Has the time lock feature been implemented yet? My wife passed away and she wanted the money from selling her boutique to go to her neice when she turns 18. She is 12 now so I would like to put a portion of that money in a bitcoin address I created for her and lock it until she is 18.

I understand that it is likely not in any of the clients, but does the protocol support it?

Looking for calling card codes to call back to the states from Afghanistan.

I am currently using ZapTel calling cards which gets me calls from Afghanistan to the US for about 2 cents a minute.

I am trying to move as much of my spending over to Bitcoins so would rather buy calling cards with Bitcoins. I have seen wireless cards for sale but not long distance cards.

I hope to go somewhere on vacation this summer and would like to be able to pay using BTC.

Either a cruise or some sort of foreign travel.

At this point, most of us realize that the actual Bitcoin network will not get hacked and our public/private keys are a safe way of holding value.

But I could see a social engineering attack focussed on this by those who would want to bring it down.

Let us say that the Fed or the US-gov or some in power want to bring down Bitcoin. Considering the Fed is dumping tens of billions of dollars into the economy a month, a few million dollars to take down Bitcoin would be a drop in the bucket.

A single agent with a few million dollars would be all they would need. The agent would work to build trust among key members of the Bitcoin community, using his accumulating Bitcoin wallet to get his hands in a few things. He would create several virtual personas which would also try to build trust. His outward approach would be that of security, focussing on ensuring people that Bitcoin is secure and that he is all about making sure his wallet is uber secure. He would go to Bitcoin conferences, make sure to be friendly to people and invest in various projects so that anyone questioning him will be met with a "I met him, he's a really good guy. I trust him.". All about building trust and making it known that he has a secure public address which he flaunts, showing people the amount in his vanity address, tieing it to himself.

Then comes the "attack". Having built up a large amount of BTC in his well known public address, he all of the sudden gets "attacked". All of his bitcoins are taken by a "hacker" and moved to a dummy address with something hackerish like "HACKEDBITCOINS1337LOLZ...". He assures people that there is no way anyone had his private address, he created the vanity address on an offline machine, then burned the machine and put it in a vat of acid then kept the only written copy in a finger print secured safe which was then put into a safe deposit box which has not been tampered with. He claims that this has to be a hack on Bitcoin itself. Then he starts pulling out his other virtual personas who have similar attacks happening. All BTC being sent to the same dead address. At the same time, he uses the money he has built up in BTC to dump bitcoins fast and hard plunging the price a good percentage which sends people into panic mode dumping their BTC. Everything is put into depicting the myth that Bitcoin itself can be hacked and that the vulnerability is unknown and nobody can stop it. A few more "people" continue to claim lost coins, more coins going to the dummy address. Bitcoin becomes considered unsafe as a store of value and with the vulnerability unknown, it is considered an inherent flaw in the whole p2p currency concept.

A few hold outs are skeptical, calling to question various things and still not believing it. They are considered conspiracy theorists and quacks. People move on to trying to figure out a way to make gold more like Bitcoin or just start encouraging people to use gold instead saying that they knew all along that gold was a better choice. Any time someone brings up a p2p encrypted currency concept from there on out, Bitcoin is used as an example of why they should not do it.

I just put this out there as a warning. Just to make people aware if something similar happens, that everything may not be as it seems. We are, after all, going up against something that holds a lot of power. Power is not ceded easily.

When Bitcoinica opened its doors, $/BTC was at $8. Within a few months and with more adoption of its use the price plunged to $2/BTC. The price leveled out at around $4-5 before Bitcoinica died.

There are a lot of people who want to make a profit with Bitcoin and are currently doing so by buying and holding. But would another shorting site like Bitcoinica produce a drop in price as people try to profit from the price going down?

I was wondering if there is a website or a way to sell some information for BTC anonymously.

I have a friend who had a DUI and there are some common legal misconceptions relating to the penalties that I was able to get past with a bit of research. And most likely people in such a situation would be willing to pay a few bucks for said information.

I would like to post the documents and stuff I was able to put together but would rather not have to go through any gray areas of providing legal advice or have pissed off people who have more to gain by keeping the myths in place focussing any attention on me.

The price where it is now is bitter sweet. Sweet in that I like to watch the value of my current BTC rise.

Bitter in that I want to buy more...but want to buy at a lower price.

The correction from its fall from $31.90

I went Kayaking the other day and rented a kayak.

The charge was $35. But they said "if you're going to use a credit card we charge extra". I used my credit card and they charged $37.50.

Ok, it is not all that spectacular since I am selling my truck to my mother but...

I told her that if she is going to buy it she has to pay me in bitcoins.

This is mainly to help her learn how to convert her dollars to bitcoins to help her get her feet wet.

Plus the usefulness of Bitcoin comes into play here. I will be out of the country with no access to a bank. She cannot send me a check. She would have to either go to my bank and deposit into my account or attempt some sort of wire transfer or come up with some other difficult way to pay me (or expensive using PayPal).

Would there be any demand for a bitcoin splitting service?

By a splitting service I mean, you send X amount to one address and it gets split to different percentages to W Y and Z.

An example use I can think of is a small business owner who has a weekly budget with a few employees in one division or set of employees, they send
the weekly payment to a single address and each person gets their set percentage. Like a bar owner pays 20BTC to the waitresses each week. They have 5 waitresses, 2 get paid 25% each, 2 get paid 20% each, 1 gets paid 10%, the owner sends 20BTC to the "waitress address" and each waitress gets her allotted payment.

With the large amount of Chinese characters are Bitcoin addresses a lot shorter or do they just write them using our letters and numbers?

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It would be quite nice to be able to go to a travel website and pay for a full vacation in Bitcoin. They could even give you a voucher for several restaurants while you are there.

Maybe even a vacation to some place like Berlin and highlight all of the places you can go and only spend Bitcoin.

Strippers can get in the game by tattooing a QR code on their ass for the BTC love...

same with prostitutes...

I was thinking about giving Bitcoins out for Christmas to my family in a way that is as easy for them to spend or keep as possible.

What would be the best way?

I was looking through Freelancer (http://www.freelancer.com/) and they have a ton of jobs.

Perhaps someone could create a site where you take the listings from freelancer and post them and display how much you will pay in BTC for the job. Then you submit the job on freelancer with the equivalent dollar price. Once it is complete, you pay the Bitcoin person in BTC minus your cut.

Some vetting and performance measures would be needed for new people applying for projects but using a single company name on freelancer would give more credibility towards the bids.

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