Remember also, what you are asking is like asking "When will blockbuster video support Netflix?"
Bitcoin is the greatest threat credit cards have ever faced. It is faster, cheaper, and far more secure than a credit card. MasterCard and Visa are not going to help you destroy their business model. You do not need a credit card if you know how to use bitcoin. It can be done, I cut up my cards in 2012 and have not looked back.

I just rebuilt my Linux node machine recently. A full DL of the blockchain took a full week.  Fortunately storage is so cheep that I was able to go with a 3 Terabyte HD. That should hold me for a few years. I like having a dedicated machine like this. I usually shop on a different computer and spend from my node for additional privacy.   

Thanks for contributing to the network's strength and resilience!

Good ideas guys! (or girls, whatever)

I may indeed incorporate some of those suggestions. I think later this year the game will take place in North America then South America next year. My goal is to have offered bitcoin on every continent. Then maybe oceans, space, who knows?

Thanks for your kind post and suggestions. I have done some of those things already so that I will know if the person claiming to have found the cache actually has. I also toyed with the idea of having people fund the account in some kind of crowdfunding way. However I thought this would raise some red flags, and that I might be accused of scamming. If I am the only one giving away money then nobody can say this is some kind of elaborate con. I do post a public address whenever I place a cache and I can't stop people from sending money to it. But handling and accounting for other peoples money is not something I want to get into.

My next one may be a very different model as I am experimenting with multiple copies of the same private key. This would mean more caches, but a tighter race to be the first to find and block out the other participants.

I did a double take when I read your post, lol. But it is the public key that you see in the photo. The private key is folded inside. If I had screwed up and exposed the key then more power to the winner. I like a contest with few rules and if the finder of the cache wants to remain anonymous then that's okay also.

Yes. They absolutely must have. Whoever it is must know that they can get another reward for telling me what happened. I really hope they do.  


Thanks for your supportive post! It is a little less dramatic to not know exactly what happened. The offer of bitcoin for the story will still stand. I can verify if it is the real finder or not because of some things in the cache that I have never revealed.



Glad you enjoyed it!
But I am so evil that it even occurred to me to put it UNDER the ocean somewhere.  
 I'll post here when I have a new location.

Hi CerealKing. Sorry for the delay, I have been traveling again. In fact I was going to claw back the BTC in Africa and start again with a cache in the rocky mountains. When I went to scan the private key I found the cache empty.  i have not been contacted by anyone and so I have no idea who has it. But whoever it is they have figured out how to move it to a new address.

Congratulations to whoever found it. They must have physically found the box to use the private key.  The only other copy was in a bank vault. I really hope the finder contacts me. I'm sure it would be a good story.

I'll be in Denver looking at the Cannabis industry in coming weeks. When I get back I guess I'll start thinking about a new location, somewhere on this beautiful wet rock in space.

Wallets are not all the same and have huge differences in security. Personally I would use only a FULL NODE like core for any large amount. If we are talking about $100, then I might use a phone wallet. A phone wallet has much higher risks but the convenience of it is worth the risk for me. Basically I don't put more bitcoin on my phone than the value of the phone.

A full node running on a Linux machine is good enough security to hold millions of dollars. Consider setting up a Linux computer. Linux is free and far better than windows.

https://www.ubuntu.com/

Vive la France! 

Hats off to Mssrs. Boyart and Milne.

Nothing about bitcoin changes when the price changes. That's what I look at.

Hmm. That's not how I learned it as a stock trader. The idea was that a stock had become valueless for whatever reason. It was dead and the business was likely to become insolvent. However as the price fell to almost nothing it suddenly received new buying interest because it was so cheap that it was now a good long-shot bet. This inflow of cash caused the already dead cat to go up a bit before a final collapse.
A lot of people confuse stock trading with bitcoin trading. But these are very different assets. Stocks NEED to make money. The money keeps a business going and it will totally fail without capitol. Bitcoin does not need your money and works fine if the price is $0.01

Bitcoin user unaffected.

Hey that reminds me, I'll be in Seattle this weekend. Does anyone know of a dispensary there that takes bitcoin?

A "dead cat ounce" can only be determined after a STOCK has collapsed to zero.  Cats don't bounce back to life. It is a dip or correction or fall, but not a dead cat bounce.

Really? I held and now I'm wealthy beyond my dreams. Were you holding BCH or something, lol?

So how much did you lose on alt-coins? 

Let's consider our ability to think rationally during all the drama as our edge.   

 


   

I am flying Saturday via bitcoin. Easy.

https://www.cheapair.com/blog/category/bitcoin/

Sweet pipe surfing!
I tried surfing once. What I did could not really be called surfing though. 

Man the NYSE is a bloodbath right now. I am losing almost everywhere. Even my A-list stocks like Amazon, and Alphabet(google) are hurting. I'm resorting to the bond market for any profits. I think we are about to see a collapse in stocks.

Get your buys ready!