They froze my account which really sucks so I validated it by sending them my drivers licensee and utility bill how long do you think till Im unfrozen?

It's a brand-new and unprecedented type of currency and investment -- anytime there's this level of innovation and disruption there's going to be scammers looking to taking advantage.  It's like the wildwest.

Im after an easy way of buying bitcoins. im only after like £20 worth at the moment. How do i get them. most sites ive looked at take a while and look dodgy. Plus most of them only do USD. i need GBP.

I don't know the details, but wouldn't the SR forum be on the same server?

me too , till he turned into my mum   

Pirate or whoever dumped 500k in Bitcoins isn't winning. Have you bought back yet?

everywhere I look I see scam sites, untrustworthy people, hackers and pyramid schemes running riot,

isn't this whole bitcoin thing just a trap? I don't really see why you'd want to be part of it...

Why would more people use bitcoin?

And you will be popular!

All that says is bitinstant got permission. And mtgox saying welcome to the club. does that mean its official they are working together now? If so has anyone seen their withdrawal times go down? because mine sure havent....

i didn't bother to read EVERY thread on here, but a thing to beware of with linux USB / live CDs: if your encryption requires high-quality random numbers, you might not want to generate random keys after booting from a USB boot / live CD; apparently that's not a good choice because the environment is more predictable. Anyone out there ever even take advantage of this flaw? I sure haven't; I've only had wikipedia entertain me with these thoughts

Honestly, it surely doesn't matter, but for those that love being paranoid: beware of generating keys after freshly booting from a live CD / USB.

As for creating a "100% secure wallet", I don't think it's possible to quantify or measure the % of security that a wallet is under. Keep in mind that your wallet isn't exactly secure if even YOU lose access to it! (It's no longer secure--it is useless!)

The requirements sound very reasonable, the four hour limitation should stop people from randomly trolling however the requirements will not put an end to well planned trolling, however this is an unfortunate fact of the Internet and trolls that have no life will generally go as far out of thier way to troll as is needed. But here's an idea, perhaps make people donate a satoshi to get into the forums? That would demonstrate an ability to use bitcoin, although setting up that system may be tedious.. Never mind the way you have it is good too.

Its to bad people are so stupid they put lot of money in the hands of guys like Zhou Tong and Pirateat40.

When something is to good to be true - than it is not good for you.


Unfourtunately this events destroys the reputation of bitcoin for some time...

please do so! and get a post
don't be so negative, the 5-post-4-hour-rule is there for a reason: to get rid of the trolls. NOT to piss newcomers off.

relax take it easy and smile.

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