Does anyone here think 1 bitcoin can ever be worth the same as 1 oz of gold? Wouldn't it need *mass* adoption for that to happen, like PayPal level.

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Nevermind, I got bitinstant to work.

SOLD

How come litecoins are worth 6 cents when they have no market to use them for? Why do the people who mine, sell and buy litecoins use it, instead of just using bitcoin?

I am trying to mine, my macbooks runs 4000 hashes per second. Is that good? Should I do Litecoin instead?

For those of you who hold bitcoin as a currency investment, what is your strategy... or at what price will you cash out? ...or, what year

I mean doesn't it have to be online to make sure that wallet isn't already taken? I don't understand how it works. How does the database know that these wallets/pass keys are being created, if the generator is offline from the database?

sold this on ebay, no bitcoins but all good

Here is another post I found online where they are just taking turns trashing bitcoin, calling it child porno currency and mocking people who use it as idiots.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/132jt7/meta_if_reddit_does_choose_to_accept_bitcoin_it

How can this sort of attitude be overcome? It wouldn't take long before the media makes bitcoin become synonymous with that. It seems whenever I hear it meant in public there are a lot of replies like that.

Is this a normal attitude about bitcoin? I thought I am very fair, offering to send first. Then they said it's 'imaginary'...how is it imaginary if I am offering real value for it? Is this the kind of thing we're all going to have to deal with? https://i.imgur.com/5i4Cu.png

With halving coming, should I sell a couple oz for bits. I wouldn't wanna miss it doubling or anything. Or I could hold the pm and just put a little money every month into bits. What would you do in my predicament?

Can't someone luck out and jumble a bunch of numbers and letters, luck across a private key, and steal all the money off the paper wallet?

1) I'm getting into bitcoins a bit, I'm worried about all the people whose accounts were wiped clean. Have there been any incidences of mac users being a victim to this?

2) I am going to use a yubikey and 2-pass for mt gox and store the wallets offline on thumb drives. Should that be enough protection?

3) Let's say that that all the thumb drives I save end up malfunctioning, if I write down my addresses and passcode on paper, would I still be able to get the bitcoins back, without the wallet/dat dat?

Thanks!!! I hope to do some buying bitcoins on this forum soon