vokain (OP)
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January 20, 2012, 01:10:15 PM |
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Well, for me, my hardcore gamer friends were talking about bitcoin mining and I thought it was all ridiculous about a year ago my senior year of high school. I just thought it was like seti@home or something like that, except you got paid in bitcoins, and I was like, how the hell would this be worth the electricity costs even? Fast forward to this Christmas, luckily I missed the crash a year ago, and I was planning on buying random crap with bitcoins, but I had yet to realize the investment opportunities available. Anyways, in the few days I bought my bitcoins, the price shot from 4-6 and that's where I started trading and here I am! Things are pretty good here  "It's a bull market, you know!" |
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The grue lurks in the darkest places of the earth. Its favorite diet is adventurers, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. No grue has ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome jaws to tell the tale.
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squirrelman
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January 20, 2012, 07:57:54 PM |
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I read an article about bitcoins a while back, probably on one of the tech blogs I read, and was fascinated by it then but just never got around to trying it out. I just built a new computer recently (getting ready for Diablo 3) and decided to go back and give bitcoin mining a try. I just finished my first full coin, but i've been enjoying it so far. I'm already plotting my expansion.
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Twister Trojan
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January 20, 2012, 08:55:27 PM |
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I don't know that I have yet. I was curious so I set up GPU mining at a small scale with the client and a wallet, but so far bitcoins are not of much value to me.
There weren't any particularly interesting technical challenges making it work, it only took a couple of hours to do and now that it all works it's all kind of boring actually. I don't really care much about all the hyped benefits I see touted on this forum and elsewhere, but for now I'll keep making coins in the hope I can find a reason to continue. I'm glad my additional hardware investment is zero so far because it looks like it will stay that way.
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Goomboo
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January 20, 2012, 08:56:29 PM |
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Lol hey all - I got into bitcoin because of the volatility - basically I'm a speculator on the price. The concept is really advanced and difficult for me to wrap my brain around at times.
Some people get angry at speculators, but we provide liquidity for the commercial uses!
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snkrvmph
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January 21, 2012, 12:49:10 AM |
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I read the article in Wired Magazine.
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CurrencyMan
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January 21, 2012, 01:12:09 AM |
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just the idea of a new de-centralised payment system sounded interesting, accounts are relatively easier to find and from a trading point of view it's a lot easier then learning the workings of FOREX lol
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RyNinDaCleM
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Legen -wait for it- dary
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January 21, 2012, 01:59:49 AM |
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Goomboo
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January 21, 2012, 02:01:06 AM |
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just the idea of a new de-centralised payment system sounded interesting, accounts are relatively easier to find and from a trading point of view it's a lot easier then learning the workings of FOREX lol
To be honest, I was trading forex before bitcoin and I have to say that forex is a more accessible, easier to read, and a more profitable market. Here's why. Technical analysis is a great tool for profiting in the markets, but it tends to only work well if there are many practitioners using it. For example, the 200 period moving average is a widely-watched indicator and you can watch currency and stock prices bouncing around it. This happens because lots of individuals are watching these same things and have a plan / system based upon the same things. In essence, technical analysis becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy in larger markets.  Bitcoin is difficult to read / trade in that it is an illiquid market and there are relatively few individuals. You can make / lose a million dollars a day in the forex market, but a million dollars would cause the price to rise / fall 30% or more in bitcoin. Here is the real deal when it comes to technical trading. If you do this, you will have a chance. 1. Develop a system: --How many lots/bitcoin/shares will you trade? --When will you enter? --When will you exit? --What times will you trade? 2. Backtest the system: --Open a NinjaTrader demo account with a currency broker (I suggest MB Trading) and load up a chart. (I suggest NinjaTrader because it's great for this type of testing - you can click the arrow keys to move forward/back 1 bar) --Move the chart one bar at a time recording your entries/exits in an Excel spreadsheet - chart your performance and do some metrics to see if your system has an edge --Do this for 200-400 trades 3. Forward test the system: --Take the system you developed and trade it on a demo account with fake money for at least two months and see if your results hold with your backtested results 4. Live trade --If your system is robust and holds up, trade it with small amounts of money --As you continue to make profits, scale in with more and more money |
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jojo69
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January 21, 2012, 02:20:03 AM |
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This is not some pseudoeconomic post-modern Libertarian cult, it's an un-led, crowd-sourced mega startup organized around mutual self-interest where problems, whether of the theoretical or purely practical variety, are treated as temporary and, ultimately, solvable.
Censorship of e-gold was easy. Censorship of Bitcoin will be… entertaining.
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FlipPro
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January 21, 2012, 02:37:12 AM |
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A friend told me about them, he still is reluctant to "use" them...
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jekker
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January 21, 2012, 11:54:41 AM |
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I earn money online and i used to have my money sent to my paypal. But paypal is a pain in the ass to work with and began keeping all of my funds for 21 days before giving it to me. I got sick of paypal, read the bitcoin wiki for a few hours, and began using bitcoins for all my money transfers, and I have never looked back.
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codymanix
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Gir: I'm gonna sing the Doom Song now..
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January 23, 2012, 08:59:30 PM |
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I've read an interesting german news entry in the beginning of june 2011 which immediately caught me.
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Sev3n
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January 23, 2012, 09:09:30 PM |
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I was told offhandedly about them, and they just became something I found interesting.
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eja
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January 23, 2012, 11:36:33 PM |
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Played around with it for a bit somewhere in 2010 when I read about it on some blog/website, but didn't stick with then unfortunately Picked it up again a couple of months ago. |
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nayrB16
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I was lucky enough to solve block 121306
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January 29, 2012, 04:41:45 PM |
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Heard about it form the TWIT Security Now Podcast with Steve Gibson way back in March or April
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Haha! I'm the only one to control Bitcoin address 1HjtErSHNEHtY347LouvsFq5KesHkEZLAV
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R04dRunn3r
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January 29, 2012, 06:47:26 PM |
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Seeing the price index for the first time, 20 euro for 1 Bitcoin! I want those days back!
Bitcoin can NOT fail, because I want to be rich!
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snedie
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January 29, 2012, 07:18:38 PM |
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I honestly don't remmember, but it was only around 1,5$ / BTC back when I found it.
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lowbrow
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January 30, 2012, 12:12:12 AM |
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Stumbled on it a couple years back, ignored it like a jackass. Kicking myself for doing that now.
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virialtheorem
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February 01, 2012, 06:14:30 AM |
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I've known about bitcoin for a while now, at least a year or two. Back then, I could only pull in around 1 MH/s on my computer.. Now I can pull in 30 MH/s, so I'm mildly interested in BTC again.
Hoping to earn at least 1 BTC before the year is over >.<
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