found an article on good profit margins: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/093015/whats-good-profit-margin-new-business.asp

it depends on the industry. using that article as a guide, I would expect returns between 4% and 10%. The only people who get 20% interest are credit card companies and the ones who get 50% are your local loan shark and he quickly runs out of customers (or customers run out of fingers).

For an investment I would be happy with 3%. If you get rid of inflation (depending on your local currency/country) it would end up being between 1.5 and 2% which is decent.

Maybe I'm just being overly conservative or maybe I'm just happy to earn a little more than a typical savings account.

I think the key difference in the transaction completion time and the number of transactions that can be handled is the fact that all of these transactions are PUBLIC and out of the hands of VISA and MasterCard. I'll take a 1 day completion time if it means that less of my information and spending habits are in the vast databases of VISA/MasterCard/NSA/USGOVT thankyaverymuch.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the fact that Wikileaks was greatly helped by Bitcoin. VISA and MasterCard and PayPal all were pressured by the US Govt to stop allowing donations to Wikileaks. It was only through Bitcoin, which hasn't been banned but is treated as a mere commodity rather than a currency, that Wikileaks has been able to survive.

This is payback by the US govt or the banksters trying to take over. We'll be seeing a subprime mortgage fiasco with their alternative blockchain if they have their way soon enough.

How much ISKs do you need? I can give out maybe 10mil right now for 1.5 bitcoins.

Yep, it has to be like that because many items in the game cost a lot more money and within an hour of playing you can earn 100s of millions of that currency. You're basically printing out a crapload of money

Yeeeah I got it backwards. I said I was a compsci tutor, not a math tutor

The real rate should be higher, between 30 and 50 BTC, right?

I don't know, there surely must be a few beginners here, no?

Or is there a good classifieds system for this? :S

CompSci tutoring...here's the ad I post on Craigslist usually The rate can be changed to a per session rate instead of hourly if that's easier for people.

I am a computer programmer who has experience with many programming languages and can help you with object-oriented programming courses, computer science courses, and other courses for C, C++, Java, Python and other languages.

I have previously tutored students who went to the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, York University, and Seneca College. The courses covered basic computer programming concepts, object-oriented programming with Java and Python and C++, and with computer science concepts such as binary trees and recursion and threads.

I also do some programming in my spare time and have a website and blog where I discuss computer programming and various ideas related to computer software.

My rate is between $15 (~35 BTC) and $25 (~58 BTC) per hour depending on the course material you need tutoring in.

NOTE: I will *not* help you cheat or write the code for your assignments for you. I can only guide you to the solutions, I can't do them for you.

This is a great idea but I don't have any bitcoins left. It'd also be nice to have even smaller conversions like say 10mil-50mil of ISKs for some bitcoins (it's possible so why not, right?)

Click here to use a currency conversion calculator that I created on InstaCalc. The first row is when you want to convert BitCoins to ISKs, the third row is when you want to convert ISKs to BitCoins. The second and fourth rows are where you determine the exchange rate. I might write a small web application to make it easier to do the exchange (and then maybe have it also pull up the USD, CAD exchange rate numbers from somewhere else).