Anyone else feel like one of the bitcoin losers? We hear a lot about all the winners, now including some 15 year old child, but very little on the currency's losers. I got swept up in the mania last November and dared to invest my life saving into purchasing 1 bitcoin, just as it was near peak. That turned out to be a terrible purchase for me as the value dropped since, so bitcoin has only ever lost me money. Anyone else in my boots? I'd still like more bitcoins but going on my past 6 months my confidence and trust in this new currency has been shattered.  No, I'm pretty much winning BTC The system is the biggest innovation of the decade, I think the price will go up 10x in the next 2 years. |
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The majority of the people do not read messages I think, myself included. By default, most bitcoin wallets do not show any messages. If you want to advertise, btc advertising networks will reach more eyeballs  |
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I think a poll should be added to the topic, it would be more clear.
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Could have been $1mn if he had held on. Perhaps should have.
Arguably....
Yes, if price would rise to 10.000 / BTC in a few years, it may be a mistake. It may be wise to at least keep a part of the money in bitcoin. |
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Banks are a business, we all have to know it even though they tend to be demonized.
What really bothers me is that nowadays you need to use their services.
No one should be obliged to have a bank account to receive their salary. I'm not sure what a proper alternative would be, but they're basically forcing everyone to put your money in a third party company. Not cool.
That is what bothers me also. I don't care if they are trying to make a buck, but I should not be coerced into participating in such a scheme. Agreed, this is a mafia type of business. We live in a time where we do not need banks anymore, at all. The government is yet to realize this, but they get profits from banks.. so who are they to change the law? The degree of corruption in the government is reaching all time high |
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I took the plunge and baught my first bitcoin last week. It was a long process but overall not a bad experience at Coinbase to buy it.
During the wait I looked to arm myself with knowledge about how to safely hang on to my coin, so I immediately withdrew it from Coinbase and sent it on over to Blockchain.info wallet; big mistake.
I spent some of my coin and have about .03 left, which equates to about $30 as of writing this. 48 hours ago I used blockchain.info's wallet to send it back to my Coinbase to cash it out, and it just sat there at unconfirmed. After hours of researching it, I concluded the wallet didn't add a transaction fee, so I had to wait 2 days for the transaction to be rejected(?) and reappear in my blockchain wallet.
This morning my coin was back in my blockchain wallet (yay!!!), so I attempt to send it to my Coinbase wallet again and this time I made sure I included a generous fee (as advised by the support at blockchain.info). 12 hours later I get the first confirmation, and to my dismay it now shows a double-spend error. I have no clue what to do at this point, and I am unsure 3+ more days of frustration are worth the effort to retrieve my $30. I have no idea what is going on, all I know is my $30 is unattainabe, and there is very little information on how to retrieve it.
I feel frustrated, ripped off, and overall had a absolute terrible experience.
You should use a desktop wallet on a secure computer, not online websites; This is because 'private keys' are used to send money, and the only way to have private keys is to use a desktop wallet. If you do not have the private key, you do not control the money; That said, you may want to contact the coinbase / blockchain guys about your problem. |
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What was the point in shoving a whole chicken up her nasty HUGE hole? Feminists are insane.
There is no point, other than to shock people. |
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The guy speaks French, uses Ubuntu 13, forgot a password and is interested in mining. |
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Debain and Slackware are the stable ones and being maintained by a few people, while 'big' distros like Ubuntu are maintained by people, whom real identities you'll probably never know. You can download them right from the official sites above. Debian has an packet manager which makes it easier to keep your distro updated and safe from harm. Slackware developers is a team of skilled hackers who choose very solid software versions to put in a distro releases, slackware can be safe until the next release without updating. It's from my personal experience. Right, you want to go with Debian or Slackware. Slackware is one of the oldest Linux distributions, the package management system is a bit tricky. |
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Those guys having 100000 BTC are really lucky  well.. we are all trying to get there I think. |
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I don't think the oil bubble will burst just yet, instead we would see more wars to try to take the resources. What happens when everyone realizes that there is just oil everywhere and no one needs more? Right, it would burst. |
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I don't think the oil bubble will burst just yet, instead we would see more wars to try to take the resources. |
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As in my title. What do you think starting a company will be like in 30 years? Will getting funding have nothing to do with convincing a bank, and more to do with convincing your peers? Here is an example, A chain of hair salons crowd funding global expansion. http://www.klippt.com.au/ipo.htmlI think it is going to get more popular, as the inflation of continues. If banks will not loan anything to the people, this will be an important step for many start-ups. |
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Wow the ctrl L shortcut saved my life lol
One can also use alt+d or F6 to goto the add-bar . works well with Firefox don't know about others. do you know how to make browser stay hover even if i open new window Ctrl+N in Firefox opens a new window. F6 is a great shortcut |
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I heared BTC is banned in China, Vietnam and Phillipines. Don't know about any others?
China is a strange situation, it is mostly rumors about ban. So regulation is quite uncertain. Even the business owners like the owner of BTC China does not know exactly. |
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Why did we develop into large country size tribes when as individuals we usually like to socialize in small tribes <100 people.
Do we remain in these large tribes mostly for the benefit of the elites?
When and why did this all happen?
In Asia, the tribes were under attack once in a while. In Europe, About 2000-4000 years ago, the roman empire expanded trough military force. In order to protect themselves, people started living more together, building city walls etc. Before that, people pretty much lived anywhere they wanted. ok so thats a different perspective to benjamindees, do we stay together now as countries for protection as #1 you think? This might seem a strange thread btw. I just always find it odd i live in a street of people who are strangers. I am not sure why people stay together now, but I doubt it is for protection nowadays. The bigger the group is in which you live, the fewer people you know. If you live in a small village of say 300 people, everybody knows who you are, what you do etc; If you live in LA, chances are you do not know 99.9% of the people. |
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Austria is on the map, but not on the list.
Maybe the creator doesn't know, that Austria is not part of Germany anymore ..
The list is incomplete. France, Brasil Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands are also missing. They banned bitcoin ? No, they are legal in these countries. |
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3rd: yes, the gap is very narrow in the relation tramp vs ingenious. As well as the gap between you and a rat, ~98% of your DNA are the same. Just a 0.0001% gap and you are never born due to defects in your DNA. It does not matter how small the gap is! It is all due the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect , one wright/wrong decision in life can alter the whole outcome of history! A large proportion of the DNA may be junk DNA. Perhaps the gap is smaller. |
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Why did we develop into large country size tribes when as individuals we usually like to socialize in small tribes <100 people.
Do we remain in these large tribes mostly for the benefit of the elites?
When and why did this all happen?
In Asia, the tribes were under attack once in a while. In Europe, About 2000-4000 years ago, the roman empire expanded trough military force. In order to protect themselves, people started living more together, building city walls etc. Before that, people pretty much lived anywhere they wanted. |
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