why arent you taking bitcoin on snailsinthemail.com? 

Change up your product descriptions, we can tell that you simply cloned the 5 snail product and changed the price and title for the others.  Snails - Neat!

I'll take ten off your hands at 60 a piece via escrow.  The oldest used ones. 

This is not feasible - the net gain is depleted through the marginal costs of heating and extraction.  Better chance of recovering gold from electronic scrap processing.

In simple terms  with my own opinion utilized - You pay 300 bucks for 2000 lbs of cheap used glass - you pay 100 dollars for chemicals - you pay $1000 dollars in heating and processing costs - and it gets you about $15 dollars worth of Gold reclaimed.

Update: Food for thought:  elements cannot be created nor destroyed - they can be deconstructed downward through fission processes which will also release neutrons and radioactive energy.  Particles are not created (in the typical sense IIRC volatile exotic isotopes as well as synthesized atoms with unstable half-lives do come into creation). He says you can "recover the gold through hydraulic separation" - well wait a minute, weren't we doing that in the step where we crushed the glass into a powder to begin with? Furthermore, the OP never goes into detail on how much source glass material is needed - he does a comparison and says that scientists would be highly skeptical and his answer to this "Thank God for the advancements in science" 

Seriously this guy is a total crackpot.  Google is your friend: Glass is made by melting together several minerals at very high temperatures. Silica in the form of sand is the main ingredient and this is combined with soda ash and limestone and melted in a furnace at temperatures of 1700°C. 

Soooo, by breaking down glass into a powder form, you are simply getting metamorphosized silica crystals, NOTHING MORE.

Sure, But only after Bill Gates and Warren Buffet donate all of their money first

I have had an Xbox360 since 2009 and I'm sort of ready to move on.  I only really got the bug to want a PS4 NOW because of the great pricing from newegg using BTC with the 75 dollars off - making it about $325 dollars for me.  I could easily buy it now with no penalties to my quality of life, but I'm trying to decide if it 'makes good sense'.

I am a bargain bin shopper and love buying up old titles from before to play through - buying a ps4 would force me to purchase a couple new games up front and download free to play stuff whenever offered.  I have  xbox Live service, amazon prime, and hulu plus (no cable at all) Does anyone know if I can use those apps on a PS4 or even a PS3?  I see that I cannot play any backwards compatible games with the new generation of consoles - the ps3 seemed tempting at first - but nothing is really drawing me in - Maybe I'd play God of War or Little Big Planet, but everything else is available on xbox360 which I've grown tired of because all I'm seeing is Zombies this or first person that - (skyrim was the only title i really truly enjoyed from pickup to put-down and even it got repetitive at times [grand theft auto V wasn't all that all that enjoyable after burning through the new game feeling])

update: I found an even better deal only 350 for a ps4 with 3 games and 2 controllers and a charging dock - its very tempting...

I used a custom google search to query all craigslist locations for Bitcoin jobs here:  http://honeybadgerofmoney.com/jobs/  I did this because I wanted a way to search craigslist all at once for all bitcoin related jobs and to be able to present this list to the world at large.  Since it is based on Google indexing and not the real time pinging of craigslist there is a bit of a propagation delay and sometimes the posts are expired or deleted so I have it sorting by latest date.  It actually led me to creating a blog post about free money that is potentially available in Austin TX and also to apply to a consulting gig that seemed interesting. 

I would recommend checking out this list if you are looking for a development job within bitcoin or perhaps to find a few small gigs to pass time.  This site project is not affiliated with Google nor Craigslist but I hope that it encourages some of you to apply for these positions or at least see where the concentration of bitcoin related jobs may be if you intend to move to a bitcoin friendly area within the future.

I challenge you to a battle here and now.  


Your skills are present like charlie shrem:
at your mom'z house with an ankle bracelet
you come to battle me with a robot and a face lift
you basic but I'm the asic

same reason why cpu mining died a long time ago.

