$600 including US shipping.  BTC payment only.  

Yes.

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The  10,000 silicone chips just arrived from the fab!  What?  Silicon?  Are you kidding me?  What the F*ck are we going to do with 10,000 silicone chips?

The logic goes both ways.  As price rises they need less BTC to buy things priced in USD.  Others buy items when BTC drops as they go into a panic when they think they will have less value in the future. 

Maybe he is quite smart and still buying.

Because the costs of Bitcoin are so low, setting up Kim-Koin would cost him more with little benefit.  There are already places to get Bitcoin all over the world.  Is he going to set up a Kim-Koin acceptance network in the USA?  Doubtful. 

He could try to stay within the standard Visa/Mastercard network as I have said before.  He does not need to find a US partner, he can use an overseas one.  They may be told by Visa/Mastercard later to turn him off, but that would take time. 

Actually the best choice for HIM would be to accept as many things as possible including Bitcoin.

I see Bitcoin as the best choice but Mr. Dotcom has other options.  He can continue to use standard credit cards as this is a new company and wait until he is shut down (this risk is lowered by his not having encryption keys to the customer data). He can set up his own payment network or currency.  Both of those choices have more problems then simply using Bitcoin. 

You may be right, you may be wrong.....

But I fail to see why an order holder would complain to the FTC and risk the company they have money with being fined.  It is probably not in their interest to file a complaint at this time.

Charge backs can go for six months.  Unfortunately for you and according to the item below you had 120 days for merchandise not received which is more then the 60 they told you:

http://blog.unibulmerchantservices.com/visa-chargeback-reason-codes-and-time-limits/

That is absurd and the only reason why you put that fabrication together is to try to game BFL.  By your logic anyone with a BFL order paid in BTC can ask for a refund of the BTC and then instantly replace (if desired) the order at a lower BTC cost pocketing the BTC.  Everyone gets a free OPTION call!! 

Bitpay gives the merchant the option to accept them as far as I know.  You can set to three different levels of security in case you are worried.  While I have not received a notice, if you do take a 0 conf you will get a notice if a double spend was done.  If you are shipping a physical product any setting should be safe as you will know shortly after that there was a problem.  If you are delivering an electronic product 0 conf is probably not a good idea.  It is your choice. 

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True.  Without nuclear energy we have already passed the carrying capacity of the earth.  If we keep using polluting fresh water (with mercury) and keep polluting the air at this rate we will start to die off from disease at a faster rate.   With nuclear we can have a much higher population without damaging the earth to the point where it damages us back. 

Maybe we can do some different designs, but you are comparing against a hat that is nearly 50% more expensive and has nothing to do with bitcoin.  I am $18.99 shipped (payable in BTC), that one is $29.66 shipped.

If the demand is there for a $30 hat, much more is possible. 

Buy the same amount of BTC that this machine would cost.  In one year I think you will have more value.

I may do another run with a different design but there are now a few competing bitcoin logos.  I do like this new one but I am not sure if having so many different ones helps.

With the depreciation in the cards it is not profitable.  Unless you want to own three 6990 then it would be better to sell them now while they are worth more money.   If one of the cards dies while mining all profit is lost and you are at a loss. 

Many 7xxx series cards would be profitable to mine with if you already owned them and you were not facing new depreciation.  The 6990 stands out as a power hog, so things are not in its favor.  A 5970 is also more efficient tuned properly. 

GPU's are your lower priced alternative.  Most FPGA's are going for top dollar due to the fact that they are currently the best thing on the market and most of the ASIC companies are offering full price trade ins on old units.  The BFL single is going for between $500-$650 right now.  A 5970 video card (GPU) can be had for under $200. 

Repairing what is broken is not the same as taxing to prosperity.  It is actually in the governments interest to rebuild faster so more economic activity and taxes happen.  Most of the money is composed of loans that will be paid back. 

Most unemployment benefits are delivered as insurance and are funded from paychecks themselves.   The extended unemployment benefits are not and those are the ones that I have a problem with, not the regular 26 week ones.