Where are you?

(If you're unsure, look outside)

As scary as the alternative?

This I find really surprising. Are these merchants pre-established businesses that are adding bitcoin as an extra payment option, or are they startups with bitcoin/bitpay as the only payment option?

How long have you had your listings on there for? I don't know of any other viable auction website.

It's always after midday somewhere in the world.

And wherever that somewhere is, the people there must be constantly drunk.

Sell aaaaaall the GPU!

Is it possible that ASIC can be used for something other than bitcoin mining? I know the whole point is to develop a very specific chip to do a very specific task, but maybe just maybe someone could take what the ASIC does and utilize it in a game or other software that's not bitcoin related?

What if you sell quickly to "save some of the value" but then it comes back to where it was, and then goes higher?

This is the perpertual dilema of the forex trader.

So, according to the forum rules, I'm now stuck with having this in my signature, unless I want to have no banner at all.

Resistance is futile.

A coin or measure would be handy in those photos for size comparison.

Also no offense but this thread reminds me of a story I once read about a man in Babylon.

I think you should have taken her up on it, however I also think there's no point having regrets. You did what you thought best at the time.

To be unstealable wouldn't you have to somehow sign outgoing transactions with a drop of blood containing your DNA?

So the thief would have to also steal some of your blood too in order to spend the funds. Uuuuuh, hmmm, maybe that's not such a good idea actually.

I don't disagree that taxation is a way of raising the money.

But so is a Great Train Robbery.

I agree. And to put it another way:

Currency is a form of money, but money isn't a form of currency.

Isn't this America? Oh, I'm sorry I thought this was America.

On the other hand some confused people think that if the spending is right, then the taxing (theft) must have been right too.

Word to the wise- don't ... your girlfriend ... just because she wants you to.

Why wouldn't it be a cryptocurrency? You mean because it doesn't use cryptography or because it's not a currency?

But when a rich man invests in a really expensive bicycle, he's taxed regardless. And when a poor man invests $12.62 in penny stocks, he's only taxed if he profits.

What about the changeover point between fees - is it pro-rata or would you pay the entire fee for each trade?

Example:

What if your volume was 1999 btc and your fee rate was on 0.5%

Then mtgox says "if your volume is 2000+ then your rate will be 0.4%".

Then, you want to trade 1000 btc, can you trade it all at once, and pay 0.5% on 1 btc and 0.4% on 999 btc, or do you have to actually do a 1 btc trade separately first to bring down your fee rate, before proceeding to trade the other 999 btc with 0.4%?