Hey, check out something weird - I was
following on CoinTelegraph's contest
to win 5BTC when noticed this stuff.

http://i.imgur.com/ujBbW46.png?1

Check out this creepy video - there is a guy
claiming he's the real Dread Pirate Roberts,
and Ross Ulbricht was just a decoy.

Looks ridiculous enough to be true.

The orginal article says they have no idea how the bacteria got out.

Thanks. Of course it's going to be original content!

Same question 

I don't expect all housewives to use bitcoin and we don't need that for it to become widely used.

I was late, too. Oh well. Good luck to participants.

What's interesting about that Szabo paper is the inherent confluence of the evolution of fiat type money and social structure including taxation and violence.

It brings to mind the following questions pertinent to bitcoin.

1) Can a non-socially binded (apolitical) money thrive just because it is useful? That is, are messy social cohesions part and parcel of a working system of value or can value exchange be purified as an abstraction? My hope is that it can.

2) If all forms of money are inherently intertwined with social construct including national fiat, does Bitcoin's success ultimately depend upon same. At this point Bitcoin fulfills a psychological and philosophical need more than any market convenience. Perhaps is still necessary for an abstract ephemeral token to have value as an intellectually interesting artefact.

Furthermore, the vast majority of current users do not have all their savings in Bitcoin.
Moon. Soon.

Honest buyers will use Bitcoin, not necessarily sellers. For instance, you can sell a fake digital product with Bitcoin (various ways I'm sure you know, outside of just not delivering the product), scam the buyer and the buyer is SOL.
This already used to happen with Liberty Reserve before they were shutdown.

I heard about it like around 2011 ..when a site on the internet wrote about it. I remember how i laughed at it and decided to not buy 2500 bitcoin for 30 euros....now im slapping myself

Very disruptive, I think there's some good stuff in here to help take aim at the problem of Media-bias based on ownership. Disrupt FOX news.. I like

I think dis is it.
http://banksworstfear.com/entire-population-caribbean-country-dominica-receiving-free-bitcoins-early-2015-let-bit-drop/
Damn son!

Might want to check, but several months ago a story circulated with proof that fewer than ~200 BTC were ever stolen due to tx malleability. If this specifically was the claim Mark made, then it's a lie.

Forbes contributors aren't some unified body. They freelance contribute. I've read many good articles by contributors and many really terrible (and grammatically error-ridden) ones like this.

i guess this why bitcoins are done, too much money to sustain

It doesn't matter who created Bitcoin. The source code is public. Read the source code and anyone can see everything it does, and everything it does not do.

In the majority of cases, waiting for confirmations is a waste of time. The difficulty in pulling off a double-spend is so convoluted and tricky, I don't think waiting for confirmations is worth it unless you're dealing with huge inter-bank or inter-business transfers. I've made purchases with Bitcoin about a dozen times now, and each time only took a few seconds. I think the longest transaction was about 7 seconds. Most were practically instantaneous.