https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-forgotten-currency-norway-oslo-home

Cliffs:  Guy buys 5k btc for under 30USD in 2009, forgets about them til 2015.  Remembers, when they are worth a little under 1 million USD. 

Just did the calculation, had he waited a little longer, current value, 11.8 million USD.  Discuss.

I play poker at a local casino here in the US.  A lot of the people I play with used to play online.  When we play I bring up I still play, and I get cash in and off the site withon a day, without the headaches of battling with credit cards and banks.  It is a nightmare in the US to move money on poker sites nowadays, unless you are using bitcoin.

This gets most of them interested, as they all want to still play online.  From there, I help them and describe a little about bitcoin.  I have helped more than a few get set up right as we are playing a tournament. 

So you want 6k+ USD for an account that is free to create and sell and buy on?  Pointless, dumb, and you should be ashamed for trying to sell it.

I have never used my card, only used PayPal.  All mine have been instant, with exception to the first trade that took 3 hours, and one other trade, where they had a hiccup in their system, and it took them like 2 hours to put the btc in my account.  I wouldn't necessarily buy a huge amount at once from them, but thy haven't done me wrong personally ever.

Although, their support is slow to reply it seems.

They do require verification even under 150, unless they changed it.  But you only verify once.  Holding your ID with a note, they manually verify you.

xcoins.io, start with a small daily limit.. 100 or 250, can't remember how much, but it increases as you use it.  Fees higher, 15%, but once you verify, it is instant.  My verification took an hour when I verified.  I have a 5k limit now, using paypal, instant trading. 

Anddddddddddddddddddd, after waiting 3 hours.... it confirmed 2 mins after posting this

https://blockchain.info/tx/b1713693ea0141203c42b83133bb9f00bb84663161d9363cb03633851b2ecba7

Sent this to myself a little bit ago, no confirmations.  I sent it to a few of my wallets previously, each time increasing the fee.  Just trying to get the parent transaction confirmed....  any ideas?  Not willing to pay 69.00 usd that btc.com wants for acceleration, and been hitting the via btc accelerator each hour.  If there is a big mining pool that sees this, I will tip to get this confirmed.

Yes it just did. 

I am using blockchain.info wallet... weird that they wouldn't be up to date...

I was trying to transfer my bitcoin from one address to another, and sent all of my btc to another address I own.  I send with a huge fee on purpose, so it would confirm faster. 

The reason I did this is because I have some transactions that have not confirmed due to the blockchain being 40k transactions backed up.  I thought if I would send with a large fee (parent pays child), I could get my other transactions fto all confirm also.

Now I am getting the message that this trans has a none standard output and is only medium priority, despie the huge fee.  Can I do anything?

https://blockchain.info/tx/3a85c1f49f39fbffa5a6f448b2f367d253325fa419683ad3119e99b2fbcc5b19

Did you seriously just call pokerstars.com a "shady download"?  It is literally the largest online poker room, publicly traded on a stock exchange, and has been around for well over 10 years.  You should seriously not talk before knowing what the FUCK you are talking about.