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I've had 3 offers come in for 1.5. I will propose that first offer of 1.6 will take it. If I don't receive an offer of 1.6 by the end of the day today, it will go to the first 1.5 offer I received, and so on.
A note on the condition - I haven't really tried cleaning / retouching it. There are a few spots on the front of the coin as you can see in the photo, but I figured someone else might be better at cleaning it up than I.
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What is the error on the coin? The date year? Off by a year maybe?
Not familiar with physical bitcoins in noticing such things which would be more apparent to most here.
Sorry for my ignorance in the matter.
But would still like to be in the know cause fiat coins shown error make it more valuable if not for the one for bitcoins.
The name "Casascius" is spelled wrong on the hologram. Yes, it's spelled correctly with the large "casascius" printed on the back, but on the part of the hologram where the word is repeating in the background it's spelled "casacius". |
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This story is better than the 10,000 bitcoin for 2 large pizzas story from back in 2010. This story is an actual direct exchange of bitcoin for goods received...for the hamburger. The pizza story is really bitcoin payment to another bitcoin enthusiast in return for them ordering a pizza for you...it doesn't represent some unique early, real exchange for goods and services.
The coin looks clean! 1.5 BTC is quite a fair price. Someone should be on this quick!
It does have a very interesting history indeed. Erik Voorhees used this coin to pay for food at porcfest in 2012. I wasn't selling the food, but the vendor who sold the burger didn't know what to do with the bitcoin, so I gave him $7 for it. The exchange rate on Gox at the time was about 6 change IIRC. Will update if / when it is sold. |
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When he was running he did not accept them for FEC reasons.
I think this was an issue with regard to compliance with the FEC's reporting requirements. FEC should be fine as long as donations are properly reported. I know the FEC allows campaigns to accept non-USD donations as long as they are reported with an accurate USD value attached, however I'm not sure if this applies to something that could be classified as a commodity / "investment". They need to show that the donor was an American citizen as well. |
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I used to work for Ron's campaign, and also know many of Rand's staffers personally. I can most likely convince my friends at young americans for liberty to accept them, and possibly Campaign for liberty as well. Ron has a little trouble wrapping his head around the concept of bitcoin, and he's been a gold guy since before most of us were born, but he was receptive to the concept and is all for competing alt currencies. Rand is likely pro-bitcoin personally, but his political people are really cautious about anything that could be played against him when he runs for president. They would be afraid of "rand paul accepts non-american currency commonly used for money laundering" or something to that effect.
I'm involved with a PAC that is supporting Rand, and we have accepted bitcoin donations that will go toward supporting Rand's presidential run.
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transaction fees aren't a problem if more people start using off-blockchain transaction networks like coinbase and (soon to be) bitbanc  |
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The only correlation between bitcoin and a ponzi scheme is that one may argue that in both cases, early investors (or users) are better off than those who get involved later on. Even this analogy is based on the assumption that bitcoin will certainly be less valuable in the future than than they are today... anbd bitcoins are also a currency, not simply an investment.
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It's going to be hilarious to see the whitehouse's attempt to respond to this while not simultaneously making their case for hypocrites of the century. I can only imagine the cognitive dissonance occurring when they try to dismiss the pro-snowden people as right-wingers looking to score partisan points, when the issue is one that the left supposedly champions (transparency / civil liberties), and an issue the president ran on. His words in defending the NSA could have just as easily been uttered by Bush, Clinton, etc. If times like this don't wake people up to the fact that both US political parties are the same (authoritarian), I don't know what will. |
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A one syllable word is most likely to gain common usage.
100% agreed. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any currency, denomination, or denomination nickname which contains more than 2 syllables. Dollar, buck, cent, pence, pound, yuan, yen, franc, euro, ruble, peso, bitcoin .... "bit" |
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Q: Which of the following sounds better to the AVERAGE person:
Your meal comes to 2.5 ________.
a) bitmills
b) millibitcoins
c) millibits
d) "m.b.t.c's"
e) bits
Yes, a subjective question, but I think it's safe to assume a poll of the general population would show a preference for "bits" 9 out of 10 times - possibly more.
