Yeah but it's hard to get fucked for years and not begin hating on the jar of vasoline even if it is protecting your ass.    May all your btc dreams come true.

I hope your right. It sure would be nice to have a big fat paycheck instead of all the doom and gloom we've had lately.

That's sweet. Are you a newly wed? After 20+ years of marriage my wife and I take separate vacations because when we take them together we don't have anyone to talk to.

Have you given up on altcoins Bob (EMC2 & LTC)? I would think the spike in BTC price coming from an ETF wouldn't be enough profit fast enough for you.

The more the general public falls for Bitcoin scams the less general public we have left that's willing to use Bitcoin.

The price will go up and down and up and down. Someone will come up with a new thin SPV client (as if I want to trust a full node other than my own) and no one will prune the blockchain to reduce its ridiculous torrent worthy size. Someone will release the news of another portable device, phone interface or card that holds Bitcoins to use at a store but the userbase won't grow enough for new devices to have value. Someone will release the news of a new Bitcoin NFC creation because all the phones are headed that way. 50 new scammers will be caught. At least 1/3 or more of them will be businesses. A couple of exchanges will fail either due to regulations or fraud/incompetence of the owner. The Bitcoin Foundation will be involved in another major scandal. A handful of new bugs will be discovered in the main client and it will be updated a half dozen more times but remain in beta. The forum will become more and more of a resource for law enforcement and the admin will get an increasing number of subpoenas for information to support current cases. BitPay will convince another handful of large corporations to accept Bitcoin using a zero fee deal. Small miners will continue to be pushed out of the market as technology changes and old pools die focusing the mining effort into the hands of fewer large pools and large farms. At least one country in the world will ban Bitcoin and one will welcome it. There will be 200 or more new "who's satoshi" threads.  

I can't wait to come back here in a year and check this.

The conferences were the money hungry businessmen. The meetups I attended were hosted by future scammers like Andrew Bitcoiner or sad Bitcoin failures like Jered Kenna. I remember one at 20mission that was actually depressing for me. I think that was more because 20mission looks like a Salvation Army flop house in a bad neighborhood. Maybe I've just had some bad luck but everytime I meet with a group of fellow Bitcoiners I leave with a creepy feeling. lol

I would agree with all of them except #8. I've attended many conferences/meet ups and every time I leave one of them I end up thinking, "do I really what to be associated with people like that". lol  Everyone there ends up sounding like Kenneth Copeland or Creflo Dollar preaching their way to wealth. If you're a Bitcoin idealist you don't want to hang out with a bunch of money hungry businessmen at a conference.

Peach lambic

Don't use common sense at this forum. It just confuses people.

Solidcoin of course. lol

You need to make things clear for me or I'll go too far. lol

In your opinion, are the Bitcoins used at these merchants mainly from miners? The auto sellers have to be getting the coin from somewhere.

If exchange rate fluctuations scare you then you should stop using Bitcoin. Move your money into a currency that retains its buying power year after year like the dollar. ROFL

You could have a contest for the most helpful posts. Lots of forums do this sort of thing. It doesn't even need to cost the forum anything. Gun forums will have sponsors, usually advertisers, run contests. Admin, mods, legendary and hero members get to vote with the admin being the deciding vote. Every rank below hero are the contestants. Contests are for bringing in new members. Legendary and hero members don't need a contest because they're going to come here anyway. Honestly, if you're a legendary or hero member and don't try to help new members at least occasionally a reward isn't going to help you. You should be banned. lol

A teleporter that can beam me anywhere I want to go because I'm sick of getting stuck in traffic.

BitPay has done more than anyone else. Even the Microsoft news can be attributed to BitPay.

I can see this happening even in smaller mining farms. I have a friend that built a cabin on a couple acres of land on a stream in the mountains of NorCal. He loved it but had no electric power because it was too remote. He researched solar and wind power but concluded that they wouldn't work well enough where the cabin was located. He discussed his problem with a friend and they came up with this crazy idea of putting paddle wheels in the stream to turn a generator. The stream gets low at certain times of the year so they dug out and poured a concrete kind of bath tub looking thing in the part of the stream he owns and hung what looks like a can that squirts water out four tubes on to a fan blade. This is hung on steel pipes in the stream with a shaft that connects with pullys to an Onan generator on a concrete pad on the bank. They wired the cabin and it works all year long providing power. The best part is, he didn't even need to install a battery storage system because it's always generating electric. He invited a few of us on a hunting trip (wife code for a weekend long drunken card game) and gave us a tour of how it works. I never realized getting free power was that easy before. He even mounted a satellite dish on a tree for TV and Internet. I asked him if he visits his wife occasionally because if I had his setup I'd probably never go home.

Well, I guess neutral is better than negative.

The great thing about reading old threads is the perspective you get from the people that no longer post here or post infrequently like Gavin. He is in a couple of those threads. That's not to say it can't be discussed again but look at the history of the discussion too. You might find something no one thinks of in the current discussion.