BTC =  $c²

Best yet, thanks you guys, going in my sig next week when BFL ad expires - unless they renew.

Glad that you like, when I first tried with the forum BTC symbol it gave:  BTC =  $c²
which I also liked & am glad to see posted.

Bitcoin is to currency what the Internet was to the printing press.

(pse excuse if already posted or similar)

where E is Bitcoin, m is money, and c is the speed of light.


= $c²

Bitcoin's week ahead, Saturday, 10 November 2012

Current cosmic challenges and opportunities are connected with the need for you to know your limitations. Now, before we go any further, let us consider how you feel when you read that statement. Are you inclined to think, 'Oh, is he telling me that I must not be so ambitious?' Well, actually, no. Sometimes, we do ourselves far more harm when we underestimate our abilities. You now see yourself as restricted in an area of life where you have a lot of power and freedom. This week's eclipse will help you understand that.

PS an edit added to end of eclipse post above

Since ppl first became aware & started trying to figure stuff out, you could call it the beginnings of science.

Bitcoin's horoscopes for Friday November 9, 2012

The history of science contains many tales of code breakers who were able to detect hidden messages by studying complex patterns. But it is not just in the realm of mathematics that such secrets are waiting to be revealed. Someone in your world now, is saying one thing but doing another. You have got to try to find some way to accurately read and understand the information you are receiving. The difficulty is, you can't be entirely logical about it. There are emotional issues at stake. But you will yet make sense of it.

November's Eclipses

There are 2 eclipses this month, a total solar one on the 13th which is the new moon & a deep penumbral lunar one on the 28th which is the full moon & happens to be nicely timed to coincide with the expected date approx of the block reward halving, good stuff edit: In astrology eclipses symbolize when life brings us the chance to wipe a slate clean and start again.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCSEmap/2001-2100/2012-11-13.gif

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCLEmap/2001-2100/LE2012-11-28N.gif

If you make your own cold storage then you don't need to trust a third party, in this case Casascius, you can also store copies of your private keys in more than 1 physical location, Casascius does offer his 1,000 btc gold 1 Oz coin with a dual generated private key so that he can not know it & perhaps with his no denomination savings bars one can get copies of the private key so as to have a back up for security, the ideal may be to have both of these options on one product.

I look forward to seeing some photos of a poker game with Cas coins as chips.

I use Air-Tite capsules from http://www.valleycoin.com/ who also sell stuff on eBay, now days I just order direct from them, Air-Tite have a very high reputation for quality, I find the 28 mm ring capsules a very good fit for Casascius single bitcoins & expect that 29 mm direct fit capsules would work very well too but unfortunately don't see this size listed by ValleyCoins - I've tried the 30 mm & they rattle around a bit, also being thinner than the capsule thickness allows for they will rattle a bit anyway, you can just squeeze 2 in to a capsule.

I have found that plastic film roll contains are perfect for loose 1 bitcoins & think that they would hold about 33 or 34 coins, there are plenty of varieties of these on eBay - I prefer the clear transparent ones, most are more opaque though.

2012 11 28 would be cool as it's the full moon for extra emotional intensity & partying, it's also a penumbral lunar eclipse & they don't just happen every day ~ good stuff, it's also my birthday ftw

Bitcoin's horoscope for the week of November 8, 2012

http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/tarot_cards/tarot15.jpg  A farmer in Japan found a 56-leaf clover. Well, actually, he bred it in his garden at home. It took effort on his part. Presumably, it provided him with 14 times the luck of a mere four-leaf clover. I don't think your good karma will be quite that extravagant in the coming week, Bitcoin, but there's a decent chance you'll get into at least the 16-leaf realm. To raise your odds of approaching the 56-leaf level of favorable fortune, remember this: Luck tends to flow in the direction of those who work hard to prepare for it and earn it.

It seems ironic to me that some of those at the forefront of bitcoin's development think it unwise to send bitcoins to the British Museum's exhibition coin in order to show support & demonstrate just how & why it is so much different & better than every single other item in their exhibition on the history & evolution of money, if I were instead to just write to them expressing my approval of their decision to include bitcoins in their collection & enclosed a fiat cheque for £10 or so to show my appreciation I imagine that you'd be OK with this but just feel nervous because ppl may send them some bitcoins without first asking them if this is OK, well it's already been done so can't be undone - I don't feel like making a big deal over this & think it best to not contact them, at least for now, then to come back to this in a few months time when their coin will be a more long term established part of their exhibition & either themselves or perhaps some journalist or other interested party, perhaps yourselves, will have enlightened them as to just how awesome they could make this display by including a QR code & tablet with blockchain info etc which is something else to consider donating to them for this, anyway I'll drop it for now & just watch how things evolve over the next few months re this but I do hope that a few more ppl will also send the coin some funds so that if they do check it out they can see this happening.

