I think it's more like people are buying both, I wouldn't be surprised if people were dumping some of their gold to get paper and then to buy Bitcoin, both have value, much more so than paper money, so it would make more sense to have a bit in both rather than just one. I think Bitcoin is certainly more practical if you actually want to use it for commerce but the thing is as well, Bitcoin is deflationary just like gold, I'm not surprised if the two are complimenting each other and ignoring paper finally.

It just goes to show you how utterly fucked up paper money is making everything.

More and more perfectly ordinary and sane people have been reporting not aliens necessarily but certainly weird ass stuff that not just U.S governments but most of them refuse to explain, the problem is ignorant twats and people who are denial like to use the term 'conspiracy theorist' to throw anyone who questions off. I think you'd have to be incredibly ignorant of science and the way the universe works to not think that there's at least a possibility of aliens being real, there has already been evidence of micro-organisms and planets with atmosphere that have been found.

The people who would argue against the existence of aliens are the same kind of people who would argue about the Earth being round, I believe Neil Armstrong mentioned aliens at some point after his career.

Before it was ASICs that was the end of everything, I'd say this is just evolution at work

LOL Phinnaeus Gage stalking an ex-boyfriend is a poor idea But on the ex-front I've found that when it comes to girls if you look at their past boyfriends or how many of them are and what timeframe they usually dump them in, then you can usually avoid some pretty nasty encounters. So if a girl has had numerous relationships in the past few months, chances are there's going to be a reason for that, granted, sometimes it can be just shitty luck but other times it could be because she's an absolute psycho, even more so if she hasn't even had sex with any of them.

LOL! Well I'll tell you one thing, I had a similar sort of experience but the opposite with programming, for years I dodged it because I didn't think I was very mathematically minded ( truth is I'm not ) and I actually found instead of it being this scary mess of commands and codes once you start analysing bits of it and looking at explanations provided by intelligent people it's actually pretty fucking easy once you get it. Currently I've just learned how to get a basic window up, draw a shape on the screen and made it move around with the WASD keys, I wouldn't have thought it possible until a few days ago when I researched programming and found up to date libraries.

I know this may seem a bit arrogant, but you have to ask yourself, could you do a better job than most of the people out there? If the answers no, then hiring them may be a better option especially if you don't enjoy programming at all, if the answers yes then go for it. Every day for instance I look at games and I'm absolutely horrified at the shitty efforts put into by the programmers and I end up feeling sorry for the artists who pour all that time in only to be let down by some lazy twat who can't be bothered fixing the errors that pop up on their screens. It absolutely enrages me when I see blatantly obvious errors and glitches pop up on the games I play and patch after patch the game developers refuse to even acknowledge them, never mind fix them.

p.s. If you're going to hire someone to program for you, at least make sure they're competent

Definitely, but utility companies and such unfortunately don't accept Bitcoin yet

I've already thought a way round this kind of regulation and government activity actually, instead of buying the paper money direct, people could trade BTC for gold/silver instead and then sell that legally on the market without them any the wiser, if you were clever enough you could even wait for the paper value of the gold/silver to rise and get more for your money.

All hail the ignore feature.

People aren't going to just yell out how many Bitcoins they have just because you ask them on here and unlike paper money you can't ask the government to hand over the information either

I've been through some changes, because SDL just seems to be filled with outdated tutorials and such, I really can't be bothered combing through the code and fixing problem after problem that's completely unncessary. So I went and looked at SFML which seems to be much better supported and low and behold the commands provided in most tutorials work properly, I've been able to even get some basic interaction going with it. I'll have to have a think now on what I'm going to make and I have a basic platformer in mind, next up to learn will be sprites and collision I guess.

I check it more than I should really LOL :p

Trade with just Bitcoins, mind you, I'm planning on doing that already because I foresee them doing everything they can to ban or regulate it and it's not like they want to improve other currencies.

It's ironic you complaining about TradeFortress first when you have a ripple ad in your signature

Oh please, our governments can't even stop filesharers, it's going to be a laugh to see them try and shut down Bitcoin.

Oh I am so staying out of this one, I'm off to do some coding.

I seriously want to know where you guys are getting your information about Bitcoin from, do you actually have proof of this? Or are you just regurgitating what you've learnt in schools about economics? I'm getting tired of having to argue with people about this now.

I see it working now, that's quite a good idea, seeing how it goes will definitely be best, I'm just generally suspicious of that kind of thing but usually when people get genuinely outraged by something it's justified when it comes to the internet.

I actually think Bitcoin merchants need to keep Bitcoin prices completely seperate from the USD, the thing people don't realise is that it's not 'Bitcoin' itself that's being volatile it's the exchange rate and the USD, the USD is the only thing that is changing constantly which is why the price is so volatile. I've decided now that I'm just going to set the prices seperately, if no one buys anything, then I'll assume I either need to work on the quality of the product or up the price.

There is a comfort in knowing that there's an absolute limit to the amount of a currency you have but this shows you just how fucked up things are, don't rely on the USD, if customers have a problem with that then I think that's them relying on the currency too much.

A lot of these bid sites aren't necessarily scams but they're filled with scammers and dishonest people, I avoid them entirely now, what they want is to steal your work for free rather than pay you honestly, I'm still owed money for a logo I successfully got selected for, may have been paid by now but I can't be bothered going to the trouble of finding out anymore, they should have paid me months ago. I'm not surprised so many young people and entrepreneurs are into Bitcoin, the currency itself is pretty fraud proof if the two parties agree on a deal and you can't pull any excuses about not being able to pay unless you didn't have the money to begin with.

This is a very common problem for people who work on their own, a lot of deadbeats are out there: http://www.worldslongestinvoice.com/

Nicely biased poll there, besides, as far as I'm concerned, we've already won, all of this was over currency, now someone has gone and made a peaceful solution for us we should focus on making it as solid a concept as possible and wait for everyone to adopt it as they get sick of the current system.