I love how these media outlets alternately deride and exalt bitcoin.

I think your right.
Just to clarify, I get nothing from the sales of these books. I just wanted to introduce fairshare to bitcoin as an option for their sales.

Good point. Maybe we should go with a payment system to use these forums?

Wow, I see this is going to be a hot seller among computer oriented males. 

I think there is truth to what your saying. Let's plan on staying pissed off then. 
We like our government to fear us in the U.S.

Yes. you can put one of your receiving addresses there.

yes. when it comes to terrorism the gov has no sense of humor or proportion. They should know that a real terrorist would not tweet about it first. But when you put high school dropouts in charge of airport security the best you can get is a mindless rule follower.
I only wanted to temper the discussion with the fact that many of us are lucky enough to live under a gov we can criticize. I have spent a lot of my time in shitty, war torn and corrupt places. It has helped me to realize my good fortune.

I by no means think we live in a perfect society. But us Americans have become such complainers about our perceived rights. When you say arrested, I wonder what for?
A threat or something? You have to say something that is a crime to be arrested.

I use them. For me, bitcoin's utility is the attraction.

None of you could even say these things if you didn't live in a democracy. 

Ever heard of "bitcoin"? It's like Sexcoin for grown-ups.

Hi all,
My wife has been the project manager and editor on a cookbook project for our local community supported agriculture group. I don't really cook, but apparently it is very good. She is all done, but I am now helping the organization look into including bitcoin as a payment option (as a volunteer). Eventually we hope to have farm shares produced and sold within the bitcoin economy.

The first step will be to offer the cookbook for bitcoin. I am interested in the likelihood of you buying if bitcoin were an option. You are not committing to anything, but I am more interested in people who realistically may buy cookbooks.

Here is the website: http://www.csacoalition.org/

The book is Farm-Fresh and Fast

Cheers,
Rich
 
 

Glad to hear your ok. We had one Thursday that took out my neighbors house!

I know what could account for all this inconsistency and contradiction. God's absence.
If you see religion as a idea of humanity then it all seems very clear. 

There is the rub. There is no such thing as a gun free zone for criminals. By definition gun free zones are only free of legal guns held by responsible citizens.
If you are a criminal you should check it out.  It's a perfect environment to operate in. None of the suckers is armed! How awesome is that!! You can do what you like with them. Rape them, murder them... It's all good. And your safety is practically guaranteed by the government.   

Very informative thread. 

I'm curious how you have determined that "whales" have been supporting the price?

Just wanted to add that in today's economy it is the Yen that wins, not the dollar.

Also it looks like my farmer is going to start taking bitcoin. I am very involved with community supported agriculture here and working to help farmers produce with BTC. Next I will work on their suppliers. Baby steps.

Even without a fee I think it will go through. But it may take a while.

Since most of my guesses have been wrong, I don't know. lol 
It seems like there is strong support at $120. I think some of the smart money is waiting to see what regulation shake out before buying. Because BTC is more opaque than the banking economy I don't even know that.
Overall I'm bullish because there are a lot of smart people working on new projects. If one of those becomes a killer app then we could be in rally mode quickly. Of course bad news about regulation or a severe bug could crash the market. I just can't say anything with confidence.