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I have been doing offline transaction in bitcoin for years now. Private keys on the offline system sign unsigned transactions from an online computer and the interaction is complet…

All 'yall need to be ashamed of yourselves if you don't own even a US penny's worth of Bitcoin. I'm not even kidding. If you've never witnessed a bitcoin transaction or held a bitc…

I mined in mid 2010 from my CPU. I was not a hardware guy, so I gave up in about 6 months. I have managed to keep every bitcoin key I've ever owned, with the exception of one small…

Pay taxes and other government debts here: http://www2.egovlink.com/press-release-bitcoin.cfm You can already buy food at a couple places in Vegas where I live.

The difference and what a lot of people seem to miss is the scarcity of bitcoin and the fact that its makers and followers are bootstrapping a new global economy. Having only $1B i…

Get bitcoins from locals on LocalBitcoins.com

Most is probably being used for savings as the potential for it to increase in value over years is ridiculously high. If bitcoin succeeds in taking over fractions of global markets…

I am a TOR exit operator and I strictly follow the guidelines established by the EFF. I never connect to my exit nodes for any purpose other than routine maintenance and when I do,…

No because you'll eventually have something come up that makes you want to spend those bitcoins, even though you know they'll be worth more in the future. and when you do so, you'l…

It will halve every 210,000 blocks for about 140 years until the reward is 1 satoshi.

Ridiculous argument. I've got old coin (purchased at a lower price) and every time I spend it, it's like getting a discount. It's a built in incentive to spend them.

the qt client, while being the baseline of measure, is a dinosaur. I use Electrum because it does not require the maintenance of a local blockchain, start up is immediate after lon…

You should consider a feature for coinbase to allow for btc to be sent (via lookup) to email addresses. For instance, the Electrum client allows this by the recipient hosting a bit…

Bitcoin, the protocol, has never been hacked - only services built on top of the protocol.

You can certainly be fully anonymous with bitcoin but care must be taken... Mainly, you need to isolate your change to an identity wallet - a wallet used for specific purpose under…

Transaction fees are optional. Currently, if you do not include a transaction fee, your transaction will get confirmed, but the first confirmation could take longer for a miner to …

It will experience an inflation rate for the next 140 years or so. It is currently expanding at 50 BTC per 10 minutes. In december it will cut to 25 BTC per 10 minutes, half each 4…

Better to mount /dev/ram0 and do your encryption there. Then shred; rm -rf; umount for the win.

OP: I did the same thing... running a server for anything is the best way to get started in Linux.. I did a little write up on my "crazy ass email setup" here: http://julian.tosh.u…

Got mine a couple months ago!

I completely agree with this... Your excitement will be renewed 10 fold by the excitement you see when tutoring the next generation of nerds. Nothing beats seeing the lightbulb fli…

Is anyone else left scratching their head at how the facebook login overtook OpenID?

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I see your objection, an annoying obsession, but, in fact, I mean, the context of possession. =8P