Yes.  Are people ready to be accountable for their own money? No. Too much personal responsibility.

@harvey

Yes, context is similar to taking paper from Microsoft Research as official statement of Microsoft's interest in bitcoin. Go ahead and tweet out a distorted news item, though.
Propagating false messages is much easier when the source material is Chinese. Any trumped up story you come up with may be cited and re-reported elsewhere.

i had hoped for an argument, not a bad analogy 
imho focusing on mobile devices and especially local sales with QR-codes is pretty much a guarantee for failure. you need something like a dozen globally available, popular shops or services for bitcoin to really catch on or alternatively thousands or maybe even millions of local businesses. plus PCs and laptops are still extremly popular and will remain so, especially among the more tech-savvy crowd. you cant play games, program or do any other serious computer-related work on a phone. for the short and medium term, this will be your audience. i hope you dont try step 5 before step 3 and 4.

besides that, mobile phones are currently a security nightmare. bitcoin is a security nightmare by design. i think both have to improve before this explosive combination can really work.

Yes, that is another way of breaking it down. If you were to cash in your share immediately, you would be buying 1pt diamonds for 1BTC each.

Wholesale pricing on 1pt diamonds is roughly $300-$450 depending on quality, etc. These are very nice and can easily fetch that price (I will have stats to accompany the pics) so the potential for turing them over and increasing the value of the fund is not unrealistic. The retail price for them is higher of course.

In the event that diamonds are sold/reinvested or if shareholders redeem their shares, I do have access to additional quantities to continue the offering and support the shares.

Even if the diamonds are strictly held, then the value of the shares in BTC should move based on the value of BTC.

I will also be adding a section to my website that will have all of the info I post here and additional information, stats, pics, etc.

I thought that US state tuition was dirt cheap and that it was private colleges were making a fortune ? 

In any case, does the US need lawyers more than it needs engineers.  The answer to your "What does it take to get a job around here?" is get a useful qualification.

As an example of what not to do, the first paragraph of this article is priceless: http://www.thenation.com/print/article/164348/audacity-occupy-wall-street

Thats a sad thing to hear, the last time I was there they were on beta stage development for some identity software and service that was going to allow people to attempt to prove who they were IRL. That was a service that was badly needed.

That is the reason why we are not expanding or taking in any more clients. At the end of the contracts, I will be selling the remainder of the hardware and close up shop. Keeping the equipment online in one place is just way to hard.

Payb.tc, like I said in our pms, I will call you either today or tomorrow. Also, you will get every btc you earned. Just because the hardware is off, does not mean I will not give you the coins you earned while we move.

boonies4u, GLBSE V.2 is going to be made available by the end of this year, it's going to be a huge improvement over what we have.

At the same time work is also being done on the current GLBSE web interface, it looks like we will have a facelift, functionality and usability improvements in about 2 weeks.

On Saturday live websocket streaming of GLBSE is going to begin.

I'm hoping for a resurection of GLBSE this years end.

Does anyone know whats happening with the Bitcoin Police (and can they be contacted for the DOX on tawsix?)and noagendamarket?

I've not been on the IRC channels since coming back. Oh by the way I'm in the UK now.

Nefario.

I did not know almost every thing in your last post Spike.  But as of yet I am holding with my current price of $60.  I just want to recoup as much as possible,  I hope you understand where I am coming from there.  I have always considered PNY to be a reputable company with quality products.  I have never purchased anything of PNY brand and have it DOA as it has happened with items on a very small list of not as highly regaurded company (products).  If anyone would like my to pop it in and test briefly please say something because as of now it is totally unused!

I will donate if it is placed on the archive.org donate page along with paypal, not just on a blog post only.  5 BTC pledged here.

I was saying USB 2.0 supports up to 60MB/s in its designed specifications.  I didn't see any specifications on what the drive supports. I thought I was clear in saying I did not know how fast the actual device will operate at.