I've had personal dealings with them over a number of years so feel qualified to make such assumptions, np & sure I may be proved wrong about this - I will just ask them directly next week if they have any problem with this.

They encourage & accept cash donations in any fiat or whatever ppl choose to drop in their bins, Krugerrands - Bitcoins whatever, they have no problem with anonymous gifts in any reasonable form... will edit to answer more in 12 hrs ... lol - they won't take the coin off display just because some random ppl have sent it some funds where it's demonstrating to work just as it is meant to, they are interested in representing the reality of the evolution & history of money = this is what it is & does, in real time like never before.

It is not a donation, see my previous posts, I am adding value to something that they have publicly enabled me to do, it's a part of their collection & is exhibited atm, I am helping to demonstrate just how great this is, I seriously think you are misjudging any possible negative reaction from them in ppl doing this & also that if they were to pull the exhibit of the coins because of this that it wouldn't be a big kudos for bitcoin in them failing to cope with this new tech.

Edit: sry - I'm partying right now, I'll edit for more clarity in 12 hrs, but really I fail to see how btc needs to worry about any imagined sensitivities of the British Museum & anyway at least give them a chance to treat btc sympathetically which I believe they would or at the very least objectively I expect, sending their exhibit some funds is really not likely to piss them off too much in my opinion, you guys seem way too defensive/paranoid or cynical to me atm & anyway this particular Pandora is out of her box now so not much point in trying to make it otherwise.

I can't believe you guys, they have loads of anon fiat cash bins soliciting donations in any form anyone cares to make all around the museum so why would they have any problem in ppl tipping them via their new groovy little bitcoin - they want to know & show, record & demonstrate how things (money/currency in this case) evolve - it is their purpose, they aren't going to get pissed if what they are displaying does exactly what it is designed to do (ffs) & they won't give a toss what it's value is unless it hits like £10k + so chill out & pump this potential news possibilities up & if they were to pull it then that would be important news too - it's irrevocably in their collection & I doubt they will pussy out about it being on display just because someone sends it a few $ (Satoshis), not that anyone much has as yet anyway.

I have 500 shares which I posted about earlier in this thread & Nefario confirmed, I kept them as there was no buy side interest for anything like that amount, on the 2nd Oct 2012 I received the dividend payment for these of 7.494 btc which I withdrew to my wallet from GLBSE the same day, I can find the TX in the blockchain if needed and also those of my previous withdrawing of the dividends, this I believe is about as close to proof as we can hope to get unless Nefario releases the records which I still expect & hope that he will.

Maybe it's address could be added to the OP here: https://blockchain.info/address/1NyVMo79Vanhbu92MpPQgCbu9MDV5a4NhW

It would be nice to get it to 10 btc at least for starters & micro donations are cool so as to show them that's possible which none of their other exhibits can do.

Edit to add:

http://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/1NyVMo79Vanhbu92MpPQgCbu9MDV5a4NhW

Casascius himself doesn't think at the moment that it's a good idea to send funds to the coins that they have (link) but personally I think it's a very good thing, it's how bitcoins work & they have plenty of silver & gold moneys in that exhibition that go up & down in value with the markets so why should it be a problem, the bitcoin value in fiat is going to change in any case, they also collect anonymous cash from visitors in all sorts of different fiat that ppl choose to drop in to their collection boxes - some quite high denomination notes/bills, I'd thought of dropping a Cas bitcoin in but this is much better. I imagine they will just let the coin increase in value unless some anon eccentric millionaire drops a few 100k coins on it in which case they'll probably cash it out &  replace it with one of their other ones and issue a news release to say thanks very much bitcoins ftw!

So in answer, no we haven't officially persuaded them to accept bitcoin donations, but their exhibit coin address & the others they have they themselves have made public & that allows anyone to send coins to it if they so choose - it's how bitcoin works & as such they should appreciate it's doing exactly what it's meant to & perhaps this will encourage them to actually turn it in to an official funding source. Re security - it's in an exhibition room with really high value PM exhibits & they know how to look after their artifacts so I doubt anyone with access would peel it or switch it for another.

I'd use the one that they have on display showing the FirstBits: 1NyVMo79 for 1NyVMo79Vanhbu92MpPQgCbu9MDV5a4NhW  

+1 like a marriage of www.bitlotto.com & Casascius coins - I think that it would work really well but best for a sub set of Casascius coins only not all of them so it's opt in, ie as some businesses/religions/ppl don't like to gamble but wouldn't have any problem with regular crypto coins.