There are no safe investments with btc.

I'd argue the best way to 'grow' your bitcoin is to start your own business / service, but even then there's no guarantee it will suceed and make a profit. There's no easy way increase your wallet balance, scams like cloud-mining and dodgy dice sites are best avoided if you don't wont to get burned.

Surely the US will call for regime change? 

Strange that one of America's staunchest allies is also one of the most backward countries on this planet. Guess money (oil) can buy everything.

After wasting $billions of taxpayers money you'd think the US gov would start questioning the reasons for funding agencies like the NSA (assuming it's not to spy on every human on this planet) if they haven't stopped any terrorist activity.

Can't see how there can be anything patriotic with laws allowing mass surveillance programs.

No way at all that guy posed an immediate threat, if six police officers can't subdue one unarmed homeless dude then they really need to put the donuts down and hit the gym.

Faucets are pretty much pointless when it comes to earning btc so I'd avoid them unless you want to spend hours earning a few cents.

Sig campaigns pay a bit more but you still have spend your time making the required post counts etc.

Sites like freelancer.com can be good for for earning a few $$$ online, apart from signing up for sig campaigns you can try pimping your skills out on the services board.

Some members earn btc by providing loans and escrow services though there would be some risk involved.

Billions of pounds of corruptly gained money has been laundered by criminals and foreign officials buying upmarket London properties through anonymous offshore front companies – making the city arguably the world capital of money laundering.

Some 36,342 properties in London have been bought through hidden companies in offshore havens and while a majority of those will have been kept secret for legitimate privacy purposes, vast numbers are thought to have been bought anonymously to hide stolen money.

The flow of corrupt cash has driven up average prices with a “widespread ripple effect down the property price chain and beyond London”, according to property experts cited in the most comprehensive study ever carried out into the long-suspected money laundering route through central London real estate, by the respected anti-corruption organisation Transparency International.

Some sources claim it has skewed developers towards building high-priced flats and houses rather than ones ordinary people can afford. While corruption and tax evasion are likely to be the biggest sources of the illicit money, drug dealing, people trafficking and sanctions busting are also common, police say.

TI’s research, which includes previously unreleased internal figures from the Metropolitan Police Proceeds of Corruption Unit, found that 75 per cent of properties owned by people under criminal investigation for corruption are held through secret offshore companies.

London has become a global magnet for corrupt funds, TI said, due to the high prices of property – enabling millions of pounds to be laundered at a time – and Britain’s notoriously lax rules on the disclosure of property ownership.

Any anonymous company in a secret location, such as the British Virgin Islands, can buy and sell houses in the UK with no disclosure of who the actual purchaser is. Meanwhile, TI said, estate agents only have to carry out anti-money-laundering checks on the person selling the property, leaving the buyers bringing their money into the country facing little, if any scrutiny.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-property-boom-built-on-dirty-money-10083527.html

Haven't used Blockchain.info since the 'hacks' but it does look like a lot of people still use their wallets to store btc.

Electrum is one of my favorite wallets without doubt, was glad to hear its been bundled with the latest Tails OS. Apart from that I keep a few satoshi in exchanges so I can quickly buy some alts without having to wait to deposit bitcoin.

Fair enough, I agree some of my post history is a bit patchy but I guarantee I'll improve the quality and amount of comments (without spamming ) if you decide to sign me up. Got quite of bit of spare time over the next few months so it shouldn't be a problem.

thanks

Just saw (looks like the post has disappeared) that I was pending being accepted for the sig campaign, any reason why that is? 

A really easy way would be to sell on an auction site like https://cryptothrift.com/

Fairly sure they've got digital download section but you'd have to check it out for yourself.

Depositing EUR to BTC-e used to be a pain in the ass over a year ago (not sure if its any quicker nowadays), certainly couldn't rely on it for arbitrage. Found it a lot easier arbing alts between a few different exchanges, then converting them to btc

Just changed it forgot to update my sig straight away.

Name: shogdite
Position: senior member
Bitcoin Address: 16qJ793mcS8rzpZRBuQqoSJk8L1DVz2UjW
Posts made: 270
Link to Stat: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=228796;sa=statPanel

Thanks

It's like on Ebay when people sell hundreds of really cheap items to boost their feedback score (especially now with all the new account restrictions).

Coming to a neighborhood near you....

Won't this just create a black market for sim cards / fingerprints?  I doubt any self-respecting terrorist wouldn't be communicating by phone.

lol was waiting for somebody to post that, RIP Spock.

Soon as you can buy shoes and dresses with bitcoin I'm sure a lot more women will embrace crypto-currencies.

Jupiter Ascending - Complete and utter shite.

Thought it was going to get better halfway through but never did, even Mila didn't look that hot....

I've seen senior accounts sell for ~0.4 btc in the past (when the price of bitcoin was much higher) but there seems to be an influx of people seling their accounts now so the prices have gone down a bit.