There aren't many exchanges that accept direct fiat into alt conversions, so without bitcoin as the middle man, it would be a lot of effort to actually buy the alts in the first place.
If the exchanges followed your plan, I think there would be an exodus from Alts, I don't mind playing around trading Alts, knowing I can get my bitcoin back, more or less, but if I was in and committed, I wouldn't bother.

It is a British term.
I am getting a bit peeved about the public response to him being suspended.  We don't really know what he did, but the rumours are that he made racist comments and that he punched a producer.
I think the racist stuff might be from his last few incidents, but punching a producer is a new accusation.  If I did that at work, I would be at least suspended!  I like top gear, even though it's best days are behind it, but I won't support someone for being a lout, just because he is fgood value on tv

My bank accounts are insured to cover any losses, my home/car/bike etc can all be insure against theft, why can't bitcoin?
As long as you can prove that they were stolen and that you had taken adequate precautions (this is where the insurance companies will screw us!) then it seems completely fair to expect reimbursement through an insurance policy.  I bet the premiums would be high to start with though.

It doesn't really work in this case. If you look through the periodic table, there is essentially nothing but Gold and Silver that is unreactive and plentiful enough to be stored to keep it's value.
Bitcoin is great but can't be guaranteed to keep it's value like Gold and Silver, it could legitimately be replaced by something better and antiquated in no time, reducing it's value to zero.

Bitcoin at this stage is a good investment, but it will live or die by being used for trading.  I try to use it whenever I get the chance, I encourage others to do the same.

Priced in USD, I don't really see it as very compatible with what they have been doing up until now, it's a little odd in fact.
Some of the prices look pretty good though, and the chance to win the laptop is worth a potshot, so thanks for the info.

The money transfer companies wouldn't always go out and buy the bitcoin, then sell them when the transfer is complete, they would surely have some on demand to perform quick transfers.  Right now I am sure that Western Union has loads of foreign currency all over the world for just this reason.

I think the increased usage of Bitcoin would increase the price, along with competition for buying when they first start to buy in.

Central bankers aren't politicians.
I'll shock you with this one, I think the president of the United States is the most powerful politician in the world.  They have the most powerful force in the history of the world at their command along with the biggest economy in history at their command.

This advert seems a little disingenuous to me.  The price was $13 at the start of 2013 and $800 at the start of 2014, what was it at the start of 2015? That part is left out!
Also the prediction of the price part is the same, some predict $10,000, others predict $0,00.

I like the idea of having an info poster, but if it is too one sided, then people will ignore it.

Pretty sure your maths is off there, but it was a good month for € denominated Bitcoins.

if I invested 100€ into bitcoin, it would now be worth 1.32x as much due to the bitcoin rise.  It would be worth 1.06x that due to €s falling against the dollar.
I make that 41% profit, rather than 38%

You are reading incorrectly. They are just showing the current market value of the coins that were bought.  They have obviously rounded up or down, that's why you get the figures of about $300/coin.
They apparently aren't going to tell us the prices, but I am sure they will be leaked from somewhere.  Not many people spend millions but don't tell anyone what they bought or for how much.

As they can print as much fiat "money" as the want, they could pretty much buy up Bitcoin if they so chose.  Any left over Bitcoin (in the US) could be seized.
They have plenty of ways to largely take over bitcoin, if they wanted to.  I don't really see why they would do it by buying small tranches in the Feds auctions.

It would be very interesting though. I would rather it be a big investor, like a Bill Gates or Warren Buffet though, but that also seems unlikely.

In short no, I think the next set of currencies (after the current fiat ones fail) will be backed by a basket of commodities, such as gold, silver, oil, copper etc.
Bitcoin isn't really made to be used by everyone for everything in the entire world, it is a trading currency, or will be when it develops.  Local currencies should also continue to exist too, whether they are crypto or now, I don't know.

This is the writing of a lunatic. Why would you like everyone with social security to drop dead?  Do you understand that it is a system that we are forced to pay into our entire lives to protect us in times of need? The government plans to steal it from us to pay off some banks that over-leveraged themselves, yeah that sounds fair!

From Wiki: But you would rather that they die...?

Greece will never pay back it's debt, but then neither will America, or the UK or China, so why worry?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-10/bitcoin-default-swaps-blythe-masters-joins-bitcoin-startup

So this Blythe Master sounds like a piece of work, but it is very interesting to me that they are trying to set up a kind of swift for Bitcoin.  Someone with so much market influence is probably backed by lots of money will surely help the bitcoin environment to grow.
It really does seem like the old wall street types are seeing opportunities in Bitcoin at the moment, I hope it doesn't take over too much, but it should definitely make things more mainstream.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/harvard-student-uses-14000-core-supercomputer-mine-dogecoin/

That is the story I remembered.  A 14,000 core supercomputer, but it was only about as good as 13 good GPUs.  I think that is a good representation of how bad CPUs are at mining Bitcoin/Litecoin/Dogecoin.

If you are going to have women only changing, you can't allow men in who feel like women. 
Post-op is a different thing, then they are trans-gender and, though not genetically, they are women. 

I guess they could just have communal changing areas with stalls for everyone, that's what my local swimming pool has.  Otherwise everything gets too complicated.
Is the point of sepearated changing that you change with people like you, or that there is no possible sexual arousal in the changing rooms?  If it is the latter, then it should be done by sexual orientation rather than gender.  Like I say it is complicated, I wouldn't want to have to deal with it!

In fairness the bulls post just as much rubbish as the bears!
I think it will take more than 500BTC to crash bitcoin $70 now, especially with plenty of buying pressure at the moment.

$300 today (on Stamp), $350 late next week, that is my prediction

This is not common, re-add 2FA as soon as possible and contact Blockchain.info.  I would probably move any bitcoins out of that address too, run a virus scan, check your sent emails in case the request is still there, change your email password, essentially do everything to stop them from getting into your account.

Well it seems I have got all of the "help" I am going to get from Purse.io.
I have been threatened with legal action, but Purse say I shouldn't worry, it isn't my fault.  They won't refund the ripped off company and can't contact the scammer (shocking!) so they will just let things run their course now.  I guess I just have to wait until the police turn up at my door now or I get a court summons. 

I don't recommend people use purse.io.  10-25% discount is not worth the stress.

Even with thousands of computers mining for them, is it even getting them anything?  I thought CPU mining was so slow compared to GPU and especially ASIC mining that even 1 millions CPUs would essentially be useless for bitcoin mining.

I read a while ago about a supercomputer being used for Doge mining, it wasn't very good, I beleive better than a good GPU, but nothing special, not worth wasting supercomputer time for anyway!