Most people who own gold will tell you, if you don't have it in your hand, you don't own it.  I agree with that statement.
I would however assume that Bitreserve either buys the gold (unlikely) or buys GLD (more likely) with your bitcoins, otherwise there is no gold involved in the process!

Can you not ask them exactly how they invest in gold with your Bitcoin?

That is really cool.  Do you get the exchange rate at the time you buy the coupon, or when it is redeemed?
I don't really understand how it works, but it is a very nice and easy way to buy bitcoins.

Do you need to show any ID when buying the coupon? 

As you can see, I am not a member of the Dadice campaign, but I find the conversation interesting anyway.
I think really, you need to tell us what Dadice want to get out of the campaign, rather than us telling you.  Obviously as signature users, we want to be able to post as often as possible and get the highest returns possible.  I assume Dadice wants to get their name associated with trustworthy forum members and high quality posts made on boards that will encourage users to use Dadice in the future.

To that end, I would say that a minimum post count isn't useful for you.  A maximum is useful, as it is near impossible to post more than 100x a week and not have a lot of filler posts, even if they are not spam.
Weekly/monthly makes no difference really, I personally find weekly better as I don't have to worry about the company running away having had 3+ weeks of advertising, but it isn't a game changer if the campaign is trustworthy.

Fixed rates won't encourage good quality posts, making counting stricter would be good, but would take a lot of your time and would require the payment per qualifying post to be increased. Counting more liberally will only increase the spam levels.

For what it's worth, I hadn't heard of Dadice until the sig campaign started, I haven't used them yet, but might in the future.

I am no socialist, but I think it is better that taxes are high and services are good, than the middle road that most countries go, middle taxes, crappy services
The other option of having very low taxes to allow the rich to screw over the masses, i.e. the American system, also doesn't really appeal to me.

If they do have a big immigration problem, it will be because it is doing so well as a country.  I can imagine a lack of entrepreneurialism being caused by the system, but when I have been there it always seems pretty forward think, especially in comparison with Germany.

I don't know if there will only be one cryptocurrency in the future, but I am 100% sure that litecoin won't be one of the major cryptocurrencies of the future.
It is a bit faster than bitcoin to confirm, otherwise I see almost no innovation.

Primecoin, peercoin, NXT and many others have lots of interesting new aspects about them. Litecoin doesn't. Good call by BitVC, concentrate on the central market being sucessful, then look at peripheral markets.

I know, I have spoken to the company, they know that I haven't scammed them, but if and when they report it they will go after both me and the buyer, they will have to.  Apparently as they are an Amazon marketplace company, any refunds are done automatically.  I actually didn't know about the situation until I got a letter asking me to sign to confirm non-receipt of the item.  I immediately contacted them to tell them that I had received it.

You can argue the semantics of who has been scammed with me, I would just say that the stress of dealing with it and the threats of legal action, along with the complete lack of support from Purse.io here, are not worth the discount available. For what it's worth, the item cost 140€, so I saved 35€.  If push comes to shove, I will probably pay the 140€ to the company to avoid court. Like I say, it's not worth it.

It was bad luck that Aguero missed the penalty, yes.  It was good luck that Barca wen't already about 5-0 by that time though.
I think it was fair enough that Man City lost, I wouldn't be claiming bad luck!

I expect more of the same from them in the CL next season, except they will have a different manager!

That actually sounds very good, and the screenshot looks good too.  I have a few wallets and would like to have an overview of them all.
I just opened an account and see it is actually for businesses though, it is also only for America, or at least not Germany.

You could have said that to start with!

I don't think that they have problems due to their social security, that is fairly normal in Scandinavia, they pay high taxes and have lots of services, it's a very successful system there.  Immigration doesn't seem to be much of a problem either.

In this case their problem is that they are doing so much better than the eurozone, so need to purposely mess up their currency so that it doesn't massively appreciate against the main trading partners, thus they punish people for buying Krona.

Only 0.8 Bitcoins lost here, I deserved it though, I deposited and bought bitcoins when they wouldn't allow any withdrawls.
I knew I was taking a big chance, and I lost.  I still think I might get about 0.2 BTC back from it one day, who knows how much bitcoin will be worth when that happens, maybe I'll be in profit!

If he gets a block in an average or slightly longer than average time, that will be a soul destroying month of waiting with absolutely no return!
I personally wouldn't mine solo with such long expected gaps between finding blocks, I would be too paranoid that I had a setting wrong, or something wasn't working etc.

Maybe mine in a pool for a while, then when you are happy enough that everything is working perfectly, switch to solo mining, but I wouldn't be able to do it, but then I am not the luckiest person in the world, so would expect to take over a month before getting a block.

Do you have unlimited free electricity, or essentially unlimited anyway?  If you do, then go for it and invest what you have into miners.

I believe buying second hand would work out cheaper, especially as lots of miners are turning off at the moment.  You can probably swoop in and get a good deal from some of the others on the forum who have recently given up.

I have been around fiat money all my life, but I still don't have too much of that!
No one is going to give you bitcoins for nothing, you will either have to advertise, work, gamble or invest.

If you don't have any bitcoins to start with, and aren't able or willing to buy any, then you will have to advertise or work to get them.
There are quite a few websites with small jobs being paid in Crypto  - this is the only one I have heard about though http://work4crypto.com/
I don't know if it is any good though.

Good luck, remember though, Bitcoin is just money, you still have to earn it if you want more of it!

FTFY.

I liked Fat,sick and nearly dead 1, and fat head. Both about nutrition, both from different sides.
If you like US sports, the ESPN 30 for 30 series are really good.  Catching Hell and Slaying the Badger are my favourite 2 that I have watched there, they are both on youtube.

@Jaysabi - I will watch Inside the Federal Reserve, it sounds interesting, thanks for the tip.

Ok, I'll bite, mainly because I think you want to explain it to the class.
What is mTurk? A very quick google shows it to be Amazon marketplace but crowdfunded, is it like Kickstarter?

I thought the point of crowdfunding was to start a business without needing banks, not to get money out of it by hook or by crook...

Not me, I filled out the survey on a different PC to where I have my bitcoin core, and now where I access any exchanges or web-wallets.
I think it was probably just a survey to find out some opinions of the bitcoin community, I would be very surprised if he could scam using that infomation, even if he wanted to.

Goldman Sachs are incredibly schrewd, they might make statements to move markets in their favour and do some morally questionable work, but at the end of the day they make money, even when markets are going downwards.

If I was a banker, I would want to work for them.
I am happy to see they see a big future for bitcoin, I'd rather have them with us than against us!

I hate to say I told you so, but ... I told you so!
Man City aren't that good, especially in europe.  Dortmund have overperformed in europe this year and were ready to lose when they played a well set up team.

Man City keep spending lots of money, but who have they bought who is top world class? Yaya is and so is Aguero and David Silva, but they have all been there for years now.

Austria is about 1% the size am USA, so it would be like having 60,000 bitcoin outlets in America.
I think that classifies as "an jeder ecke" oder? nicht buchstäblich aber...

I think the same thing is already available in the UK, but the bitcoin economy is still pretty small there, I hope it helps the Austrian's BTC economy more.

It would punish the early miners and as such would probably have meant that no one would try to improve the miners.
Crypto as an idea is supposed to be different the normal fiat currencies that are inflationary i.e. bad for savers and good for those who aret stupidly risking their money on risky wall street trades.  It's money for the people.