I think it goes like this:

FPGA = complex computing circuits built into the silicon

CPU = complex computing circuits also built into the silicon

Asic = simple computing circuit that is repeated continuously over the surface area of the silicon

FPGA and CPU can only use a tiny sliver of the computing circuits available to do the BTC hashing

Asics use THEIR ENTIRE computing surface area to calculate hashes.  (Mining hardware vendors simply run their tape-out then start the tedious assembly work of combining our chips resistors ferrite beads capacitors and boards)

FPGAs were used at one point because they were off the shelf and available to work with a much smaller power and subsequent heat footprint (compared to GPUs)  As we see, this trend was short-lived as Avalon and bitfury chips flooded the scene (KNC and Bitmain were simply the nails in the coffin of the FPGA Bitcoin mining business)


I basically took out the 'non factor' hardware vendor companies there because they didn't hardly make a dent in btc difficulty levels compared to those mentioned.

Rich - poor (who are you to decide which title applies to whom?) 

I give respect to those who give it back...period.

I don't respect rich people more than poor people.  If you think otherwise or differently, then consider that you could be allowing Television and media at large to dictate what you believe is happening with this "we all respect rich people but not poor people".

arbitrage.  It doesn't matter if bulls are there - more bots will be around to correct the price with a spread from other liquidity. 

I know, I'm pulling your leg.  Its not one guy,  I'm still confused as to how money is generated (unless they do a pay for publishing model like coindesk and cointelegraph)

What was Abdu's last name?  How long has the site been going on?

Is your friend named Banksy?  If not, then that's likely false.

Listed here These lapel pins were once used for BTC mining.  I have a pretty decent number available if you have a BTC club at school that you want members to earn through paying dues.  Its a neat fashion piece and it was used to mine for BTC before in the past.

Sadly - I agree.  Why not just make your own unauthorized version to resell yourself???

others like me wish for it to do another dip to below 4 bucks so we can get a nice gain when it returns back to 6 dollar territory. Food for thought - BTC has not had innovation either just as LTC was not the 2nd altcoin created.

That's a good suggestion I think I may get my kids in via an allowance. but I'll 50/50 it so they can spend their cash but save their btc if they choose to - I will keep onto their wallet so they cant go throwing it away on primedice. 

To everyone else, I'd tell my kids about bitcoin as early as possible - didn't someone make a childrens book about bitcoin already? = well its an ebook anyway:  http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Beginner-Kids-Trilogy-Inspirational-ebook/dp/B00GCMFWSA

how is it proven that gold utility greater than or equal to BTC and vice versa for that matter?  Its a tall order to presume that they will match in both perceived as well as actual value.


No sir I haven't when in your circumstance.  HOWEVER, I've had embarrassing moments with walmart and target at the checkout line when trying to use the electronic gift-cards I purchased using gyft.  I wanted to know how many other business establishments you have purchased from using btc?  I often hear and see of others referencing discounts when people 'pay in btc'  I've only paid spot price for gift cards and redeemed them for their value.  Conversely I offered my sending rate as I used a paper QR code on the side of the food cart when I paid for some whiffies here in Portland.

I have also had to pay a premium on person to person transactions so I will do my best to negotiate it downward whenever possible. 

Who defines the value correlation between them, I think that is the question.  Plus, there is a difference between time to spend vs efficiencies gained.  A future could perhaps exist where autonomous society is a second class to assist operators who also still remain as the interfaces between us - otherwise we are describing large interactive vending machines - how do the machines load and drop off foods, will we have a robotic police society?  (thats a new level of fear we haven't covered yet either) 

The operators will more likely than not be humans for the longer term.  I think that an autonmous society would still need an efficient mechansim to ensure security and THAT would depend on humans - WatchDogs, while only a work of art, has some eerie resemblances to what 'could' be possible with a determined enough hacker|group of hackers with either a monetary or self-serving cause to overrun.  Something like this but with AI and DAC p2p models handling all customer throughputs.

feck mars dey took errr jaabs.