Quote from: anisoptera on May 20, 2011, 04:12:18 PM

Quote from: Nefario on May 20, 2011, 03:16:07 PM

Quote from: MemoryDealers on May 20, 2011, 02:57:25 PM

We need to find more ways to encourage people to use bitcoins as money that they trade for goods and services.
If everyone just tries to trade their BTC for USD right away, the price will go down.

Go use your bitcoins to buy something other than USD!

I will gladly accept bitcoins for everything in my online store.
www.memorydealers.com

This is already being done, just most are for I.T. services, in which bitcoin is really the easiest method to pay with.

Servers, hosting, programming, design etc.

As it becomes harder to mine, and less profitable to outright buy, I think we will see a lot more services accepting btc appear over the next few months. BTC is also a really good currency to use to sell random odds and ends over the Internet, because of the way it favors the seller. These next few months will determine where we go from here. Bitcoin now unquestionably has value, it's now a matter of building the economy to support it.

Many opportunities to make money here, few established sites take btc currently and even if the thing you want to do already exists it's likely not so entrenched that you can't do better and take over. We just need enough people to stop seeing bitcoin as something that will make them rich fast and start seeing it for what it is - a fledgling anonymous, borderless, and lawless economy.

We're still in the gold rush days. The hills just look different now.

+1, we are on the cusp of something truely great. A society that is....free for better or worse it's just going to be plain free.