Don't forget about Kim Dotcom but yeah, ignoring mainstream news like the Guardian etc. is one of the best things you could ever do.

And I thought I was crazy for gambling 0.02 Bitcoins on Satoshi.

I wouldn't recommend speculating with Bitcoin right now, but transferring to it for investment purposes and keeping your savings safe from inflation is a good idea.

Let them print whatever they want, in the end, mathematics has only one answer.

Is you're offer still going on then? If so I've got XRP to sell.

Edit: oops just read on one of your other topics you are

What people don't realise is that you can always just walk out of the whole system and ignore it.

Ah that's weird, good luck selling them in any case you could maybe try experimenting with different variations of the logo too I'm planning on doing that with some of my stuff.

Look at Bittorrent as an example of something working without corporatism that system has had nothing but hate from corporations and yet it's thriving and is more popular than ever, these kind of decentralised technologies are designed to work without any sort of regulative body or corporation behind it, sure corporate backing can do things, but it isn't as necessary as you seem to think.

I'd like to recommend this:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128635.0

He's even done an update just recently.

There are various stock exchanges and the like cropping up but very little in the way of any real investment going on right now, here's some ones I've been probing lately but I'd wait until something as decentralised as Bitcoin comes along because these all look like they can get taken down easily.

https://btcjam.com/ - You can lend coins to people here

https://cryptostocks.com/ - This stock exchange has been up for awhile now without being taken down

https://1broker.com/?m=3 - You can trade options here, this looks to be one of the more legal ones but you do use margin when doing it, it works like forex trading

https://a-ads.com/ - If you want to get into advertising at all, I recommend Anonymous Ads, a good way to get ads onto peoples sites without annoying the fuck out of visitors

There was an stock exchange called GLBSE awhile ago that got taken down because of legal problems, either it was fraud or something else but I don't know much about what happened, we're going to need a lot of decentralised stuff that is peer to peer otherwise these sites will probably get taken down too.

lmao, double quoted for emphasis.

You could try putting them on Bitmit too and sell them for Bitcoins, ever heard of it?

Here's a link: http://www.bitmit.net/en/hotauctions

..... You are aware we're on a Bitcoin forum right? That may have been true a few years ago but it isn't now LOL

I would just say bollocks to the whole mining scene to be honest and trade real goods for Bitcoin, I think the mining for Bitcoin phase has passed and it's going to be practical as a currency now.

You'll have to see some sort of massive sell off, there could be some kind of flaw still discovered but with it being open source it is unlikely and you have all these alternate currencies popping up which are busy improving their own code as well, I'd go so far to say we're on the way to seeing Bitcoin stabilise now, at least in the long term. There will probably be a daft situation though where some idiot at an exchange presses in too many zero's or they have trouble with some new code that causes a crash, you see it happen in professional trading companies so it will happen here.

People just need to stop thinking mining is some kind of get rich quick scheme that they can make lots of profit from >_>

I prefer robots that cut people to pieces and spew out flame but that's just me.

I consider them your backup currencies to be honest, in case someone discovers a serious flaw with Bitcoin or it turns out Satoshi Nakamoto is really our evil overlord and intends to conquer the world with Bitcoin

There's the islamic bank of Bitcoin but that's been under construction for awhile now, it even has a share listing on cryptostocks.

The electricity isn't free because you're still getting it from the plug you numpty, it's like these environmentalists who claim that sort of thing is wonderful despite it coming from YEP coal! Which shows you just how much they really give a fuck about their precious planet.