Hi guys, Is there any place you suggest from buying and selling bitcoin ?? I already found kraken and local bitcoins. do you know of any other places were I can buy and sell bitcoin with an easy and secure method for funding and witdrawing funds  ?

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I'd advise forget about profit as a motivation because it's not guaranteed, talent doesn't even matter when you mine something and demand dries up or government actions attack it. Are you interested in economics? Technology? Innovation? Speculative investing? If any of those apply then go for it, just don't rip your credit card to do it. Start small and work your way in. Everyone will talk you out of it and they will promise the next big thing is a week away. People have been preaching about "Black Arrow" miners since November of last year, and while my gear has been mining they still wait. Opportunity cost comes in the form of waiting. Profit or loss doesn't matter so much if you do it for the right reasons; profit is a desirable outcome, not a reason. I'm kinda an Econ nerd, and I like speculative investing, messing with hardware scares me but I've learned a lot. Bitcoin mining was also massively helpful during my economics and supply chain classes, scored some good points on essays about mining and Bitcoin technology. It's almost like the ultimate simulation of running a major operation, but now that the IRS wants a piece of the action the simulation became much more real. With that said, if you think you might eventually go big you should keep detailed records from the start.

My question is, once I created say a dozen key pairs for my long term cold storage, will entering the private keys into bitcoin-qt as a way to see the balance on my desktop machine threaten thier security in any way?

I'm pretty good with pywallet and various utilities, but I don't want to use teamviewer either -- I don't even have it installed.

I can have a look, I already did that for somebody on the forum that I didn't know, with 10btc in the wallet. I'm the co-founder and co-owner of luckybit (see my signature), I have nothing to earn from stealing you.

However I don't want to bother with teamview, I'd do it on my own computer, and I don't want you to see my computer view in any way. If I succeed to recover it I'll just send it all to the address you give me. I'd tell you what has worked (or not), too.

I totally understand if you prefer somebody who does it together with you on teamview. Good luck if so!