Depending on when you actually submit your payment to the network, it may take 1 minute for it to recognize or a few more. The number of...
Most people are idiots, as well.
I am sure? I'm not sure if there are any guarantees in this fucked up world. By taken over, are you saying something like the blockchain forks?...
Not to be mean, but I am not sure you know exactly what you are talking about.
What? They would need 51% of the hashing power. No one is close to that right now with ASIC mining.
The original owners are the miners. I think you are not understanding something - I would take a closer look to someones previously written...
The network recognizes your private keys from your wallet and that gives you access to your coins on the network. If you want a real technical...
It will be almost impossible to track if you send coins to many separate addresses, but you can keep them all contained in one wallet. Or just...
That seems to be well thought out. BTC can be used for good and evil, just like other things, or the internet in general. I see the gov having...
you can go to btc-e.com and look around at some others. I would just stick with BTC though, but anything is possible.
I have been in btc for quite a long time, but not from day 1. It is more than a currency to me, but you can call it what you wish. I do not use...
No one can say - also like everything - once it becomes illegal, it becomes more expensive. Hard to say though. I am not sure what Mt Gox is...
like around 12 million or so
It probably only goes up in value if the US makes it illegal. But it will shut down the transition of Mt gox to USA (through coinlab). I dont...
nice i sold a lot at 26 as well , bought back in with the rest about 10 days ago, but i could buy nowhere as near as many coins, lost out on a...
Mt gox, the main exchange, is backed up about 4000 accounts from what the CEO just stated today - IIRC. There is a mad rush to fund btc accounts....
ive been dollar cost averaging all my money for about 2 years into this.. so yeah
You don't need to use Mt Gox. There are other options for merchants like BitPay etc. I agree, there needs to be greater competition for that...
if it is converted immediately what is the difference if the price changes? You are still accepting the btc / us dollar conversion at the pos...
Mt. Gox, the major exchange, has had AML and KYC rules in place for quite some time.. This is nothing new really from what I understand after...
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