i find it to be a positive thing because it did show that bitcoin doesn't need silk road to be valuable. it also shows that the fbi can shut down one site and stop very little.  the most positive thing in my opinion tho is i have some new entertainment looking at blockchain.info

for the first time in history we can publicly and anonymously rickroll our oppressors! god bless bitcoin!

i thought i read somewhere that bitcoins were banned in thailand, but not sure where i read that

glbse

i like because in april it allowed me to build the computer of my dreams.

i would think a more devious tactic would be if the us government forked the bitcoin client to create an alt coin we'll call them "safetycoins" since the us government is very fond of replacing the word "Oppression" with the word "Safety".  So then they would premine the whole safetycoin blockchain and give them away as part of a stimulus plan.  Then you could exchange each safety coin with fiat at your local post office for a rate of like 500 bucks each.  They could even put a nice backdoor into the algorhtym that tracks the ip of every wallet.  The general public would just see free money and be all over it.

here in the states police agencies routinely use cs gas to disperse protesters.  which i do believe are chemical weapons. its not as deadly as sarin gas, but it does kill people.  I don't understand where launching cruise missiles at a country is the moral high ground.  The big picture is that it could spark an attack on israel which will escalate the violence thoughout the entire world as everyone chooses sides. It could be an archduke ferdinand moment.  but mainly my concern is that i can't even drive to the grocery store without the government taking my picture 6 times. Or i can't fly on an airplane without letting a stranger look at my scrotum.  I feel for the syrian people, because both sides seem like dr. evil fighting dr. doom.  But war begets war regardless and i can't support it in any fashion.

this really comes down to what you wanna get out of bitcoins. if you are in it for purely profit/speculation, then it would be more profitable to buy the bitcoins imo.  Of course im of the belief that bitcoins will continue to rise in value over the next few years. But, if you are just getting into bitcoins and love the concept and all that good stuff, go ahead and buy the miner. Mining bitcoins is fun! and at least in my experience with asics (block eruptors) asic mining is really really easy compared to gpu mining.  Its really satisfying to check your pool and getting excited when the difficulty dips (not that that has happened lately, but when it does its exciting!) also, if you believe that btc will get more valuable over time and you feel you will still be mining in say 2 years from now, then in the big picture you will make money.  Also litecoins are cool and wouldn't be a bad idea to buy a small amount for speculation.  im not familiar with the company you are talking about, before you lay down any money i'd recommend vetting them a bit, search this forum for threads about them. Im still waiting on my bfl jalapeno, and by the time i get it it will be very little hashing power. thank god i didn't trust bfl and spent the bulk of my mining investment money on gpu's which have more than paid for themselves.  Even asic mining is work though, you will have to watch them a good bit for things like your software crashing, internet dropping, and occasionally restarting them. its not too bad really, and a cakewalk compared to the tempermental bitches known as radeon gpus.

growing up in the 70's and 80's i find it mind blowing that im actually rooting for the russian government as opposed to our own.  And to a KGB man no less.  If you had told me that in 1985 i'd have said you were crazy.  but kudos to russia for (so far) not giving snowden to our overlords and trying to be the voice of reason when it comes to syria and potentially starting world war 3.  Fortunately more and more people in the us are realizing that we live in an oppresive police state and that regardless of political party in power we have no say in our politics.  whether anything will change i suppose only time will tell.  For sure bitcoins could help us make the change back to an accountable/responsible government.  Whether that happens or they just turn into one more thing for them to tax is yet to be seen.

So does this mean that we can all get MOIP tattoos on our necks like how bloods get MOB (money over bitches) tattooed on their necks?

the bike should run on a mixture of hashes and FUD.

i would be all about the treyzor for .25 btc or less.  and i agree, holy crap what is up with preorders and bitcoin?  I guess for startup companies any way to accumulate capital is ok, but for me as a consumer im really sick of laying money down for a product that i may get in 1 month or 1 year or possibly never.  I do see how the treyzor or something like it that would allow users to store/xfer bitcoins hassle free could really help in mainstream adoption.  At this point tho i have an encrypted cold wallet in a friends gun safe and another copy buried in an undisclosed location. Thats security enough for me.

and they heart bitcoins! i figure i would throw bitcoins into the thread.

The real world has no relevance on the internet.

i for one am happy that this thread is on here.  It goes good with the popcorn i just made.

jerky. and fkn scrapple!

for the record my net worth is 17 satoshis.

i vote we bring freedom and democracy to the united states.