Bitcoins already peaked a couple of times over $1000 on the Chinese exchange.  It's teasing it

Naaa, Donnie Yen, now there's a charismatic martial arts actor.

The Blockchain app on iOS still works really well, no axing going on there

To be fair, as much as I do love Bitcoin and what it brings to world transfers.

Debit Card:  Usually $0 for a lot of major websites.
Bank Transfer (UK - UK bank account)  $0

Bitcoins primary strength is still making small to very large fast transfers across great distances around the world with tiny fees.

To be fair, that IS one of the most important steps, for the general public to easily transfer any wealth from existing types (like FIAT) into Bitcoin, without it being too complex, or fearful of having their bank account frozen or whatever.

I can't believe a noob was gullible enough to actually post in the main forum on his behalf!, good luck getting tipped

Time will tell. Over here of course online gambling is legal (UK). I think the uk stance at the moment on Bitcoin is that it is a classed as a voucher......yeah....confused me as well.

If it lives up to all hits hype, then great, something that offers lighting fast transactions, is completely secure and uses far less power in the long term would be wonderful. But it has a looong long way to go judging by its forum, some rather critical security issues to overcome too:

http://forum.emunie.com/index.php/topic/344-wallet-manipulation/

Oh dear *facepalm*

Google 'open source' , read, learn, become wiser,  you're welcome

Same arguments can be applied to using the internet itself, yet here you are, using the internet to post, will you be boycotting yourself from the internet as well to reaffirm your point?

Really? because the impression I got in this thread was some guy writing in a childish attacking way going on about how useless Bitcoins are and there's this wonder replacement currency thats going to destroy it, whilst making lots of additional posts insulting people, ie the reverse of what you just wrote.

Maybe Johny is right, maybe eMunie or some variant will take over as the primary cryptocurrency of the world!, but right now that is pure speculation, and if he was mature enough he'd realise that and not post in such a way as to embarrass himself coming across like a 12 year old, in that respect he does himself no favours.  Seems mature discussions are a rarity on this board.

As of right now this is what we know, Bitcoin is proven, its already widely used around the world way more than any other crypto currency, its not without its flaws (transaction times aren't always the most stable), but we know it works and is pretty damn solid.
eMunie, well its still in the alpha stage imho, its very unproven and far to early stages to really form an opinion on.

Only time will tell if Bitcoin rules surpeme, it has the edge in acceptance and the mainstream media spreading the word about.  VHS beat Betamax after all and VHS was the inferior product.  Anybody right now who claims to know absolutely for sure if Bitcoin will win, fail, or maintain its own niche market is doing nothing more than guessing, because no-one knows, its still far too early to say.

Way I look at it, even if something like eMunie turned out to be rock solid and accepted as the new standard, people will still use Bitcoins and hold value in them for private person to person transactions around the world for very low fees. I don't see it as a threat, and welcome advances, as well as any advances to the Bitcoin code to further improve that too.

lol, cool story bro

I'm off to fly in my spaceship to mars now that I bought with BoingCoins....

You don't understand how markets work ,it's ok we get it.

But what did you honestly think, that 1 Bitcoin would always remain a value of around $1?!?, that attitude is more elitist than that of seeing the price take off!. Why?, because there will only ever be 21 million of them, so realistically for Bitcoin to work as a currency it what, only a few hundred thousand peope have the right to exchange small change? And who gets to decide?.  For Bitcoin to go mainstream and reach tens if not hundreds of millions of users, it's price HAS to go up a lot!.

"You don't think it was Al Gore do you?"    HAHAHA

Ya know, one thing people haven't talked about.  As Bitcoin increasingly becomes stronger and stronger competition, we might even see the added benefit of charges being made by Banks and credit card companies getting reduced!.  This would become a win-win situation for the everyday consumer.

Feeling a bit better about it all now, started off on the negative, but now it seems like most are in agreement that the existing systems in place are for the most part good enough as they already are.  So I'm less concerned about some extreme clamping down on Bitcoin now.

My point being about the focus, not the accuracy, its easy to create a good or a bad picture based on how much of the talk is spent discussing the positive or the negative aspects, so far its fiercly pro-negative highlighting.

I expect to see high counts of 'criminal'  'money laundering'  'illegal' and 'terrorist'   

Haha, yeah I've got 2 chart windows open, one MTGox, the other btcnCNY.  Ones soaring, the other just massively plumetted,  guess which is which

Very dissapointing, but not unexpected so far. I'm hoping the pro-Bitcoin speakers will have their fair say!.