http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-25/out-my-face-please-why-are-us-soldiers-mariupol

Covered in zerohedge as well.

Not a word about this in Blomberg, CNN, BBC,.....

Soon enough the US lead western economic implosion will change the rules. Guess who loses?

I am looking into buying some gold with my BTC from these guys and stumbled over these comments that are pretty negative.
Any positive experiences with Coinabul around?

I imagine most of us looking to divest our BTC into bullion are of the same mind about the coming collapse of the US$ / US Bond maket /global stockmarket or all of them together.

I have been following the gold market closely over the last months and am coming to the conclusion that the physical gold sellers are getting squeezed by the currently manipulated paper gold price (futures) getting way out of sync with the physical gold market. The result is supply of real gold is running out fast while the price is being artificially kept down by shenanigans in the gold futures market. The US maintains that the 2 markets are pegged but some figures I have seen recently show an ever growing disconnect between the 2 (physical vs paper gold)
Growing demand for physical gold should push the prices up, but the naked short selling in the futures market keeps knocking the price down.
This phenomenon is explained here by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts being interviewed by Greg Hunter on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0rGaWcRiNo

Could this be the reason for hickups with Coinabul, and others.

As far as I can see Coinabul is the only online seller of physical Gold for BTC.
Are there any others doing this yet? 

I have been using BTC for a few weeks now and know how to put a public key into blockchain.org´s search bar to check on the balance and history of each key.
What I´d like to learn more about is the transactions part of the page.
What are the different elements and links on the page? and how to use them?

many thanks
A

I tried the free bitcoin sites and they were a complete failure not even a sniff of a btc.
I must have solved dozens of CAPTCHA codes and viewed about the same number of adds.
It is a scam to waste your time and make some micro payments from captchas and adds.

I just wanted to get some tiny amount of BTC to test the wallets and how this bold new world really works.
Had to dive in and open a trading account and buy them for cash.
Exciting ride it has been in the last days and a certainly do not regret having dived in when I did.

Lets see where this ride will take us all!

Certainly making it even more interesting how the banks are looking at this thing and really panicing!

Hi all,
I am still quite new to bitcoin so I´d like to just say hi to all before I ask my first question.

I understand the concept of privacy in the block-chain, that transactions are simply tied to addresses and there can be a virtually infinite amount of those so peoples identities in relation to those addresses is basically disconnected.

But I am also aware that bitcoin is actually perfectly transparent when it comes to the transactions and the wallets, searchable all the way back to the very first transactions. All saved and shared and passed on , update and verified between each mining node.
I would imagine that the minimum amount of information is retained from each transaction, if only just to keep the size of the blockchain itself in control, but additionally to preserve the spirit of privacy in the system.

I noticed in the multibit wallet client there is a possibility to make a comment to a transaction. Logical. So that the recipient can put the payment into context. And so the sender can also keep records of transactions.
My question on this is whether these comments, meta data, whatever.. are also saved in the blockchain, and thus perfectly searchable and transparent!

ie. I buy a kg of smoke with bitcoin. If I write what my payment is for in the comments, am I totally defeating the idea of the privacy. Or will that comment only be tied to the wallet and not to me, I guess my privacy is still maintained as long as I do not write my name and address and such in to the comments for the transaction.

Can anyone elaborate on how this works in the Bitcoin system?

many thanks in advance for the enlightenment.

Alex