Topic: How committed are you to BitCoin? (Read 2994 times)

60 percent all in this is good news!

All fixed now.

Apparently, removing the module didn't remove the entry in the currencies table.

Thank you for that kind word on my dice.  :-)

Lol, yeah.  I thought you were actually charging the equivalent of $900 for some (very nice) dice.

Damn.  I didn't even notice that.  I think that may have happened when I installed an incomplete bitcoin add on for my cart.

ugh.  Thanks for the heads up. I need to go fix it now.

There seems to be an issue with the website then.  When I switch the exchange to Bitcoin, the price says 49.99BTC, and if I try to add it to shopping cart it tells me "shopping cart is empty".  If I add it in USD, then switch to Bitcoin, it goes to my shopping cart but shows 49.99BTC

Here's a picture to show you what I mean.  https://i.imgur.com/wp9eG.jpg

Just clicked " buy now with BTC "…


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Pay to:    tradersedgedice
Payment Amount:    2.82 BTC (49.99 USD @ 17.71)


Nothing about 49.99 BTC.

lol ...and you are perfectly in your right not to tell me your level of commitment ...it was more to find out the feel of the community and where peoples mindset is with all this!

And thanks for the welcome! 

Welcome to the forum.

You're right but I am still not telling you my level of commitment.

:-)

"Your second thread, this one, asks how committed I, and others, might be to bitcoin.  Is this a political movement?"

No, political motivation here and I work for myself ? I'm here to grow with the community I'm assuming this isn't a crime to do so? and like alot of forums have an "introduce yourself" thread ...just like the poster said above. I disagree it does require trust as we are seeing here you are questioning my motives which in turn if you did against a new technology would make people hesitant about getting into it .. everything is built on TRUST!  

You have to remember that nearly every single forum online has an "Introduce yourself" thread.  It's a good way to get a post under your belt, let people know an interesting fact, and have a verifiable record in case you start to crosspost lies.

I am a 30 year old male from Ohio.  I like cats.  I came here after i heard about bitcoins for just the third time in a week.  I don't think that's creepy at all.  It's nice to put a tidbit of info to associate with a username.

Although I usually just post Sympathy for the Devil lyrics in introduce yourself threads.

Please allow me to introduce myself
Im a man of wealth and taste
Ive been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith
And I was round when jesus christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

I think asking somebody who they work for in is quite a bit more personal and creepy than asking for a sex, age, and location.

Edit: By your username and signature it's obvious who you work for.  I just find it funny that you are selling a product for $49.99 or 49.99BTC.  That's 17x the price at current market rate.  I think the dice are a cool idea, and would LOVE to see some metal D&D style dice, but at that exchange I'd rather build my own foundry, smelt the iron, and cast them myself.

Edit2: Also, if everybody responded to this thread like I did, showing that it was purely a speculative bubble then it would be a fairly strong indication to not get involved if you want to use it as a real currency.  There have been many attempts at BTC like digital currency in the past.  They have all failed.  It's nice to know what peoples expectations are before blowing a wad to purchase some.

If you would like to talk about creepy, your other thread was called "Introduce Yourself":
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11452.0

It generated a boat load of trusting n00b comments.

I asked who you work for.  A reasonable question as the thread title started making me hum the song "Mrs. Robinson" from the movie _The_Graduate_.

Look up the lyrics. :-)

Your second thread, this one, asks how committed I, and others, might be to bitcoin.  Is this a political movement?

I don't want to drive you away from the forum with a nasty "none of your business" response so I put the question out again: who do you work for?

It's not like you have 4000 messages to your name.  Neither do I but am not asking why are people are doing what they're doing here.

Bitcoin doesn't require trust.  Only intersecting interests at the point trade might begin.

I will not call a trend on two thread titles but they both look like psyops queries.

Or "creepy", if you will.

I'm all in. However I'm not going to invest all my savings into it, just some small sums to make it fun. Not because I don't believe in it, but because I'm affraid that I won't be able to take all the money I've earned and use it IRL for buying goods or paying rent...

I'm a lot more committed than most of you guys. I can see a few problems that could pop up over the next few years and realize that bitcoins could loose value in a heartbeat but you are ignoring the fact that bitcoins have been on the increase for a while now. There is a increase for this rapid rise and its supply in demand. There's not many companies that are accepting bitcoins and I don't blame them its a risky buisness so why is there such a big demand ?

I think its got to do with the world is coming to realize that the existing systems they trust in are failing them everyday. As the trust dwindles for banks / governments people are ready to accept an alternative, Bitcoin is that alternative ! Something different, something transparent and uncontrollable. and that why people invest and the price just keeps going up and up.

It amazes me that so many people are adopting bitcoin when it still is very fragile and unpredictable. But I also think the sh%^ is about to hit the fan. I'm still a bitcoin newb and don't know the exact figures but I remember when I first heard about bitcoin at the beginning of April bitcoins were selling for around £0.70 and the total value was estimated at £9000000. Today bitcoins are selling for around £12 so in theory that's a 1614% increase in value making bitcoins total value at £145,260,000 and rising. And all this in just under two months !! It's crazy lol

Not to mention the amount of people investing in bitcoin is HUGE look how much buisness goes on over the markets. Bitcoins shift like hotcakes 24/7 ! I think there's far to many people in for the long run to cause the market to crash but I might be wrong who knows.

All I know is that I'm proud to be part of bitcoin and glad I found out about all this and invested in the good days of £0.70. Bitcoin has made me money full stop and I have a couple of very nice computers that I have acquired for free. It's been a fun and rewarding experience from the start and I'm looking forward to seeing how far this rabbit hole goes  

This post should really be moved to a more appropriate thread

Not very, yet, but I'm about 80% confirmed buying two dual-5870 rigs this weekend for dedicated mining, so then I guess I'll be pretty committed.

I consider BTC to be a very high risk investment.  My portfolio consists of Bonds, Stocks, Gold, Silver, and now BTC.  Perhaps I'm foolish for investing so little, perhaps I'm foolish for buying so much.

The worst part... I heard about BTC from a coworker in October.. I laughed... They started mining.  Silly me.

That is a very risky strategy. BitCoin could lose it's value and/or liquidity in minutes. Any trader trying to outsmart the market has to be really, really smart.

Unfortunately, he asked me on another thread not related to the topic at hand or I would consider it irony! lol 

It's more like creepy ...

Trust. Get it? Irony? No. Sad.

We have web of trust.

I'm confused this is the 2nd time you've asked me this ?