I agree this wasn't his best interview (quite bad actually) but that's because his angle of bitcoin is 'all encompassing' and the interview was too brief for him to be able to explain them in enough detail to make sense.  His views are passionate and include politics and the greater revolutionary implications for society.  His thoughts were clearly 'bottlenecked' here, he had to explain too much in too short a time without having thought up a concise explanation in advance.  I think he should have taken control of the interview and simply requested to talk about bitcoin rather than having to receive questions and adapt his answers to them.

This is a much better video of Amir giving an excellent talk on bitcoin:
  He does know what he is talking about and can give great talks about bitcoin, he just messed up the BBC one imo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nppllG0gzWY

I'm bullish medium term/long on vertcoin but seeing as there are dozens of people trying to sell their VTC at Cryptsy who aren't able to due to Cryptsy being crap means that the price right now is being held up by artificial scarcity.  What happens when Cryptsy fixes their VTC deposits and all these sellers are suddenly able to sell?

What about a coin where you generate coins by generating addresses.  You can just create as many of these coins for yourself as you want and so can anyone on the network.  Would people trade trade these for anything?  Perhaps, they could sit there clicking stupidly to generate addresses (lol) for half an our and generate perhaps 100 billion coins, which they could then give to someone as a gift or use in a giveaway.  So the proof-of-work is done by humans sitting and clicking on a computer.  It would be an interesting experiment at least.

OR similar, but better:  Why not make it so PEOPLE have to solve very simple mathematical problems to generate coins, could be done in a format where software can't read and solve the problems.  It would be a great way to increase the use of mental arithmetic and maths, helping educate the world.

The launch of CureCoin has been announced to be going ahead soon, here's the thread in case you missed it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=432510.0

Thanks 

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Wall street could be a big part actually, I'm not very about India yet though.

I would guess the next 'pulse' or major step up will be triggered by a few more banks turning bitcoin friendly.  Maybe one larger bank will go bitcoin friendly and that will get everyone excited and we will over shoot ourselves again, in the usual fashion.  It just seems like we're moving through the 'regulation phase' into the 'bank-conversion to the bitcoin side of the force phase.'

Of course there will be loads of other things going on too, but banks starting to co-operate more is the next big step in my eyes.

Not a bad talk, thanks!

Curecoin dev team have been working with Stanford University to do this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330685.0

Latest thread regarding launch in a couple of weeks:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=432510.0

Curecoin is launching soon, the proof of work for that will be useful.  Also bitcoin work is useful just because all the cryptos need a strong bitcoin, bitcoin work is just useful because it supports bitcoin which is useful and supports all the other amazing crypto innovations happening.

I've a few questions:

Can a person vote more than once on the same 'issue' from the same wallet?  How often can we vote for a new executive board member?

Is there anything to stop a person voting multiple times by downloading the wallet software onto different computers, or even multiple times onto the same computer (can that be done?).

Can a person vote for themselves by sending coins to their own address?

What powers does the CEO and other positions have?  The CEO is supposed to be in charge, so can the CEO tell the CTO which features to prioritise?  Does the CEO approve the marketing plans of the CMO before they are carried out? Everyone should be reporting to the CEO presumably who then (in this case publicly) evaluates their worth as part of the executive board, and they can then give their feedback publicly on how good a job they think the CEO has done in guiding/leading them.

4 dogecoin addresses contain 26% of all mined dogecoin.  Just 17 addresses cointain over 60% of all mined dogecoin.  

This isn't something I can invest in.

http://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-dogecoin-addresses.html

Maybe if the forums were upgraded so we could all vote on a threads quality, then all the scamcoin clones offering nothing new would get down voted and so this would behave as a filter through all the crap.

Great, looking forward to the launch!  It's refreshing for there to be a coin that does something new and useful.  Not everyone knows what Curecoin does though or what Folding at Home is, it's probably worth explaining in the OP! (and remember to explain its benefits at the launch!)  

Curecoin, eMoney, Ethereum, maybe Ripple, maybe Devcoin.

This is pretty cool, bitcoins for music festivals, it's like a dream come true.

Great! That probably explains the price rise today

I like this idea. 

Legal weed shops in the USA who can't get back accounts should bu these to go in their stores, then their customers can buy BTC and they could then accept BTC as payment and save them carrying all that cash around.

I don't know why this would cause you to decide to cancel the IPO unless they did go ahead and blackmail you somehow.  If they had no way to blackmail you then presumably you would ignore them, if they did have a way to blackmail you then you might react the way you are doing, giving credence to their claims.  I was ready to invest in eMunie but now it looks like I'll just have to wait to see what happens.  I hope things go more smoothly from here.