Of course not directly, I doubt a kid would be interested in "Satoshi the mysterious" toy or the silkroad guy toy, I think they might grow interested to it as they get older and it's like money, I doubt kids like money except for the things they could use it to buy, not because of a "captin dollar" toy.
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it would definitely be the slow confirmation times when the network is busy, at these times you might even need to wait for hours to get a valid confirmation specially when empty blocks are being mined or when the network is being spammed.
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I think giving them in vouchers in closed envelopes with the private key being in QR format would be best, There is a strong possibility some of these people will ditch it so try to explain this is money and can be exchanged to at least encourage them to think a little bit about it.
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I do know one that might fit your needs: ibVPN, it's a very decent VPN and has about 4-5 servers in plenty of countries some of them are not usual at all "Saudi Arabia etc...", They don't accept bitcoin though or at least the last time I checked.
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Like any other currency? Of course. Criminals use any currency in the world from USD to AUD etc... every place in which there is a currency it's being used for local criminal activities, Bitcoin is a global currency and of course some criminals would be using it.
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If someone is ready to pay bitcoins for porn then it might be a good fit together since bitcoin offers a good privacy level, I remember po--.com used to accept bitcoin but I think they stopped using it after they had processing issues or due to low demand.
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I seriously doubt that's the case and although ISIS seemed interested in technology, I doubt they have a "BTC stock" to be hacked anyway, it might be true though since I think anonymous wouldn't make a meaningless argument like that. If they did steal it I think they would either sell or keep it, I don't think they will do it on exchanges but on more private deals etc...
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I think it has many advantages even without considering criminal activity, Privacy which is so valued in our current time is better in bitcoin than in banks and the like even if not completely anonymous, Also the fees for doing payments is relatively low IMO.
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IMO it depends on the size of your trading and how much you are expecting to make, A decent trader won't risk more than %1 per trade and make profit so I think the average would need to be at least 100 BTC to make profit from trading BTC and USD.
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it's better to save the money you are not ready to risk at all even to gain profit and invest only the amount you are ready to risk, Investing is better than saving generally but there are always odds of losing the invested money even in the least risky investments like real estate.
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I don't think anyone has an authority to distribute coins belonging to someone, Even if it's an inactive address it still has an owner and therefore should not be looked at in this way.. That's one of the criteria of BTC i.e no central authority and distributing the coins serves as a central authority IMO.
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That's hard to tell from now, IMO bitcoin is getting mainstream and keeps getting additional support and people in it, I think by around 10-20 years it will be a top currency and perhaps it can replace USD but you can't easily.
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I don't think an exact statistics is actually ready but I think it would be far less than %0.01 of the number of total addresses generated, People generate a wide sum of addresses and there are address that does not even actually exist.
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Pretty reasonable IMO and a necessary thing since there would be some of the customers using bitcoin and would need to be able to use it in format easily and that would be good.
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That's a big proof how the "blockchain" technology is being widely adapted, regardless of this specific case but generally, There are tons of banks observing and perhaps running on blockchain and intending to use it the future IMO.
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I don't think they will be fine together regardless of the management, PayPal is based on using transactions between users for a cost "higher than bitcoin by a large margin" Therefore both seem to be at least competitors and won't fit together IMO.
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I used quite a big sum of sites, The best bitcoin sporkbook is nitrogensports.eu, The odds are some of the best and the have a wide selection of sports and options to play on... Directbet is decent as well but there odds are sometimes lower than the average.
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It can happen that when the network is busy and a transaction is sent with less than recommended fees, The transaction might get dropped by the network if it stayed unconfirmed for long time and therefore can disappear (that's what I heard before).
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Holding coins too much is bad IMO, Holding some bitcoins is a decent idea and holding coins when the price is falling is mostly a decent choice when/if the price recover but holding it when there is big profit to be taken like the $1200 surge before wouldn't be smart considering the odds of the price falling downward again IMO.
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You probably need to find a way to start the conversation, Tell them a little bit about bitcoin and it's idea etc... and then it would seriously encourage people to search for more info for themselves if you give them a small amount of BTC "Maybe in an easy wallet like blockchain.info".
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