One of the menu tabs is called "Fees" and in the "Funds" tab the first item is "Funding Methods." How did you not find that?

The past week has been remarkably calm, with the price sticking in $3.16-$3.21. It "feels" calmer than I've ever seen it. It's almost as if... dare I say... the marketplace has found an appropriate price given the current economy + NPV of future economy.

It's almost like Bitcoin has become... a civilized asset.

Certainly, it won't stay like this. But, I must say I'm enjoying this current oasis. RIM, gold, and the EUR have been more wild in recent days.

That such a speculative asset like a bitcoin can enjoy stable value - if only for a matter of days - is quite remarkable.

Thoughts?

Would you like to rethink that a bit? 

The problem is not that people or corporations (which are just groups of people) can donate unlimited amounts to politicians.

The problem is that politicians can hand out favors, and that ability grows in direct proportion with the size and scope of government.

Shrink the government, and the number of favors to be dolled out is necessarily reduced. In the "money buying power" problem, it is not the money, but the power.

Now that is a very good point...

Today, Ron Paul had a moneybomb donation campaign.

As of the time of this writing, he's raised over $3,000,000, all from credit card donations. At a 3% credit card/merchant account fee, that means $90,000 was wasted tonight just to MOVE the money digitally from donor's digital currency bank accounts to Ron Paul's digital currency bank account.

$90,000!

Bitcoin, the world needs you immediately.

CryptoXChange.com - deposit cash at any Bank of America.

Crypto X Change's $15 fee is only for the direct bank transfers (replacing a wire/eft fee). Funds via Dwolla/Bitinstant would not have any fee from Crypto's side.

Mention these recent developments:

1) SwitchPoker.com and BC-Casino.com
2) Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
3) OKPay (massive online payment system - popular in Russia/Europe)

Also, specifically related to Free Talk Live's audience, Ira of BTCinch.com will be speaking at Liberty Forum in New Hampshire.

Also, since being "declared dead" by the press about 1-2 months ago, Bitcoin has appreciated over 50%

Try to avoid any discussion of mining.

Did you really make two spelling errors and forget punctuation in so few words?   

Yeah, and in that way it's no different than Paypal.

Well the Paypal itself is also a second class citizen. Often, Paypal -> Paypal has a 2.9% fee.

It's both. The Bitcoin client software and p2p network is a payment system. The unit of account (bitcoin) that works on that network is a currency.

Sometimes I wonder if it would've been a better marketing/branding decision to use two names for these components - something like "Bitnet" for the p2p network and client, and "Bitcoin" for the currency. Not sure...

From their site, "NOMINATE the companies, products and people you believe most deserve industry recognition for achievements completed in 2011"

So it's meant for the most impactful things in the year, not necessarily things that just launched. Twitter won Company last year, even though they didn't start in 2010 of course.

Quickest, easiest way is to have a cryptoxchange.com account. The moment you sign up, you'll have a namecoin address staring at you. You can also buy/sell namecoins there obviously.

Hi all,

Can I make a quick request - if you've tried out FeedZeBirds and it's been a pleasant experience, can you leave a quick rating here?

http://www.thebitcoinreview.com/site.php?site_id=792

It'll help us get more exposure, thanks!

I like that.

Imagine if people, when first asking about Paypal, endeavored into a lengthy discussion of paypal server systems and payment network. Maybe paypal would never have caught on

Maybe it's like the phenomenon that when someone tries to tell you something, it's not interesting... but if you hear about that very thing, you'll be interested in learning.

Hahahah yes!

Humans don't "pay to live on the earth."  They pay each other toward mutual benefit so that they don't starve and suffer in perpetual poverty and discomfort.