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...and the domain got seized I could have seen this coming. It doesn't matter if your corporation is registered on Mars. If you want to take American customers, you have to comply with the banking laws of EACH state, in addition to federal law. Which doesn't mean the USA has any moral authority to seize a foreign company's internet domain. Control of generic top level domain (.com, .net, .org, etc.) registrations needs to be taken off the hands of the American neo nazi government ASAP. I'll one-up you: Never mind having the right to seize a foreign company's domain, I'd argue (along with my fellow anarcho-capitalists) that the US 'government' doesn't have the moral authority to exist, period. Governments by their very nature assume that you do not own your own body or the property you use your body to acquire, and your very person is subject to the will of the 'collective' (fictional entity). So if you believe in self-ownership as a moral right, you must reject the idea of an involuntary 'state' / "social contract" theory. |
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if mBTC's are going to be the denomination used in everyday commerce, it would be a dire hinderance to mass adoption to call them any of the metric-derived proposed names.
Branding. Branding. Branding. Branding.
"bit"
ƀ100.00 = 0.1 BTC
1000 bits in a bitcoin.
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Did you even do the math prior to listing the perks?
1,000 X 10 = 10,000
100 X 20 = 2,000
25 X 100 = 2,500
10,000 + 2,000 + 2,500 = $14,500
Looks to me like you're trying to get $10,500 worth of donations without offering any perks. That's a mighty uphill climb, wouldn't you say?
I think he should be able to raise the extra $10k simply with his photoshopped image of a bitcoin debit card, along with people dreaming about just seeing the domain name "paysay.com" being renewed year after year, and knowing they played a small but meaningful part. |
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...and the domain got seized I could have seen this coming. It doesn't matter if your corporation is registered on Mars. If you want to take American customers, you have to comply with the banking laws of EACH state, in addition to federal law. |
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there are many companies that offer this, all of which seem more reputable than this offering.
the "holy grail" offering would be a bitcoin-backed debit card, where you held bitcoins in a wallet which "backed" the fiat and/or bitcoin spending power of a mastercard / visa debit card. My company is working on this offering, as was BitInstant as of a while back. There are MANY hurdles with this offering - not only is there finCEN, but it may not even be possible if visa or mastercard end up not wanting to play ball. Even if they did, we're talking an investment to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop the solution and maintain compliance with state and federal regulations. Moving business outside the US does not remove this burden, as MtGox recently found out.
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In my opinion you have a wrong understanding of how a huge organization like the NSA works.
Saying that the NSA have the resources to invent Bitcoin \ plans to perform a 51% attack on the network \ any other conspiracy theory, is part of that misunderstanding.
You should compare it to a commercial company, say Google. You cannot start a huge-costly project (Millions of $ is considered costly, as much as you think the NSA can spend whatever on whatever), while you're unable to prove it is profitable. For Google, profit is $, for the NSA, profit is either intelligence \ means to gather that intelligence \ projects of National security.
If you think about Bitcoin, it is neither.
The NSA can do research, it might try to see what's going on and even use it to its causes. But for what Bitcoin is now, it is not something a government agency would spend millions of $ for research so they might be able to do something with it in the future.
No government is that efficient.
We're still in an age where the government will spend 100M easily for 1 aircraft, but will not invest even 10M to research and influence on a revolutionary, even questionable digital-technology
^^ Thinks that government programs need to be profitable and/or useful in order to get funding...  |
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Great idea! Yesterday I had the idea of curing aids. Please fund my kickstarter, whitch will turn my idea to business for benefit of millions. I will use donations to purchase necessary servers and domain names.
I'm going to make an assumption:
You are asking for money to issue a bitcoin-backed debit card without even knowing about the FinCEN regulations that will cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply with - never mind the fact that no visa or mastercard affiliate will even go near a bitcoin company wishing to employ their services.
good luck!
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bits.
that's actually what we're naming them in our software.
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