Just hope that the "professional driver" up front doesn't get distracted by that pretty hitchhiker on the shoulder of the road, get sleepy, forget his medication, or have a sudden cardiac arrest. An entire convoy piling up into a huge pile of twisted smoking metal will not be good propaganda for this.

Don't waste your fiat on aluminum screen, it does not make a good Faraday cage. Three or four layers of copper mesh, preferably at different screen sizes, offset to each other and you might have a chance. Steel building? Great big attractor for EMP, sort of like climbing to the top of a radio antenna to watch the electrical storm, add a deep ground and you are just about guaranteeing a good solid hit going to earth on your building, and finding nothing but slag and smoke when you return after the first wave.

Back to the OP, I think they are a worthless idea with very little real world application. Selling them for PayPal is an open invitation to be ripped off, setting up a system where you can be ripped off so easily will make people want to reverse these paper bitcoins, having reversible paper bitcoins floating around does nothing to enhance the value of any other bitcoin, and leaves a bad taste with anyone who touches them.

Perhaps a short review of what his personality was all about here before investing? All posts have been about selling easily stolen online deliveries or buying btc for reversible PayPal. What did you expect?

And BFL encouraged you to sell all your cards to buy their products? Did BFL warranty in their terms of the sale that they would provide compensation at insane levels to everyone who ordered from them for months and months because a single customer voiced his displeasure with a time frame getting pushed 50% over expectations?

It is not their responsibility to guess what will make one malcontent happy because he liquidated his operations to change mining methods. One can only guess how many more free units you will request when they don't come out of the box already mining at the pool of your choosing, and you actually have to configure them yourself. That's not right... they should have known that you wanted to mine at LMNOP Mining and they should have pre-configured for you.

Not odd at all... its on the short list for relocation of the Loup Lair if I ever hit the lotto. I think you are absolutely right- the US jackboots thought they could push New Zealand around, and thought that since they spoke English they would recognize the Americans as being all-powerful, all-knowing, and imperially entitled to take action withing their borders. That's how this ass-clown we are stuck with for a few more months as President thinks, why not shove the same mentality down the throat of every English speaking country?

Seriously? There is anybody who accepts this pile of nonsense as real?

How about 10 quick hallmarks of a sloppy fake?

1.  The FBI does not watermark their "internal documents" with a badly shaded, homemade Seal of LEO authenticity.
2.  A quick search of the entire database of the Directorate of Intelligence indicates that the phrase "bitcoin" has never been used in any official document, and the only positive links to a press release from March 18, 2011 about von NotHaus and NORFED.
3.  No US agency identifies Classified status by the paragraph, especially not any document that would have For Official Use Only status. The entire document would be identified as such on the cover, only.
4.  No US agency would use a cut and paste graphic on the cover of the document, especially not when that cover is a template from Word '95.
5.  No US agency would ever give attribution for a graphic below the graphic, and especially not ever do so on the cover. Attributions would be in the notations and citations, basic Strunk and White. They have entire libraries devoted to the correct style of document production.
6.  Distribution lists come at the beginning of official documents, so that any official considering disseminating the document can check quickly if it can be shared.
7.  An official document of this sort would not be released as an attempted slick looking report, it would be very straightforward text blocks, and almost always block-justified.
8.  No self-respecting FBI Junior G Man would ever sprinkle phrases like "vendor acceptance", "actors" , "malware" or "botnets" in a report that would ever be read by a superior. It would probably cost them their job.
9.  A real report would not mis-identify the entity that money transmitters must register with. They are not legally required to register with "FinCEN", that is where reports are filed by Law Enforcement, and advisories developed to coordinate the efforts of Law Enforcement to combat financial crimes, not as a registry for money exchangers. They would be far more likely to be required to register with their respective Secretary of State, or Corporate licensing agency on a state by state basis, licensing of financial institutions is done on a state level, not on a Federal one.
10.  The language is wrong.

Compare this word structure:

This is the FBI’s first Criminal and Cyber intelligence assessment related to Bitcoin.
In January 2012 the Counterterrorism Division disseminated an intelligence bulletin that
explored the potential to conduct illicit financial transactions using Bitcoin. Disseminated FBI
intelligence products on other virtual currencies include: (U) Cyber Criminal Exploitation of
Electronic Payment Systems and Virtual Currencies, dated 23 February 2011and (U) Cyber
Criminal Exploitation of Real-Money Trading, dated 8 June 2011, both of which discuss cyber
criminal misuse of virtual currencies for money laundering. While Bitcoin is a distinct virtual
currency, the overarching analytic judgments in this intelligence assessment about the use of
virtual currencies by criminal entities are consistent with these previous intelligence products.

