Bill Gates already has referred to Bitcoin before in interviews.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/238103


He quotes, "better than currency". His concern is the same as mine about Bitcoin hitting mainstream. There is no reason for the average person to take any consideration into it as it's not a stable form of currency for someone who is low class and any class for that matter. When you don't have much to spend, you can't afford to purchase something that's value varies up and down unprovoked. Risk is too big.

According to this it was hackers switching the withdrawal/deposit addresses on the site. So they couldn't control how much Bitcoin was sent to the "hacker's" wallet. Regardless, I doubt it was some hacker. Logically speaking, why would a hacker gain so much to a site just to switch the withdrawal address. Doesn't make sense to not just steal the BTC from the hot wallet of the exchange when a change in deposit/withdrawal addresses could easily be found and fixed (or so I thought).

That's a snap judgement. It's very easy to undermine what the government has done for a country. Taking the US for example, roads, public schooling, Emergency services, ect. are a key for society to develop and remain healthy. The government's job is to moderate and regulate. Despite looking at it from a conservative or liberal standpoint, their job is always to remain neutral. Whether or not they do a good job is beyond me, however, paying them to maintain things is how it works. In terms of the price, I'd say it's pretty cheap to pay taxes and allow yourself and your children to have a virtually free high school education and access to emergency services.

The code does seem to be legitimate. The balance is as stated in the OP, 10 EUR, or 11.27 United States Dollar. As of 1/28/15 the balance is confirmed working and the code is valid. Will update in roughly two days so refer back to this post to verify the balance will remain constant and will not be charged back. So far so good.


2 Day Edit: Code does still contain the balance of 10 EUR and is redeemable.

What Bitcoin needs is stability. There is no reason for the average American to switch to Bitcoin after using fiat for all his life if the value can suddenly reduce by 30 percent in a week. Centralizing the currency is defeating the purpose of it. For Bitcoin to hit mainstream, there has to an incentive to dump fiat for BTC. There isn't much to be perfectly honest. As far as making improvements to start, improve security. Most people don't have computer knowledge to secure a Bitcoin wallet from wallet stealers and thieves. Leaving Bitcoin on exchanges has come to be a problem because of the strict regulation exchanges provide (and sometimes security weaknesses). I love Bitcoin, I just don't believe it's something the general public will adopt.

This is the wrong section to post the sales of Starbucks cards. Move this post to the Digital Goods section. Then be prepared to be bombarded with questions regarding the legality and validity of these Starbucks cards.

I could go for an account. Had bought one about a week and a half ago which ended up failing on me after a few days. Thanks  

Edit: I've received many accounts from another user. Thank you for your generosity but I am no longer in need of anymore netflix accounts.

Thank you.

While your point is valid, you need to see the opposing side. Ponzi's are in a way gambling. Can they be profitable? Yes, ran by moral people, which is the only reason they are allowed. However, most all ponzi operators now a days scamming any investors which is a problem. So in my opinion, they need to be banned and disallowed.

It's not doing too bad at the moment. In my opinion, it's stabilizing out and rising. We aren't seeing too many big dips or rises, more of a slow paced increase, which is good. As for dipping below 200 dollars again, I don't speculate it drop that low again, at least for a while.

Ebay won't help you out if you go above and beyond their rules. Using Bitcoin is a 3rd party transaction you brought upon yourself to use and do a deal with. Nothing stops him to take your Bitcoin and get away with it. You most likely couldn't leave a feedback rating either because you did not go through Ebay's process of buying something for him. Anything you and the buyer do is on your own terms. You can use Ebay as a communication platform, but that does not hold them accountable. Also, they aren't Bitcoin friendly so then there's that.

I have around 5 keys I'm looking to get rid of. Will sell all 5 for 20 bucks. Or 1 key for $4.50

Edit: One key has been sold off, 4 keys are now remaining.

If you would like to purchase other keys provided by MSDN through Microsoft, please PM me to ask.

4 for $10

This needs to be moved to the market place section in the goods subsection. Also, some information on how these products were obtained would be nice. If it was stolen, at this point I don't even think it would affect the buyer but it's reassuring to know they're legitimate.

Surprisingly enough (with a title like that) there might be some truth to what you say. I wouldn't call the Bitcoin community "the new elite", but it does have potential to make others wealthy if they be smart about it. Seeing as the original post was posted in 2011, Bitcoin has came long way. 10,000 a pop seems very unreasonable though. We won't make it that wealthy in our life times most likely.

Certain forum sections show trust ratings. The sections that involve BTC/Altcoin transactions or Bitcoin/Altcoin deals, trades, ect show the trust rating while others do not. For example, the services section would show the trust rating, but the Bitcoin discussion would not.

That is the only downside. But it would be hard to have spammish threads without being obvious. If someone's goal was to spam and squeeze out every ounce of BTC from the campaign, they would more than likely spam the higher point value sections rather than create new topics so it would be more beneficial to those who create topics every now and then so valid reasons.

The price for green trust accounts usually don't add too value to anyone but a scammer. You should just have the trust removed and sell the account for it's ranking on the forum so it'll be used for a good purpose.

I have a digital gift card for Nike.com.

Discount in title

They unbelievably shady is the problem. Gambling is fine if it's from a reputable vendor, ie LuckyB.it  But realistically, they're ran by people that can not be trusted. If you are telling people they can loose their money, it's not unjust to just run away with some as it's almost expected to be this way with ponzi's. It's in everyone's best interest that Ponzi creators are negative trusted. Newbies entering the forum can easily be persuaded by the big bold letters that mask the enormous risk involved.

I love coming back to these type of threads to see either some people's arrogance, or ignorance on the Bitcoin price. It's forever changing and extremely hard to predict. Feel sorry for the ones investing back at the 500 range who are feeling a 50% reduction hit in their investment portfolio. Others are probably loosing a lot more.

Sorry if this has already been answered but I was thinking of the point system for the posting. Do making threads count as the maximum credit for a post? I feel the logic behind it is that when you start a thread, it's pretty much guaranteed more views than a post on a thread. It would be pretty hard to abuse considering it's difficult to create a thread without reason or in other words "just for the free BTC". Plus, why would anyone go out there way to create a thread when they could substitute it with a post in the gambling section with ease. In essence, you compensate someone posting a thread for doing greater amounts of advertising.