Discussion about anonimity: I understand that an enormous part of this actual comunity wants an untraceable paying method as to do what ever they want with no govern intervention, but at mainstreem merchants need real profiles and consumers cares not about using a traceable paying system. Press media fills it's mouth talking of this traceability as a flaw but i believe its must be seeas an oportunity of aceptance by consumers, merchants and laws. I believe that keep talking about anonimity will turn this currency only into a black market users atention.

Read 14 reasons for bidding on http://www.bitcoins.com. If you are an investor, make your bid at http://www.greatdomains.com

It has never been in an auction before, it was just for sale at sedo with no advertising at all.
Offers came straight from the site into sedo´s bidding form, but yes I turned down offers between 50k and 99K and would do it again!

Thanks for your concern.

It´s strange there is people like me that believe more in bitcoins than people using them daily. It´s like believing in half or perhaps just using them as an investment. I see the proyects on going, and the big possibilities. I did recieve a bet over 50K and is easy to demostrate (just a screenshot of sedo´s domain manager) but unfortunately I can´t post it or show the number, given it will reveal the reserve price. A whois will reveal i have this only domain since 3/20/2000 and to your knowledge, it is backed by a real e-cash and marketing "project" too since 1998. Please write on if you really support and believe in bitcoins. Thanks for reading any way!

What do you mean?

It was not set by me, it is based in actual real offers made for the domain before greatdomains.com auction.
Thanks for your interest!

Hola,

Soy el director de uno de los institutos de Gastronomía más prestigiosos de Argentina.
Si hay alguien interesado en realizar la carrera de Gastronomía (2, 3 o 4 años) con título oficial, o un curso de (1 ó 1/2 años) pagando semestralmente con Bitcoins, contácteme.

Creo que hasta les puedo resolver el alojamiento con BitCoins!

Saludos!

BitCoins.com is on the biggest domain auction hosted at www.greatdomains.com upto 28th of july.
I wrote 14 reasons for investor to buy at http://www.bitcoins.com/
Find out why should you offer  or post me some more reasons to add.

Please wish me luck! (A good selling will be good for the bitcoin comunity too).

Very good thread! I read it all and understood half but it is extremly interesting. I do believe that a one time use paper will soon find lot of uses, specially as for gifting. Is there a new thread about this?


Idea1 - where the issuer knows the new holder: There could be a free central colector (not bank) which holds paper transfered bitcoins so as to avoid trusting in each individual user. This collector shall reccord every transaction as individual and save some aditional data as a password to check the validity of the holder. QR eps would be issued to add it were ever you want, recalling this central colector and will ask for the password which will be revealed by the issuer as revealing the signature in the creditcard. Then the coins could be redeemed or change the password for fowarding them to a new holder or send them into a wallet. The system should allow to transfer many different amounts and have a central user control pannel.

Idea2 - the issuer don't knows the new holder: same central colector, QR+password hidden under metal ink. Obviously onetime redeem per paper.

Is this too simple and wrong? Sorry my english please.

This is a question form the forum operators.
Could we have some statistics about the daily, weekly, monthly, etc Forum Posting, Forum New User, etc to relate it with the growth of the Bitcoin Community? Do you know any other way to meassure it?

Ok so we are far of being able to include in this actual economy to the traditional trader who doesnt wants to expeculate with the BTC price. I know that small variations in the price of a currency happens every day but it´s kind of stable for regular people an so they trade it for a fixed price. In countries like mine (Argentina) we are used to set prices in $Arg and if needed, change them into US$ at the price of dollar in the exchange market when the transaction was done. This does the trick for speculators and not speculators.

I can’t figure out the following:

Given that the value of BitCoins depends on at what price people wants to buy it or sell it in the trading markets, how does this correlates with the actual price of goods setted in BTC currency. If the BTC price for the good is not in relation with the "real/offline currency" price, goods would be selling only when the amount of BTC asked is cheaper than the other payment methods (unless on could base his whole economy on BitCoins). If such is the case, doesn’t this attempt against getting lots of traders to use the currency (unless they are fond to the financial lottery). How do actual traders handle this issue? How do you think it should be handled in the future for getting traders into this?. Is this difference tolerable just because the minimum transaction fees?

I personally believe that most people (not only the actual BitCoins keepers) need security to make things, so perhaps an approach to the problem could be that the price of a good in BTCs always depends on the “standar currency price” over the BTC market value (at least until this stabilizes) given that both parts intend to make a transaction it’s because they are willing to sell or buy in such BTC market value.

Otherwise, could we make an actual average relation between “standard currency prices and BTC asked prices” for several given product? Wouldn’t this throw a realistic BTC value also?

What do you think? or What am I missing?

Hi, I've been reading a lot about bitcoins for the last month now, following #bitcoin and so at Twitter, Bitcoin Forum, Bitcoin Watch, etc, I even write down "Bitcoin" on google every now and then to find recent articles and so on.

I would love to know what do YOU use for been informed and why. Do you follow twitter o facebook (who do you follow?)? Do you use google alerts? Do you have a prefered site? Do you use an other forum too or read a particular subject? If you can please inlcude your grade of expertice with bitcoin because I believe that the concept of "relevant information" varies according to it.

I think this answers could help many others to find good and interesting information sources?

I could keep a kind of chart and post it regularly according to the opinions if you wish.

Thanks.
(Moderators, if this is not the best place to post this question, please move it).

Ok, that secures the wallet but spontaneous withdraws get complicated  . So there is no Bitcoin Bank just wallets? Do they have any kind of assurance in case of errors?

Some desperates could try to make transaction of a certaina amount of money vía ebay or so. When the "product" is bought, you send the bitcoins. I would try it.

I'm not in US so transfering money is difficult in the inmediate but I would love to so as to Buy some. Thow I believe it will that a reasonable price for a stormy bitcoin situation is about 9us. I'm absolutely sure Bitcoins are a good investment because is a solid proyect but I guess this fluctation will have bad media for some time. This might afect future pricing too thow big speculators might have gone by then.
I recomend you to watch http://www.livebitcointicker.com/ .

I'm Newbie but think this is ok. But i have a question, where may a find an upto dato historic BTC price graph?
TIA

Hi everyone, I´m the ower of bitcoins.com since March 2000 and now i´m willing to sell the domain. Please send me in private only SERIOUS offers/proposals. I will send screenshots of the domain administration screen or others on demand. Feel free to ask! @bitcoinscom