My biggest concern with bitcoin right now is the scams associated with it. It was difficult to trade with bitcoins on-line without a trusted mediator but even that is out of the question now because no one can be trusted. So if one wants to work on-line or do any sort of trades they have to take the risk of either getting scammed by the person they're dealing with or the mediator.

I can see now why some people stay away from using bitcoins. Anonymity has its advantages and disadvantages.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1272862.msg13420611#msg13420611

I request kingzee to kindly add my address to the OP as master-p owes me 0.18 BTC.

Jan 3rd. Removing signature.

For what it's worth

This is my address: 1BiTbABybyRgYZkJm1pzr8w3Tj7PjVTqnN

I am one of the participant of the obits sig campaign:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1272862.msg13126409#msg13126409

Its called trade value, every currency is tied to the other in terms of their trade value, if you go to forex exchange, you'll see price of dollar in euro and vice versa, that doesn't mean that dollar or euro are tied to each other but thats the value they represent in other currency.

When you go to buy something which is not offered in the currency you wish to purchase it with you convert it based on its trade value, so for ex. you go to buy something with Bitcoins but it is only available in dollars you convert it to it and then pay for it. Its same if you find something which is offered in bitcoins only and you have dollars to pay for it then you would need to convert them first to bitcoins to use.

That does not mean that bitcoins is dependent on fiat.

The payday for this campaign was suppose to be 2nd Jan 2016 as mentioned in OP and therefore I'll carry this sig until then, paid or not I am going honor my part of the deal.

I think it would have been much better if this campaign was weekly instead of monthly so participants would have gotten paid a few times this month like the campaign manager did.

Usually almost all the casinos have some Deposit/No-deposit bonuses, check out the "Promotions" page of any casino and you're sure to find all the bonuses they're offering, apart from that you can check out the Games and rounds section, it is where most of the bonuses and freebies are offered and if you're signed up at a casino you'll be notified of new promotions by emails, alternatively you can follow their thread here and their social media to catch these announcements.

This is just a ridiculous and sexist thread. You don't need to motivate women to use it, do you motivate them to use fiat? You probably don't even know how many women use bitcoins already, what you need to do is just educate about bitcoins to people who don't know about it around you and it includes both women and men.

I had a few laughs at them when the bitcoin price doubled recently. I have a few people like that to whom I have explained about Bitcoin in detail but they never believed in it, in fact they even asked me to not put anything in it and I told them they were wrong and I will prove this to them, the price was around $220 when I told them that this is the right time to buy but they said it will lose this price too, I went and bought as much as I could and when the price went up I made my profit and I showed it to them and had good fun proving them wrong.

But the thing I learned is they are still skeptical after all and so basically the best thing to do is just ignore these people and let them be. Haters gonna hate.

Agreed. I think the biggest problem with many BTC Poker sites faced and then shut down was lack of players on ring table, there were more than enough players to play the freerolls but rarely anyone sat on ring tables and its ok at first but it becomes a huge problem for site owners because they don't make anything from people playing freerolls. Another problem is the trust issue, the players feel like the software can be used for cheating and which is why they avoid playing with actual money.

This could be a solution to it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1206150.0

I use KeePassX to store my not so important passwords with a good master password, as I use different password for all the sites I visit and for important ones I maintain a diary to which only I have the access to, I also encrypt them using my pgp keys if I am going to store them on the PC and for private keys, you can encrypt them with bip38 whilst making them.

I feel the same, Zim was once a good team but in the recent years they have lost their place, having been said that they're still favorites according to bookies and this is a good match to make some money. I don't think it will be a walk in a park for Afghanis but they have the potential to fight and take this match from Zimbabweans.

It was confirmed the minute it got in:

Included In Blocks     390010 ( 2015-12-24 20:53:01 + 0 minutes )

I think it was (is?) a problem with blockchain, I saw some others reporting similar issues yesterday, the wallets were not getting updated, if the problem persists OP the best thing you can do is make a back-up of your wallet (if you haven't already) and then just import the keys of the address containing the funds and transfer it to another wallet.

NO, it is not okay to make your paper wallets on-line and they're NOT secure when made that way, both of you need to read on about cold storage and the idea behind paper wallets, why they're created and why is it very much necessary to make and print them off-line. If you don't know about this then stop giving wrong advice to others.

The best way is to make then on a completely off-line machine but if you don't have a separate machine OP then just use an air-gapped OS.

Also, OP if you're giving them away as Xmas presents then make sure the people you're giving them to know about bitcoins and how to claim those, otherwise its just throwing money away.

I have little over 1 bitcoin atm, I had more but I did sell some of it when the price went 450 and now I am just waiting for the price to come down, which I think it might take a while and it might also happen that it doesn't and it just keeps rising but right now I can't risk to buy more. The maximum I had at one point was 6.

^This. They haven't until now (or maybe they have?) does not mean that it safe or that they can't/wont in future. If you must use blockchain.info's wallet then just use it for petty cash for day to day activities, if you use it for larger amount of funds then you're just asking to get robbed and it might happen one day.

What do I want to buy with it? Every thing that I purchase/pay for online, which includes, computer accessories, mobile phones, online bill payments etc. It's just that the shops that I buy these stuff from usually every month are not interested in incorporating Bitcoin as one of their payment method, the reasons they do not wish to discuss, although I have asked them on various occasions and normally do whenever I buy stuff from them.

No I don't sell on ebay, I have heard various horror stories of sellers getting scammed by people who after receiving the product claimed that the product delivered to them was in bad condition and they received charge back for it. Its too risky, I'd rather find some buyers locally and deal them face to face then selling things on ebay.

This is the problem with selling physical goods online, ebay protects the buyer but there is no protection for the seller. Unless the goods are sent to a mediator which both parties can trust, these scams will continue but having a mediator in between for physical goods increases the shipping and handling costs and which is why even that won't work.

There is no point in testing Ponzi/HYIP/Pyramid-Scheme sites because even if they have been paying over a long time that does not mean that they're legit, sooner or later all of them disappear usually after they have collected a huge sum of money and what you're doing will probably do more harm than good because it might make some of the newbies think that they're genuine when we all know that its not true.

Basically every site you can find listed in the Investor-based section is a scam. You might get your return when they're just starting it but ultimately you're going to lose money.

Just report such PMs with the 'Report to moderator' link and they will get banned.