But with banks closed and many ATMs out of cash, some are already feeling a pinch in their pocketbook.
"We can't get any money out and we have less than 1,000 pounds ($170) in cash at the moment so we're buying what we can now and we'll try to get by," said Rafik Baladi, a 59-year-old musician and writer.

I am looking for a few committed software developers, website designers, project managers, and testers, that are seeking an opportunity to invest in a start-up venture. This investment would not be a monetary one, rather it is a time-based investment in the form of your development labor.

The reward is an equity-based beneficiary interest in the profits of this venture. While absolutely nothing at all is guaranteed, I believe this is a revolutionary concept with a wealth-generation potential of massive and epic proportions.

Time investment required would be on the order of about 16 hours per week. The subject of this venture relates to an innovative new “alternative monetary system” of value exchange (“digital barter”). The development framework used is Web2py, and the deployment platform is currently Google's Application Engine “GAE”.

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You guys are awesome. I think the next step is to offer a prize of some kind for the best bitcoin phrase that accomplish the goal of this thread.

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ReadySTATION, a self-service kiosk instantly issues an activated prepaid ReadyCARD, as well as allows consumers to [insert cash to] reload their ReadyCARD or check account balances.

Is it legal in your country to design a contract between landlord and renter where the payment exchanged is denominated in bitcoins?

Example 2:
You own a small apartment building. An artist trades you a painting in return for six months’ rent-free use of an apartment. You must report the fair market value of the artwork as rental income on Schedule E Supplemental Income and Loss on Form 1040. Generally, this would be the fair rental value of the apartment for six months. You can claim your normal rental expenses associated with the barter of the apartment.

Do not provide and stop using Paypal.

BitCoin aids the anonymity required in order to get away with buying Gold in WoW or any online game. However the trick is to get the money to them anonymously, which becomes ALOT more harder.

It's about time Blizzard cracks down on the gold sellers. Although I doubt that'll stop them completely. They'll just switch over to another payment processor.

Currency is a intellectual property? A ingame increasing & decreasing counting mechanism is a intellectual property?

What makes a safe haven currency?

Three possible sets of explanations of a safe haven status.

• First, a currency may be a safe haven if the country issuing it is itself safe and low-risk. That may be appreciated by nervous investors in times of high risk aversion.
• Second, we surmise that size and liquidity of a country's financial market may support a safe haven status, an argument that has been called for during the latest financial crisis. When global risk aversion is high, market liquidity may dry up and most liquid markets may get an additional bonus.
• Third, we test whether financial openness and more generally financial globalisation is a determinant of a safe haven status. An ideal safe haven should be a place that is insulated from the global storm when the storm strikes; a difficult feat in times of financial globalisation.

CPI apparently is "Consumer Price Index", but what is "BPP Index"?

[The BPP measures] just the price changes in observed comparable items with a sample that is dynamically changing every day based on the entry and exit of products.

BPP leaves out important components that the CPI tries to include, such as housing services and technological improvements, though the ways that the CPI handles these issues are imperfect and controversial.

The BPP also excludes important items such as fuel, and makes no allowance for seasonal factors. On the other hand, those items covered by the BPP may be measured more accurately.

A particular advantage of BPP is that it's available daily and for countries for which other inflation measures may be particularly problematic.

When will Bitcoin reach dollar parity?  (when will 1 USD = 1 BTC)

i've got a premier, verified, account with a WaMu checking and a Mastercard attached. i want to clean it out.

i've got access to the email address and the paypal. i'm tempted to find somewhere to buy bitcoins with pp, then send the bitcoins to another account, one more account, then to liberty reserve (through, say, MtGox).

how traceable is this?

Services to transfer cash by text message have been around for some years. One of the most successful, M-PESA, began in 2007 in Kenya, where it now has more than 13m users. It is now used for salaries, bills, donations: few things cannot be paid for via a handset. Similar services can be found in more than 40 countries. Though not yet on the same scale, this seems to be only a question of time: in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, more people have a mobile phone than a bank account

That Chart is parabolic and remains explosive and that is entirely correlated to Citizen Power. Where the Citizen existed in a Black Hole vis a vis the State, they do not now. Egypt, Tunisia et al are evidence of a Tipping Point in the Relationship between the Rulers and the Ruled.

It is not only banknotes which can be counterfeited.

So I am willing to offer my services as a "virtual assistant". Jobs and payments is negotiable. For bitcoins of course.