+1 for chieffery

Was a rough trade at first, but if you work with him he will work with you. Everything worked out well in the end and I recommend him.

Received the red pouch really quick. Looks awesome! Thanks much Thralen!

+1 for Thralen. Super fast shipping too!

+1 for Isepick. Quick response time and the activation code he sent me for Shogun 2 activated without a hitch.

Very smooth transaction, thanks much Isepick!

PM'd, I'm interested.

There are a handful of things I consider important enough for the government to take care of. Police, Fire protection, military, roadwork, etc. In that list I truly feel the postal service is worth our tax dollars. Forget everything you dislike about Bush and Obama for a second here. Forget about everything they have done up until right now. Now, consider that Obama has been parading around the country recently trying to gain support for a new $465 billion dollar "jobs" plan. Why isn't he pushing congress to pass emergency funds to get the USPS back on their feet? I read that the USPS is in jeopardy of not making a $5.5 billion pension plan payment next month. Obama could propose a plan to give them $12 billion (a mere drop in the bucket compared to $465 billion no?) to keep them comfortably afloat for now and within 2 months press even harder to make the legislative changes needed to fix their broken union contracts.

I'm not saying the post office shouldn't down-size to keep up with the times, but why does everything have to be so damn sudden and severe when it comes to core services from the government? It's like Congress and the White House have no interest in fixing problems they can easily solve and instead try to create new problems or worsen big ones. It's my understanding that the "jobs" plan would be similar to the 2009 stimulus and if recent memory recalls correctly that worked real well didn't it? Oh wait we're trying to win votes for the next election not actually fix problems in a manageable way one at a time. I swear high school kids taking civics classes could run this country better than Washington does currently. At least they could see the mess in front of them clearly because their heads wouldn't already be up their asses.

As for a USPS shutdown's effect on bitcoin? Well it will hurt many bitcoin based start-ups in various ways. Those that choose to use USPS shipping of products no longer would have that option. The mail a typical business receives is slowly being offset by email, but not entirely. Like all other businesses they won't have a convenient and cheap way to receive or send simple paper mail via envelope. Eventually UPS and/or Fedex will take up the challenge of dealing with the USPS' business. Personally, I still prefer tradehill to gox and since the Dwolla incident I choose to get checks sent to me instead of signing up with Paxum when I do convert to USD. Tradehill will mail me a check for free and I only have to wait ~5 business days. It's not like the dollar's value is jumping from 12 to 4 to 6 to ?? every other day so a check for $xxx is still worth $xxx to me when I get it.

Play time on games at the local arcade!

Or maybe just arcade parts would do. I wonder if Lizardlick would consider accepting bitcoin in the future.

I have been pretty happy with my 3 cash outs at tradehill. That was before the dwolla incident anyway.When I needed help logging in (signed up a long time ago, but didn't use the account for a few months) they were quick to help me retrieve my username/password via email and quite courteous.

My friend uses bitpit and he's had no issues joining or receving payouts. You do have to be patient with them on payouts since they are a smaller pool however. I keep putting faith in btcguild, but god damn their luck is all over the place. One day it's -46%, then it's +36%, now it's back to -37%... I just want some stability here.

I have no idea about bitcoinrebate.

Cheers and GL Tammertime!

Hoping this is still fresh.



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I know 3 crack heads who are looking forward to making BTC deals in the streets with android apps in the future. Clearly the government should step in as soon as possible so that cash is used instead.

First post! I've been lurking the bitcoin community for a few months and have been mining with a dedicated rig of 5830's for a month now. Looking to make these forums a place I frequent.