Have you bought anything with BCs? The California cupcake seller accepting them was a great story, and interesting that they have grown considerably in value must have helped her business too!
-- Owen On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Giles Bowkett <gil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! I bought some BTC back when they were $40 each. They went down to > $10 so I sold them. But then I decided against it and bought 3.475 more, > for around $34.75. I sold the 0.475 the other day for ~$337. I obviously > now wish I'd bought more when they were $10. > > My Bitcoins could be diamonds or Beanie Babies, so I don't know if I'm > going to retire on them 20 years from now or just think of them as a > nostalgic joke. Only time will tell. > > This is the best (even-handed) thing I've seen recently on Bitcoin: > > > http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/04/bitcoin-is-money-bitcoin-is-bubble.html > > This is the classic (wildly optimistic) thing on Bitcoin, I think: > > http://falkvinge.net/2011/05/29/why-im-putting-all-my-savings-into-bitcoin/ > > And this is something (handy but not amazing) which I built: > http://btcusd.gilesb.com/ > > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net>wrote: > >> Just listened to an NPR discussion of bitcoin. Fascinating! Good for >> bad-guys, and good-guys. >> >> Families sending money to family in Africa, avoiding huge transaction >> fees for pennies of bitcoin fees. >> >> The Silk Road market where you can buy all sorts of illegal things. >> >> The third world carries its money in their phones. >> >> WikiLeaks who takes BC as their only payment method, due to US pressure >> on international banking. >> >> A Market on the lives of political leaders, on the likelihood of >> assassination, and guys who get a take of the stakes once they prove they >> done it. >> >> BC is illusive. Like another "bit", bit torrent, it's so distributed and >> p2p that its hard to get your brain around it. >> >> Even the Fed Reserve admires it and is interested in its future. >> >> And in terms of legality, it an offense to steal it and a guy is being >> tried for a ponzi scheme involving BC. >> >> And its trading very high against the dollar. >> >> Has anyone gotten involved? Got a bitcoin? They interviewed a cupcake >> business that takes BC and they've made a bundle just on its huge increase >> in value. >> >> -- Owen >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > > -- > Giles Bowkett > http://gilesbowkett.com > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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