Personally, I don't care what price it goes to so long as it remains stable.

Stability is what gives merchants rise to panic or not adopt Bitcoin.

Once these ups and downs are over then things will get better.

In order for Bitcoin to become a currency individuals must start spending rather than hoarding their Bitcoin. As of right now I'd view Bitcoin as a store of value and not a currency.

I put $10k into the system between December - March. This is less than two months of my non crypto earnings so it's negligible.

I managed to turn it into $90k of which I withdrew $20k. So I saw a 100% return on my initial deposits.

What's left is now my play money. In truth it doesn't matter if I lose it all but I have a feeling it won't come to that.

I have no plans on making further withdrawals in the foreseeable future.

many many many many hours glued to my laptop screen since 2011 because of Bitcoin, and I've learned so much from it. no regrets 

Simply brilliant, point # 5: Bjørn Furuknap who called me an idiot when I asked him to stop trolling 100th investment thread and to go back to his thread where he was trying to sell his 20 BTC Metabank ASIC  as a "mining bond" for 400 BTC

Someone should do How to Become a Bitcoin Securities Issuer in 8 Easy Steps

1. Come up with an edgy name that sounds shady or has shady elements (i.e. Pirate, Nefario, Thieves, Diablo, PsychoticBoy, DeadTerra, Slaughter, Nasty, Deprived)
2. If not an edgy name, have a weird name (i.e. friedcat, usagi)
3. Have character and an ego. Have a blog that shows that you are edgy/weird (i.e. Mircea Popescu, furuknap)
4. Be able to write a slick first post of a thread with lots of hype and basically imply that if someone doesn't invest with you they are missing out BIG TIME. Basically be a great salesman.
5. Be able to spend x # of hours on bitcointalk so that you can defend your security/securities against a) other issuers and b) experienced investors. It does not really matter the content of your posts so long as your posts have enough text to seem to make sense. And also you tend to get the last word in.

Anything else?

Havelock has a pretty big user-base while its not mentioned as much as btct or bitfunder I find it a solid alternative the process by which they choose which assets to issue is pretty tough too so you see less AMC type issuing scenarios that said Sandstorm was an interesting choice on their part but LB gave them a chance so I will withhold my judgement

That said TAT is the same on all three exchanges so anything ASIC related between the three you get the same dividend so just get them where its best priced always ^^

       It is definitely harder to confiscate a brain wallet than gold, and it is much more liquid. All that needs to happen is for the risk of confiscation to outweigh the risk of bitcoin price fluctuations. Someone just has to believe that the risk is real. Gold and currency also have virtually no chance of seeing increases of value in the thousands of percent. Simple risk analysis. Besides that, people are not rational anyway.

Well the 5% from dividends is tiny compared to the arbitrage sometimes
If the dividend is
0.03
The difference in the share price should be 0.0015 a share
So it makes more sense to just buy the PT at a lot less than the main unless you want to play with the main or are holding long / converting to direct
Also when the board seat benefits do kick in the extra dividends will be added value
This is not in play yet though so just the arbitrage difference makes it a smarter move to buy the PT most times but the Full do have a premium because of the differences above

And SOS
Either the API bots are being retarded or people are not doing their research as I write this it has made a
1600% return in 4 hours mumble but the IPO sold out in 5 seconds to 6 orders apparently so I feel pissed at napping
Even the issuer is surprised keeps watching as the rest of the market wakes up with a Cheshire Cat smile

Why the hell would they do that?

Completely agree on the "potential" part. Bitcoin is revolutionary indeed, but its potential its still unrealized.

Going back at the two personal examples I gave you in my last posts: the company with which I did business in Argentina in the past, would never pay me in BTC at this stage. The process to buy significant amounts of BTC its still too lengthy, complicated and shady, especially for a big company - the volatility risk is also too big ATM. As absurd as it sounds, right now the only solution would be the one I was proposed, which was to fly to Argentina to pick up a suitcase full of pesos (an alternative would be dollars bought in the black market, but that is too risky and thus out of the question for a legit company trying to transfer a big amount of $).

On the contrary my friend in South America is using BTC to move some money back and forth, but still he couldn't make his relatives to understand how to safely "cash out" without my help.

Making a long story short, the potential is all there but the current infrastructure its not good enough to realize that potential. Bitcoin *can* be a revolution indeed, but it still has a long way to go.

What I do not agree with is with the statement that BTC being decentralized and trust-free is only "ideological" stuff with no utility. No sir, not at all. Those characteristics has the potential to solve very real, daily problems for millions of people on the planet.

    Bitcoin is more liquid than paypal in Afghanistan, Montenegro, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Belarus, and Somalia. This is approximately 600 million people. Even if they only made an average of 1 dollar a day and saved at a rate of 5%, and then put an average of 20% of their savings in bitcoin to be able to make international transactions, this would mean a tripling of bitcoin's market cap. There are at least a few people among those 600 million who would like to make purchases online and are hindered from doing so by restrictions that ultimately only benefit the rich. Both capitalists and socialists can get behind bitcoin in good conscience- free markets create more wealth, free flow of money loosens super elites monopoly death grip on the global order. The more they tighten their fists the more bitcoins will slip through their fingers!

The mad stupidity in Sandstorm forced me to liquidate just a smidgen to play with it for my personal amusement haha
Facepalms all around

Sometimes people accidentally put the transaction amount as the mining fee. Poor guy!

If BTC ever reaches 100,000 (in the far future of course ) this coin will be worth more than the nominal GDP of Nauru, Tuvalu and Montserrat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29

For real? You certainly didn't respond to much of my post. I will rebut you now, but considering your incessant whining about "swearing" and repetition of the same "revolution" talk, I'd drop the attitude. If you want to educate us, please go ahead. But don't repeat the same baseless shit over and over when someone rebuts you. Yeah, that's right. I said "shit." When someone asks about utility, no one cares about an "art experiment." If you want to spread gospel, take it outside the speculation forum, because we're not all pigs here.
That we disagree ≠ I haven't done research.
Again, that people can use bitcoin as currency doesn't mean that the unbanked and those who otherwise use mobile payments don't prefer services like payza, m-pesa, fortumo, text2pay, impulsepay, junglepay, onebip, boku, zong, venmo, dwolla, or dozens of other mobile services... or prepaid cards linked to digital wallets. There's only 11 million bitcoin addresses; zong has served triple that number of customers alone. Paypal has moved into mobile payments as well -- where is it "virtually impossible" to open an account? All you need is a phone and an email address.

Re fees, some of these services allow for free/cheap micropayments, or at least schedules that rival or best bitcoin. With e-commerce, these providers often charge the customer no transaction fees and instead pass them on to the merchant. Payza users can receive up to $400 a month free (sending money is free), which is significant in re to remittances. Certainly beats 7% or 15% you might pay on a single bitcoin micropayment, since you bring it up. Admittedly, once you start taking in enough money, you'll get hit with 25 cent transaction fees, which means you probably wouldn't want to receive less than ~$1.50 - $2 at a time to stay in that range. If you use Paypal as a digital wallet (not as a merchant), then transferring money to friends and family is free. Outside the US, 0.5% to 2%, tops. So let's say I want to pay someone $.50. If BTC=$100, and tx fee = .0005, you pay 10% / $.05 with bitcoin. With Paypal, 2% or less / $.01 or less.

Yeah, Paypal wins.
This "bitcoin revolution" stuff doesn't add anything. Like other web/mobile payment systems, you can send/receive money virtually instantly to an electronic address. Yes, it's not tied to a government -- but we're talking about utility here, not political philosophy and idealism.

Sounds like you need to start looking for a new bank.