Just a minor mention..


Also posted here: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/technology/doing-apps-and-start-ups-while-still-in-high-school-643177/?p=0

Also published on 2012-07-02 here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/258676/the_nontrackable_cashless_future_isnt_here_yet_but_its_within_reach.html

2012-07-03 hypergridbusiness.com - 5 reasons grids should avoid BitCoin

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91315.0

 

2012-06-27 newscientist.com - Freicoin: Occupy's online currency for the 99 per cent

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90402.0

Difficult to convince the rich??   Try convincing the poor who don't have a regular income.
I recall my absolute fury at bank fees eating up my very small account when I wasn't earning.
It'd floor me if this freicoin gained any traction.

2012-06-26 p2pfoundation.net - Monitoring Bitcoin: Two significant hardware developments are announced.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90159.0

Yes... and perhaps in the case of deflation in an environment where your smallest unit of change can buy more than 1 loaf of bread - it may be a bad thing.
However - the experiment of using a deflationary currency that is also incredibly divisible hasn't really been run.

Bitcoin isn't just deflationary - it's inflationary and highly divisible. I think that makes a huge difference.

Nice try..  but to repair your flawed comparison, it'd need to be something more like:

..and to both of those you could add:

And that's charitably assuming you're not conflating macro problems with USD/Bitcoin vs an individual's problems with handling the stuff (but it rather seems you are).

Bitcoin can be reasonably considered a protocol or a 'base' upon which layers of protections can be built and optionally used.  
Just like the physical cash of the USD offers no direct protection and has a complex centralized electronic infrastructure which does in some circumstances offer merchant and/or consumer protections; if the Bitcoin system needs such protections to move into certain niches, then it seems likely the market will produce offerings on top of it to achieve that.

If you're talking about more macroscopic issues.. well the 'responsibility' is different for sure, but in some ways comparable.
Theoretically - you influence those who direct US Dollar policy through your vote...  and theoretically with bitcoin, the network's users/miners influence the various client/library developers (and thus which is the surviving blockchain) by 'voting with their feet' so to speak.

+ ... ship non-North-American orders 2 days earlier.

lol.. Unfortunately I get from this that his position on Bitcoin is that it's currently an irrelevancy... but hey.. at least he's acknowledging that it's being traded.

Jim Cramer of 'mad money' fame (and now famous in Bitcoin circles for his cameo on 'The Good Wife' - 'Finding Mr Bitcoin' episode),
recently tweeted:

https://twitter.com/jimcramer/status/216253913496694786


which was in response to:

Anyone got any insight into what he's talking about? I'm guessing it's basically a joke.. sort of to say he's not really paying attention to either?

At that price I'd be picking up about 10.

2012-06-22 siliconangle.com - Bitinstant Reviews The Bitcoin Card, It’s Real: Small, Thin, and Smart

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89141.msg983087

2012-06-22 forbes.com - The Bitcoin Richest: Accumulating Large Balances

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89140.0

Looks like a repost of a previous article.. http://techgeek.com.au/2012/06/18/bitcoin-feature/

hmm.. so I have to keep mining with Eligius in order to get back to expected return. I'm not particularly well versed in the mathematics of probability.. but isn't this a bit like the gambler's fallacy?  ie  just because I've tossed a run of 10 tails in a row doesn't mean I'm more likely to get a run of heads.  Does the maths really say It'll come good for me?