Sorry to hear that man. Was it ironically a PayPal reversal?

I assume someone from PayPal may read this thread. If so let's discuss what you would pay to use BTC with your PayPal account. I would pay up to $1 per transaction for secure, insured storage online. I would want a way of obfuscating my identity during transactions. i would also be interested in automated monthly payments. Something that would pay bills that arrive monthly/yearly.

Sounds like a great place to do business. No wonder their economy is setting the world on fire. 

We have heard this all before. Like a million times since 2010 and bitcoin just keeps getting stronger. Why just today I read that the United Way, the worlds largest charity, is now accepting bitcoins and PayPal has a new video stating that bitcoins will be part of their plan.
I just don't know where people get the idea that you can't find places to spend bitcoin? It is the only thing I use to buy online and never fail to find what I want. And it get's easier every day.

I would want to meet a Homo Erectus, perhaps the first species of human (with an unfortunate name). What an adventure that would be. When I looked into it's eyes would I see a person, an animal, or something in between?

I don't disagree with you guys at all. Bitcoin is disrupting payments world wide, and I don't know how this is going to play out. But I do think that people using bitcoin for payments is a more powerful idea than trading financial instruments that have little connection to any "real" economy.

Speculation is the reason. IMO. Not many are coming into bitcoin as users right now. They are trying to get rich speculating. Growth comes from utility not from hope.

Hi and welcome. There are other women here, but you can see why they don't mention it much.

There is absolutely no such thing. No bitcoin dot com, no authority whatsoever. Of course if you come here and complain you may get some sympathy. We all worry about criminality and accidentally sending to the wrong address.
It may seem harsh to have to do your own security. But the fact that no one can really do anything about your transactions IS part of the security.

The problem for PayPal is that no matter what they say bitcoin is always going to be cheaper, safer, and faster than PayPal. They simply can not compete with the system they have. The inherent properties of an open, distributed, peer-to-peer network make the bitcoin protocol  superior. 

And to be clear, there is no central authority in bitcoin. There is no one who can roll back a transfer or tell you something you can't find for yourself on a website like https://blockchain.info/ .
You are solely responsible for doing your own security with bitcoin. Its a sad truth that even the police will be very little help, as they will have no idea what your talking about.

They have already missed the boat with me. I jailbroke my iPhone just to use bitcoin. When that became a hassle I switched to android. Sorry Apple, unles you are going to do something huge with bitcoin, you are kinda done. It's not like allowing btc apps is a big deal, we always knew you would come around.
 

I still think BTC is king. The alts, that are not scams, try to fix things that are not problems and offer no new ideas. They are often script kitty versions of Satoshi's code. Only litecoin has any cred that I can see.

I used to say they will never accept BTC, but they are inching closer. It really would be dumb of them to miss the opportunity bitcoin could become. It would involve so little set up on their part and such a tiny risk of capitol.
There are several revenue streams they could exploit. Secure storage of BTC, ability to spend in many new places, legal options in cases of fraud. It could be a money maker for PayPal.  

It is also of little value to know the addresses involved in a transaction. One can see that address A sent to address B, but who they are and the reason the transaction happened is unknown. The ledger is basically anonymous.

Now that I live in Wisconsin I am legally required to like cheese.
 

To be fair, the Roman bible does state that homosexuality is a sin. Its even as bad as the sin of eating shrimp.

Doctors used to make the case that male mutilation was for sanitary health reasons. Now that has been shown to be totally untrue. In places where they do it to women they will tell you "it is for sanitary health reasons" or "it prevents masturbation". The reality is that in both cases there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to do it except cultural reasons. Yet we feel the need to tell others that when they do it it's wrong but when we do it its no big deal. 

Oh hi falllling, any predictions? lol

And tomorrow let's burn bibles! Because that "christian" cop who gave me a parking ticket. Christians, pfft. 

I always think it's weird how easy it is for people to see hypocrisy in the religion of someone else, but then go blind to the hypocrisy within their own beliefs. Take for example "female genital mutilation". Westerners seem so shocked by this practice. But what about circumcision of young boys? It is EXACTLY the same practice, yet because we are used to it no one is offended. Why is it not called male genital mutilation?