++1 ironcross360

thx.

2nd great trade with shibaji.

++1

2 smooth trade with shibaji.

++!

The value of bitcoin is essentially controlled by digital signatures stored in a distributed database called the blockchain.

Your wallet is a file that contain private keys.

Your wallet can be stored on:

                    1. a  hosted service.
                    2. a bitcoin client on your computer
                     3. Cold storage which is either a physical device not connected to the internet or a "paper wallet" (essentially the private written or printed on a piece of paper.

Whereever your private keys are stored they each have a corresponding public key (starting with the number 1) which is the "Bitcoin Address" we send bitcoin to and from. 

You can send bitcoin to any one of your public keys regardless of where the corresponding private key is stored.

To buy stuff you essentially send your bitcoin to the public key of the person or business you are buying from.  In the back ground your bitcoin client essentially creates a digital signature that say you own these bitcoin and that you are sending them to to bitcoin address indicated.  Your client then broadcasts this transaction to the network and once it is confirmed by 6 nodes on the network (to avoid double spending) you transaction is complete and the control of the value of those bitcoin have effectively been passed from your address to the address you sent to.

You can keep you bitcoin on Mt. Gox however Mt gox is essentially a "hosted wallet" which is probably the least secure type of wallet.  Hosted companies can get hacked.  They can go out of business.  They can disappear.  It is best you move larger amounts of bitcoin to a more secure wallet.

If you store btc on you local computer.  1.  be sure to encrypt your wallet.  REMEMBER YOUR PASSWORD. And if you EVER loose the wallet.dat file from a corrupt or overwritten hard drive or any other issue, YOU BITCOINS ARE GONE FOREVER.

When you download the offical bitcoin qt client to you local computer you have to also down load the very large blockchain (in a process called syncing).  You can not see or spend any bitcoins you receive at an address stored on your local machine until you client is "synced".  The same is true if you turn your computer is off.  You client will have to catch up with the ever growing blockchain although after the initial download, it takes significantly less time to sync depending on how long you have been on line.

Here are other ways to secure a bitcoin wallet
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=17240.0

blockchain.info/wallet is a very popular and secure hosted wallet.


Good luck

MiracleRiver

That is a GREAT idea.

You biggest hurdle is going to be trust.  Who holds these bitcoin private keys and how do you know that person/entity will be reputable and honest  and STILL in business when the trust comes due.

Some one could buy a child or a niece or nephew or grandchild BTC to use as a college fund.  

You just want to be certain that the accumulated value of that BTC(not counting price variation) is still available 5, 10, 18 years after you made the deposit.

I did get hit with a charge back.

Guess what.  I won!

BTC_Bear I'm not going to comment on the moral ambiguity of my response to Tim Wheat's continued scamming other then to say my interaction with him gave me great pleasure.

I just call it bitcoin justice

DON'T FUCK WITH BITCOIN

post here

someone will respond

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128314.0

popped up on IRC as Sinkingbottled

Still using paypal address: fuzzyshark44@gmail.com


This is kind of funny.

