Hardware wallet?

I hear the 5800 series is better than even the 7900's for mining. If you can find them. /r/bitcoinmining is your friend too.

Kinda cool to read that from the man himself BitDNS looks interesting too. We need to get a full service point to point encrypted meshnet into the mainstream and turn the tide on nation-state snooping of all internet activity.

You have to clear at least one purchase through them before they upgrade your account and let you buy 10 a day or w/e, then 100 a day a month later. All part of their anti-fraud procedures. Not their fault that you were a bit late to the game and the price skyrocketed >_> Also, when delivered the price you get is what you paid on that day for.

Read that interview with Yu, that's what convinced me to buy. His reason for making these ASICs is to support the network, to keep it decentralized. He also talked about targeting the price for 1 month return on investment, wow.

That explains a lot. I setup an order just trying to see if they were available, and it locked it in as a purchase waiting to complete, even though the Bitpay purchase window had closed. Realizing they were still available I went to move funds around so they'd be immediately accessible to bitpay and completed a 2nd order some minutes later, but what was interesting to me were the order numbers. My first incomplete order was order 9,000 something with at least 100 between that and the 2nd one that went through. Anyway, I consider myself fortunate.

On the consumer side we badly need idiot-proof hardware wallets. Generating a secure address without these is difficult, expensive, and perhaps still not as secure as it could be, and something a 'norm' user would despair at trying to do.

On the business side, I think Bitpay is taking care of it nicely and will cement themselves into that lovely position.

We've had our FinCen legal ruling, that basically opens the floodgates. So what we need now is a US exchange to come online.

Hello Coinlab!

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Wow, that's a lot of coin these days!

Hello!

Heard about bitcoin last year sometime, mined for like five minutes in some pool, realized it would take a year to get even one bitcoin that way and promptly quit. Always liked the idea of a cryptocurrency but didn't look much deeper.

That is until I began working on a libertopian scifi novel and researched bitcoin as part of that, and also ended up arguing for bitcoin as a successor currency on the Mises.org forums in theoretic and economic terms alongside economist Peter Surda.

Few months back I cashed out my stocks and savings and went all into bitcoin--didn't really have that much money to start with tho, so no big deal. But I manged to collect some coins on the cheap months ago, enough to get into Avalon batch-3 recently So, I will be learning everything about mining I can get my hands on.

Also, by some amazing twist of coincidence, someone on this forum was already using my longstanding handle 'Anenome' so I'm stuck with this number-versioned form of it I hope that user isn't around much and/or doesn't think I'm like stalking him or something >_>

/wave

*edit: Oh, I also run /r/bitcoinwallet and am working on getting some bitcoin-themed fiction-based subreddits going. /r/bitcoinfiction, etc. I think bitcoin addresses can revolutionize payments to writers.