The real problem is...who's paying the auditors and who do they work for?

The last thing you want is a conflict of interest where the exchanges in question are hiring their own auditors under the table.

It's more likely that a real auditing firm would get some Bitcoin expertise if they needed to audit a Bitcoin-oriented firm. Auditing firms audit all kinds of hard-to-audit companies. Bitcoin companies aren't that hard to audit - so far, they're basically cash businesses. Asset valuation isn't a big problem.

The problem is that suckers Bitcoin users have been putting their trust in  un-audited companies. Is Bitstamp broke? We don't know.

If they don't have a bank, where did they put the 40k the govt gave them?  Mattress?

During its earlier days, SurBTC was faced with a lot of rejection from banks in the country, as most of these institutions had a growing distrust for the cryptocurrency. The company eventually found a banking partner to work with in Chile, eventually paving the way for a successful launch of the bitcoin exchange.

The Chilean government also decided to back the bitcoin exchange by giving $40,000 in funding. For CEO and co-founder of SurBTC Guillermo Torrealba, they felt that this was an “extraordinary validation” for their operations. This funding was provided as part of the state’s startup initiatives.

is safedice still down there i am still unable to access my account, it stuck on login page and does not forward me into my account there?

I agree, especially for a freeroll where people are highly susceptible to just register and never show.
Although playing against players sitting out is not something you should consider a disadvantage.

Is the alt coin will be seperated or will be converted it its bitcoin value?

Thanks for the recommendation guys

We're still in the middle of research and integrating the feature, I'll give an update with the release date when the time is near, this will be our first multi coin integration so I'd like not to overpromise the schedule. The additional coin will be using the same account (single account multiple coin), so all of the current feature will be available, including the investment option.

Do I need to change my signature as I had become a senior member yesterday?

2. Throwing away that Bitcoin portfolio

James Howells bought 7,500 Bitcoins in 2009 when their value was next to nothing. By 2013, one Bitcoin was worth £613, giving the Welshman a portfolio worth £4.5m. The only trouble? He’d left his hard drive tucked away in a draw for years and then thrown it away without a minute’s thought. After realising his mistake, he made a hopeful trip to his local landfill site where he was told the hard drive could be at any spot under around 5ft of rubbish.

I don't think there ever will be a government willing to fully adopt Bitcoin as they can't control everything around it.

That doesn't say they won't make a Bitcoin clone for themself where they control every process in full. That's more likely to happen at some point in the future.

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Peer-to-peer payments and virtual currencies

The trend is also growing steadily in other areas that harness the power of the internet. For example, peer-to-peer payments and foreign exchange currency facilities enable payments to be made in a much cheaper way, eliminating the need for conventional banking or payment methods.

Meanwhile, the growth of virtual currencies such as Bitcoin, also has the clout to aid the entrepreneur worldwide. The ideas and technologies that form the basis of virtual currencies are seen as having the potential to enable micropayments to be made both quicker and at a fraction of the cost involved using the conventional banking and payments infrastructure.
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(Reuters) - MtGox, a bitcoin trading platform that collapsed early last year, was insolvent long before it went bankrupt because thieves practically cleaned it out, the Financial Times reported Sunday, citing a report by independent investigators.

Findings by WizSec, an independent consulting firm, showed that bitcoins were periodically being stolen from the Tokyo-based exchange two years before its collapse, the newspaper reported online.
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CryptoMoms, a Bitcoin forum for women, is celebrating its anniversary and continuing to encourage and assist women worldwide to participate in Bitcoin and digital currency. Moreover, as it is celebrating its first anniversary after officially launching one year ago on April 16, 2014, promises to bridge the gap between the women and the cryptocurrencies.

In a press release the Bitcoin forum for women, CryptoMoms says that in spite of the troubling gender gap being well recognized in the cryptocurrency and Bitcoin space, most industry efforts to help improve the situation have shown little result. It says that most reports indicated a slight improvement from over a year ago by about 2%.

Bitcoin claims that “It is the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network that is powered by its users with no central authority or middlemen.” That lack of central authority is the primary reason governments are afraid of the cryptocurrency. To understand this fear, it is important to know a little bit about governments and conventional currencies.

In What Do We Trust?

Fiat is a term used to describe the conventional currencies that are issued by governments. Fiat currencies have value because governments say that they do. To an increasing number of people, that promise means nothing. After all, fiat currencies are not backed by any tangible assets. You can’t return the currency to the government in exchange for a bar of gold or silver, a can of beans, a pack of cigarettes, or any other items that might have value to you. Fiat currencies are backed by the full faith and credit of the government that issued them and nothing more. If you want gold, silver, beans, or smokes you need to exchange your fiat currency with a person or entity that possesses the item that you want.
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Is it that when you close the wallet file and reopen then you need to reply the blockchain from the wallet's born-on date?  Just trying to see if I follow.

The answer is yes
Do you have a preferred altcoins?

Can I Join Other Avatar campaign. Because I want to Join pesobang Avatar campaign?

- Currently, you may not use another site's avatar

I think they're excluded because mine jumped by 10 in a refresh.

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