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3521  Economy / Digital goods / WTB Visa Prepaid Gift card on: September 01, 2015, 12:31:06 AM
I'm looking for a $100 prepaid visa gift card. PM me if you have one with your price.
3522  Economy / Marketplace / Re: Internet Marketing on: August 31, 2015, 08:53:45 PM
The key towards internet marketing is looking for your ideal target audience. You need to find easy flow of your advertisements directly to the target audience that you designate. For example, if you're advertising a gaming product, your target audience would be older teenagers to people in their 20's.  You would display your products over sites that are related to gaming/technology. For a bitcoin product, places where bitcoin are relevant would where you'd put your ads and so on.
3523  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Gambling. Is It Wrong? on: August 31, 2015, 08:49:35 PM
Of course gambling is wrong. It's nothing but a good way to lose lots of money. The idea of gambling differ from one person to the next. The two possibilities I see are...

A.) To have fun.
B.) To make money.

Having fun while gambling isn't an issue I have with it. I think that should be the idea of gambling. Having a bit of competition or enjoyment of betting a little money. Using it as a way to make money, however, I feel is "wrong".
3524  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Malware on: August 31, 2015, 08:45:38 PM
Important to note that there are countless types of malware that can infect your PC and steal your wallet.  A virus that copies and pastes the wrong address seems like something that would be easy to catch, at least for me as I double check addresses before sending. Keyloggers are probably the most notable or taking people's bitcoin, or RATs. Both are very easy to steal Bitcoin while the owner of the wallet is away from their computer and unaware of their PC being infected.
3525  Economy / Economics / Re: bitcoin investing on: August 30, 2015, 06:48:06 PM
You could always go to the securities forum, or on your own time research for some investment opportunities using bitcoin. You could probably find a few sites or online business accepting investors funds. Apart from that, as said above, your only other option would be to invest using bitcoin itself instead of going through another 3rd party source which implements even more risk.
3526  Economy / Lending / Re: People taking too many loans? on: August 29, 2015, 05:13:53 PM
You can't really be sure what these guys are using the loans for. It could possibly be for paying daily bills, or even for supporting a gambling addiction. Other times it's just to build trust to value an account higher. If an account has a good trust rating and high forum tenure, I see no problem giving a loan out ot them. Especially if the have a good history of paying back the lender without defaulting.
3527  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: BiPolarBob's Tell-A-Joke Round #2 [0.2345 btc prize] on: August 29, 2015, 01:33:36 AM
Yo mamma so fat she sat on walmart and lowered the prices.
3528  Economy / Economics / Re: Tell me your predictions about Bitcoin on: August 28, 2015, 05:06:24 AM
I do not believe 2015 will be the year Bitcoin 'goes mainstream'. Yes it will be talked about, more people will use, hold or trade it and more merchants will accept it. But we are far, far away from big scale adoption... Honestly, I do not think any 'common folk' will actually use this for at least another 3 years. Let's talk again in 2018-2020. If Bitcoin still exists (and I hope so, since I'm a longtime holder and believer) by then, it will be widely accepted and price will have risen also. But for 2015, I predict more or less the same path we've started in 2014. Up, down, left, right, adoption, repeat.

It's still years away from adoption. At this point in time, the world isn't ready for it. There's no major economic crisis that fiat currencies haven't solved yet meaning people will still put their faith into the banks and government. Taking into account the major debate about increasing block sizes and the Bitcoin XT nonsense, may be a bad year for BTC.
3529  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin? Call the police! on: August 28, 2015, 02:08:03 AM
Bitcoin will always get its reputation dampered because of the darknet. That's no excuse to undermine its technology or concept. You could argue that fiat currencies are used to money launder, purchase drugs, ect. Bitcoin has multiple sides to it. Because it's used for some illegal purposes doesn't mean it's a "criminal's currency". Bitcoin has been used for many different purposes that are completely legal and moral. You can't cherry pick the negatives that the users use it for and blame the currency.
3530  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: btc atm now in LA- North Hollywood on: August 27, 2015, 12:35:39 AM
Do you know what the mark up? Spot + 5%?


