Bitcoin helps the Gig economy by allowing a single currency to be used to hire any contractor around the world (for work that can be done remotely). This would apply to writers, graphic designers, coders, artists, business consultants. No those people can bid on work from any country in the world and get paid via bitcoin with minimal fees and no need for currency exchange.

Is there a beitcoin-dedicated freelance jobs site? Like www.freelance.com?

This will be their second indoor skiing slope. It's funny that they now have enough ski areas for people to make Dubai an option for their ski trips!

I've skied at Ski Dubai, it was cool. The snow was a bit slushy, they have two main runs, one "groomed" and the other moguls. It was good...it worked...there was even a chalet style lounge at the bottom to enjoy the apres scene.

Is this a joke?

Wil, did you ever think the WWF wouldn't be against trophy hunting ANIMALS?

Maybe you're being sarcastic...

Here's a list of a ton of organizations against the sport hunting of animals, game, and fish -> http://www.all-creatures.org/links/hunt.html

How can you invest in something that requires a transaction that's essentially anonymous, isn't reversible, and has zero recourse if one gets scammed? If you want an investment opportunity you convert your bitcoin to fiat and then use that fiat to buy your investment. The bitcoin will only be in fiat for a few days (at most). Honestly, it's the only legitimate way to do it at this point.

I guess there's one other option - create an honest investment for us to engage in...

CIYAM has a list of people to ignore, it's mostly people with signatures...but he'll probably give it to you if you PM him.

Here's another ignore list -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1019752.0

Want to give someone their first opportunity to earn some trust? I'll escrow for free to earn your trust...

This a great point - it's a akin to nickel (5 cent) arcades or penny slot machines. The early days when bitcoin was young there were these games of chance called faucets...I still play on freebitco.in (PM me for my referral link and I'll kick some back to you).

You never know when you'll hit a lucky spin or win their weekly lottery! It's like playing the regular lotto with out the monetary expense!

Is it too soon to think that "backed b the state" may be losing it's value? As long as governments keep manipulating money there will likely be an interest and audience for bitcoin.

What data did you find for the purposes of your study? Thanks for sharing it!

I love that Zimbabwe is trying to extradite him to get him to answer to the charges filed against him in that country.

I don't understand the allure of killing animals like this. Clearly the "fees go to conservation" doesn't make it better, it merely offsets/nuetralizes what the hunter takes.

The "hunt" isn't a thrill, waiting in a bush for animals to walk by can't be thrilling...sounds awfully boring. There should be some sport involved.

What I don't understand is why this one lion is the trigger that gets a bunch of people to stand up to this activity that's been going on for DECADES? I'm not saying that just because it's going on for a long time it can't change but what's so special about now to get people so upset to act? What's the catalyst? Is it just the personification of a lion or is it something more?

Really? So how long must something be on the market for a market price to be determined? How many bidders need to approach one seller to validate the sale price?

I think the market spoke, especially since i know that QS didn't have the coin offered up for an hour but more like two days. I think "market equilibrium" is a better term for what you're explaining.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_equilibrium

ANACS is in the US. And to my knowledge your list is correct. The challenge though is that ANACS is seen as a less reputable coin grading firm (although it's one of the oldest) compared to the others out there. I guess it doesn't matter much when they're one of two firms doing grading, or maybe their willingness to grade any crypto-coin reinforces the "less reputable" perception.

Some people swear that the hologram - it's condition, alignment on the coin, and the first bits alignment on the hologram (e.g., many on Casascius coins are crooked) - is not considered as part of the grade. I'm not convinced, given that these coins are rarely circulated so most would have a very high and same grade if not for variances in the hologram.

Maybe you could try to interview someone from ANACS to get a real understanding of how crypto-coin grading is perceived and conducted.

Good luck with the crypto-coin book!

Yeah, he has a great point. But this immediate conversion to cash is more probably when the price of bitcoin is volatile and new. This article was written a year ago, I wonder if this guy has a different opinion. Bitcoin certainly feels a bit more "regular" now that it did a year ago, less foreign or obscure.

This is weird. The transactions keep coming too, for about the same amount. But it looks like the address is paying itself - I'm sure I'm not reading the site correctly, what am I missing? How do we know where the transactions from this 1mtgox address are going?

How did you stumble on this?

I think if you were selling your trust you'd get called out for it really quickly. People would either give you negative trust or forum mods would shut you down.

The subject of this topic doesn't make sense...have you ever heard of a "Dollar CEO" or a "Euro CEO" or a "Yuan CEO"?

If only the people that need to learn this could be here reading it...

I think you mean he paid market rate for those coins. If they were worth more in this market, they would have sold for a higher price, no?

I'm not discounting the great coins you have but we have to trust the market as being efficient and drawing out the most fair price available at any given time.

Wow, you hate people like me? What does that mean (your comments wee kind of sporadic)?

I never said I didn't want to be someone's referral, I made two points

1) how do I know if I'm Simone's referral?

2) if we all used the sites we were referred to we'd all make some money!

You shouldn't assume people have ill intentions, it's an awful way to go through life.

When your survey is complete, please come back here to share your results with us. Researchers come here often asking for the time and thoughts of the community here and rarely, if ever, do they return to share what they've learned.

We'd all appreciate learning from the findings of your study, it's a fair trade for our time.

Thanks and good luck!

Bing is awful. Yahoo is significantly better, even though their search results don't distinguish well between ads and legit results.

Thanks to TheButterZone for sharing the link, i'll check it out.

Bing is basically artificially increasing their searches (i.e., ppl conducting searches), which is the metric they use to set advertising rates. The $5 Amazon cards are like faucet dust compared to what they'll make in advertising dollars as a result. Just another corporation preying off the "poor" to make another $1 Million...it goes against what a lot of us believe in. Remember that before you subscribe to this shit.

It'll be taken down because it was just released (in July) and was available for viewing at the Producer's website for $5.99 (accepting bitcoin only of course). The YouTube version is pirated!

Official Link to the movie: https://video.popchest.com/videos/embedded/176

Link to the producer's website: http://theendofmoneyasweknowit.com/

Leave reviews here at IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4654844/

If you plan to watch the YouTube link version, the pirated version, be a good sport and float these guys a decent tip equal to the value you gained from the education and entertainment. And then tell a friend about it and give them the Official Link above so they can pay the full, yet very fair price.

If you believe that the fiat currency system and banks have an unfair advantage, don't steal from the people who are trying to bring awareness to that unfair advantage.