Yep, I really don't think very many people are actually freaked out by the block debate. Maybe a few noobies who have only been in bitcoin for a few months, but nobody with perpective should care.  I've been holding and watching the charts nearly even days since summer '13. I'm not worried in the slightest. Trade volume is a bit lower than I like but it's been that way since the drop from 1k, nothing new. This is 2016, been waiting for this year since I bought my first coin. Popcorn is popping...

If that's 80% off 2k, that's 400. And 50% of that is 200. If your lookin for a buyer, I'm here bud.

Actually I think it helps us. Bitcoin was made to be changeable it it became important, we are trying to figure out if it is important yet. A small dip in price is not a big deal... I've been holding coins for nearly 3 years now. Didn't sell on the ramp up, or the ramp down.

All this is actually doing in my opinion is building a base. It's going to take off again soon.  I really don't care anything able these small details, to me all that matters is that bitcoin matters to so many people we can have passionate fights about it. It's that valuable and interesting now.

I understand it's not worth it, I'm saying that some people don't care about the few dollars it costs to add hashing power to something they care about. I think if a few botnets and 1,000 or so people all did it just to help secure the network for the 2 weeks

I'm pretty sure people don't just turn off their equipment the exact moment the profits pity becomes 0. Many know that bitcoin is volital and will mine at a lose expecting a price rebound. 

Even if half of all miners turned off at the same time it would make little difference, and a huge number of people would pool gpus if it actually became a problem for more than a hour or 2.

My plan to get rich via bitcoin started as a miner, bought a knc mercury, I never rio'ed in btc, but in cash I did. Used some of the mined coins to buy Christmas and plane tickets for my girlfriend an I to visit her family out of state. After the knc miner was nearing the end of profits, I decided to cancel my Internet because the only reason I had it was to mine. I GAVE the mining rig to a friend to mine an get involved with.


Now my plan is to sell goods and services for bitcoin. I opened a head shop and sell glass an other headshop stuff for bitcoin in my home town.

I expect that the 5 an 10 dollar pipes I sold an continue to sell for btc to return a excellent profit since I'm the one producing the items I'm selling.

My goal is to put a large down payment on a house in btc, or if I'm very lucky to buy a house outright in btc sometime before 2020.

I agree. I just opened a head shop in oregon, called Local Heads, and we accept bitcoin. Ive got a big ol' BTC logo in green and orange on our front door.    A few customers have been excited as heck, most dont know about it but some do. thats way better than two years ago.

We are a locally hand made store. Kinda like a head shop but we don't sell any tabacco. I'm building a thread in the market place and I hope to make my services visable and available to anyone over 18 on this site    here's a link to our fb page https://www.facebook.com/localheads.junctioncity/

We are still new to everything so don't beat me up too much over the current shortage of pictures and content

https://www.facebook.com/localheads.junctioncity/


Here is the link to our stores Facebook page. I started uploading things with flickr, I'm not sure of the link yet, but it's in the stream "Local Heads" I'll edit with a direct link when I figure that part out. More pictures to be uploaded....

Thank you for being a bitcoiner.

Thank you for the replies, I was basically making sure I wasn't talking in a total void before going forward. I will provide a link to my fb page soon, and work on links to a load of pictures.  Been a bit coined for 2 years, I started as a miner but hardly broke even. Found out quick I want to mine bitcoin via selling goods my friends and I make. Ok,  I'll get to work on that info.

Does anyone have interest in buying glass pipes with bitcoin? Hand made in oregon. Will ship to the lower 48 us states.

Yes bitcoin is real money to me and I accept it for any purchase in my store located in junction city oregon. Likely the first in the city if not county, but we are a start.

Local Heads is a  store located in junction city Oregon selling locally made handcrafted items such as tie dye, glass pipes, glass pendants, hatpins, patches, etc.

I wanted to announce here that we accept bitcoin for any item in our store. Adoption is coming.