While chatting in my mining pool's IRC, I am constantly surprised to find that many miners, the foundation on the bitcoin ecosystem, don't even use BTC for anything.

I'm a miner.  I'm a speculator.  I'm a merchant (well, I have some stuff for sale on http://bitcoinharbor.com/).  I found out about bitcoin about a month ago and i love it.

I have 132 transactions in my day-to-day wallet (my mining income goes to my secure wallet).  Mostly, those transactions are gambling, because that's what I find fun.

How many transactions do YOU have, and what "kind" are they?  Purchases, gambling, donations, etc?

I'm in!

Lets blow this shit up!

Whoever's referral link I clicked when I signed up is a rich man, because I am a Kamikaze addict!

For the last week or so, MtGox has been in the process of changing banks for Euro transfers.  This has prevented any new Euro from entering the market.

Is this resolved?  When can we expect traders using Euro to be able to trade again?  (By that, I mean move Euro in and take BTC out)

Thanks

You're the guy with the video poker, right?  That game is well done.  If you make a blackjack, with standard Las Vegas rules, that plays as well as the video poker, I will play it all the time.

Keep us updated.

Much better than before.  Nice work.

However, The next predicted difficulty is only 1.64M

I understand how you've calculated, but it would be cool if we could enter a difficulty % ourselves.

[edit]  I'm blind. Its already there

I don't see any Bitcoin references there.  It' s not in the list of currency.

OK, I joined.  Now what?  It's not clear what the next step is.  I see a list of questions, but they do not seem Bitcoin specific.

I had a trade nullified by the rollback after the hack.

This is the bitcoin betting fighting game?

Because I suck at fighting games.

I gamble at more traditional gambling games - black jack, ponzi, and this new minesweeper thing (in my sig). 

but then, I'm old, and new things scare me.   

Or, let Europeans transfer Euros to MtGox.   

Which has not been allowed this whole past week.

It's little, the "up" side (when plugged into my MacBook Pro) has a small copper circle that you press.

When logging in you press it for 1/2 second.  When you release, it sends a string of text to the MtGox "Yubikey" input field.

I have not done a withdrawal yet, but my understanding is that you press it for 3 seconds (instead 1/2 a second), and it sends a different string.


When you first plug it in, OS X thinks it's a keyboard, but you can just cancel out of that, and it works fine.

With this, I'm confidant that my MtGox account is safe from hackers.  Is my MtGox account safe from MtGox?  I don't know, but they have all the volume, so they have me for now.

I agree.  As stated on the bitcoin.org website:

"Within the Bitcoin community, many are very careful with their security and identity. This is primarily for two reasons:
* There is no violent body to cover your back for you, or, more simply, there are no courts to seek assistance from if your transaction sours.
* One’s reputation is the most important thing that any user has; traders will take very little risk with new users who have not proven themselves (as they could just be last week’s scammer with a new identity)"

As stated, if I send you BTC, it's yours.  There is NO WAY I can get it back.  There's no filing a dispute.  Therefore, I have to totally trust you.  You have to give me reason to trust you.

For this reason, many on these boards are very quick to cry "scammer!".  Maybe too quick, but you can see the reasons.

That said, we need a BTC bank.  So I want to trust you.  I look forward to your posts this weekend.

Slashdot is one of the original "Reddit" type sites.  It started in the late 1990's.  I joined in 1998, so it was around then, at least.  You could say Reddit and Digg are "Slashdot-type" sites.

But like any tech-heavy discussion site (say, like forums.bitcoin.org) you have a lot of smart people who think they know everything.  And Slashdot's users are consistently wrong about what they think will catch on with the "general population".  For example, they all thought the Apple iPad would be a huge failure.

So, looking at it that way, if the Slashdot users think Bitcoin will fail, it's now guaranteed to succeed!

Gambling.

Quick in, quick out.  Both the gambler and the house are sure they got paid.  No one knows your name.  Easily divisible for strange odds.

I realize I'm pissing into the wind here, but:

Even if a woman really IS a whore (and I'm not saying or implying that MsBitcoin is or even seems to be), a gentleman does not call her a whore.

So, the question is, do you want to be a gentleman, or an asshole?

I think many of you have already answered that question.

We don't present a very nice face to the world, do we?

"Bitcoin, We're The Trolliest!"

Do my eyes deceive me or is that RandyFolds on the forum!!!

I get a big delay in the traceroute at "unknown.prolexic.com (72.52.5.67) "

A visit to prolexic.com shows Prolexic "provides class-leading global DDoS mitigation service"

Hello.  MtGox is super slow, so I checked and I'm getting 52% packet loss to them. (I'm in the USA, Southern California)

Is anyone else having trouble?