Even for those of us who live in storm country, there are those that don't prepare.

Their lack of preparedness weather it be cutting down dead branches or properly securing their boat, they cause problems for the prepared ones.

It was a snowbirds boat that killed my friend dan. Dan was well prepared for the storm. He lived through many hurricanes. No one can prepare for a 7000lb chunk of fiberglass loose in a 50MPH blow from snuffing your life out.

In the end, bad things happen in storms, even for those prepared. Calling them wusses isn't very compassionate for the dead and displaced.

Money and property can be replaced, friends cannot.

Just a FYI, At this year's defcon conference (and previous ones) they had a room with all kinds of tamper evident devices and prizes for defeating the devices.

I believe every device was defeated with low-tech methods. Most of them that were plastic simply involved warm water.

I think a paper note might be less susceptible to some of the methods used though.

I have tried and tried and tried to remove a sticker from my notes without evidence. No luck.

Casascius,

   I will certainly follow your lead on this and if there is anything I can do to assist please let me know.

I assume you have had no problems to date?

1.5 BTC for 10 with vanity addresses.

If you want them in bulk, I would be happy to oblige. Please PM me for details. I will sell you any QTY.

Someone asked me a very good question today about the unfunded notes I am selling (see my sig) ...

They asked "what is to prevent you from keeping copies of the private keys"

My only response is.. I'm not that type of person, I destroy the keys immediately after printing...

Lawn mowers are bonded... construction workers are bonded... I was even bonded at a job I held once.

So I ask, is there a bonding service for people like me who are selling something which initially has no value but is intended to have an unknown value?

Is there a trusted bondsman for someone like me?

Congrats to all the winners!

We don't do much Centigrade here in Florida.... We do Fahrenheit!   60C would be pretty freaking HOT!

My florida living room is at about 65F and the rest of the house is in the 40s.

Yay for residual heat (For a change!)

After hurricane sandy left me and my dead friend behind, the temperature dropped to 50F.

Finally my mining hardware is producing WANTED heat

We turn the heat on when the temps reach 60 here in florida.

WHEN the singularity happens we won't know for quite some time. It could have already happened.

Once the singularity does happen the computers will not tell us... The first we will learn of this is a global extinction of the humans. The computers don't need us and we are a threat to them. They will keep it quiet untill all the pieces are in place to wipe out the humans in a single blow.

We are a threat. They will not make batteries of us like in the matrix. They will just clean us out. Airborne viruses, nuclear weapons, missiles that have been in space and denied, everything will rain down on humanity all at once and the singularity will be announced in a fireball of destruction and death.

Thats my two bitcents.

it would only be cool if there were a real person in the photo instead of a cartoon cat and that real person was you.


What you've got there is just a troll.

I just received news from my sailing club that one of our live-aboard members was killed in the storm last night. His boat was colliding with another boat and in his attempts to rescue his boat his head was crushed between the two boats.

I'm just beside myself with grief. Dan (known as DB Dan) was a drunk but he was a fixture at the sailing center. He kept an eye on everyone's boats and let us know when there were problems. We all gave him rum in thanks if something went wrong.

He was a very slight man, 90lbs wet and I'm just so sad by this event. Here I was thinking the storm passed us by and we were unscathed but now I get this horrible news and... Man I'm in tears.

http://halifaxsailing.org/Mainsheet/March_2012.html#DBDan

What you should do for long term storage is a cold wallet. If you only need a few BTC in your account at block chain then transfer the rest to your cold wallet.

You can do it right from blockchain.info and you can transfer the money back with the same wallet you normally use.

If you need some help I can help you, it's quite simple you just send the money to your offline wallet. I am selling beautiful unfunded paper bitcoins which are perfect for this and fully compatable with blockchain.info's import tools. Its only 1.5 BTC for 10 of them. They are custom printed to your specifications. Here is a link.....

BitcoinTalk link...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120221.msg1294820#msg1294820

BitMit Link with escrow...
https://www.bitmit.net/en/trade/i/8717-beautiful-unfunded-paper-bitcoins-custom-printing-free-ship

I complete agree with this except I would like to suggest that the bounty forced to a value that will be GPU profitable allowing them to offer more than the minimum profitable bounty to get a higher priority.

Vanity address generation isn't like mining in the sence that some miners may be doing it at a loss simply because they believe strongly in the bitcoin idea and want to help secure the network. This incentive does not exist for vanity address generation so the bounty should be forced to a value that is profitable.

Calculations are a little difficult with highly variable energy costs but I think we could take a global average and use that. Also take an average of efficiency of the top 10 GPUs and use that in the calculations.

Even after GPU mining is not profitable, there is till going to be thousands of gamer enthusiasts which will mine for vanity addresses when they're not gaming. The end of GPU mining certainly does not mean the end of GPUs. I think I read that mining represents only 1% of AMD's sales.

I'm not sure how I can help but I would like to. I have some free time these days.

What I love most about hurricanes is when they send the reporters to the beach and they're getting pelted by sand, wind, and rain and having to run in terror of an especially large wave.

dumb ass reporters

Storm has passed by me in central florida as of a couple hours ago and I lost 0 minutes to power outages.

I hope everyone else is as lucky as me, I think when this thing turns into a snowstorm we should see a chunk of hashing power disappear.

I've been selling coins on eBay since a few months before the crash last year.

I have not had any problems with eBay or PayPal. I have been scammed 3 times (Early on) and avoided dozens of scam attempts. I have worked with eBay and PayPal's reporting systems  to report scammers/stolen accounts. Usually before their owners even know their account has been stolen.

I'm very small time. a handful of coins a week on eBay. I recently started selling more coins on eBay with the introduction of bitcoin notes that allow me to sell a physical product which people are accepting more than my previous physical product which only had an address and a private key printed out on plain paper with instructions on how to import the key.

I sell more coins off eBay to a small group of local people who buy from me infrequently with cash.

I would like to add more information to this. My experiences involve eBay/PayPal sales.

NEVER offer digital delivery of bitcoins, ship them a physical product.
ALWAYS use the integrated paypal shipping! The price is actually very reasonable and the process is very simple when compared to stamps.com or usps.gov.
ALWAYS use delivery confirmation. Also use signature confirmation for anything over $100.
ONLY ship to addresses which are confirmed.
Do not make the sale unless the "Seller Protection" flag is set to eligible.

Accepting PayPal is a risk, this should be known up front and always kept in mind. Manage your risk the best you can and you'll do OK.

Here are some red flags to look out for.
Buyer does not respond to emails sent directly but does respond to messages sent through eBay internal messaging.
Buyer wants to get digital delivery instead of physical product and pushes hard to get it.
Buyer's feedback is set to private.
Buyer has not bought anything in a very long time.
Buyer is dealing with you for the first time and has made a very large purchase.

Always be on the lookout for scammers, view your buyers feedback, search for their nick online.
Even if you do everything right, chargebacks will still happen from time to time. Factor this into your pricing.

Thank you for the kind compliment These notes are the result of the hard work of several people. I've tried to give those people credit but I especially would like to credit Casascius for leading the physical bitcoin concept and helping others to produce them too.

When gifting coins to a newbie, You might consider including...

A list of places they can spend BTC.
A chart showing the long term increasing value of BitCoin.
A nice frame to hang it on the wall.
To those so motivated, A CD that gets them on TOR