They have to make their money some how. It's reasonable in some ways. Obtaining bitcoin second hand online can be a pain in the ass if you don't use an exchange. Second hand sellers charge up to an easy 10%-15% to new buyers unaware on how to obtain the currency at a better price through other outlets. The ease of going to a Bitcoin ATM and paying direct cash for BTC would probably cover up the increase.
3531  Economy / Economics / Re: Did Bitcoin Ruin Your Life, Or Help Your Life? on: August 27, 2015, 12:30:29 AM
I don't see how Bitcoin could ruin your life unless you cause yourself to ruin it using Bitcoin as the medium to do it. As far as myself, it's done nothing but help me, and I'm confident it's done nothing but help all its other users as well. From my standpoint, the ease to accept the currency is great for traders as there are no chargebacks or fees. Using bitcoin to flip to fiat or any other type of good is easy too so there's nothing bad that's happened to me that I didn't cause in terms of BTC.
3532  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Students show up to school to find no room in classrooms on: August 26, 2015, 03:41:31 AM
Overpopulation in the public school system is an actual growing problem. These school systems are surrounded by poverty in poor areas and don't receive enough money to cover the cost of the students, or create more room to accommodate student population. For unorganized school systems, that are also poor, this type of story probably happens more than one would.
3533  Economy / Economics / Re: Government & Bitcoin on: August 25, 2015, 10:09:20 PM
Bitcoins will be hard for them to stop without shutting down the entire internet. Should a government act against bitcoin, it would drive the price through the roof.

The government of first world countries would never want their beloved currency to go to waste. They are already acting against it. They can't fully go through with it, however. It's a decentralized currency. The only possible outlet they have is putting place laws and regulation that make it harder to obtain or trade. NYC bitcoin LBC exchanges have pretty much been banned because you need a license (which is hard to obtain) in order to purchase/trade bitcoin. I wouldn't be surprised if more came.
3534  Economy / Digital goods / Re: Selling erotic photos of my wife - Please help me on: August 25, 2015, 02:19:31 AM
Posts sob story, sells random porn pictures of a wife that's most likely off google...and you expect 20 BTC? No one would bother to waste their time. At least offer vouch pictures  Wink
3535  Economy / Economics / Re: A good day to buy hard? on: August 24, 2015, 08:46:44 PM
I'm waiting for it to get a tad bit lower and will start buying up. At this point, you can't be too sure if it will crash to ~$160. As my own personal benchmark, I'm going to wait till maybe a little below $200 to purchase a few more coins. If it does happen to get even lower lower, I'd still buy some coin, just not as much as I would've spent more funds at a time for BTC than I'd prefer. I try to split up amount of money I invest at different time periods so if there is a more significant drop, I can buy using funds I've saved instead up.
3536  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What is big problem in using of bitcoin on: August 24, 2015, 08:40:18 PM
As of now, the problem I see is the instability of the price. Too many drops, and too many spikes in the price. Not saying a spike isn't bad, but a lot of the time these spikes will have a downfall of some sort like it has done these past few days.
3537  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin down because of people panic buying precious metals on: August 24, 2015, 08:33:54 PM
Went to check the price again today and notice another big hit. It's a bit confusing as the Chinese stock market is down, and Wall Street isn't doing well either. I expecting the price to get out of this slump, but it never occurred to me that people were taking their Bitcoin investments and turning them into precious metals. I can see a lot of people doing this in actuality as the stock market isn't looking good.
3538  Economy / Economics / Re: Low BTC price is good for Bitcoins at the moment. on: August 22, 2015, 09:18:49 PM
As far as investment goes, a lower price for something that's been so high at one point will always be good because they can make quick cash. As a long term currency, a price like this isn't something that would want to attract people or make people more fond of the currency. If it shows signs of stability, and increase, then in my opinion, that would create mass adoption. Staying low like this for such a long period of time isn't make too many people crazy about it because most people who once knew about Bitcoin would associate it with the 1k+ price it once had.
3539  Economy / Speculation / Re: Down to 230 today, i will sue them all on: August 22, 2015, 07:24:07 AM
At a time like this where Bitcoin XT is trying to take effect, I wouldn't be surprised about a price change. One can't be certain Bitcoin XT will 100 percent have an affect, but the fact remains that Bitcoin will have a shaky road. I was rather on the fence when the jump that took place a few months ago was going to sustain itself and keep rising. It looked very promising but we're right back at the place we've started prior to that jump in price.
3540  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What's your biggest problem with Bitcoin on: August 22, 2015, 07:20:58 AM
I don't think the software of Bitcoin is very user friendly to someone who doesn't have a computer background or knowledge or at the very least, use it frequently. People who stay away from "technology" of course wouldn't want to  adopt a "digital currency", but I think the challenge Bitcoin faces is appealing to the masses through simplicity. The workings behind Bitcoin can be very confusing which is something that I'm not sure is solvable confict.
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