are ptc sites really worth it? i find the rates quite low to be honest, or maybe i used the wrong site.
which one do you think is the best and works with bitcoin?

AFAIK, a transaction must have all outputs above 5460 Satoshi to be considered as a non dust and have nodes relay it. If it's below that, nodes would simply not relay it. There are nodes which relays it but for nodes using Bitcoin Core, they don't. It is generally a bad idea to use 0 fees for anything below 0.1BTC since the priority would be so low that it would take a long time to confirm.

Protonmail is an email provider that attempts to keep your email private. They are based in Switzerland and do not have to adhere to disclosure laws like the other service providers based in other countries. {They have their own laws}

They are accepting donations to expand and grow their services to accept more accounts in future.

https://blockchain.info/address/1Q1nhq1NbxPYAbw1BppwKbCqg58ZqMb9A8?filter=2

https://protonmail.ch/

They have reached capacity but donations will keep them going to protect your email privacy.

If you know of any other email service providers with this goal, please share with us.

If they accept Bitcoin donations, we will support them, because our privacy is important to us.

Cypherpunks were dreaming of this long before 2002: more like 1990's.

Criticism often comes to online wallet providers (Xapo, Coinbase, etc) saying, if you don't own your private keys, you don't actually own your bitcoin. On the other hand, if your cash is in a traditional bank, you don't really own your cash either. The only possible difference, traditional banks have been around longer, and more people trust them. Many bitcoin users who criticize bitcoin vaults, store their cash in a traditional bank. Hypothetically, if Bank of America, or Barclay, or DeustcheBank announced they've invested millions into a highly protected, advanced, security architecture, would you trust someone to store it then? I personally don't trust myself to store my own bitcoin, for now. That could change in the future, but right now, I'm not a fan of the options, as the technology depends too much on my ability to maintain hardware, or, not lose something. I think about pictures, movies, files, documents, I had on my computer 10 years ago (and I always backed up), and I probably couldn't retrieve a single one without relying on a cloud-based service (Facebook, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.). I have no idea where the original photos of my trip to Indonesia in 2008 are, but I know that album is still easily accessible on Facebook. Are critics right to say, don't use an online wallet provider, it's not safe?

Thanks and ood luck brother, exchanges are looked at as banks.

After you're done at the casino, do you leave all your chips at the table?

No, of course not, if you do, you're an idiot and deserve to lose it.

I have no pity for stupid people, none whatsoever, do your homework, ya lazy greedy fucks.

Someone's willing to go to hell so you go broke, it happens a lot... good people, we don't go around expecting to be deceived...

In the financial markets, assume everyone is out to swindle you.

Day traders need to assume the risk, it's part of the occupation; don't put ALL you coin there either, save some in case you lose it all.

A few years ago I made a post saying not to keep their coin in exchanges and to use the Bitcoin Core.

Then I was called a jerk, a nut case, a freak, what have ya for speaking against exchanges and the Blockchain.info wallet.

By whom?  I figure were their respective owners or remote controlled idiots.

Few weeks later, 2-3 few exchanges went down... I told everyone, no one wanted to listen, too fucking bad for them.

I day trade but I don't leave my coin overnight unless I really want a certain price; but I assume the risk when I do.

I also run the core; guess who never lost one single Satoshi?  Myself including a lot of other clever coiners.

Then stupid sheeple be asking, oh please IMF, protect our exchanges!!  Inject our network with fake money!!

The core is slow but safe... cashing out every time you're done your day nearly guarantees you won't lose your coin whilst you are sleeping.

That is my greatest fear, or better yet, spend your BTC on AltCoins instead, there's never been a great MazaCoin or DigiByte heist there lol.

Yeah sounds asinine but get the hint.

LOL when will these dumbass exchanges stop running hot wallets?!

Op. It seems that your general idea is just to use bitcoin on daily basis and I can agree with you. The problem of this solution is however volatile bitcoin nature. As you may know not that long ago bitcoin price was just about around $200 now we are almost at $300. For many people who remember 'old' higer bitcoin price this is unacceptable to spend bitcoin now.

Dude, don't buy up domain names if you don't need them. Some guy or gal may have a business that could use a domain name that you've bought and while you're slowing down their productive activities, they're being slowed down by your greedy hobby.

You're the equivalent of pop ads...don't do it. Don't waste domain names. It's a really shitty move. You're a squatter.

Since Bitcoin's been in existence, there's always been a love/hate relationship when it comes to China.  China has all the mining farms and manufacturers, PBOC trying to halt all exchange withdrawals.  China has tons of ATMs and OKCoin, Huobi, and BTCCHina exchanges, PBOC issues shut down of all banks linked to Bitcoin exchanges.

For all this threats and banter and general FUD, this is the real cold hard facts and "truth" about China.

About 80% of all Bitcoin exchange value is driven by Chinese Yuan:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102497909

China/PBOC isn't trying to ban it, they're trying to "regulate" it somehow...

So although Bitcoin isn't going to replace the Yuan or Renminbi anytime soon, they sure like to trade the F#ck out of it...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-12/wests-plan-drop-russia-swift-hilariously-backfire

Bitcoin network, in his actual form, can process 604 000 transactions per day.
And like you known, stats of the banking system is not very "mathematic" ... when they talk about 15M ... 

It does seem like most people around here, besides the trolls, have a very positive outlook for the future going forward. Sure is nice to have that disgrace, known as 2014, behind us. But yeah, lots of great developments occurred last year so it'll start to pay off coming up here. Should be good times ahead.

Im sorry but i have to scratch that out for you, since there is no logical or techical indication that bitcoin could go to or about 100$, there is simply too much support under the 200 line to allow it.
And what makes you believe that bitcoin will go above 1k $ this year ?
You obviously got this wrong, since the price to all logical and technical guidelines actually does belong in between. for this year to be more precise. And by next years end is definetly time
for op to break even,few months before halving.

cheers

But I still want to experience that! Haha jk. If that scenario could be prevented, that will be nice.

If Bitcoin makes a person mentally ill, count me in as crazy for cocoa puffs!



Then again, one could make the argument I was deranged before Crypto took a hold of me.   

Has anyone noticed, it's always people with the B.W initials that do stupid/bad things? Bruce Wagner, Burt Wagner, now this guy.

Crypto note seems really promising, I'm gonna keep an eye on it for a while, mabey it will create a good coin one day.