Quote from: SgtSpike on April 13, 2013, 03:14:29 AM

Quote from: davincisolari on April 12, 2013, 11:27:35 PM

Only medical mary j. Not sure why it is popular in Oregon. I live there and don't know anyone that uses bitcoin.

Was thinking the same... I'm in Eugene.

Quote from: PrintCoins on April 12, 2013, 11:37:37 PM

There is a pretty strong libertarian movement going on in Oregon, and bitcoin has infected it.

I just created a meetup.com group for it:
http://www.meetup.com/Portland-Bitcoin-Group/

Only three people are on the meetup group so far, but the meeting this sunday should have many more as it has been passed around a lot in email.

Also, Intel is located in Oregon, and bitcoins are starting to get pretty popular on the intel campus.

Finally "it is full of alternative minded people" is totally right on.

Interesting - I was rather unaware of the happenings in Portland regarding libertarians. And Intel - is that anecdotal? Have you heard this from people who work at Intel, or do you work there, or..?

We were one of the states where the GOP convention had to be shut down because Ron Paul libertarians were winning every seat down the line.

Yep, I personally have overheard enough conversations at intel about bitcoin and mining from people who I am not connected to that I think that the idea of it is running rampent through the campus.

I yep, OR has some statist policies but hopefully some of that will change. Someone used the word liberal, and I hate that the word that basically has been distorted to go from freedom loving to statist.

And yes, not pumping your own gas is pretty nice, especially in a rainy state like ours. I wish when I visited non-pumping states that the gas stations would take a little extra money to come pump my gas for me.