Sounds like all he's saying really is, if you plan to invest a lot of FIAT money into Bitcoin, make sure you legally declare it first so that you only get taxed on the profits made, not the total sum open converting back to FIAT.

Clicked on ops link, virus checker immediately shut it down saying trojan. I would advise those on desktops to steer clear of that site.

Who said anything about The Guardian newspaper website being a conspiracy site?.  Tell me, does it also make you sad when said supposed facts get twisted beyond all recognition into some alternative 'truth'?
Too many blind extremist views, at either end, not enough thinking and common sense...

It honestly makes me sad that we have this whole generation of people growing up that find conspiracy sites and take them at face value without even using their brains to question their validity properly, but that's the Internet for you, it's power to spread as much mis-information as real information.

No I don't buy this argument at all, it doesn't matter whether its BTC, mBTC, uBTC or whatever, if someone wants to dip their toe into bitcoins they'll be thinking in one thing first and foremost, and thats how much to spendin their existing FIAT. So they'll say ok, lets try out this Bitcoin thing I've heard about, i'm gonna spend 50 dollars into it.  That'll be their decision process, how many dollars, pounds etc do I want to use to buy Bitcoins with.

How many characters long was your primary password, did you mix up letters numbers and symbals?

This is such early days still, it's like starting a thread saying your sons failed his university degree.... when he's still 4 months old.

Anonymint, is that you?  

I'm surprised you couldn't think of 3 of the most obvious reasons:

1) Some people genuinely believe in it becomming a true currency, so why not hold onto the currency of the future.
2) Some hold very little, or generated it from mining or just free/task websites so would rather wait for any potential greater return.
3) I think a lot of people saw this sudden very steep rise of the past couple weeks as nothing more than a bubble which was going to burst, irrespective of the longterm trend. And if you see it as a long term trend, you're not losing anything, sure you can make some short term extra gains by trying to predict a bubble bursting, selling just before the burst then buying back in at the low, but if you just hold and see long term potentially, you're not losing any value that you already had either.

Count me in for 2) and 3). I saw this as a sharp bubble, but still see Bitcoin as a long term uptrend, in other words, I'm not at all worried, even when it dropped to almost $500 I wasn't worried. Also my bitcoins were generated from task websites, I haven't spent a single penny of FIAT, I want to see what happens in the long term. I wont feel like I lost much if Bitcoin dies, and honestly don't see Bitcoin dying anytime soon.

Who's we?, we the stupid people we?. What you describe is impossible, period.
Communication through sound between two devices would only work if both had speaker and mic and both had specific installed software running and it would have to be in freq range both speaker and mic could emit and detect (ie audible to humans given poor freq range of most computer speakers and mics) and even then it would be rather unreliable.

Well that's the question isn't it, will Bitcoin turn out to be the Facebook, or the MySpace?. Time will tell...

You don't have to be a miner or even near a miner to use Bitcoins, so I've no idea what the OP's point is. As long as you have an internet connection, you can transfer Bitcoins to anyone else in the world with an internet connection.

I still can't decide whether Anonymint is a very successful troll at winding people up, or he really is that incapable of understanding how the mining process and nodes actually work. If the former, congratulations. If the latter, I feel sorry for his lack of understanding. There's no point repeating what others have said as they've already explained the reasons why Anonymints argument makes no logical sense,so there's really nothing more to add.

Which anti-virus software do you use?. McAfee and Norton are pretty much crap imho, heavy resource hungry rubbish who's realtime protection is meh.  I use ESET Nod32, very cpu/memory efficient, very good at blocking anything dodgy, especially when surfing different websites soon as it sniffs out something dodgy, be it a dodgy page or a dodgy ad it blocks it and lets you know.

Speaking of ads, its defo worth using adblock plus in whatever browser you use, not only does it get rid of annoying ads, but also blocks off ads with malicious code.

There's such a strong steady constant upward volume on Bitcoin right now that even with these erratic dumps now it passed $1000, its not causing any major crash, so I'm not too concerned or bothered about it.

I've used BTC-E to trade Bitcoins for other alt-currencies and doubled my Bitcoin money from it (from surge in litecoin price mostly), no problems there. Can't speak for depositing and withdrawing FIAT money with them though, but for alt-alt crypto trading they work really fast and easy.

I wonder if the person that sold him the pizza cashed out those bitcoins straight away or decided to hang onto them, or maybe even forgot about them...

Satoshi the trillionare?

Tis a strange thought isnt it, if 1 Bitcoin ever became worth an insane amount and FIAT was not in hyper-inflation, $100,000 or up, all those holding a large amount of coins would be insanely wealthy, wealthier than all the big oil barons and steel company billionares of the world.

I can't really imagine that happening though, mind you some said the idea of $1000 per coin is utter madness when they were worth just $1 each...

It depends on which exchange you go by. If by the Chinese one it touched $1000 a couple days back already. MTGox peaked well over $1000 today.

I completely disagree, if anything it was Max who got the most points across, he himself was the one doing most of the interrupting and I thought his points came through pretty clearly.