Yup, it's legit. I was using it to buy bitcoins with paypal and it's been great. Much better than a lot of other bitcoin places and all transactions are pretty much instant.
For all of this, you pay super-High Commissions.

If it is the Chinese gov. blocking access to Bitcointalk or if they claim the forum is blocking the Chinese IPs either way that cannot be a reason for the price fluctuation.

Chinese holders of Bitcoin selling to buy Ali Baba's shares makes sense, because that's the only way they can get money out of the country and use it to buy in the US stock market.

one of the main attractions for me is the delights of the Brazilian women....

Whenever this need aligns with the need for an actual good or service, this debit card would come in handy, even with the fees.

Mind that the few “early adopters” can use their “kill switch” dumping just once, unless they are able to effectively manipulate the market as they want (dumping and then buying back low).

Unmistakable things became more obvious if now people starting to guess that centralized SJCX is more than a pile of giveaway wastepaper.

AliMadaniCoin ticker ITKN - "Iran tennis knockouts propaganda" would sound unusual and attractive for passionate investors.

That was a vapoury $88 price shift due to bug in coindesk BPI ticket, i guess now fixed, currently displayed daily change = $7.53.

When dealing with random stranger/foreigner I always prefer face-to-face meetings in the wifi coverage area in crowded cafe or restaurant. The secure location is as much for your own safety as for his.

Let me know in advance, when you planning to do that. I need to liquidate some things, to buy up all those cheap coins. With the situation like it is now with BTC we can only see one thing happening, and that is a climb to $600+ by the end of this year.
Not a bad ROI if this happens.

Yes, a project in Kenya to experiment with the concept of mobile phone airtime as a currency by formalizing it to allow Safaricom agents to become cash out agents- 5+ years later over 30% of the Kenya GDP is conducted over M-PESA which has shown the world what happens when country wants an innovation badly and a government recognizes its overwhelming benefits and does not regulate it. Bitcoins may have a while yet to get to mainstream adoption, but it could be faster in Africa like mobile money.
And do the same to financial services innovations in Africa across borders in the same way that mobile money is doing domestically with some unique benefits.

Everything has become centralized., Be it the FED, the too big to fail banks that make up the FED, NSA, Social Security, Medicare, etc., all depend on the central government, who in turn needs ever more tax revenue to keep the debt scheme from imploding. Implode it will, that I know. But when? I for one would like to see it implode. We need a revolution in social innovations that starts with social credits that is enabled by technology. What we need is a new system that is better, more humane, is transparent, that creates opportunities etc.

Price dropping now looking like a pure absurdity since you can purchase blocknet tockens for every participating coin

People need to realize that holding 1 BTC isn't going to make them rich. Hell, if Bitcoin could maintain a $1,000 price by 2016 that would be a huge accomplishment. You guys are expecting ridiculous growth without any justification. The average United States citizen has very little use for Bitcoin at the moment. Unless you're looking to launder money (cash is still better for this) / sell drugs / move wealth across borders, there's very little reason to use Bitcoin.

Using Tor though it’s not as secure as ssh tunneling especially logging using signed keys but compared to unencrypted especially through hostile infrastructures (ie work, university, or even nation wide firewalls) i could prove it’s self as a viable alternative to unencrypted browsing. On the other hand I also believe that having a an ssh server at home, or any other place you (and only you or people you trust) have access could prove very handy.

Dark markets are an interesting facet to the cryptocurrency story, which I think is worth investigating. Whether you think it is bad or good for bitcoin is part of that debate. This site is not here to 'promote' bitcoin or promote dark markets, whoever you are. Not sure why you hang around to be honest if you are not interested in it.

This was from an article on the goldsilver web-site Politicians and central bankers rely on the fact that humans can’t really grasp very large numbers, and they rely on the fact that humans get used to not being able to grasp them. So when trillions enter the conversation, no one really knows anymore what that means. And politicians go away with their shenanigans.

If you care about profitability, S3 is not the best choice, because all the good will bitmain built up is flushing down the brains. Bitmains rep was an asset that they just chucked out the window. Bitmain is now the best option of very bad options, i doubt you will get an affordable ROI.

Sell most of it (like 75-80%), hold a small fraction in Bitcoin, STOP GAMBLING on exchanges and just wait. If you're lucky Bitcoin might go back up enough for you to recover and multiply the funds.