If you are a member of one of the Casinos rewards programs then you can likely stay in Vegas for free. I gamble very little when I go there, but receive offers to stay in their hotels for free almost every day.

I agree. This would be very unethical. It would be similar to a loan officer approving his own loan. There was actually a scandal about employees at the NSA spying on their love interests via various NSA programs, the employees did not make out well in terms of their careers or their security clearance.

You would likely need to pay some kind of sales tax based on where the items are shipping to. If you would need to pay sales tax in you were to purchase the same item in a store, then yes you need to pay sales tax. From a sales tax perspective, buying something online is no different then buying something at a physical store, and paying in BTC is no different then paying in fiat.

Greater merchant adoption will make it so ATMs cannot offer as large of a discount for converting BTC to fiat, however merchant adoption would not allow a way for people to convert fiat to BTC.

Another plus to using bitcoin ATMs that has not been mentioned is privacy, and the lack of a need to jump through a bunch of hoops to comply with the AML checks (verification) at exchanges. The most you have to do to buy BTC at most ATMs is let it scan your ID and your handprint (not all will do this). This is much simpler then sending a bunch of documents to an exchange that may or may not keep your information safe.

They didn't really have problems receiving payments. The article talks about how others are not able to use paypal for their business and how others have had their paypal account frozen, but the couple in the article was able to get paid by the payment processors. Their issue what that the payment processors were taking so much of their sales that the couple was not reaching their full potential for income.

I agree. It would just not be technological feasible to transmit blocks and transactions from planet to planet without loosing the double spend protection that Bitcoin provides.   

When I first started to read your post I saw that you mentioned that you bought a server from dell, and I thought that you were the person who had bought $50k worth of server from dell in BTC. Unfortunately after reading more of your post, it turns out this is not the case. I am a very big believer that this is how you should handle your bitcoin. This will show merchants that accepting bitcoin is good for business and their bottom line

I think this post is more or less begging for people to give you money which is against forum rules.

A "widget" is something that is used as a placeholder in accounting and economics classes that takes the place of the good that a company is selling. It is another way of saying your product.

If your system considers a payment to be unpaid if the full amount if not received then what happens to the money that was sent you? I also am pretty sure that you said above (although it could have been someone else) that you accept the short payment.

The point of my above post is the importance of customer service, which is not part of the Bitcoin protocol. If it means that you earn a little bit less from your sale to make your customer happy then you should make a little bit less as the customer will be more likely to buy from you again. It is also about simple economics. The amount in question that you are saying you are being shorted is roughly 6 cents. Any viable business will certainly make more of a profit per sale then this (likely a lot more). If you were to give up a sale because a customer is $0.06 short then you would be giving up your entire profit from that sale for no real reason.

The reason for the premium in argentina is because of the artificial peso/USD exchange rate imposed by the government; the peso/BTC exchange rate reflects the blackmarket peso/USD exchange rate.

Most other terrorist organizations do not have any kind of social media presence, however social media is very new and was really not around nor as big as it is now when other terrorist organizations were at their peak.

You would probably be surprised as to how much money organizations like al-quiata has. They will usually finance themselves from Muslim related donations and likely receive significant amounts per year. Muslim related charities were scrutinized after 9/11 as it was determined that some of them help pay for 9/11

I don't think we are quite at the point yet when someone can actually live on bitcoin without first converting it to fiat first (or gift cards as this is really the same thing). The forbes reporter was able to have a much easier time living off bitcoin this year then she did last year so the bitcoin based economy is improving. I would predict that someone could use bitcoin for all of his expenses including things like rent and doctors visits (both are very rare to be paid for in BTC now) over several months within 2 years.

I agree. The most likely receipts to this amount of bitcoin are likely either a miner or a business that accepts bitcoin for payment. I don't think there are many people that transact this much business individually to be able to receive more then 600 per day.

Another good example would probably be charities that accept bitcoin for donations. 

I think if this happens on a centralized bases or a decentralized basis it will be a huge target for fraud and scammers. In the OPs picture SeansOutpost was the example, but a scammer could make several addresses with slight variations of this name to try to get people to send them money when they misspell who they are trying to send money to.

I would think that merchants would be responsible for paying the same taxes they would need to pay as if they were paid in fiat currency. I would highly doubt that they would add additional taxes to bitcoin.

This actually is a very good point. If you are known to have a lot of money or something else that criminals might want (information or a security clearance for example) then you would be subject to a lot of attacks. However if this is not public information then criminals would be much less likely to attempt an attack.

I agree this should be in the off topic section. However with that being said it is very comical for people to actually believe that BTC was created by any government agency. They would have absolutely no use for it.

In other words he is a very influential person in regards to the finances of the country. He holds a similar role that Alan Greenspan held in the mid 2000's.

If you send with less then the recommend TX fee then you are more or less sending without a fee at all. A smaller fee may speed up confirmation somewhat but it will still take a long time if it confirms at all.

This is very true. If you were to price your products in terms of BTC then you would likely get a lot of questions about how much your products actually cost. If the public is familiar with a certain denomination then you should price it that way and when you accept bitcoin you should make adjustments for exchange rate changes.

LOL. I think the OP should repost and lock the thread and the new thread should be stickied somewhere. It is more or less accurate.