I was thinking along the same lines. It's already hit over $3, with only being
on one exchange, the airdrop only being in its infancy, and without a huge
social media push. There is certainly room above $5 for the right privacy-centric
currency. I think DO is the right one. There will be the inevitable downward
pressure of those who would rather dump for quick cash, but it seems to
be holding up nicely even so. I look forward to the future with this
community.

#gridcoin irc is also a good resource for getting info.

The name is really the least important aspect of any coin. Unless it's called something crazy and offensive,
it doesn't really matter.  People get used to things easily. Dogecoin did really well with one of the worst
coin names I can think of. Well, there have been a lot of bad ones. "JockerCoin" leaps to mind. You'd
think they'd spellcheck the name of their coin, haha. Or AndroidsToken. Or Coinye, lol.
I still have a Coinye wallet backed up somewhere.

But yeah, super positive community, unlike some I could mention. Once they hit a few more markets
I think the screaming FUD will stop, (maybe), and the coin will really start to shine.

My friend used to say "Gambling is a self-correcting condition".

What he meant was that when you lose you can't gamble any
more. This obviously doesn't take into account people borrowing
from questionable characters or 'payday loan' type setups, but
again, thewse could be considered to be self-correcting. If you
don't pay them back you get your legs broken, or worse.

Me, I only gamble what I can afford to lose, but I wasn't always
this way. I guess the best way to tell if you have an addiction is
if your life is negatively impacted by your urge to place wagers.

Never throw more money in trying to get even. You're already even.

If you can find a newer coin with lower difficulty it might be worth mining,
there are sites that automatically switch between coins depending on
profitability. But the main guys, BTC, BTCC, ETH, ETC, etc you would
need a lot more processing power than a couple of antminers are going
to give you.

I was looking for USB miners on Amazon recently, and I noticed they're
going for ~80 dollars a piece. I bought mine for 20 bucks, just because I
wanted to play around with it, more than wanting to actually make any
kind of profit. But if I sold now I'd make 400% my investment, which is way
more than I could have gotten mining Doge, imo

That sounds suspiciously like my experience with Cryptsy before Vern
ran off to China with everyone's money. Anytime an exchange starts
not responding to support tickets, or shutting down their trollbox to
prevent the word spreading, is the time to get out if you can. I try not to
keep anything at all on exchanges, I learned my lesson from Bitclockers
and Mt Gox and Deepbit and Cryptsy and (maybe) BTC-e and (maybe) some
other one. Fool me 3 times or more shame the fuck on me, right?

But yeah, anyway. Keep your coins close, or risk them.

I had 37. I can't even bring myself to do the math to see how much they'd be worth nowadays,
but they were collectively worth a few hundred when I had em. I won a good amount playing poker,
then I decided to gamble on SatoshiDice and go shopping on my favorite Internet Crypto
Purveyor who shall remain nameless. I still have a Nintendo DS game that cost me 2 BTC.

I like Mario Bros, but not that much.

I've never heard of any of these.  Are they reputable? How long have they been around?

I think it would make a bit more sense to try and get GRC on Shapeshift, everyone knows
them and there are plenty of currencies to switch between. And they really have some
laughable coins on there.  Maybe we should make some noise around the next time they are
adding/removing coins. A bit more of a stable wallet would help, I know exchanges have
a tough time with how often they have to update their wallets.

But I'm always down to check out new crypto sites, I'll check these out, thanks sir!

Yeah, I don't really see this happening at this point.  years, it's been,
and nothing. I have tons of these, sitting in a wallet, wasting away,
just in case something ever happens. But I am not going to hold
my breath. Write off the loss and move on. Put the ADT with my Coinye
(RIP)

Powerball's at an estimated half a billion USD right now, with the drawing , (i believe), on Saturday.
I think the pot odds are pretty good to buy a few tickets, see if I can't get a real jackpot for once.
Normally I don't play the big games like these, but I just think about how much BTC I could buy with
half a billion and my stomach turns all kind of funny and I'm sold, haha.

I'll report back if I win. And maybe I'll make it rain

Ah, I misunderstood, my fault. Yeah, sites these days throw around jackpot for
everything. Maybe it shows how small their businesses actually are, or maybe
it shows how much they're actually taking out of the potential prize pool.

 To me, Jackpot should be at least tens of thousands, if not much more.

On a side note, one time I was at Foxwoods/MGM Grand casino with
my then-girlfriend. We had a bad run that night, her playing slots and
me playing poker. I had one quarter left, (this was back when slots still
took quarters), and I put it in a random machine, pulled the lever...and
lost. As this happened, over the loudspeaker a voice said "[REDACTED],
you are the latest $1,000 winner in our summer hourly giveaway! Please
go to a Service kiosk to claim your winnings!". And the name they said was
mine. That made the night a little better. Still not a jackpot. But the timing
couldn't have been better.

Maybe where you are. 3.7 wouldn't get me through half a year here.

I won 2.12 btc on Satoshidice back in the day. I took first in the Big BTC on
Seals With Clubs back when Freemoney was still running it and BTC was worth
like 20 bucks. That was like 27 BTC, and I got 10 more on the tables.
  And I hit a 500,000/1 shot on just-dice a couple years ago, at almost
the exact same time the price of CLAM was decimated. None of these were
quite the Jackpot, but pretty damn close. Now if I could just learn to hodl.

No, Twitter is a joke.

It's how all these guys get paid nowadays. It's anonymous(ish), easily laundered,
and will only go up in price. There's no benefit to trying to get a briefcase full
of fiat from them, even if the bills are small and non-sequential. But send
them some BTC, they convert to Ethereum or Dash and cash out. Boom.
Or just sit on it. It's not like it's not going to be worth more eventually.

I've stated this elsewhere, but I really hope HBO doesn't pay.

Bad precedent. Both for IP holders and for BTC's optics.
Everyone already sees Bitcoin as money for the criminal
and sketchy, this certainly doesn't help. If BTC was easier
for your average Joe on the street to purchase, it would help.
People would be using it for everything, not just the currency
of choice for paying ransoms. But we're not there yet.

I cashed out 37 BTC from SWC a few years ago, when they were super cheap. I then bought
a bunch of stuff with them. A Nintendo DS game, couple other things I should have just bought
with fiat. There isn't enough facepalm to show my feelings about this. Sometimes I lie awake at
night thinking about it. Whiskey helps.

Also 2 years ago I won 5000 CLAM on just-dice. Unfortunately, again, I needed the money and cashed out.

Face, meet palm.

I don't see that the mining algorithm matters, as no one is going to be mining it.

I'm not using the android wallet.  Sending A110025294652163217000 to 1doog.  I plug in the address and the amount, click 'send' and the window just goes away, and nothing happens.

I do, yes.