70 billion market cap advantage to VISA?

I don't know why people in this thread have suggested or implied that credit cards or companies are required at all.  One argument was that credit is necessary for online shopping, however there are lots of online payment options that can be linked directly to a bank account.  The idea that you have to be reliant on credit is a problem in itself, which makes the market for these companies to exploit.  I am actually quite interested to see how the credit juggernaughts will bastardize the idea of a decentralized, immutable ledger to suit their own benefit.  Believe me, they are better managed and more adaptable than Kodak.

There's a Lamassu ATM in Halifax (1660 Argyle St).  They're nice machines, albeit slightly pricy at 6-8% markup.

Good video.  For the curious; it's only fiat to BTC.

Looking forward to the pictures, which could also be posted in the miner porn thread.

Completed.

I look forward to reading your conclusions based on this study, so please post a link in the future!

Canada. Eastern.

Very few signs of bitcoin adoption out my way compared to the nation's larger cities (population 500,000+).

I have a bitcoin ticker widget on my phone.  I see it every time I unlock my phone... Average unlock rate is likely in the 1-2/hr/day, so 16-32 times a day? Mind you that I am not unlocking my phone explicitly for the purpose of checking the exchange rate; I only see the price as an auxiliary part of living in the digital age.

Proof?

I recently switched away from blockchain.info's wallet to a software SPV wallet that is open source and able to be verified by third parties as secure.

I like it, and I hope to see more community works like this.

 

The one bitcoin ATM I used would only scan a public address, the remit funds to it. No option to print a paper wallet.  It was a Lamassu device (one way fiat to crypto).

Based on the commentary in this thread, I prefer paperless.

I'm just happy that my country (Canada) does not tax winnings from gambling.

Mining.

I've only been involved with bitcoin for 3 months, so I'm quite the small-fry compared to many on this forum who are "in the game" 

The idea that heavy debt load is required to function  is a severe societal problem that has exacerbated a couple of countries economic problems already. 

If bitcoin goes mainstream, perhaps existing credit agencies will cooperate with existing/new lending avenues like they do with banking instutions today.

47/51.  Merkle tree ninja'd me.  Some of the questions wording is slightly ambiguous, explaining the rest.

Not bad for a guy who discovered bitcoin 3 months ago?

I have an S5 that managed to burn a chip.  If bitmain honours their warranty and send me a new one, this will be implemented.

This is a reasonable alternative to using aftermarket fans.  The issue I see with aftermarket fans is they may not provide the same CFM air transfer as the stock fan unless mounted in some less than conventional configuration, such as 4x fans set up in a contra-rotating fashion (two per end - soldering fun).
(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra-rotating_propellers)

If the NFC card is used to store a private key for signing transactions, it had better be passworded or/and stored in a faraday-cage enclosure to prevent electronic emanations from being intercepted. (read: compromised private key).

Proceed with EXTREME CAUTION!

Recommend using a non-ferromagnetic material with good corrosion resistance, like aluminum or high-quality stainless steel.  If you believe hand carving to be intimidating or too time consuming, you can buy a metal punch kit to make the impressions (with a hammer of sorts).

Once complete, add clear coat for some initial resistance to the elements. Real paranoia would be doing this with 2/3 key multisig in 3 different plots of land, or with backup copies, etc.

<facepalm>

Seems legit.  I'll post some results after kill-a-watt arrives in the mail.

1/2 way to my first. 

I'm aprehensive about acquiring more mining hardware; currently trying to get an RMA out of Bitmain for a melted S5.

I'm new to bitcoin (circa April, 2015). 

The first person I'm trying to teach about bitcoin is my father... He's in his mid fifties and works as a information security administrator for (what I would call) a rather large network.  I would describe him as somewhat paranoid when it comes to online security (eg. I don't think he started using online banking until quite recently).

We'll see how it goes.

Based on people's attitudes on this forum, I'm surprised that this hasn't come up more.

I put .2 BTC in the Jam to test the waters.  May just have been chum for scammers, maybe not.  Time will tell.