I have learned that at these forums the most provocative, intriguing, and conspiratorial possibility is always the correct assumption. No homework or facts required. It's always aliens or a secret cabal of mysterious players.
This type of thinking should give Satoshi years of cover. 

 

 

I would add that my belief is that talk of whales is far more common than whales. 

Just to make it unanimous, DO NOT break that seal. It would be like smashing an antique piggy bank to get the pennies out.

could you link to a public address showing the balance?

I could care less about what others do and why they do it. For me it is about financial benefit. Bitcoin is the fastest, cheapest, and most secure money. It is far better than dollars. In order to use dollars I must have permission from the issuer and must use them according to their rules. Dollars only work in the U.S. and a few other places and if I want to send them somewhere I must pay ridiculous fees and wait for up to a month for everything to be cleared. Even worse, dollars require trust. I would have to give all the information required to steal from me to a website, a payment processor, a credit card company, others?
Cards look so stupid to me now. I'll never go back. A better title for this thread is "Why the F@#% would anyone use fiat"?

It should work. But after downloading the reference copy of the blockchain the software still needs to go through it all and read it. Then it will start downloading any newer blocks that were not in the reference copy. If your download was 21gig then you still have about another 30gig to be caught up. That will also take a long while. You could just turn on your computer and forget it for a day or two. Or you could turn on bitcoin when it's convenient. It will pick up where it left off each time.

The current chain size is 50Gig! It may still be loading the most recent blocks. it may also be reading through that data in the download, which also takes a long time. From what you have said there is no reason to be concerned yet about it not working. As long as it keep loading your on the right track.
It is a hassle to install with that huge file. But once you are up to date then you only need to load new blocks and it is much easier to use.

So let's see how Jamie did last month.

When this thread first appeard JP Morgan Chase was selling for $66.44
Right now it is selling at .........................................................$66.74

So Jamie made ......................................................................$0.30



My bitcoins were ..................................................................$387.51
and now are ........................................................................$395.32

So I made ............................................................................$7.81


Yeah, he can get bent. 

No. IMO, bitcoin is too volatile to hold ALL your money.
 No one else in the universe should have access to your BTC. Unless you give someone your private key there is no way to "freeze" your money and no higher authority than you. Permission is not required in the bitcoin system because there is no one with the authority to give permission.

Of course if a tax authority catches you evading taxes then there is nothing about bitcoin that is a defense of your actions. You may face jail and penalties in addition to owing the original taxes.

+1 You sir are correct!
I noticed that also. I have no idea who these people are, it was just the funniest pic I found.  

You are right. You will need to use UPS or Fedex and no automatic weapons can be sold without a HUGE amount of paperwork, fees, BG checks. And none shipped into the U.S.  

But what does that have to do with violence? I own lots of guns and they are never used for violence. Or drugs? What does this have to do with drugs?

P.S. Lots of people sell guns for BTC in the U.S. now. Here is my favorite site. Good prices and helpfull service.
http://shop.centraltexasgunworks.com/

In America we learn all this stuff at home.



 

Oh thanks, I see it now. Not that knowing the this is going to be enough.

If 2000 is the threshold then maybe it should go like this:

Hero > Legendary > Pathetic

 
 

That's a good point. If you had the private keys then you could go to a different wallet. For those new to the system, it's all about that private key. With it everything is fixable, without it there is no hope.

OP I'm sure you have heard this before. Do not mix PayPal and bitcoin. You might want to look into an exchange website or consider spending the bitcoin directly. Why go through PayPal when you already have money? You may be surprised at how many places take them now. Or you could use Gyft to turn your coins into gift codes for places you shop anyway.

I second this assertion. Change is a weird and difficult to get part of Bitcoin.

Sorry to butt in, your getting great advice. Just wanted to mention DO NOT DELETE OR UNINSTALL THE APP!!! Right now you have the private key that corresponds to the receiving address you sent money to. You do not want to loose that private key. As long as you have the private key this will all work out.

You may also want to go to blockchain.info and do a search of the public key (receiving address) that the BTC was sent to. You should be able to see it sitting there.

Yes, its a better system for users because of this. Of course you are still needing to trust the functionality of the website and that it has close to 100% uptime.

No information about the transaction? That is strange. You did a lot of things right, using the long password with no words. That rules out guessing your password. You are using good anti-malware. That makes malware a little less likely.
If you wrote the password in a document or on a slip of paper you may want to check the security on that document. It may also be worth asking yourself "who else knows I have bitcoins and has access to this computer"?
What a bummer. Can blockchain.info give you a Tx ID? That may give some more information.