hmm.... perhaps someone needs to set up "donwload 1 hour old blockchain in 5 minutes" service... steal this idea.

The biggest obstacle? Infinite stupidity, of course!

Indeed they are. Love it or hate it but bitcointalk does deserve a spot on the first page of search results for "bitcoin". Too bad that G was driven insane recently by SEO guys. According to SEO people advising me the latest iteration of G algo makes no sense whatsoever, quality of SERP's is very bad. G basically brings random low quality websites on top while burying hiqh quality authority websites. G reportedly slowly comes back to its senses after the last update but not by much so far. Too bad that they have sacrificed search results relevance in favor of hell knows what.

One suggestion I heard is that they make more money on ads by having worse search results quality and thus pushing people to click on paid ads (that are suddenly more relevant than natural search) and by making people click on pages 2 3 4 etc... in search of something relevant.

I would speculate that most geeks/nerds/libertarians/smart people will not be able to resist temptations and will not be able to run the marathon, most will be sprinters and will sell out most or all BTC holdings way under 1000$ per BTC to the banksters.

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Last rally I called went from 5 to 15$. Let's see if history repeats itself and we hit 36$ before long. Perhaps soon after the block subsidy change event.

Perhaps, once they can buy ammo only for gold, silver, canned tuna and bitcoins, they would change the attitude then.

They will start chatting about it when Bitcoin hits 10000$ with "I wish I bought when it was at 10$". Yea, whatever.

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To add some content: I still think that buying BTC as long term investment beats mining investments hands down. At this time this opinion applies to CPU, GPU, FPGA and ASIC based mining. For what it worth.

The above opinion has not changed since I have expressed it privately and publicly in May-June 2012 when BTC was around 5$.

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LOL, Will, congrats on winning that auction. Should I have won it I would simply resell it next day most likely. Easy 100-200 BTC.

For what it worth. There were a few very very good reasons I quit the mining game.

This is not exactly correct. I would say that USD is backed by US armed forces. One could say that USD and most other fiat currencies are backed by future tax revenues to be confiscated from enslaved population of corresponding country or political block.

I would also say that Bitcoin is backed by The People, i.e. you and me and everyone else who accepts and pays in Bitcoin.

Cognitive dissonance is too strong and often causes unhealthy fixations on some specific aspects of Bitcoin.

Most of critique of Bitcoin that  I've heard to date is based on ignorance.

Talk directly to me or Bitcoin Magazine. We sell a few bitcoins from time to time for GBP.

nahh it is a nobrainer.   like buying a call option (with say 10-20 years before expiration) or shares of a 5$ stock (with known dillution schedule) that has decent chances to go to 10 000$. and with no counterpart risks.

Just try to value Bitcoin like a stock. It easily worth 100-200$ right now.

Lots of smart people around here.

Helsinki makes sense to me. I would prefer to fly to country whose politicians declare Bitcoin legal as opposed to "the land of ..." well... whatever that land is of now.

Whatever trolls say, bitinstant cards and other such services are very valuable and useful. I am looking forward for competition in this area and lower fees.

I cannot wait when I could get every Bitcoin Magazine contributor and contractor such a card and stop having  payoneers and paypals and other such services requested as payment methods. So that we could pay either direct in Bitcoin or in Bitcoin to such a card.

I would also use it for most purchases I do for Bitcoin Magazine. (assuming fees are reasonable)