Yeah we should do this.  But there's no point interacting with this 'Nagle' guy.  His aim is only to talk bitcoin down.  He wants it to fail.  It's pure FUD. 

You should stick it back in your ass where it belongs.

Bitcoin is actually a pretty simple concept (although you don't appear to get it).  Its value is mostly not in the implementation of the idea but the community and the infrastructure surrounding it.  A new entrant can't just one day decide to unveil a shiny new decentralized currency.

yes really.  you call yourself an economist but you have no idea what inflation is.  no idea at all.

Hey 'economist' it's only deflationary in the long term.  Right now it's highly inflationary.  The supply of bitcoins is increasing as miners discover new blocks and the only reason it is holding its value at all is the expansion of the bitcoin economy. 

I have no problem logging in, and there is quite a lot of trading going on right now so I guess other people don't have problems either.

I'd rather use britcoin than anything else tbh as genjix has been involved in britcoin for a while, seems to be committed to it and although the site is clearly 'beta', it is functional.  Also he is just down the road so if he stole my money I could turn up at his house with a bat...  but no, seriously I'd much rather use an exchange in the same legal jurisdiction as me.

nakowa, HD 6990 is not the best card for mining
too expensive.  a cheaper 5xxx series will get you more Mhash for your $ AND use less power and run cooler
so you seem far from an 'expert' to me with your naive advice to buy expensive gear.

Yes, you were curious to see whether you could rip some people off but you ended up getting worked over by someone else.  My little violin is playing hearts and flowers just for you!

That should increase the value of bitcoin.

OK, could be interesting.  But can you give an example of one of the strange transactions?

If Bob creates a fresh address and Alice sends money to it, nobody is going to know it's Bob's address until he associates himself with it.  He could create it offline and it could never have been seen by the network.  You already can't get more anonymous than that and there is no need for Alice to know the PK. Whatever you do, though it can be made obscure, the transaction will be somehow linked to Alice through the exchange records. 

I don't see any anonymity here.  Alice receives the BTC from teh exchange on address A1.  She transfers from A1 to A2, sends the private key to Bob who can then transfer from A2 to B1 and then, to the exchange through an address B2 that is tied to him.  So there is still a link between Alice and Bob. 

I like this idea.  It has merit.

Ah, I see you're talking about external fees, on exchanges and so on?  Yes, of course these are variable.  Currently I pay 0% on britcoin, but it's a bit inconvenient.

As bitcoin matures these external fees would be another incentive for merchants to use bitcoins to purchase supplies.

well, not by the conventional definitions of micropayments (under $20)

some people take micropayments to mean payments of a couple of cents, say to read single news articles.  it's not useful for that.  the transaction cost is too high.  but for small payments it does beat visa!

eh?  there is only a compulsory fee on transactions of under 0.01 BTC there to prevent DoS attacks

otherwise there is no such restriction!

how many times must this be repeated?

Do not proceed.  Do not give this guy $200.  Keep your bitcoins secure in your wallets, where they belong.

People keep important paper documents in a fireproof safe.  They don't keep paper money there because paper money depreciates while governments inflate the money supply.

The domain is registered to this guy:

Wehbe, Roger  *********@yooter.com
      Yooter
      One South Second Street
      Pottsville, PA  17901
      US
      610-762-2156

His office appears to be located above Pottsville Parking Authority.

ditto

i had no money in it, never have had

i think it's weird though if they managed to make a list of active users.  what does that imply?