I really would like to know how to get around the government with my bitcoins.

@OROBTC,

You said "there are several companies that advertise on the Internet that they will take your Bitcoin for gold.

Gold is the ONLY thing I have spent BTC on..."

Would you provide me with links to the companies online that take btc for gold, especially the ones you have dealt with? Many thanks to you.

I think we all want to grow our bitcoins. You just have to find your tolerance for risk since there's no profit without taking risks. Question is how much risk for how much profit?

I rarely post, I am mostly a lurker, but I have to disagree here. Bitcoin is not a stock. It sometimes behaves like it but it also acts like commodity and currency. It's everything rolled into one. It's the answer to the century old question of Capital and the means of production.

I'm one of the newbies but I just voted.

CHF or GBP for me.

I don't think cell phone to cell phone communication relies on internet infrastructure. Some portion of the communication may depend on some form of network but the underlying protocols are dissimilar.

Yes, I was being sarcastic. I will be more clearer next time.

I have a friend whose cousin's roommate's friend works at Google. He told me last week that Google is working on integrating bitcoins into their eco-system.

Bitmaintech website only has S2 under products. They must be updating their website RIGHT NOW! The suspense is almost killing you.

Thanks everyone, I guess it's totally ok to change your terms in the middle of a groupbuy. I never knew it was ok anywhere else before. Thanks for straightening me out!!!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=230391.520

Look at post #524.

Waldo has pulled the same trick on other groupbuys as well, advertizing low fee and then switching to higher fees AFTER miners have arrived.

If you don't believe me, please do a search yourself, I am a niewbie and yet I can come up with proof to back up my claims. You are a hero member, philipma!

waldo,

I may be interested in getting one S3 hosted.

I have read some of the group buys you have organized and have some concerns: such as,

You have changed terms AFTER miners have arrived and you started hosting, like increasing the management fees, sometimes doubling the fees. Can you give us assurances that you will not change the terms set forth at the start of the groupbuy?

I have another concern that I'd like to address after my question above has been answered.

Sincerely,

I don't understand all the love you guys show for Bitmain. Yes, they have delivered. No, their price has been reasonable, but not good for us miners. Most likely, they are going to price S3 at over 1 BTC, I'd say around 1.6 BTC or so. Why would they undercut their S2 models by selling S3 at 1 BTC or lower? It makes no sense. Don't be a fanboi.

Thanks, James!

Your group buy is the most cost effective one at this time. I wish I can buy more shares, maybe soon. Thanks again.

Okay, please reserve 1 share for me as I am gathering my btc. Thank you very much.

I'd like 1 share please. How to send payment? Thanks.

I just bought 10 Bitcoins, kicking myself for not buying sooner...

Until 2-3 days ago, the total hashrate went up to 98-99 Peta Hash. Since then, it has calmed down to 86-87 PHs. Cex/ghash responded by ramping up to 41-42 PHs and is currently sitting at 39 PHs. It's a little bit disconcerting because they had been hashing at around 35% for a long time and to see them ramp up to 45% of the total will cause many miners to move to other pools like bitcguild and eligius.

Cex/Ghash had promised that they would never go to 51%; however, they have not kept other promises, such as allowing cloud miners to mine at other than ghash.io pool.

As others have said above, it boggles my mind why anyone would buy GHs at cex, it's overpriced and you are charged outrageous fees and you are giving your hard earned money to crooks, swindlers and inside manipulators at cex. There must be lots of feeble minded people around the world.

It was a rhetorical question. The original poster's assumption is that bitcoin will succeed without the US in the future. I'm just saying that without the US, bitcoin's future is murky at best and busted at worst. I'm not the original poster and I don't assume that the US will bann bitcoin at all. I'm just questioning the original poster's assumption. China tries to bann bitcoins every month or so and has succesffully trolled the bitcoin community and negatively affect the price. If the US tries the same trick, it will have a bigger effect, much bigger.

At this stage, the future of bitcoin lies with the US. As far as the real world is concerned, there are two money capitals in the world, New York and London. Not Beijing, not Shanghai.

Can you deny that bitcoin and fiat are intimately tied together at this point in time?

I am a realist and I live in the real world.

Does anyone seriously think bitcoin will continue to rise dramatically IF the US banns btc?