What I find extremely annoying is this obsession by people about what is and isn't legal.

I mean as if something being legal is the only form in which people can perform it. Pisses me off.

Personally I don't give a shit about what is legal, what matters to me is the reality - there is this gang of thugs and if I want what's good for my health and wealth I should try my best to only do stuff that they can't find out about or stuff that they currently do NOT go out looking to exert violence upon people who they catch doing something.

What do you mean "If"? 

If anything this thread confirms beyond the first address that someone publicly proclaims is theirs it's pretty much impossible to know for a fact who owns what.

For example, I'm shown to own an address (and I do own it), that's empty. But I'm not shown to own another address that I used to advertise nor any of my other addresses with bitcoins..

YES! Oh man this is so awesome to hear. You little thugish crybabies wanted to run to daddy state so he could whip out his belt and put pirate over his knee and whip his ass but now you're left with NON VIOLENT OPTIONS and mostly a valuable life lesson.

This couldn't have ended better!

An excellent post that I'll sticky so people can learn from.

Feel free to make a new thread out of that excellent post in the main economics section

I would too. But then again who cares if BitPay is forced to drop them. They can still accept payments themselves..

And days like this, when the exchange rate drops a few % overnight I wish I spent some when it was at it's peak 

So yeah, "Will bitcoin become too expensive to spend?" my answer is a definitive NO.

Any ideas how much longer you will need to bring this to the market?

Well that's something I would have never expected to see, amazing job Erik!

But you gave yours and for argument's sake I agreed with it. What more do you want?

+3

BTW anyone who read the full ECB report knows that what all these claims by reporters that the ECB is somehow worried about competition is nothing but an outright lie.



What the report actually said is that if Bitcoin became widely used they, as arrogantly self proclaimed guardians of economic stability, could face angry constituency if a problem with Bitcoin should lead to economics problems, a constituency that might blame them for inaction before those problems arose and that it is in this regard that Bitcoin potentially endangers their reputation.

Of course this is bullshit, but that's what they really said and not what all these reporters are saying while taking bits and pieces out of context just so they can conjure up some sensationalist title that will get more views.

LOL The exact same holds true for fiat currencies. You should speak to Iranians or Belarusians when their fiat overnight bought 50% less.

Really? So what's the point in doing that if you don't assign any value to it? Random acts of your brain?

BTW you are starting to make more and more absurd arguments about semantics and I'm starting to really lose interest discussing this with you.

For arguments sake, let's use your definition.

piuk, I have a couple of privacy questions.

Let's say I enable notifications but then after a while I disable them. My question is, after I turn them off, any new key pairs I generate, can blockchain.info see the Bitcoin addresses and tie them to my email I had previously notification enabled to?

Also, is using an email for sending backs in anyway diminishing the privacy of my Bitcoin addresses?

Thanks in advance for taking the time and answering these questions!

We will? I could foresee a day not to far into the future where all I own is gold, silver and bitcoins. And any fiat I may get I'd instantly exchange for one of the three, or any fiat that I'd have to use because there was no other way I'd just exchange one of the three into it when I needed it. And under such circumstances I'd probably spend my bitcoins in my daily life without thinking much about it.

I actually found myself regret, although temporarily, using bitcoins to pay for three drinks at the meetup in Bratislava last Sunday and even though it was just 0.46BTC I wish I used my fiat instead. But that's only because I had these two options.

If all I had was bitcoins and if I'm honest I don't know how I'd feel about it. I speculate it is possible I may save more and spend less but I'd still use Bitcoin for my everyday shopping that I have to do in order to sustain my life.

Ok, and how does mining bitcoins when only a small group of programmers ran Bitcoin back in 2009 and 2010 not fit that definition? They weren't trading those bitcoins for anything and yet they were actively spending labor to acquire them. Are you going to tell me they didn't see some sort of value in them even though they couldn't trade them for nothing?