Newbies Hangout

[s3lphctr1]

Hangin out waiting on the man to tell me im cool

[The Fool]

Hi. I've always been here reading the posts. I really wanted to answer someones question so I joined.

[dpcman]

Answer mine then! 

How do you think Bitcoin the future of our economy?
(Its a pretty big question so have fun with that)

[s3lphctr1]

I hope it would become a regular currency, im all for anonymity and a currency you can make yourself

[Duckphobia]

I was just introduced to this currency by my good friend Tyrone from about a week ago, he gave me the birthday present and said something about good acid but I am not interested in drugs so I do not think I will be spending the bitcoin that way but I am still interested in other opportunites of bitcoin currency!

[Herodes]

I hope it would become a regular currency, im all for anonymity and a currency you can make yourself

Be warned it is not anonymous by default.

[PeterChang]

I think it's cool! I can ask all of my newbie questions here

[velacreations]

I am just getting started.  I spent a ton of time trying to get free bitcoins, got my balance up to .0022 btc.  Then I asked for some help on this forum, and now my balance is at .0322 btc, which is really awesome.

I really want just a bit to play with and to test out some programming, so .03 is enough to do that.

I still can't figure out how to buy bitcoins, I only have paypal, so it's pretty much impossible that way (and I understand the reasons behind it, it just sucks for me).

[daybyter]

Go to #bitcoin-otc on the freenode irc server.

Or check btc-e.com to do some trading.

[maxbit]

So.. whats everyones take on the ASIC units shipping/not shipping, making money/not making money scam/not a scam etc lol

[AndrewJ]

People start to like Bitcoin, i'm glad i'm not alone!

[surebet]

So.. whats everyones take on the ASIC units shipping/not shipping, making money/not making money scam/not a scam etc lol

scam

[velacreations]

I like it, I just wish it was easier to get a few .01 btc to play with.  I went through the whole virwox.com thing, but they say it will be 48 hours, and it ended up being like $22 for 1 btc (they won't let you do smaller than that)

so, anyway, it is a learning process.

I can tell you though, someone is going to have to figure out how to do PayPal or Credit Card to btc for this to really take off.  I can't imagine my mom or someone like that going through all of this hassle just to have bitcoins.

They are not newbie friendly!

[maxbit]

Well it seems avalon is the first to ship, but controversy on them even now (after supposed ship)... Like wheres the tracking number?

BFL (butterfly labs) due to ship next  (in feb?) we'll see.

[getbtc]

I can tell you though, someone is going to have to figure out how to do PayPal or Credit Card to btc for this to really take off.  I can't imagine my mom or someone like that going through all of this hassle just to have bitcoins.

They are not newbie friendly!

The main problem with that is chargebacks -- there's no way to get the bitcoins back.  Acquiring bitcoins has only continued to get easier, though, and it should continue to do so.  More and more options every day

[velacreations]

The main problem with that is chargebacks -- there's no way to get the bitcoins back.  Acquiring bitcoins has only continued to get easier, though, and it should continue to do so.  More and more options every day

yeah, I know the issue with chargebacks, but we're gonna have to find a way to work through that.  No amount of exchangers will get more people into this until they can get BTC easily.  Going from a bank account is not easy for most people.  CC is, and that's where the big development needs to happen.

[MarioBro]

What Alt Coins are worth looking into?

[itai3856]

waiting to get out, more 3 hours :/

[Got BTC]

Ughhh, this is newbie hell!

[Jayjay04]

Hell oh a hell