If Bitcoin is like reverting back to digital gold, then perhaps the next thing will be a digital version of trading a fish for two apples.

I was actually just about to post the same thing due to my supercomputer running numbers. You beat me to it and likely have already benefitted financially from it.

In order to keep from getting campaign funds from foreigners candidates are supposed to get the name and address of every donor. Even when accepting bitcoins as another New Hampshire candidate discovered a few years ago.

I would emphasize Bitcoin as a currency to be spent as opposed to a stock to buy and sell.

Some people are put off by Bitcoin's volatility as compared to government currency but you can show that with unit cost averaging, over time the price is stable and if they use it as a currency instead of holding government currency then their purchasing power grows over time as opposed to shrinking.

When the dollar crashes you will be jumping to Bitcoin's current stability.

You can say good-bye to American online retail companies.

You will be buying most of your goods from the Bahamas from now on.

Contribute with something from your own background.

If you play poker professionally you may want to work with someone on a poker tournament or something you are familiar with since you have a good understanding of what that world consists of.

Bitcoin is not yet ready for a large company such as PayPal unless they go through BitPay (And I doubt BitPay is ready for that many PayPal transactions).

Right now most Bitcoin businesses have a single person or a few trusted people who have access to cold storage wallets. A huge company like PayPal would have to figure out how to allow an accounting department to have access to private keys without someone just logging in at home and draining their wallets.

Some people send ASCII numbers via satoshis.

Actually, the town I used to live in had a private fire department. No taxes went toward putting fires out at people's houses. And that fire department was rated one of the highest in the state for safety giving all home owners in town a lower rate on their home owner's insurance.

I will not explain here how they were paid because if given a bit of thought, people can come up with ways that government services can be paid for without force.

But just getting the money at the point of a gun is easiest and requires no thought.

How would you create a private fire department?

However you need to justify it. I know that it is wrong to initiate force. But I understand that tyranny exists because people accept it in exchange for goodies.

I am from a planet where using force against someone to take their money is considered a bad thing.

Will it be ok if someone steals your money at the point of a gun on your way home tonight?

Forcing people to hand over their money is not evil?

Awesome. This should just about close the loop on my requirement for fiat.

Though, the fees are a bit steep. About half would be reasonable, but with no competition they are able to charge those types of fees.

If I put my mortgage payment in bitcoins instead of my bank account, the price would have to rise from the current $146 to $153 to break even. Certainly worth it (at the current rate) considering I usually have my $ sitting in my account for a week before I send the check.

So...do not keep us in suspense.

What grade did they get?

I cannot access this site from work but I just saw this:

http://bitboin.com

Supposedly they accept credit cards to buy bitcoins?

From a google screen shot it appears like some rudimentary wordpress page that is very simplistic.

Though, what is there to worry about getting scammed since you can always do a charge back if you receive no coins.

Not if I can help it!

Have you noticed a Scammer tag with a bunch of red XXXXs under some people's names?

Go check a few threads in Lending, you will see plenty.

I was figuring I would just pay for my next phone card using bitspend.net

Maybe even buy a new phone as well.

As long as I can use my bitcoins to buy things, I do not care what people call it.