Why do you say this? What is difference now then 20 or 10 years ago? If anything the dollar has become more widely used and stronger when compared to other currencies.

You need to understand that the numbers you are quoting are only the exchanges' revenues. They must still pay their expenses which are far from free. I don't think btc-e spends a lot on compliance costs, but they probably spend some non-zero amount. They have to pay for their servers and internet so people can access their site. They need to pay people to maintain their site and for security. All these add up and are probably a lot.

Unless facebook were to change their current policy this would really not be possible. AFAIK all "in-site" purchases must be done with facebook credits. This is very similar to how all "in-app" purchases must be done via the iTunes app store for apps on iPhones, iPads and iPods. I could see facebook potentially accepting BTC for payment for facebook credits in the future, but I would doubt that they would allow users to buy things with BTC directly.

The MSM is the Mainstream Media. It is comprised of news outlets like CNN, NBC, Fox news, The Washington post, the wall street journal and the like. It is media outlets that are very heavily read and respected. They are generally responsible in confirming most of the facts that they report prior to publishing their stories.

If people are accepting these jobs out of their own free will and when other jobs are available then they are not at all being exploited. Exploiting someone would be when they would be tricked into accepting a job and then paying them much less then what is promised.

The electric grid is not as sensitive to disruptions as the internet is. Yes some areas of the country have to purchase electricity from other places of the country however this electricity does not travel huge distances. You will generally not consume electricity generated in CA in New York. But rather you might consume power generated in NV in CA, which border each-other.

Investing in bank deposits overseas is something that is very risky. In the US your deposits are insured by the FDIC up to $250,000 so if the bank were to fail you would be made whole. The same is not true for banks in most of the rest of the world. Even when countries have similar deposit insurance programs, the government that backs the bank insurance is nowhere near as strong financially so your funds would still be at great risk.

To answer your question, it would likely be banks in Iran, as if reports that I have read on here are correct, pays interest well into the double digits. My understanding of the reasons behind this are due to the fact that it is very difficult for Iran banks to get dollars due to US and other countries sanctions against Iran. By depositing money in banks in Iran you would not only face the risks mentioned above but would also face potential criminal charges for violating sanctions, and have moral risks that the money you use could potentially be used to finance Iran building nuclear weapons and terrorism.

I am not sure this publicity is worth quite $1 million. In order for this to be the case they would need to have made at least $1 million in additional profits that they would not otherwise have made. I would highly doubt that this is the case.

A lot of the major companies are selling their BTC for fiat as soon as they receive it from sales. The reason for this is because they have expenses based in fiat so they have to use fiat to pay these expenses.

When a consumer pays in bitcoin he will have had to had purchased the bitcoin somehow in the past. It would not be unusual for someone to buy more bitcoin then what they spend so the net effect would be that more bitcoin would be purchased.

The higher the fee per KB that you pay in a TX, the faster the miners will confirm the TX as it will generate more revenue for them. This is simple economics - if you offer to pay more for a service then someone will offer to fulfill the service for you quickly.

It is not that easy to move your operations to another country. It costs a lot of money to break your lease and bring your employees and equipment to a distant country. You have the same issue for traders as they have many reasons to stay where they are.

FIFY

The bottom 5 of this list pretty much sums it up. These five words more or less will appear in every thread on this forum that has at least two pages worth of replies.

LOL. Okay first of all satochi is not able to bitcoin "offline" as that is simply not how it works. Secondly Amazon, nor any other merchant will not ever have to accept bitcoin. It will generally be beneficial for them to do so to remain competitive and to reduce costs but they will never be forced. 

No Skoupi is correct. The protocol is Bitcoin with a capital "B" while the currency is bitcoin with a lowercase "b"

Currencies can be considered to be an investment, yes a speculative one but still an investment.

Wiki articles are rarely moderated and only are in the most extreme of extreme examples. Even when they are moderated the moderation is so that only people with older accounts that have successfully edited many other articles over time can edit specific articles. It is almost like they are moderated by the community.

Wiki articles are suppose to be neutral and when they are not they are flagged to be updated.

The IRC channel was likely the top contender until several years ago when it was dethroned by this forum. Reddit likely has more members overall, however only a small percentage of them ever visit/post on /r/bitcoin. I didn't even know that the BTF had a forum on their website.

Threads like this generally only have posts by people who wear tin foil hats on a regular basis. There is more or less zero evidence to support pretty much anything that is being said in this thread, or if there is any evidence it is highly circumstantial.

It seems to be very clear that he is bullish on bitcoin (and possibly other altcoins). He is a true believer. He is reportedly keeping 10% of bitcoin sales in the company coffers and is paying his employees' bonuses in bitcoin.

He is not well known in the bitcoin world as of yet but he will likely be a better known name in the future. 

The president could not order that bitcoin (or any other asset) be confiscated. This would be against both the 4th and 5th amendments to the constitution. Although for president Obama, this does not seem to matter.

You also very much have counter-party risk when dealing with bitcoin. If I were to purchase a widget from you and I send you bitcoin I would be risking that you would not send me the widget that I paid for or that the widget is somehow effective, or that you somehow try to steal the widget back from me.

With brain wallets the question of sufficient entropy is not so much as to how long the paraphrase is, but is more how close to being truly random it is. If parts of it contain words that can be found in any piece of literature (backwards or forwards - including the dictionary - in any language) then you are likely vulnerable. If there is not any kind of pattern to your paraphrase then even a shorter paraphrase could potentially keep your funds safe.

A word to the wise: using a brain wallet is very similar to using an address that was generated with a flawed RNG. It may provide some level of security, but you have a much greater chance of having your coins stolen at some point in time.