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81  Economy / Goods / Re: [Coming Soon]Aluminum bitcoin cards on: January 05, 2014, 05:35:49 PM
I am working with the lazer guy right now on getting a few test runs to make sure all will be good. I should be getting it in a week. He is kinda backed up from the holidays. Undecided

The card will look for the most part exactly what is in the picture.

If the Black comes out good there will be a test with a Blue and also a Red.
I am also looking at doing aluminum wallets as well or if big enough done out of glass  Shocked

The price for each card will be $15.00 <-- more cards that i get coming in the cheaper that price will get.  Cool
Note: Keep in mind the price will probably drop. Once all gets settled.

If ya have any ideas or questions please let me know.

Shipping will be from Texas/USA.

Small Flat Rate Box: $5.80


Just a suggestion...I think you should use a different font for the public address... A font that shows more clearly upper and lower case characters.
82  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Review of my experience with Coinbase.com on: January 02, 2014, 04:07:06 AM
I have had excellent experience with Coinbase. The couple of times I was confused they got right back to me. The only think I question is allowing you to stay logged in. That seems a little risky for a bank.

Coinbase has definitely improved.  Last April I bought 10 bitcoins through coinbase at 120.   When the coins finally arrived, I only received 7.3, because the value had gone up.  A week later, I purchased another 10 bitcoins at 230.  When the bitcoins finally came in a week later, I got ten bitcoins, even though the price has dropped to about 120.  In other words, Coinbase just gave you bitcoins at whatever price it felt like.
83  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: My first post - spend hours to understand Bitcoins - still have some questions on: December 18, 2013, 08:43:38 PM
Hello,

My name is Ed and I am 40 years old. I learned a lot about Bitcoins and see that many websites have a technical approach and non-technical approach in explaining how Bitcoins work. Also many sites there is a difference between a objective and subjective approach of explaining the details.

I am the kind of person who wants to know exactly how things work. In my work I also attended a 2 week course to protect agains hackers, and learned about public and private keys.

I have the following questions:

1) I found out that the website www.bitaddress.org is the most simple way to generate a bitcoin address and a private key. However, it's a website accessed by the internet and by using a web browser, using an operating system. From my mind, the most secure way of generating bitcoin addresses with the private keys, is on a standalone computer, with no internet access and without any wifi/bluetooth adapters in it. Is there a way to generate my own bitcoin addresses with private keys on a standalone computer ? After that I will print out all the output to paper and destroy the standalone computer.

2) I like the thing about being anonymous. Not that I am trying to hide something, but I do not like the fact that I need to prove that I have nothing to hide. I know that all the transaction data can be accessed by the website http://www.blockchain.info . You can see exactly how many bitcoins belong to an address and all of the transactions.
But let's say, I have a piece of paper with my bitcoin address and private key, I walk into a store and see a product which has a price of exactly the same amount of bitcoins, which is stored on that bitcoin address. Can I just give that paper to that person behing the cashing desk in order to get my payment accepter ? And how long does it take, before I can walk away with the bought product ? I can understand that the owner of the shop, who accepts payment in bitcoins, wants to know for sure that he or she owns the bitcoins.

3) I see a lot of people standing up, saying something about the future of bitcoins. As a result of that the value of the bitcoin in Euro's or Dollars, will vary a lot. What do you think about people who are trying to predict the future about bitcoins with big words ? Or is it just all speculation ? Or do you think there are too many powerfull people who try to say something, don't have any idea they are talking about ?

Hopefully you give me a lot of info I can think about the coming days.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Ed
Go to bitaddress.org
Disconnect the internet
Then generate public and private addresses, and print them (maybe several copies)
Then erase the history on your computer.
84  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Anyone else bought high? Worried? Still holding strong? (I bought in at $1080) on: December 18, 2013, 08:30:11 PM
I bought all my Bitcoins at $1050 on Coinbase.  A few days later the "China Announcement" was released, I was still awake at 4 am and saw the announcement 1 minute after it was released.  Knowing the value was going to plummet fast, I logged into Coinbase to sell my coins before they started dropping.  However, despite taking the money out of my bank account days prior, Coinbase hadn't actually given me my Bitcoins yet.  So all I could do is watch in horror as the price crashed from $1200 to $500 before Coinbase finally gave me the coins.  

Since then I've tried to buy more coins at the bottom of the two latest crashes, but despite coming out of the same bank account as my 1st purchase, Coinbase keeps cancelling them for being "high risk".  *which is absurd, my credit score is over 800 and I've never cheated a single person out of $1 in my entire life*  

Coinbase is the ultimate scam, as of last week they have cost me $4,000, and as of this week almost $8,000.  They've left a bitter taste in my mouth, I am about done over the whole Bitcoin craze.  I think at this point I'm going to hope they get back up to the $1,000 range, so I can sell and go do something else with my money.


Just hang in there.
I'm not worried at all.  Bitcoin will be at several thousand dollars by next summer.  You'll regret it if you sell out in the 1,000 range.
     There are, IMO, two reasons for volatility.
1.  There are still people with thousands of bitcoins that attained them with minimal effort.  These individuals
     can still have a big impact on the market when they sell off.
2.  It remains difficult to buy bitcoins, especially when the prices are dropping. 

Both of these problems will gradually evaporate with time.
You need to also consider that it costs about $700-750 to mine one bitcoin.  Thus, bitcoin is currently way undervalued.  Those who are selling now are just individuals in panic mode... And that will not last.  I expect another 24 hours or so of volatility... Then the price will start marching up.
85  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Anyone else bought high? Worried? Still holding strong? (I bought in at $1080) on: December 18, 2013, 05:39:11 PM
Any other newbies out there that bought high and have still held strong?

I truly believe that cryptocurrencies are the way of the future, and that in all likelihood, Bitcoin will be the one to rule all, but I have to say, these recent developments and subsequent crashes have me a little worried.

I'm sure some will take advantage and cultivate the fear here by posting some FUD, but any positive comments would be much appreciated!

Do you think we have reached the low yet?

Do you think we can recover from this? Even without the large chunk of daily trades that China brought to the table?
I wouldn't worry.
Most of the naysayers are spineless liberals who can't stand the idea do a currency that is not subject to the whims of beaurocrats.
86  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Bitcoin down big time...down $200 in a few hours on: December 18, 2013, 03:17:32 PM
I find it laughable that naysayers think bitcoin is a failure because it is not embraced by governments.  Those who panic and sell because of statements by bureaucrats in ivory towers are only in it for the short term to make a quick buck.  All this sell-off is doing is strengthening the base of bitcoin owners.  Now is an excellent time to buy.
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