I'd choose gold for its stability and bitcoin for its potential. I think both are great assets, with different pros and cons.
Why not? Why would two planets have to use the same currency (or store of value, for that matter)? Nowadays two neighbouring countries don't even do so. Convertibility is what you're looking for. If the internet can't connect people from one planet to another, charts will do the job. But it's true that gold will have an advantage on bitcoin when it comes to that.

Anyway, that's a very remote future that we're talking about. Maybe space travelling for civilians is something that we'll see before leaving this life (and I'm talking about close destinations like the moon and stuff, if even it becomes possible during the course of the next 50 years, which I seriously doubt, by the way). But currencies used somewhere else then on Earth? Nah, I don't buy it. At least not before several centuries. We won't be here anymore anyway.

Here in Taiwan I meet people who know about bitcoin and even use it all the time. Since one of my friends introduced me to it 2 months ago I've started to talk about it around me and noticed that quite a few of my acquaintances were in fact already using it, or at least knew about it. Most of the people I know who know about bitcoin are American though. I know very few Taiwanese people who are interested in it, as of now.

I'd like to join too. Thanks.

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Computer games are based on reality. I mean programming is based on reality, so of course...
Now Bitcoin is based on programming as well. And it's based on reality more then anything else. That's why it may look similar to computer games. But bitcoin is not based on computer games and it's even less a computer game.

Comparing bitcoin and video games is just bizarre.

Un peu de racines de mandragores et quelques graines de salsepareille, garanti efficace ou remboursé. Par contre fais gaffe parce que si tu doses mal tu risques de devenir complètement invisible.

On est autour de 340 là, manne. Je sais pas qui sur internet te prend tes BTC à 400 euros mais je veux bien que tu me files l'adresse. Et si c'est toi... bah t'es libre quand ? Mardi à 13h, place du marché, ça irait ?

En effet. Je vais poster ça sur mon facebook.

J'y ai rejoué aujourd'hui et ça faisait longtemps qu'un jeu ne m'avait plus autant couru sur les nerfs. C'est vraiment pas pour moi xD
Mais si ça peut permettre de faire découvrir bitcoin à des gens, alors je leur dirai pas que ça met les nerfs en pelotte

5000 satoshis si tu finis premier, 3000 si tu finis deuxième, et ça diminue jusqu'au 5è. Il y a des fois j'aimerais bien avoir 16 ans une deuxième fois :-/
Maintenant j'ai plus vraiment envie de perdre mon temps avec des satoshis. Surtout que bon je suis peut-être pas doué mais j'ai dû faire 6-7 cartes et je suis arrivé deuxième une fois, à ma deuxième partie, j'ai eu la chance du débutant : je découvrais à peine la barre espace (ouais j'avais pas lu les règles)... et puis plus rien.
Et en plus ces satoshis ne sont pas directement encaissables : ils sont envoyés vers une "Provisional balance", ce qui veut dire qu'il faut les rejouer sur une carte payante (et gagner) pour véritablement pouvoir les encaisser. La carte payante la moins chère est à 10000 satoshis.

Enfin je m'emmerderais bien à ça si j'avais 13 ans mais voila (note que si je vois qu'il y a genre 5 peis sur une carte un jour...)

Nah. If you lost 10,000 bitcoins it means that you once had that sum of money, which can only be achieved in a limited number of ways, which are:
1) You were born in a rich family,
2) You're a smart and dynamic person with ideas that can change the future (early BTC adopters are to be found here, for most and if not, well then they'll be closer to 1) ),
3) You stole them through hacking,
4) You're just a greedy person who's been living a miserable life in order to save.

If it's 1) than becoming alcoholic and asking for money from people on the street seems a good way to deal with such a loss. Or you just learn to live with it.
If it's 2 or 3 you'll get rich again, don't worry (through honest means or not).
And if it's 4 you'll probably be dead soon anyway but congratulations for putting together 10,000 bitcoins, it must not have been easy with today's rate. Guess that's what happens with Alzheimer, right? You've been saving fiat all the way, then you learn about BTC and you transfer, then you leave your password on the table at the restaurant before leaving. Sad.

