Also, - anyone know of any gold dealers in europe that accept bitcoins?

Its accurate. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=buy%20silver%2C%20buy%20bitcoins&date=today%203-m&cmpt=q

Today we are probably hitting parity with silver search.

Through dealers, yes apparently. But is the same true for person to person?

For the right amount, I will come see you and pay spot price

PM please

Thanks

Its unbelievable what some people see fit to print in major news organizations. When we hit 1000 I'll bump this and send these people a quiet note about the silly currency they reported on.

apparently zedicus is doing them custom.

My cow is moo'ing

Here we go...

I hope the hamsters can keep up this time.

relavent

its a sign of how young we are that people actually use this service for anything at all.

We are now roughly 5x higher than we were during "the bubble" over the last few months.

I blame the hamsters

This argument is akin to saying that we will never be able to watch movies on the internet when we were running dial up. Both bitcoins pruning ability and other technology will be upgraded (we are still in beta, remember) and the internet's pipes are going to get MUCH larger (As soon as google decides to roll out their internet to the rest of the US/world). Additionally, your entire argument hinges on decentralization by people, not corporate entities, which in a worst case scenario would be entirely acceptable to keep the blockchain going strong.

In simple terms, what exactly is the issue assuming the max size can be increased as necessary?

"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."
http://web.archive.org/web/19980610100009/www.redherring.com/mag/issue55/economics.html

If we can take his track record for predicting technology, I think its safe to say we are in pretty good shape.

hasnt worked for weeks for me. no wonder... its run by mtgox.

Now that quite a few of us are already or rapidly approaching "wealthy" status I thought I would bump this to see if anyone is seriously interested in building a/o cooperating to build a new system. I don't believe it will be long before many of us here get to choose how we lead the rest of our lives. Some of us will choose jim beam, coke and hookers (power to you), but for the rest of us serious about political reform through practical example, I ask you to either post here or contact me directly. We are very near to having the power to choose the world we live in, let's make the most of it.

lol