Companies like Coinbase only charge a very low fee -  it's definitely annoying for a few people, but they need to have a very high rate of legitimate users (I guess >99%) to be profitable.

If you trade with a few people some of them will mention "Bitcoin" in the payment reference part even if you tell them not to do this and PayPal occasionally checks user accounts.

The only company doing PayPal <-> Bitcoin with their permission is VirWoX.

It's not really worth visiting those faucets now. Better find some small tasks to earn BTC

(I was operating a bitcoin faucet in early 2013)

Is this a registered company? Because there is no company named "1Broker" in Austria.

According to the Austrian eCommerce Law (ECG §5) all websites need to provide contact information; someone already told OP about this in November 2012:

I can confirm this. It happened to me 2 weeks ago.

Bin zwar nicht aus deiner Gegend aber rate dir die Mycelium App (falls du ein Android Handy hast) herunterzuladen - ist eine Bitcoin Wallet mit eingebauter Handelsfunktion für Bargeld - vielleicht findest du da jemanden in der Nähe.

You can pay with Bitcoin for appartments in Nassfeld (I didn't try them, but I've been to Nassfeld and it's really nice). For hotels, flights, etc. you should try CheapAir
 
I couldn't find any brick and mortar businesses in ski resorts.

I really enjoyed "IT Crowd"

I started something like that  

I recommend Linux (Debian or similar). Make sure to use Anti-Malware applications (you can buy Malwarebytes Premium with BTC) if you use Bitcoin on Windows.

It is most likely illegal to provide a service like that since all financial services need to comply with AML/KYC regulations.

Spend some (ever had a pizza for BTC?) and keep some 

1. The distribution of Bitcoins is actually getting better

2. The largest company losing Bitcoins would result in the price going down. Reduced supply doesn't increase demand, unless maybe if there's consensus on reducing the total number of Bitcoins. Do you buy an asset if the biggest investor is an idiot? No, you don't.

That's not what he said. In the videos where he talks about Bitcoin he says that he's concerned about criminals using it, but he likes that it's cheaper than traditional payment methods.

A few members of the Bitcoin community are actively taking steps to make it more difficult for criminals to use Bitcoin, but we need more.

Can you do that? Most Ethereum-related things I've seen are rather lame.

 

Does that mean you'd prefer not having the Winklevoss ETF? (even thought that could be a massive boost for Bitcoin)


Okay. I just saw people saying that a few times now and wanted to comment on that.

Some people in Bitcoin are arguing that everything (or most things) should be decentralized. I firmly disagree with them, and here's why:

1. There's only a limited amount of world-class programmers - if they are working on 1000 different projects it's very likely that 950 of these projects won't be used by more than just a few people - effectively wasting a lot of time that could be used to make a huge project.

2. Usability: Most projects that are trying to "decentralize" are not user-friendly at all. Companies however are building very user-friendly software and manage to actually attract a lot of users (see: coinbase.com)

There are certainly a few cool projects that are decentralized, but most of them will probably remain to be unknown by the general public.

Comments?

I posted in this thread 1.5 years ago and the most important questions have not been answered:

Where exactly are these attractive single girls between 18 and 25 who use Bitcoin? And what are their phone numbers?

Moment mal... Kann man als Österreicher dort ein Konto eröffnen?

I went to the dentist just when you posted this comment 


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