Just got my first payment, thanks! But one thing I do want to clarify:

I was paid 0.034 btc, had 28 posts since joining (started posts 681, payment received after post 709), and that only works out to a rate of 0.001214btc/post, when it was suppose to be 0.0015? And even if you omit paying for some of the posts, if you take 0.034btc divide by 0.0015btc/post, that gives 26.667 posts, which doesn't make sense because it's not a whole number. No one makes fraction of a post. How did you calculate the payments?


https://blockchain.info/address/1NQqKf32Pvo7NgZ5AskoA3b45xnakeEHMv

It really depends if you want to leave a paper trail, and how much you want to expose yourself. The quickest way would probably be a large exchange, but you'll have to provide your full identity. If you care about this, then do it bits at a time through localbitcoins.com via cash deposit if you don't want to meet the seller face to face.

Paypal, amazonpayment, dwolla, etc.... they're all reversible. You'll need much more reputation than that to be paying with these methods. It won't matter if you go first or not, or how high your rate is.

I doubt you'll get any hits on this, so I suggest looking for another payment method. If you're willing to do a bank cash deposit, I might sell you the btc, depending on the rate.

Why would you want a bitcoin capital, and what would that accomplish? Naming something a crypto capital is heading towards the direction of centralization. Please keep it as decentralized as possible, we don't need another "Bitcoin Foundation" version 2.0.

The mining was open to anyone, except it was a very new concept back then and NO ONE else joined for a very long time. Someone had to continue mining to keep the network afloat.

Glad you got out of there ok! You should be able to get his personal info since you contacted him to do the meetup. Open a ticket with Localbitcoins and tell them what happened, and if they can be of any help to divulge info to the police. They most likely won't since you can't prove to them you got mugged, but it's worth a shot.

Most people probably have no clue about Tradehill, but I'm sure the older members would. Short history: They were the second largest exchange in 2011, and abruptly shut down after a $30,000+ payment reversal from Dwolla. Everyone's btc and fiat was frozen in there, the owner (Jared?) did attempt to pay some people back, but as far as I know there are still some people that were screwed by them.

Unfortunately, I'm still one of those people that have yet to get my money back. Does anyone have more info on the whereabouts of the owner, or how we can contact him? Last I heard, he took the website offline for "security" reasons and said he'd put it back online to resolve any open issues with customers. Well that never happened. Any info on this situation or contact would be greatly appreciated.

And what if they're coerced by an organization or government to run an attack, against their will? Or what if they're corrupt, and were offered much more money than what the pool brings? It would cost someone far less money to pay a pool to run a 51%, than it would cost to buy enough hardware to run a 51% attack. If these people or organization's goal was end bitcoin, paying a pool to do it would be so much cheaper than carrying it out themselves.

Dwolla is risky for the seller, as it's nearly the equivalent of paypal. Unless you get much more reputation, it'll be hard for you to find someone to accept your dwolla payment.

There is absolutely nothing that will be further gained from knowing who Satoshi is, other than satisfy your curiosity.

But on the other hand, if his real identity is revealed, there is a potential for every government to have him arrested.

OP, you know I can claim to be anyone on LBC? You have no proof that it's your account.

And also, if you have hundreds of trades on LBC, then use your reputation on there to buy with paypal. On here, your reputation is zero, so no one will trust you with a paypal purchase no matter how high you're paying.

This is great that he publicly mention his stance in public, but actually implementing it on ebay/papal is a whole different story. If this were to be true, it wouldn't happen any time soon. Ebay and paypal's current policy is heavily against crypto right now.

Nothing is to stop the Feds from making their own coin, but this would set precedence that crypto would be ok to use in all aspects. Except the nature of crypto, especially the semi-anonymity of it, would directly conflict with other government branch securities, so I don't see this happening.

If it were to happen, no one will support it anyways, seeing how they are to only serve the interest of the government.

Ok here is the same exact you that is in the picture you posted:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131208163390

There are tons of fake coins like this on ebay.

That's a minted coin, but not silver though. The "L" is just a hologram sticker cut out in that shape to fill in the hole. I've seen them sold on ebay (I'll post the link when I find it). Not sure if you can get it from any other websites.

Nope, not happening. Escrow doesn't matter when a newb pays with paypal. How much you have in your paypal doesn't matter either.

Paypal is simply too easy to reverse.

It should be the other way around. You don't need to be a trusted member to sell BTC, but you need to be a trust person (Hero/mod member) to pay by paypal.

Your account needs a lot more trust than that to be sending that large of an amount via paypal. Sure you can provide all the proof and documentation you want, but that's no guarantee that the paypal or bank account is hacked. You also have 3 negative trust feedback and no positive ones.

Good luck finding a selling willing to take such a huge risk.

Ok to summarize, you have no job, no more money, have huge debt, a whole family to feed, and gamble/speculate. You offer no plan of repayment, and no collateral. And now someone is just suppose to throw 10btc at you? So with 10btc, if you make stupid trades or gamble it away, then lender loses, not you. Am I right? Obvious trolling here.

You consider yourself a whale with 30 btc... wow quite cocky. If you dumped this amount into the market, it won't budge.

I actually haven't seen any real life applications of how bitcoins are used as contracts or voting. As of now, it's being used solely as a currency, so I'd love for someone to explain how voting or contracts can be derived from bitcoins, without us "losing" them.

I'm willing to sell 1 btc with Bank of America cash deposit. PM for rate.

And for the record, Chase is fully aware of cash deposits for btc purchases. They now only allow you to deposit cash into your own bank account.