They seem new, I'm just trying to nudge them in the right direction  But yes, you're right.  Trading BTC for PP is an invitation for disaster either way and I wouldn't advise using it period.

An unusually high influx of non-believers on that vid   But thanks!

Well, if it goes wrong, you can always take confidence in knowing PayPal hates Bitcoin and you'll get your money back even if he didn't do anything wrong.  I still advise using escrow, just as good practice.

Not to mention it's in the newbie forum   First person I'd want to scam is a newcomer who doesn't know any better.

Beats me.  I wouldn't trade with him just by the way he speaks of clientele. 

Seems like a charming fella

No escrow, no trade.  Words to live by!

I see why there will always be an argument between pro-life and pro-choice

Why not let people figure it out on their own terms?  What's this fetish with telling everyone how to live and act?  Pro-lifers can vow to always have their children, pro-choicers can vow to decide whether or not they want abortions based on whether or not it's an optimal point of time in their life to have children.

You're right.  A mod would have to regulate every new member coming to the board.  And they'd also have the displeasure of telling people "no".

Curse of the newbie board

I completely agree about the automation!  But I mean, in the right-now, any labor we can still get is being shipped off somewhere without hefty regulation.

And yes, the bankers are great, but not the banking system known today.  There are too many strings attached to the dollar which lead to for-profit wars.  Another problem with free market (in general), you can put a price tag on anything, including votes.  I'm hoping Bitcoin can fix this issue, but.  I don't know.  Maybe not.  You can still pay a guy off, in whatever currency you want, to act a certain way.  Free market coupled with a different system of governing is a better argument, but which mixture produces the best results is beyond me.  Anarcho-capitalism seems popular nowadays.  But as it stands, I don't know.  There are too many outside factors to draw a reasonable conclusion that this market system or that market system will be better off.

As other users have said, my money is on Bitcoin and a Bitcoin complementer (something like Ripple, most likely.)  Bitcoin is way too young to already be superseded by another e-currency.  Maybe in 50 years this will be true, but considering how long the dollar's been around, Bitcoin has barely started crawling at this point.

Whether or not Bitcoin will be widely accepted, I'd like to see.  I'm guessing it'll be more accepted by many more businesses, and for those who still use fiat, Bitcoin should see a reliable card which can transfer between BTC and the local currency, as well as straight BTC transfers.

Ha!  Good point   Most fluid argument against pro-life I've ever heard.

I got an idea you guys.  Lets take all the pro-lifers and make them pay the tab for orphanages. 

This.  At first glance, it looks completely free.

Though I agree that the abomination in America named "Free" market is not ideal and is the leading cause to unemployment (see: "You can't have these factories here without these several thousand regulations."  "Okay fine I'll just move my factory to China."), I don't believe fascism is any better.  The point is to solve the problem, not to solve the problem by presenting a counter-problem.

Then again, freedom to produce weaponry is also something I don't agree with...  If total free markets existed, shouldn't we have the rights to sell anything, so long as someone was buying?  Morality + profit = no go.  Then again, the banksters never had a problem with this, no matter what the market is like.  And I don't think a collective nation would want war, unless they legitimately had a reason for it (self-defense; anything not profit-related.)  So even if you produced a lot of weaponry, and could sell it to anyone, I don't think they're going to have much luck using it.  Not without someone noticing.  And why would the McDonalds corporation (example of course) want to purchase weaponry if they already have a choke hold on the industry?  Maybe there would be a Burger King army of Burger King brand weaponry to take them down, but...this all seems silly to me.

Anyhoo.  If Bitcoin is adopted, transactions are transparent, and I think someone will notice if they start moving high volumes of BTC to purchase said weapons (for whatever reason they had in mind.)  In the end, I don't believe this is an issue with the market system, whatever that system may be.  It would be like blaming the dollar for drugs.  Maybe when social classes are removed, society will be more inclined to focus on stuff like, living, instead of stuff like, warring.  But maybe I'm just fooling myself.

Are they still mistaking Amazon Coins to be in line with Bitcoins?

An fyi, I don't think the script will pick up your post since you added a message with it   In case your ripples never appear

That explains a lot.  I suppose all this confusion around ripple is a lack of understanding how our own banks work  Not gonna blame anyone, of course.  Murica has a funny way of leaving vital information such as this out of view, and I'm sure many countries are the same.  This is the first time I've actually gotten a hang of what banking is.

Cancer.

I haven't seen any spam, so I'd like to say yes.