Quote from: franky1 on April 27, 2013, 10:32:17 AM

Quote from: QuestionAuthority on April 27, 2013, 04:11:56 AM

Quote from: franky1 on April 26, 2013, 11:27:47 PM

5 pages of blah

*snip*

rule 10
if you don't want to follow the rules. don't touch FIAT

But BTCBuy was not exchanging directly for fiat they were doing gift cards in fiat denominations. If I can't even get a gift card with btc why should I mine. I don't want drugs off of SR so I guess I'm left with just trading with scammers in the Marketplace section of this forum, right?

i highlighted your statement at where btcbuy went wrong, and will leave them to read the full length of regulations as to why/how they went wrong.

if you want to get fiat (in any form) above $1000 in a small period of time or above $10k over a year and no ID is ever asked. then don't expect that service to run for very long.

i too dont want/do drugs. but this is where the media has brainwashed you. bitcoin is not used just for scamming people/drugs/playing the markets.

buy a computer or a tv www.bitcoinstore.com
buy some food https://www.foodler.com/user/Bitcoin.do
plus thousands of other things.

and remember bitcoin is still new. its still in the victorian age of currency. where its just moved away from only being used to trade on market places and whorehouses (cam4bitcoins) and is now moving onto being useful for more of a variety.

so the reason to mine is not to spend today. but to spend later.

if you really need FIAT and your only desire is fiat then only withdraw a couple hundred dollars/euros/pounds just to pay the bills.

cashing out every single bitcoin you mine for fiat defeats the entire reason for even using bitcoin

+100

agree!

Stay informed, stay involved, know the law, if you aren't part of the process your against it.

Check the Bitcoin Wiki first, educate yourself, and update it with any relevant information for the community.

I highly recommend everyone get a News reader and set it up, ask help from the community to set it up and trade news lists so that new people don't have to struggle with putting every news site one by one into their new Reader.

http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/reader/

Get good information from the internet, Download the YaCy(you see) p2p search engine, same as above ask for help to set it up. help build a uncensored map of the internet and tailor your searches for good balanced information sources.

http://yacy.net/en/index.html or get it from your favourite torrent client.

We are a conglomeration of users from mostly Democratic countries, I think we should act like it and get involved with our governments so they know our position.

I know there are many here who wish for nothing more than the demise of governments, but that's not going to be possible if we isolate ourselves thinking that we are free to do what we want without having to consider someone else's position, That is just not feasible, sooner or later we must agree to co-operate; After all what would we do if we did not have the Farmer to feed us? or the Trucker to deliver that food? maybe the grocer to keep the food fresh for consumption?

Alone we fall, together we stand.