@LiteCoinGuy: Take up arms and CONQUER ALL!
... Or simply tell them about advantages that you know will get them interested, and insist on said advantages? I can assure you that my mom was digging the almost-no-fees stuff about it. They're your friends and family. You kind of have to know a thing or two about what should catch their attention. And it's not like bitcoin is not offering any major advantage. You just have to make your pick.

It would be a great thing if people didn't need to install Linux on their computer to ensure some security. As the situation is now you won't get my mom involved in bitcoin. Bitcoin has to come to the people. Not the opposite. That's the big thing right now, I think. The tallest wall between now and main acceptance is that as of now if you're not a computer geek bitcoin is simply too dangerous for you.
Now I too have talked to my mom about it and she seems interested in several things regarding it, such as low fees for money transfers outside of the EU, though she doesn't understand the least bit about how it works.

@megatron: Well it's like any conversation that you might have with anyone, trying to introduce them to something new that they didn't know: if you can hold your own and get them to be interested you'll gain status points in their eyes.

You see, in this world there is two kinds of people, my friend. Those who could keep their 7500 BTC, and those who dig. I'd dig.

So this is the thread about solar flares, right?

Guess Satoshi mined the first block.
I'd like to know the answers to the other questions too though.

I've just noticed something: https://coinmap.org/#/map/39.01878358/125.72822571/12
There are three spots where bitcoins is used in PYONGYANG! Am I the only one who finds it bizarre?

The consensus seems to be that bitcoin is cheap now but it has been cheaper just last month. I'd buy a bit now, if I were you, and save some fiat in order to buy back my own blood on the street in the unlikely event bitcoin falls back to $200. If it doesn't you can still inject more fiat in it in the future.

C'est déjà bien redescendu là. Mais logiquement si c'est bien à cause du black friday ça devrait remonter à un moment ou a un autre aujourd'hui ou demain et redescendre samedi.
Par contre ce qui est étrange c'est qu'il est quelque chose comme midi 47 aux States, là, et que la plongée (ou le retour à l'origine, c'est selon) se poursuit. Je suppose que le gros du mouvement devrait normalement provenir des USA, si c'est en lien avec le black friday. Or c'est étrange parce que la montée a démarré à 1:30 du mat aux States et la descente a commencé à s'amorcer vers 6:30, toujours à leur heure. Depuis, pendant toute la matinée jusque maintenant on est en descente.
Du coup mes trois sous de mec qui y connait rien semblent plutôt invalidés là :-/ . Ce mouvement semble plutôt venu du Chine, une fois de plus. Ça colle plus avec la tranche horaire.

You got it with the coupons, keepdoing! That's the problem with this system and, I think, the reason why few people are willing to use bitcoins at Family Mart.

Family Mart isn't on the map, that's right. Otherwise Taiwan would be one big red spot on the map. That said I have two acquaintances (that I met before getting into bitcoin, under other circumstances) who accept direct payments in bitcoins, though. One of them is owns a bar and the other a hostel. Both are foreigners (= not Taiwanese). And actually these two businesses make out for something like one third of all the businesses accepting bitcoins here.

I also noticed something funny about the EU, according to this map: Belgium and the Netherlands are two rather dynamic spots (together with Northern Italy and England), and in Belgium only the Dutch-speaking part is. The French-speaking part is a black spot on the map where no-one seems interested in the technology. Just the same as in France: very few people seem interested in bitcoin there. Apart from Eastern Europe, no one seems less interested in bitcoin than French-speakers (not talking about Switzerland here, as their situation is very different). Talk about cultural impact on bitcoin acceptance

In Taiwan, Family Mart is accepting it. And that means something like 1000 convenience stores, throughout an island the size of Maryland, where everyone goes at least once every day to buy all kind of stuff.
Thing is I'm actually not sure so many people pay there with bitcoins now. But if it works I'm expecting 7 eleven to follow suit anytime. And maybe in time set an example for the world.

Je suppose que la montée d'aujourd'hui est due au black Friday qui arrive demain ? Si c'est ça ça va très vite se stabiliser, voire retomber à 330$. Pas besoin de correction.