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?
This is something I have been assessing. A quick number crunch shows what a tiny percentage of the total BTC transactions for a day are related to SR. I want to understand where all this BTC is going -- 560k in the last 24hours. A fraction of that is SR related. Where is all this BTC going? It can't all be speculators.