that it was the major factor in ending WW1.  

The problem is greed. Once people discovered that bitcoin really is money it attracted the usual suspects. Tech savvy thieves and con men love BTC because it is convenient and without penalty. The police are years behind the technology and without a solution to the trans-national nature of most criminals who denominate in bitcoin. These bad people exist wherever there is wealth to be stolen. Nobody likes this.

The speculators love it because they can play games that have long ago been banned in most markets. Bitcoin users rarely favor regulation, but not everybody understands the repercussions of that. You must do your own homework with bitcoin and completely understand the economic activity you are engaged in. Speculating in a wild market is very risky. People often try, fail, then complain about bitcoin because it didn't meet their expectations of being something more than money.

I find that using it as an online payment method is where you find it's utility and strengths. It's fast and final, I do not risk my identity or provide access to my money, and it costs me only pennies to send money anywhere on the planet. If your interest in bitcoin is to get rich then you should know that it is unlikely unless you have some great business idea and the resources to get it funded. If you just want a secure, fast and inexpensive way to send money then you will love bitcoin.

Buwahahahah! 

Ok OP, I've just completed transfer of your bitcoin from the copy of the wallet file I just found on your computer. Now you tell me if I stole it or not.

It's always a lot clearer for the victim.  

Yeah, that does seem relevant here.
The only people saying it was a sandwich are his family. If he did shoot, a sandwich is not going to explain away the powder residue on his hands, the spent casings, the spent rounds, or the matching gun next to his body. The title is ludicrous. Honestly, what do you think happened? "Hey sarge, look a kid with a sandwich! Bang Bang!"

Where is that from? I see no reference to any witnesses.

If peace-ability is the benchmark for a religion then there is only one true religion and the Buddha is his prophet.

Mo money, mo problems. So I guess it does create problems. 

When it has happened in the past it generally wipes out most life on Earth. No reason to think it will be different this time. Silly humans, always thinking the rules do not apply to them. Time to get schooled by mother nature.

I would be so proud if my government were capable enough to have made bitcoin. But I don't think they are.
For those worried about a sinister government plot, remember that bitcoin is open source. If the code were able to do something other than what it claims then we would see it in the code.

Kimmy seems more like Dodge coin guy? Such moon face!