With actual FBI testimony in a prepared statement before Congress:

In some countries, people eschew formal banking systems in favor of informal value transfer systems such as hawalas or trade-based money laundering schemes such as the Colombian Black Market Peso Exchange, which the Drug Enforcement Administration estimates is responsible for transferring $5 billion in drug proceeds per year from the United States to Colombia. Hawalas are centuries-old remittance systems located primarily in ethnic communities and based on trust. In countries where modern financial services are unavailable or unreliable, hawalas fill the void for immigrants wanting to remit money home to family members, and, unfortunately, for the criminal element to launder the proceeds of illegal activity.

There are several more formalized venues that criminals use to launder the proceeds of their crimes, the most common of which is the United States banking system, followed by cash-intensive businesses like gas stations and convenience stores, offshore banking, shell companies, bulk-cash smuggling operations, and casinos. Money services businesses such as money transmitters and issuers of money orders or stored value cards serve an important and useful role in our society, but are also particularly vulnerable to money laundering activities. A recent review of Suspicious Activity Reports filed with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) indicated that a significant number of money services business filings involved money laundering or structuring.

The transfer of funds to foreign bank accounts continues to present a major problem for law enforcement. Statistical analysis indicates that the most common destinations for international fund transfers are Mexico, Switzerland, and Colombia. As electronic banking becomes more common, traditional fraud detection measures become less effective, as customers open accounts, transfer funds, and layer their transactions via the Internet or telephone with little regulatory oversight. The farther removed an individual or business entity is from a traditional bank, the more difficult it is to verify the customer’s identity.

Note how the FBI uses crisp, clear statements. Criminals are NEVER qualified, they are criminals not "malicious actors", "cyber-criminals", or "predators". Things are written in the present tense, a statement of now, rather than a future imperative where something "might" happen, the FBI doesn't do analyses about might happens, an assessment would be about what is happening right now, and what could or should be done to stop it. And a real assessment would never list areas where they are not going to trouble themselves to investigate, they would demarcate very clearly the scope of the issue at hand and what actions are impacted by this issue, not a meandering "we are looking at this, but we are not going to look at how this funds these other criminal elements" sort of approach.

Sorry kids, as juicy as this may sound, the myth is completely and irrevocably busted.

If you are serious about this, then you should contact a qualified tax accountant, and be prepared to explain in itty bitty concepts exactly what this activity is. I think far better to consider it a hobby and offset any gains with additional investment in my hobby. Just like stockpiling junk silver.

I'm guessing that there is a reason Kim Dotcom relocated to NZ, and is, thus far anyway, fighting extradition to US courts from there. He has also just successfully gotten a partial release on the asset seizure from the NZ courts. At best you would spend hundreds of thousands of bitcoins worth of energy, time and wealth, and you would get what back? More empty promises and stories from this latest "incident"? Unless the Directors of Bitcoinica have secured their involvement with the "Company" with personal assets you will be very, very hard pressed to win an action against them, in pretty much any court.

That doesn't make them any less evil, or stupid for allowing this purported "theft" to occur, but I'm afraid legal action isn't going to do much in the way of satisfaction.

Yeah, but I thought it worth the few crumbs to point out that the problems this troll is having have nothing to do with the exchange and everything to do with their intellectual inability to understand the basics.

Buy and sell, that's how you are supposed to trade.

Whining like a little spanked baby because the site actually makes you think and participate in your financial decisions is really not required. The charts work just fine for everybody else.

If high-heeled tape dispensers were the answer, what was the question?

Forget the whiners... I'm in for a package. And if you have any connections for Jamaican Blue Mountain, I would totally be down for that too.

I won't be in contact with any potential email addresses until Tuesday with the holiday... I'll let you know if anybody nibbles.

Well, actually I said at 10 btc a pop I could get you as many thousands of these as you wanted. If I was dealing with a street merchant in NYC or any other hot spot of counterfeit goods, I wouldn't go over $15 US for that watch, and haven't for any of the dozen or so I have in my collection. I buy mine direct from China, and get pretty damn good results with real Swiss movements if I am willing to go over $50. Good luck with this one, you might want to advertise with your steroid customers, their diminished intellectual capacity would make this seem a bargain at the price.

Not to piss on your parade thinking you both are getting clever shots in on me, but wouldn't being a cocksucker and being all talk be mutually exclusive? I look to the two of you, being vastly more experienced in both endeavors to illuminate the discussion.

And TJ, I'm hurt. I thought we had kissed and made up. Are you still holding a grudge?

Also full of F**k!

At 10 btc a pop I can get you a container load of these with genuine Swiss movements from China. A realistic price for somebody who is not a rube talking to a Somali pirate in Times Square would be about 3 btc.

So that's a buck a day he can steal from himself for each of his personalities. If he saves up for a year or so he should be able to buy his mom a nice mother's day bouquet to thank her for all that free rent in her basement.

Do Australians even have basements? For all we know he might be living in the privy in the backyard.