I hope this forum is still here in 3 years when Silver is worth at least $150 an ounce and we all point and laugh 

Of course we belong here, Solidcoin is based around Bitcoin, that's like saying you can't go to a Silver board and post about Gold!

Should all topics which are not DIRECTLY RELATED TO BITCOIN AND ONLY BITCOIN be deleted? Have fun on your ghost board.

It's all just one market you muppet. Plenty of people myself included invest in Bitcoin and Solidcoin. Bitcoin and Solidcoins are not companies competing with each other, they are simply two open source projects which exist in the world. Comparing them to Ford and Chevy is just downright retarded, you can use them both together and appreciate them both for what they are. In fact right now Solidcoin does not even work without Bitcoin as the only way to buy in and out of it is through Bitcoin...

Personally I think the Solidcoin client is better than the Bitcoin client, the Windows version that is I've not had a chance to look at the other versions. Solidcoin also has developers actively working on it and adding new features, as opposed to Bitcoin which appears to have stagnated. The underlying blockchain code is better as well. Solidcoin only takes approx 10 minutes to confirm a transaction beyond reasonable doubt instead of 1-2 hours on Bitcoin.

For investors, I think Solidcoin has the brightest future, as it does not have 85% of the coins hoarded by early miners, scammers and thieves just waiting to dump as soon as the price goes up. Any price increases in Solidcoin are going to be much more sustained.

I have free invites to ruxum if anyone is interested just pm me.

Serious issues with Britcoin right now, all pages frozen, can't even log in

I think the problem was that NetTecture was not prepared to invest though GLBSE, and he was requiring rather more security and assurances than Tawsix was prepared to give. If he had wanted to by shares from the initial IPO he could have while they were still available.

Looks like the dip is over for both Silver and gold this afternoon, the Asian markets are buying like crazy.

I'm waiting until tomorrow to confirm $40 is a hold price, but if the price carries on rising again it's time to BUY BUY BUY.

1: Yes.

2: No. Total hashrate for namecoin right now is something like 30Ghash, not enough to have any kind of impact

3: No. Bitcoin value would dip somewhat as speculators traded them for namecoins, and then namecoin hoarders cashed out their bitcoins.

4: Yes.

5: No. Namecoin value would rise but not by a vast amount. Bitcoin value would fall.

If you think the price is too high, don't buy. No point wandering into a sell thread just to troll the price...

He'll soon lower the price if there is no interest at $200.

Indeed it can and has, but you'd be extremely foolish to assume that it won't bounce right back up again and continue on the steady upward path it's been treading for the past 1000 years.

The great thing about the Silver ratio is that even in a downtrend the ratio still narrows, so that when we come out of the downtrend and back into the uptrend you're stronger than ever.

Well fair enough, although you haven't said what that prediction is based on. I assume you're just guessing.

I predict $30 as the absolute minimum price for the next 5 years at least, with $80 as the top price. This is based on historic and projected demand vs. global capacity to supply.

Yeah bit of a false positive tbqh. Not needed for GPU mining so Quarrantine it if you like, I just "allow" it.

That's quite clever. You could have "Page 3 Paragraph 5 Sentence 4" written down on a piece of paper, and even if someone found the paper they wouldn't be able to crack your password unless they knew which book you were referring to...

Unlucky.

Mental wallets are probably the worst idea I've ever heard. There is no less reliable way to store data than a human memory other than writing it in chalk on the sidewalk. A simple memory lapse is all it takes for you to lose your coins, and you'll literally go crazy trying to remember.

And what happens if you die? Your wife / kids / girlfriend or whatever can't access your Bitcoins, they are lost forever! You have to strike a balance between absolute security and accessibility.

I think the old ways of security are often the best. If I had a significant number of Bitcoins, I'd have passwords, hashes, private keys and so on with full instructions on how to access the funds that anyone could follow both printed out on paper & stored on a couple of USB keys and locked in a safe, with backups held in a safety deposit box in a bank somewhere in case my house burned down.

Wait what, it has fallen below 10$ in the next 1-3 years??

You're mixing past tense and future tense in the same sentence there bud.

If you're trying to say you predict it will fall below $10 in the next 3 years then I guess I can't argue, since none of us have a crystal ball which can look into the future...

However, with Fiat currency devaluing every single day, the amount of Silver in the world being finite and the cost of mining always on the increase, I can't really see it happening. If anything silver is very cheap at $40 and an absolute steal at $30.

Hang on to see where today's dip ends up and then buy buy buy!!

Absolutely.

And the timing couldn't be more perfect, prices are on a little tumble today and may carry on falling through the week, so you can pick up a bargain at the bottom and laugh your ass off at the top.

I think too many investors simply could not resist that magical $1900 mark for Gold yesterday and sold like crazy, triggering a big sell-off on both Gold and silver.

As I said before, the two prices seem to be very much linked at the moment which is a very interesting development indeed.

It's dividend day today

Silver isn't ready to crash, in fact quite the opposite. Silver is under bought, and recently something historic happened.

Look at the shape of the Silver price compared to the Gold price over the past few weeks. Pretty similar huh? Now look at the Silver price compared to the Gold price over the past 6 months. Not similar at all right?

In the past, Silver has risen and fallen with stocks, and was being traded like one. It is now seen by investors as a proper precious metal commodity. Welcome to Gold 2.0!

Here's the interesting part: Silver as a commodity "should" be trading at a ratio of roughly 10:1 to the price of Gold, given global conditions of supply and demand. However, since the Silver price has been destroyed recently along with stock prices, it is currently around 40:1.

Now that Silver is being treated like a precious metal and not a stock, most serious investors expect the price to come up to between 20:1 and 15:1 in the next 2-3 years and then slowly slowly make its way to 10:1, a short term gain of 100 to 200 percent and a long term gain of 400!

Gold has legs yet. The downspike we saw yesterday was merely a blip on the road to $2500. From there, who the fuck knows.

At this point the Fed is simply waiting to pull the trigger on Quantative Easing round 3, the only bullet left in their arsenal in the fight against recession. When that happens, gold will go crazy.

If you're lucky enough to sell at the peak following QE3 you'll be extremely happy. Some are saying $2500, some are saying $3500, it will be a nerve-wracking decision that may roll around as soon as November.

About to pre-order but have a few questions...

How does mining actually work with these? I see you need Windows for the driver, that's fine, but will it work with existing windows mining software?? Have you been able to mine with the prototypes?

Will the frimware become any more optimised do you think, or is the current quoted hash rate the most we are ever likely to get out of the devices? Can they be overclocked at all to give faster rates?

Is the FPGA reprogrammable? Do I need special cables or software to do so or can it all be done via USB?

What kind of warranty are you going to offer? This is experimental equipment so I would expect a few failures here and there...