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Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

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Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

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Post by jlgreco »

bergie wrote: post #98
jlgreco wrote: post #95

Zero. I dislike the idea of using bitcoin for currency speculation, though I look forward to using it for normal transactions sometime in the future when it stabilizes and when buying/selling them on demand becomes more streamlined. Basically I am interested in "bitcoin, the cryptocurrency", not "bitcoin, the investment".

There are several bars and restaurants in my neighbourhood that accept BitCoin, so I'm happy to have some for day-by-day use. Especially as most places in Berlin don't accept cards

There are a few things I could use bitcoin for, but not enough for me to bother using bitcoin instead of other currencies right now. I hope that changes soon though.

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

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Post by jordanthoms »

dasil003 wrote: post #100
GigabyteCoin wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If everybody here had ~10 bitcoins, that would only be enough for ~1,100,000 people in the world to own bitcoins. If Bitcoin ever becomes mainstream... most people will have well below 0.01 BTC in their wallets at any given time.

That makes me wonder if they'll come up with names for fractional bitcoins just because people hate dealing with decimals.

They already have :)

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

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Post by egypturnash »

nvk wrote: post #55
chiph wrote: post #6

For me, it's the chicken + egg problem -- the merchants that sell the stuff I want to buy don't accept them. So I don't have any BTC.

I agree that's why we are launching a POS Terminal they are used to, its a long term play. More info here coinkite.com/faq

I dunno if that's worth the effort; more and more businesses I see are using Square on a phone or tablet to take credit cards. But good luck.

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

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Post by egypturnash »

I have five. A couple months ago I thought about getting into ASIC miners, but a look at the numbers made me decide to not bother - nothing in the range I was willing to spend was likely to turn a profit. So I took the money I was willing to spend and bought four BTC from Coinbase. Then when the price crashed after the Silk Road bust I got a fifth for a bit less. Now that it's bouncing up around $150/btc I'm kinda wishing I'd bought more - if there's another drop I'll probably move myself up into the 11-50BTC range, then keep sitting on them.

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

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Post by lucb1e »

Dakos wrote: post #38
spurgu wrote: post #35

I own ~2.4 (bought them for 10€) but I forgot the password to my encrypted wallet.

And this is why you should keep a txt file with all your passwords uploaded to dropbox, trust me.

The funniest about this is that nobody seems to get it's a joke. That means they probably did it some time in the past :D

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

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Post by Glyptodon »

I've stranded some fractions of a bitcoin in wallets I have the addresses for. IE probably At various times I've wanted to buy some and store them properly, but buying them was too much of a hassle. Especially with all the personal information exchanges make you give them. I got kind of turned off when I realized the only way to convert cash was to know someone. (The primary thing I though they'd be useful for was paying for a VPN subscription.)
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