Call me crazy! I'll take a wild guess and say that the problem is one of these:


BitcoinWisdom is temporary down
Domain is not bitcoinwisdom.com
Network issue

Why did you buy a new computer?

At a minimum, ensure that your wallet is encrypted and backed up. Bitcoin Core can do both of those.

You can store the wallet offline for additional safety, but then you can't spend the bitcoins.

The fee depends on the size of the data in the transaction, not the value of the transaction. If you have many small inputs (as a result of receiving a tiny amount every day), then the size of the data in the transaction could be quite large and costly.

When bitcoins are sent, all the bitcoins in an "output" of an address must be sent, even if it is too much. The wallet sends the correct amount to the address you want, and sends the rest (called the "change") back to you.

Without knowing how the bitcoins were stolen, it is hard to recommend a good solution.

It is unlikely that the source of the vanity address is the culprit because the address has been used for 6 months. It is much more likely that the JLynn171 is a victim of a phishing attack. blockchain.info users are a frequent target.

Well, you are exaggerating but nobody disagrees that physical cash is more anonymous. It is also less useful.

Go here instead to read the revised regulations:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/254735720/Revised-VC-Regulation

The reason that ransomware works is that people are careless with their data. People need to back up their data in case something happens to their computer, whether it is stolen, it dies, or it is encrypted by ransomware.

Based on what?

It depends on where you are, but the easiest way in the U.S. is:

1. Choose a wallet from bitcoin.org and install it.
2. Go to coinbase.com or circle.com and buy bitcoins using your bank account or credit card, or go to localbitcoins.com to buy with cash.
3. Transfer the bitcoins to your wallet.

Nobody knows.

The only good answers to your question are:
1. Buy at any price because Bitcoin will succeed.
2. Sell at any price because Bitcoin will fail.

Anything else is just random speculation by people that don't know any more than you.

Awesome plan! Buy a lot of bitcoins and then hope that the price goes up!  

If you are going to do a pump-and-dump, you need to know how to do it. There are three steps:

• 1. Buy. (Note: This is not the "pump".)
• 2. Convince lots of other people to buy. This is the "pump". For example, you could get a group of stupid/greedy people together and tell them to all start buying at a certain time.
• 3. Sell. This is the "dump".

It is ridiculous to claim that japan suffered as a result of deflation. During the period of their supposed suffering, their economy has grown to become one of the strongest in the world, second only to the U.S., and only recently third behind China.

Deflation hurts the wealthiest people more than everybody else. The bankers and their lapdog economists claim that deflation must be avoided at all costs only in order to preserve their wealth at the expense of everyone else.

The main purpose of QE was to provide banks with more capital, in addition to supplementing (or outright replacing) their toxic assets with government debt. It was deemed necessary because the biggest banks owned so much worthless debt that they could no longer meet their capital requirements and would have had to be considered insolvent.

The official story is that QE is needed to get the economy going, but the fact that little of the money makes it back into the economy because the Fed pays 0.25% on reserves tells the true story. The purpose of QE is to support and subsidize failing banks.

If QE never happened, then many of the biggest banks would have failed (as they deserved) and we would have suffered severely for a few years. The result of QE is that we have suffered less, but for nearly a decade (with no end in sight), and the too-big-to-fail banks are now bigger and more vulnerable than ever.

Despite my annoyance at ignorant people demanding that we spend our time to cure their ignorance, I would like to address this point.

My response is simply that every kind of money can be replicated by another kind of money. This issue should be not considered a problem for Bitcoin for the same reasons it is not considered a problem for other currencies. Any fiat currency can be replicated by creating another fiat currency, and anybody can create a fiat currency. The dollar can be replicated by anyone simply by issuing their own fiat currency and changing the name, yet this problem with the dollar and every other currency is conveniently overlooked when it is applied to Bitcoin. Mr. Pot, I would like to introduce you to Mr. Kettle.

The claim is that because anyone can make an exact replica of Bitcoin, the thousands of replicas will make the original worthless. However, the flaw in this argument is that you cannot make an exact replica of Bitcoin. Each form of money has its own characteristics whether they are imbued by its creators or they arise out of its usage. There are characteristics of Bitcoin that cannot easily be replicated, including the infrastructure that has been built around it, the name, the public perception, and even the people that use it.

The final proof against this claim is simply in the hundreds of Bitcoin clones that already exist. If the weakness of Bitcoin's reproducibility were true, then Bitcoin should be worthless by now. In fact, Bitcoin is unaffected and remains king while the rest are insignificant in comparison.

Anyone that uses the "bitcoin is not backed by anything" argument is truly ignorant. Nothing will convince you because you wish to remain ignorant. Your skepticism has already been addressed hundreds of times over the last 6 years. Learn to read.

After the halving, the supply will be about 15.8 million BTC and will continue to increase at the rate of about 660,000 BTC per year. The supply never goes down because bitcoins are not consumed.

Furthermore, the change in the rate is only 1800 BTC per day. That is insignificant compared to the current daily exchange volume of over 500,000 BTC per day. The halving will have no effect on the supply of bitcoins.

In the long term, halving reduces inflation, lessening the downward pressure on prices. In the short term, nothing will happen.

You give them too much credit. There is a big difference between those predicting a drop of 75% from the top and those saying that Bitcoin is worthless. The former may have been correct (and I challenge you to find anyone with that prediction), but the latter could not be more wrong.

Well, since bitcoins are not actually stored in a wallet, my interpretation of "transferred to Ulbricht's laptop" is "sent to an address whose private key is in a wallet on his laptop."