<BCB> sup
<Sinkingbottled> nada
<Sinkingbottled> was wondering whtas the least you could sell?
<BCB> how much do you need
<Sinkingbottled> I am trying to get .61 as i am a bit short
<BCB> sure
<Sinkingbottled> but whats the absolute miniumum?
<BCB> how are you paying
<Sinkingbottled> paypal
<BCB> where are you located
<Sinkingbottled> I also have walmart gift card
<Sinkingbottled> US
<BCB> where
<Sinkingbottled> kentucky
<BCB> 30.97
<BCB> USD
<Sinkingbottled> how much would you do for a $1.80?
<Sinkingbottled> i am only a small amount short
<BCB> 0.03
<BCB> btc
<Sinkingbottled> ok cool
<Sinkingbottled> let me eregister
<Sinkingbottled> would you mind giving me a good rating
<Sinkingbottled> as I will do the same
<BCB> i always do
<BCB> you are not authed
<BCB> I can't rate you
<Sinkingbottled> im trying to now, bare with me for one moment please
<Sinkingbottled> ALMOST DONE
<Sinkingbottled> xcaps
<Sinkingbottled> where do you want the money sent to
<Sinkingbottled> ?
<BCB> email@email.com
<BCB> send as gift or you pay any fees
<BCB> pm btc address here
<Sinkingbottled> k thanks
<Sinkingbottled> you know i u/l my pgp key to the server and used the pub key associated with my nick and now gribble is saying when i type ";;gpg eregister Sinkingbottled (key) "s invalid.
<Sinkingbottled> weird
<Sinkingbottled> o well
<Sinkingbottled> ill figure the rating part out later
<Sinkingbottled> im going to go ahead and send?
<BCB> ok
<Sinkingbottled> hey would you be interested in a walmart gift card?
<BCB> no
<Sinkingbottled> sent
<Sinkingbottled> u from the us?
<BCB> yes
<BCB> you
<Sinkingbottled> yea
<BCB> where
<BCB> where
<Sinkingbottled> 1CkZQR2uSzFQSrGzTBwGzkFoVEikwd6TBX
<Sinkingbottled> ^^^ send there
<Sinkingbottled> kentucky
<Sinkingbottled> i moved recently
<Sinkingbottled> let me know when u get it sent
<BCB> Are you the tim wheat
<Sinkingbottled> no
<Sinkingbottled> who is tim wheat?
<BCB> the scammer
<Sinkingbottled> no
<BCB> http://timlwheatsvictims.com/
<Sinkingbottled> ha do you realzie how many tim wheats there are
<Sinkingbottled> and that picture doesnt eeven look like atme
<BCB> only one on otc
<Sinkingbottled> na
<Sinkingbottled> well
<Sinkingbottled> not that i know of
<BCB> you got ID
<Sinkingbottled> why?
<Sinkingbottled> Do you need a DNA test as well?
<BCB> http://bitcoinpolice.org/viewtopic.php?pid=147
<Sinkingbottled> I thought we had a deal?
<Sinkingbottled> Yeah but that's not me
<BCB> you scummy fuck
<Sinkingbottled> that a diff wheat
<BCB> fuck you
<Sinkingbottled> send my bitcoins over
<BCB> fuck you
<Sinkingbottled> or send my money back dipshit
<Sinkingbottled> fuck you
<BCB> fuck
<BCB> you
<BCB> scammer
<Sinkingbottled> go burn in hell you lousy worthless piece of shit
<BCB> ha
<Sinkingbottled> send my money back
<BCB> fuck you
<BCB> scammer
<Sinkingbottled> ok then ill get it bakc
<BCB> ok
<Sinkingbottled> or either u send it back
<Sinkingbottled> which one?
<Sinkingbottled> you scum fuck cum stain
<BCB> what is your paypal email
<Sinkingbottled> i should report you from stealing my money
<BCB> what is your paypal email
<Sinkingbottled> fuzzyshark44@gmail.com
<Sinkingbottled> read the receipt retard
<BCB> what is your name
<Sinkingbottled> TIM
<BCB> last name
<Sinkingbottled> What the fucking fuck does this have to do with anything?
<Sinkingbottled> do the deal
<Sinkingbottled> be over with it
<BCB> what is your last name
<Sinkingbottled> Can you you not read?
<BCB> so your name is Tim Wheat
<BCB> how do you live with your self
<Sinkingbottled> And do a search for tim wheats
<Sinkingbottled> there are probably thousands
<BCB> fuck you
<Sinkingbottled> live with myself, well lets see I dont i live with a hot wife and have a great job in computers
<Sinkingbottled> how do you sleep at night scum shit bag?
<Sinkingbottled> SEND M FUCKING MONEY BACK BITCH
<Sinkingbottled> or ill fuck you up
<BCB> boo hoo
<BCB> you scummy fuck
<Sinkingbottled> you dodgey cum guzzling prick
<Sinkingbottled> you dodgey cum guzzling prick
<Sinkingbottled> you shouldve been swallowed
<Sinkingbottled> send my money back now
<BCB> that scammer has been scammed
<BCB> buy
<BCB> buy
<Sinkingbottled> we'll see about that
* Sinkingbottled has quit (Quit: Leaving)

He is living his life with his wife and her two kids like nothing ever happened in McKinney TX.

This guy sound like a SCAMMER. 

There is a notorious Scammer from Chicago how keeps popping into irc.

Pretty much.

He got away.  Scott Free.

Neither is this.

http://regex.info/exif.cgi?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fanonymouse.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fanon-www.cgi%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fanonymouse.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fanon-www.cgi%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fanonymouse.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fanon-www.cgi%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fimg837.imageshack.us%2Fimg837%2F8864%2Fcarcrash.jpg

Caution from the fork scare and no new news of more adoption or investment.

Stand by.

Just purchased 2 btc on ziggap for 103.57.  Mt Gox last price at the time was 47.  I believe there was a two dollar markup and a 3.95 fee for an effective rate of Mt Gox Last plus 10.2%.

Ziggap uses the MoneyGram bill payment system through Zipzap.

The new Ziggap Site was slick and easy to use.  They do ask for personal info.  Name, Address, Phone, Email.

Once I made the MoneyGram bill payment I got an email for Ziggap and Zigzap  confiring the the payment had been completed.  The Btc was then promptly delivered to the btc address I had provided.

Nice Job.

Interesting.  Only trade with bond sellers.

You can't help those how can't help themselves.

I'm for a scammer committee.  Two or three trusted member or maybe more then you have an x of y votes to apply the tag.

Some guys can be VERY aggressive.    I know I jump the gun on occasion.  But I think it would work pretty well.  I would also put the community on notice that their trades are being policed.

We would also have to define SCAMMER.

My opinion it is a person who does not uphold their end of a deal after a period of time.  The scammer thread it a place to publicly debate it and if the scammer make good the tag gets removed.

I DO NOT think welshing on a bet is scamming.  So after the whole MNW debacle, even those he's an cocky arrogant asshole, I don't think he was a scammer.  But the scammer tag did seem to silence him.  So that was a good thing.

Just my 2c

Buyer Beware

Otherwise Bitcointalk turns into the US Social System

sent

http://blockchain.info/address/18xSHraFRbbxysPkqbbnUHBKw91vHTL1Es

1.50 BTC

I'm buying and selling.  PM Me.