To earn bitcoin very fastly is not an easy job, you need to have lot of patience there are many places that you can earn free bitcoin, but it will little bit time to make single bitcoin, but the only fastest way is buy bitcoin and invest in trading only if you are fine with trading. To make bitcoin very fastly you need to risk with some bitcoins obviously.

I am willing to trash it.  I see no reason to keep it, if that is what is slowing my computer down.  I have a little pixie dust in it.  Other than anyone asking me to claim an address I used once in this forum, is there any consequence to getting rid of it?

We should be grateful that we're in the 600$ range and not anywhere below that price. No matter what's the price of Bitcoin, there would always be a thread like this saying something "Why are we stuck in the xxx$ range?". Threads like this doesn't help at all. The basic reason why there isn't any major pump lately is because there's not much people buying Bitcoins. Thus, if you want to change that range, then go ahead and look for rich people in real life who might be interested in investing in Bitcoins.

Because too many people are doing nothing to promote Bitcoin to other people. We will not see a massive increase in the price from current Bitcoin hoarders, because most of them have already bought their share of the coins. I buy much smaller amounts on a monthly basis now, than what I did when I entered the scene many years ago.

Some people buy and sell during normal trading, but it is not new fiat money coming into the pool, only old money being circulated. What are you waiting for, get out there and promote Bitcoin to new people. ^smile^

Because you aren't buying enough bitcoins! How many did you buy yesterday? None? Come on man. The reason we're stuck at the $600 range is 100% because of you. That's my theory anyways.

The strange part is there was no warning so i could stop doint bad things. Also, the amount of spam was around 20-25 messages per week. One of another accounts of mine was banned for same reason but only for 7 days. Also the "7-day" banned account is Newbie, while main acc is Member.

Use the money to buy some good anti virus plans for you and your wife, get a license for hitman pro and install hitman pro alert as well and finally put your wife through cyber security training so this won't happen again.

Paying these people is not the solution, it will just keep happening to people around the world when people fall for their demands.

There is different reasons why they chose Bitcoin instead of credit cards . Bitcoin is irreversible (your can't chargeback) and untraceable (police won't be able to find them) , It's just a procedure hackers do to make sure they won't be caught.
As for buying Bitcoin then It  really depends where you live and the payments methods you are willing to use honestly. but there is Coinbase , Virwox.com , Circle.com and others. (check them out , they are legit services)

I do think they got hired wealthy traders to give the volume a boost but in the end they have proven to be not very carefull with customers funds which is why I think they will not get back to their old level. Especially since all of their customers lost money.

The signature campaigns don't like to open the slots for newbies because usually newbies don't know enough about the Bitcointalk rules and also they are spamming threads

I will be using bitcoin to 30-40 years in the future and I also believe bitcoin can last up to 40 years at least. the development of technology is always growing rapidly and currently all the technology has always been at the forefront. so bitcoin will be great in the future with the technology of the currency which is better than anything.

Yup op should not sell the bitcoins now because as per many speculations You have need to hold some bitcoins every month and put it into your wallet and you sell that after 5 or 10 years.