No, BTC was unique because the investment needed was so little for massive gains if you were there, also it's computers related. I have no fucking ieda about other stocks related stuff, but I knew about Bitcoin, thats why it's extra depressing. Im fucked.

"Mastering the dark art of the perfect mining config file is weirdly fun"

It's good to see Bitcoin return to its roots. 

Yeah, that's a bummer.  I totally didn't pay much attention to this process, but it seems like a large project with few people involved.

I was gonna ask Davout, but does anyone know what his day job is?  Is instawallet a company?

Honey attracts more bees than a pile of dung.

Bear in mind that science fiction authors often write about adversarial propositions -- you can't write a good story without conflict to drive the plot.  As a writer you don't need to believe that either side is "right" -- you need to understand the conflicts and make the characters passionate about their causes and show how it drives their interactions. 

Later on, people will think that whichever side of the conflict the writer put the protagonist on is the side he personally believes in, and for some shallow predictable polemist writers that's true.  But that isn't how it works in general, or David Brin could never have written 'Glory Season'. During the story, the only character who remotely shares the values of the reading audience, or for that matter the author, gets killed.  He wasn't the protagonist.  In fact the protagonist was too late to save him.  And his death resulted in (and from) merely the evolution, not the resolution, of a conflict between two opposing sides both of which most of us would consider dystopian.

I believe in cryptocurrency as a concept and I'm invested in it, but I'm concerned about some of Bitcoin's economics and don't believe that Bitcoin can possibly represent the ultimate evolution of cryptocurrency.  In the long run cryptocurrency requires some refinement and evolution before it will be better than what it attempts to replace.

The simple fixed money supply, if it were the main or only form of money, would lead to fairly dire instabilities.  In the very long run, if Bitcoin were the *only* money supply, then we'd have  economic collapse because with a fixed money supply an investor could always do as well, on average, just sitting on his money as investing it in something productive.  Good thing then that it will never be the *only* money supply. 

For every complex problem (like regulation of the money supply by nation states and distrust of those who do it), there is a solution that is simple, easy, and wrong (like doing and allowing no regulation of the money supply at all).  I fear that Bitcoin's current approach is one of many wrong answers, that it will take actual long-term use to observe exactly how and why it is wrong, and that cryptocurrencies will need to experiment for a long time in order to find better answers.

Were there multiple claims on your address(es)?  If not, then confirm the payment information & you should be put into payment cue.  I was not aware of the confirmation process until last week, which I've now done.  I expect payment this week (fingers crossed).

Perhaps because of the large number, you were asked for more info.  Hopefully, they get to it soon for ya.

Cheers!

Is there an estimate when moneychanger will be released to the masses?

and Fortress starting a fund with $150,000,000

Jan is going to look like November

I'm not good. I will take your bitcoin and your fiat  

I'm not good. I will take your bitcoin and your fiat  

It's 0% return if you don't cash out.
That's the beauty of bitcoin. It's a self stabilizing system until more than 10% decide to cash out.

Americans have to pay taxes on their money even if they live and work outside of the USA.

Americans who have never even been to America still have to these taxes.

How are your taxes? At this moment, thats the main thing keeping me from splurging on something big.

Of course, just need to know that this possible...