I think that gentlemand explained it best.  If merchants want to take sales in BTC but have to pay their bills in fiat, they need an easy way to do this.  What's more, with the volitility of the bitcoin price, people who aren't interested in speculation want to get their btc back into fiat pretty quickly.

This is a fun topic.  I wonder if bitcoiners will start to celebrate 3 January as a kind of holiday.  What will it be called?  "bitcoin day"  "satoshi day"  "genesis block day"?

I'm glad you guys actually got paid.  Sorry I missed this one.

Thanks you guys.  I was away for a while but now I see this.  It seems that latin-1 is okay but not general unicode.

I found this profile:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=381968

Pretty cool, has a nice lower case mu as the username.  I like it.  But when I tried to create an account with a greek letter in it, I got "Error: Invalid character in username."

So I want to know which characters are allowed in a username.

The fourth one is too hard to read, IMO.

You guys are going to be really impressed:

Total time logged in: 20 minutes.

I think my first time was around 1996/97.  That's about how old my oldest email address is.

I hope nobody finds him.  I've seen many searches, so far, Satoshi is still winning.

I think that greece is going absolutely crazy at the moment.  I can't believe they're just getting an atm now though.  It seems like this was overdue by 6 months.

Thanks, OP, this is pretty funny!

I think that it will happen sometimes (self-driving hitting us), but I think it will happen less than with the human drivers.

I definitely cannot beat it.  I used a computer in 1995 but I didn't get on the internet until waay after my dad stopped our subscription to Prodigy message boards.