I don't know what did they do to the Faircoin. I just think that COMM should be on every exchange and pay to be added to the mintpal is not so nice manner.

https://nxt-e.com Please could more people than just me ask this exchange to add COMM? Still voting on Mintpal too.  

Hi guys!

Just introduced myself over in the newbie section (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=527738.msg5858320#msg5858320); I’m currently a PhD student at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. I’m doing some research on alternative economies and technology, and have put together a survey to understand how Bitcoin users’ habits relate to their financial, economic, and news habits outside the platform.

The survey is completely anonymous and should take about 10 mins. to complete. I’ll make the results available to anybody who’s interested in them as soon as the survey closes in early April. It's available at this link: https://usc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9KPy7dn2S6DPPo1

I’d like to get as wide a range of responses as possible so apologies if you see this cross-posted on a couple other forums – please feel free to share the survey link with other Bitcoin users.

Any questions, feel free to PM me or contact me directly. Thanks so much in advance for your help!

Best,

Sarah

You forgot the most important property - scarcity. Gazillions of crypto 'currencies' can be created at basically no cost, having identical properties and serving the same function as bitcoin. Infinite digits on a computer screen, yeah sounds a little like the USD.
Gold on the other hand is limited in supply and unique in color, shine and other physical properties.

In the long term, there must be one or several of the best digital encryption currency is widely accepted by the market.

I won't sit here and do nothing.

How bitcoin could stop Hitler and the second World War?  

If they are going to treat it as property, how would mined coins by a company set up as a corporation be treated?  My impression is that per the IRS's position, bitcoins mined would be the same as a the creation of a product you create/produce for sale but does not sell. It becomes on the shelf inventory, and there is no taxable event until it sells. This applies to all companies that make products through a process, hard materials or digital.  If you own a software application, or a script (plugin) you developed, and sell it for $50 per copy, and make 1000 copies on CDROM, you don't owe the IRS taxes on the copies until they sell. It's all 1s and 0s, so what difference is there between using computers to create scripts or plugins or software, or bitcoins? All property right? You just have to view it from a manufacturing standpoint.  And the fact that they have ruled it is property, the manufacturing stance would in my opinion apply. Manufacturing being the creation of something tangible "property" from the use of labor, machines, raw materials, and energy resources.  So you mine the coins, put them on paper wallets as inventory to sell. But hold them... For sale at a later date, which would be taxable.  You'd have to set up an s-corp to do this, or is my thinking way off??

I don't think GPU drilling opportunities bring you many benefits, we advice to you is my own opinion, you need to consider carefully.

I hope so!

Why a few months Dave Carlson just will have the world nearly 10% coins？

I think $500 is pretty much the bottom. Good time to buy.

That's just my 2 satoshis though.

why most people up in those hills will keep making shine and never pay a dime？

I would be interested in one and could probably contribute!

I completely understand your apprehension, I've been around the BTC community long enough to know that people are wary of fake charities. The best confirmation I can give you is that the link is on the official town website. I did not set this up. My good friend is from Darrington and is the son of one of the main project coordinators. He went through a lot of hoops to get this link on the official site. He is working on getting the coinbase account linked to the main bank account (so we can have direct USD conversion), but Coinbase ignored requests to help us speed the process up. For now, he controls the keys, so you do have to trust him. Just know this is a very small town where everyone knows everyone. If he ran off with funds they would know (considering he had to contact the mayor to get this on the town site). And I would be very pissed at him. He just wants to help the town.