thanks bought it.. very good price!

gc worked! Great Service. PM me I if you have more

hmm i bought $500 in gift cards and they seems to work so vouch for him! thanks.

It is also important to remember that the transaction costs involved in selling BTC for other currencies means that, at the margins, the most efficient miners are those who hoard their bitcoins.  This means that (given unchanged transaction costs) the percentage of hoarders-cum-miners relative to profit-taking-miners is usually increasing. 

Revival of the thread--

1) We are meeting August 6th in London
2) There will be a pub that accepts bitcoins that hosts the meetup, making the meeting the first of its kind.  If you think you can be the host, respond to this thread.  Position still available!
3) If you are interested in attending, just add a little something clever to the thread.

It's nice to not have to know what merchants want or will want.  Maybe it's USD, maybe it's EUR, maybe it's food on the table or a yacht in the harbour.  Money is useful in helping merhcants obtain what they want.  Bitcoin is good as money.

The CIA probably stole bitcoins from the faucet, liquidated them on mtgox, forced jed to sell mtgox to magicaltux in japan, took some of the revenue and paid for Gavin's trip.  If this is the case, then Gavin can just go back to mtgox, buy some bitcoins and put them back in the faucet.  loser: jed.

two thoughts that haven't gotten too much attention on this thread.

1) Why do we think Gavin's talk will be available to the public?  It's the CIA, not TED.
2) If Bitcoin is decentralized, why do we look to Gavin as a leader? Shouldn't the whole project exist more like a headless mob?

don't they know that you will just burn the $3,000?

mndrix --

this went extremely smoothly.  I would pay a small clearing fee to participate in another one of your lending pools if you ever get the courage to run a new one.

Send bitcoins to 12pDkk7FRKjXRCCd7B3aEmz7Tzqq6i9vHw.  Don't accept impostors pretending to be Brian pretending to be WikiLeaks.  And please send as much as you can but please don't send so much.  But send as much as you can.

...where "transaction fees" could include imprisonment

I'm canceling this bounty.  It would no longer be that noteworthy (to me, at least) if someone lived a month off of bitcoins. 

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/04/the-economics-of-bitcoin.html
add a little bit to my bounty if you can, but at the link and not at the forum!

Bringing the bounty to your doorstep, Tyler!
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/04/the-economics-of-bitcoin.html

The first bitcoin put traded on January 26th, not in Bitcoin-OTC, but here in the forum!

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2986.0

I wish to lend 96 BTC and receive 100 BTC in return.
Funds should be returned to 1GtF2VVoRA4BYL7GiMVdfT9mCAi7ZPFV3u

I also think CryptikEnigma's loan shouldn't qualify for this experiment given its special conditions.

funny donations to xkcd of note from Block Explorer:

13.37 (two of them)
3.14
1.41
0.69

BSB uses a volume-weighted average price over the course of 24 hours.  To manipulate that, you'd need a pretty good bank roll and probably waste any winnings on settlement games.

oh, by "where", i meant "at what price".