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Hello,
I have five three Batch 1 Avalons I'm looking to sell. They all work perfectly (and are currently mining) but do not have the updated firmware (so you could increase their hashrate from the current 70 ghs to about 85 ghs).
Will sell one unit or all three together. Price is 60 btc per unit.
Please PM me as I may not check this thread often.
EDIT: Two have been sold, three available now.
Update: 60 BTC each. Three remaining.
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This just went up on Lawrence Expressway in San Jose, California. Brought to you by Bitcoin Jesus.  |
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With a few typos edited, here is the talk I presented on Saturday at the Bitcoin 2013 conference. For this talk, Forget the tech. Forget the mining. Forget the cryptography and the peer to peer networks and the open source code. All of these things are secondary to an understanding of money itself. The core of the Bitcoin experiment is not about tech at all, it’s about money. http://evoorhees.blogspot.com/2013/05/bitcoin-2013-role-of-bitcoin-as-money.htmlWhat an amazing conference it was! So fun to meet so many people I only knew from teh interwebz  |
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Hello,
The April 4th version of the Financial Times had Bitcoin featured on the cover. If someone can find me a copy and send it to me, I'll pay you 1 bitcoin. Doesn't need to be perfect condition, just needs to be the real print copy of the front page.
Please contact me via skype: evoorhees
Thanks!
Taken care of, thanks! Mods feel free to delete.
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This morning, a family member of mine asked me to write up my opinion of the Bitcoin price movement recently. For those who don't know me, I've been heavily involved in Bitcoin since May 2011. It is my full time life, my career, and my passion. The price in 2013 has been wild, and here's what I wrote to my family member.
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Unfortunately, while I'm certainly an insider, not even I know if the price will rise or fall tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or next year. Guessing short term price movements is a fool's game.
My sentiment is the same today as it was a year or two years ago: either Bitcoin is worth zero, or is worth thousands of dollars each. It will take years for the market to figure out which it is. If you believe in the Bitcoin story, that it may revolutionize the world of finance, then it's a good idea to hold on to some Bitcoins. If you think it's just too risky, or are unconvinced of the narrative, then it's best to sell. As stated many times, Bitcoins are incredibly risky and volatile. The whole thing is one grand experiment. Don't ever hold more money in Bitcoin than you can afford to lose, and in general you should assume the whole thing will go to zero.
Now, if you're curious why this price may be going crazy right now, it's a few factors:
1) A handful of "respectable" online merchants are now accepting Bitcoin, this proves that real businesses see the value in it. It's likely that others will follow.
2) Cyprus scared the hell out of everyone (and rightly so). While a few Cypriots may have bought some Bitcoin, the bigger influence is a world of onlookers who are all thinking, "well that could happen to US!" and "look how Bitcoin solves the problem of trusting banks." It's not so much that Cypriots are buying bitcoins now, but rather that the world realizes that as this euro (and soon dollar...) crisis continues unfolding, a greater number of people will seek some degree of refuge in Bitcoin. Speculators, seeing this possibility, are buying up Bitcoins.
3) Venture capital (and private investor) money is moving into Bitcoin. A small handful of VC firms putting in a small handful of their money could explain the entire current price rise.
4) An increasingly wide swath of the libertarian/gold & silver "hard money" types are buying into Bitcoin. They were very skeptical at first, but are coming around. There are probably a few hundred thousand people like this in America who are deciding to put a few grand into Bitcoin.
5) The FinCEN ruling clarified the government's stance on Bitcoin about 3 weeks ago. The good news is Bitcoin is very much legal, and will be treated basically like money. People don't need to worry that the government will come down on it any time soon.
6) The press attention gained from all of the above real-world events is fueling a huge amount of hype (justified or not).
7) Ignorant, foolish people are buying bitcoins simply because the price is going up and they think (consciously or unconsciously) that this means it'll go up tomorrow. Maybe 1% of the buying interest is from people like this, or maybe 99%. Such people may get really lucky, or impoverish themselves, but either way they're in it for the wrong reason.
All of the above have combined over the past couple months to cause this price rally. It may well be a bubble, and could fall back down to $20/coin. Or, it could be the "new normal" and a new stable price between $100-$300 will be found. Or, it could be the start of a mega bubble that drives prices over $1000 before they come crashing down somewhere and cause widespread misery and chaos. The price right now could be the highest Bitcoin will ever be from now on, or the lowest. Nobody knows!
My advice... don't obsess over the fluctuating price on any given day. The market will figure out the value of these coins, and there ain't a damn thing anyone can do to prevent this from playing out.
But certainly, Bitcoin is the most important thing happening on the planet right now... and it has nothing to do with the price.
-Erik
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This is just awesome/hilarious... Max Keiser on RT goes wild for Bitcoin. This comes after he visited here in NY and met with some of the local Bitcoiners, including Bitcoin Jesus. He's now a raving disciple "Only Satoshi the Bitcoin Cyber-Christ is going to save us." -Max Keiser https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_t39jCXXIrY |
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The announcement of namecheap.com accepting BTC is several days old, but originally it was not shown on the homepage. Now this image is there right on the front, exposing TONS of people to Bitcoin. When you click "Learn More" it provides details on why they accepted it, and this reasoning is really important to help convince others around the world of not only the economic but ideological importance of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is becoming aligned with the struggle for a free and open internet, which expands far beyond libertarian types. "Namecheap continues to innovate and respond to threats and challenges in the online space. In the last 13 months, we donated over $100,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to support online freedom. We consider ourselves the pioneers in the space in innovation and freedom."  |
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I'll be talking Bitcoin on Peter Schiff Radio today (Friday March  at 11:05am EST. Host this week is not Peter himself but is Tom Woods of the Mises Institute, who is an absolutely awesome author and speaker. http://schiffradio.com/UPDATE: Here's the MP3 for download: [removed because it ran out of downloads]. You can get it at schiffradio.com - download from the home page. Bitcoin talk starts at 40:00 |
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Not sure if this had been posted yet (mod please delete if so). This is a video of our recent panel talk at Liberty Forum in New Hampshire (one of the Free State Project's two annual events). The Free Staters are heavily into Bitcoin now, I believe it's reached critical mass there. It's not a large group of people, but it's a core demographic and ideological ally. Enjoy! http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/44049245548/video-bitcoin-symposium-at-nh-liberty-forum-a |
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All the talk about why the rally is happening. In my opinion, it is simple. Because this is happening on websites...  The fact that you don't know which site I pulled this from proves my point  |
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Saw this from a tweet yesterday (note: link is NSFW) @classycams Attention all Bitcoin users, we added a new payment option on http://classycams.com/ You can now pay using your Bitcoins through BitPay!  This is pretty significant. FINALLY the professional adult industry is starting to take notice of Bitcoin. This is the first professional cam site that I'm aware of that accepts BTC, and others will be watching. The owner of this site actually contacted me this morning, and asked for recommendations on how to promote this to the BTC community. He said that if it runs smoothly, he'll add Bitcoin support to his other cam sites. If you like girls, I recommend giving the site a try. Deposit some money and enjoy the sweet fruits of bitcoin  http://www.classycams.com/ |
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Just got this in my email this morning... Subject: Dwolla teams up with the government In case it wasn't clear what the difference was between a distributed Bitcoin open-source system and a central corporate proprietary system... If Bitcoin could send out emails, they would say "Bitcoin teams up with freedom"  |
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