Hi Jeff. I just looked up Dwolla after reading your post. I'll check it out. I had never heard of it before.

Do you but and sell things/services with Bitcoins?

I wonder if there is a way to pay VAT and sales tax by bitcoin. That would help to avoid government antagonism.

I quite like the model that dailybitcoins uses ( http://dailybitcoins.org ). It's simple and let's you get bitcoins (or at least fractions of them) right away. All of the other ones seem difficult to actually get as payout. That's my experience, anyways.

In any case all of those types of models will eventually have to become secondary to the use of bitcoins as a payment currency for actual tangible goods and real services. There is a certain lag there though it seems.

Thanks, Epoch. I actually had figured it out and had edited my post . . . but thanks for the reply. It's appreciated.

Do the restrictions come off automatically after the set number of posts and/or the requisite time or is it necessary to apply to be 'whitelisted'?

Hi to all
I looking forward to getting to know some people here.
I really feel like Bitcoin is something that I feel needs to succeed.