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Saw this tweet https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/320998171520163840 if anyone is interested.

Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) tweeted at 9:35 PM on Sun, Apr 07, 2013:
On topic of Bitcoin: would love to speak to a holder/user in Ireland for a piece on @thejournal_ie this week/weekend if anyone knows one?

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[elvizzzzzzz]

April 27th at the Bull & Castle, Lord Edward Street: 4pm.  PGP signing. Anthing else I should know?

I'm planning on being there ...

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[tahar]

Hope you guys are prepared for being tarnished as anti-Republican, anti-State and anti-irish in the long term.

Just saying....

[DublinBrian]

Hope you guys are prepared for being tarnished as anti-Republican, anti-State and anti-irish in the long term.

Wooo, Im scared!

You could say the same things about the euro. In fact, bitcoin enthusiasts can easily market bitcoin as a viable alternative to the euro for ireland.

[DublinBrian]

Major breakthrough for bitcoin in Ireland. GSMSolutions now accept bitcoin!
http://www.gsmsolutions.ie/shop/#

I recommend everyone buy their mobile phone and laptop accessories from GSM Solutions. They are located beside the Jervis Luas Stop. Very easy to get to.

[notoccupanther]

Newbie here ..could I pop along for the meet on Saturday .. I've only .00002 of a BTC mined so far so tips etc would be impossibru for me I'm afraid ...

[btcirl]

Just wondering if everybody's still up for this Saturday?

[fergalish]

I'm still on for the meeting. 4pm Saturday at the Bull & Castle, Lord Edward St. Seems there'll be 8 or 9 of us. See ye there. Remember - bring a PGP key for signing if you like and maybe a couple of paper wallets with a bitcent preloaded (~€1), for tips.

[btcirl]

I'm still on for the meeting. 4pm Saturday at the Bull & Castle, Lord Edward St. Seems there'll be 8 or 9 of us. See ye there. Remember - bring a PGP key for signing if you like and maybe a couple of paper wallets with a bitcent preloaded (~€1), for tips.

Excellent, I look forward to it!
As far as tipping and paper wallets go, most folks nowadays have a smartphone that they'd be able to download a Bitcoin wallet app onto. Maybe as well as the paper wallets themselves we should bring some small 'flash-card' style instructions on how to redeem the paper wallets (we have the blockchain.info app on both iOS and Android, for example) and a QR-code link to BitMit (or any Bitcoin store/site) that the staff can just scan and immediately go somewhere they can spend their BTC and have a real, tangible product delivered to them.

There are a lot of people out there that are completely unfamiliar with digital currency and wouldn't necessarily understand the distinction between an actual digital currency such as Bitcoin (which can be used to buy any real tangible product) and a virtual gaming currency such as Second Life Linden Dollars (which can only be used to buy a virtual product).

If they have a simple way of obtaining a good or a service for their 'digital funny money' they'd be more likely to see that it serves as an actual method of payment for real world products. Judging from my own thoughts on it, if I had received a paper wallet a couple of years back loaded with a digital currency - having absolutely no idea about it's value or potential - I most likely would have just thrown it out with the used receipts and rubbish.

[Mahkul]

I am also still up for it.

[Mahkul]

Just about to leave Wexford. I hope I won't find an empty table up there.

[btcirl]

I'll be there for 4.30!

[fergalish]

We're upstairs at the Bull & Castle right now, at the far end of the bar, in a dark, gloomy corner as far from the big screens as you can get really. Look for the three guys that look like bitcoin heads.

[btcirl]

Hi folks, I'm not going to make it in, bit of an emergency back at home. Hope it's a good one though, enjoy, and I'll catch ya's at the next one!

[fergalish]

Too much noise at the Bull & Castle. We've moved to the Lord Edward pub across the road.

[fergalish]

I owe some of ye some coins - 0.03 for Mahkul and notooccupanther and 0.06 for simplydt. Can ye post them here or in PM?

[simplydt]

Good to meet you guys yesterday - until next time! Thanks for organising it.

[Mahkul]

I owe some of ye some coins - 0.03 for Mahkul and notooccupanther and 0.06 for simplydt. Can ye post them here or in PM?

Hey! Very nice to meet you guys, thanks very much for coming. I hope that we will stay in touch from now on.

My Bitcoin address: 1MAHKULzqZb4evFFg9157LvnJhJQQbeYo7

[notoccupanther]

Likewise ... Nice to meet you all too ... @Fergalish .. my address... 1MDTjhp8rVTM3bMNnCH77hEXWnGGpZBNLg

thanks again all ...

[Mahkul]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=174918.0 guys have you seen this? WTF?