I wouldn't be surprised if the US starts funding terrorists via Bitcoin and then blaming Bitcoin. We've had this. The government is stupid. They can't control Bitcoin, they can't take it down. That's their problem. This is something completely new that they have no power on.
I don't think the government will go to such extremes just with the objective of discrediting Bitcoin. Even if they do fund terrorists, the Bitcoin believers will just shrug it off and life will go on. The US gov spends $billions on psy-op campaigns so I don't think it would be too hard of them to discourage mainstream use of btc by planting a few 'terrorism' stories. Let's hope it doesn't get to that stage, don't think any of us want to be put on a terrorism watchlist. |
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Never heard of that site before. I'd avoid using paypal to buy/sell any bitcoin regardless of the amount, there's just too much risk involved. The most tried and tested way is virwox but even that seems a lot of hassle when you can just use sites like localbitcoins. |
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Yeah I'd be a bit wary of putting something like that in my eyes, even if the drops do come from natural substances.
Would be epic if they could make night vision glasses (maybe even contact lenses), I'm sure there are plenty of military contracters who would find technology like that very useful.
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Late 2012 / early 2013 was when I first heard about bitcoin, I think wikileaks had just started using it for donations (due to the payment blockade).
Wish I'd done more research into it back then, only glanced at bitcointalk and wrote it off as a fad.
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without digital currencies, "cybercrime would be much more difficult" Quite true, but there was crime before digital currencies, they're only a medium. People buying drugs on Evolution (or other markets) were buying drugs on the street before, so you can say digital currencies are a good thing because they helped moving drug dealers out of the streets. Exactly, the marketplaces have taken away the risk and stigma of buying drugs from street corners and into the safety and comfort of your own home. How many people's careers and reputation have been destroyed by getting caught buying a small bag of weed? |
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Staying anonymous was a very smart move Satoshi made. Hard decision probably.
Must be even harder keeping quiet and not bragging to your friends or family, I'd have thought there must be at least a few people who know satoshi's real identity. Kudos to him/her/them for staying in the shadows, a lot of people would love to take credit for btc's creation. |
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Great job if you can get it... ...some of the agents received suspensions of between two to 10 days... Is that all! Makes you wonder what crime a DEA agent would have to commit to get sacked, I thought institutions like this were meant to set a good example to world, instead they're banging whores whilst coked up to the eyeballs  |
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These ASICs are way too old to be useful today. Just buy some Bitcoins, it's a much better investment!
but i want to make profit how am i making profit by buying bitcoins ? The times of profitable mining have long past, you will never get ROI unfortunately. Best to take the advice of hugs1BTC a simply buy bitcoin instead of wasting your time and energy with 2 antminers. |
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Altcoins are basically useless except for demonstrating/testing out new ideas or perhaps as a fork if Bitcoin got too corrupted.
at this moment, the only use any altcoin out there has is just to put money in a few people's pockets. if you see the price change of any altcoin, you can see lots and lots of pumps and dumps which a few people are getting rich by. Most the use of most altcoins is indeed to make money to a small number of people. If an altcoin truly had an innovative feature, I am sure it will get adopted in Bitcoin as well. You would never hear of it anyway, the mods ensure anything that isn't bitcoin (even good stuff like distributed computing) is swept under the rug and the forums sanitized. Add the mood music of "all altcoins are scams" and subliminal ignorance is the order of the day. Wouldn't go that far, at least we've got an altcoin section here. There were discussions of getting rid of it completely so I think would should at least be grateful for that. I'm still looking for a decent altcoin forum... |
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What happens if you move to a different house?  Seems like a lot of hassle to secure your btc... |
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Well been as the Trans Afghan Pipeline hasn't been finished (as far as I know),the US are likely to keep troops on the ground in Afghanistan for quite a while yet. Clearly they haven't been reading the history books or they would know the futility of occupying a country called 'the graveyard of empires'.
Meanwhile Afghanistan is probably due another bumper opium harvest.....
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Bumping for visibility.
Collected so far: 0.99784352 BTC
Now over 1 bitcoin  1.00215648 BTC to be precise, surely we can get a least 2 btc (every satoshi helps!). |
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If I sell a item over paypal and they try to chargeback after I've already put money in my account...BUT I already called my bank and told them to stop any kind of payment to paypal...so they can't take anything out of my account, but I'm able to still withdrawal into my account...Am I in the clear? what will happen here? anyone know? opinions?
If the payment has already cleared to your bank account, your Paypal balance could go negative and that will prevent you from any further buying / selling / withdrawing money etc. If you don't clear balance after a few weeks they'll contact a debt collection agency in your country and you'll more than likely get a knock on the door. Similar thing happened to me, ended up having to pay the debt collecters the amount + service charges. |
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Wow that's a lot cheaper than I thought, might consider getting one made as long as the engraving isn't too pricey. Something like this would be pretty cool, just scaled up and a bit more polished:  |
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I think it's unreal to sell Sr. Member account even for 0.4 BTC. I created an auction for selling my Sr. Member account with start price only 0.2 and nobody has been interested in it.
I've seen senior accounts sell for ~0.4 btc so it's not unreasonable to expect that amount, just depends on the amount of sig campaigns, btc price etc Seems to be a lot of members selling their accounts at the moment so it's probably not the best time to be selling them. |
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Now that spammers are being cracked down on, and sig campaign managers are taking more action against shit-posting, I'm hoping the situation will get better.
No doubt there is still a problem but disabling them all seems a bit extreme.
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The sooner central banks lose control the better, what's the point of trying to save if your money is just stagnating in a bank with some pittance interest rate.
If I had any substantial amounts of fiat I'd either be investing in property or exchanging it for bitcoin, ideally both.
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The disadvantage of apple pay is that you can only use it with apple devices and only apple devices. Bitcoins allow users to use it on most platforms and have lower fees.
More reason not to bother with applepay, or any other apple product for that matter Could have saved themselves a lot of hassle and used an established crypto-currency.....like bitcoin. |
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Unbelievable that the cops can legally take Zoe's money, let alone the trauma induced by having your house raided by uniformed thugs. Will be sending a small donation soon |
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Consider engraving your private key into a block of tungsten  With a melting point of 3422 °C if would be the only thing left if your house burn down. And with approximate same density as gold, the block is rather heavy to pick up and run away with. Wow, very cool. I like the idea of tungsten. It would be great if there is something like a hatch that will cover up the private keys and also coupled with a lock. That would actually hide the keys and if need to, will have to open up the lock in order to be able to see the characters inside. I imagine with a whole block like that nobody could be able to cart it away Yeah it would be better if it had some sort of sealable cover (tamperproof maybe?) or a thick metal lid with a combination lock. I'd imagine a lump of tungsten like that would cost a lot of $$$ to buy and engrave. |
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