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Quote:Oh, can you give me the link?
Sure, I’ll have to check my history when I get home tonight as I don’t quite remember it.
Also, I saw on Reddit that there is an online store in China that caters to expats and now accepts BTC. http://ijustwannabuy.com
I did the thing where you can get fractions of a BTC for viewing ads/websites. I’m up to a whopping 0.0001032BTC. 🙂
I did the thing where you can get fractions of a BTC for viewing ads/websites. I’m up to a whopping 0.0001032BTC. 🙂
I was watching my daughter and didn’t get a chance to make it. Did anything interesting come out of it?
I was watching my daughter and didn’t get a chance to make it. Did anything interesting come out of it?
Are they starting to block Bitcoin exchanges now? I just got home & went to check the value and almost none of the exchanges I know of seem to be working. It’s a bad sign that the exchanges are so unreliable that I’m not sure if they are just down again or are being blocked.
Edit: Looks like MtGox actually is down, but the others are being blocked.
I was on the verge of trying to buy some last night, but it seemed like all the sites I could really buy from were down so… 🙂
I still think that as hard as it is to get money into BTC I can’t imagine how difficult it could be to get back out. Especially in the event of a crash if the exchanges start folding or fleeing.
I like this chart I saw posted on Bogleheads the other day and then reposted with an added comment of Reddit this morning.
Out of curiosity, I did open an account with Coinbase since they will let you fund your purchase with an ACH transfer. However, when you try to buy you get a message:
“Note! We’ve exceeded our normal buy limits for today. If you would still like to purchase you will receive the market price of bitcoin on Monday Apr 15, 2013 at 08:09PM PDT after your funds have arrived.”
I can’t imagine having to buy via a market order placed 6 days in advance.
Also, the current cost is just over $230. I’m guessing (an almost completely uneducated guess mind you) that it will crash before or around $300.
I am interested, but I have a friend coming to town this weekend and was thinking of taking them to Leshan on Saturday. So, I may not make it.
Well, just for fun I have created a wallet (a few of them actually), but they are all sitting empty. I looked into mining and joining a pool since I leave my PC running 24/7 anyway, but that’s even more painful than trying to buy them. It seems like every miner client I would try would be flagged as a trojan or some other type of malware so I don’t think I’ll be trying that.
If anyone wants to give some away or sell for RMB or USD let me know (though I doubt I’d buy any at the going prices). 😉
The other problem is that there is no simple way to open an account and just buy some if you want them. Every site I’ve looked at requires you to jump through too many hoops to just open and fund an account. It seems like you have to open an account at a 2nd site just to put money in to transfer to the 1st site so that you can then buy coins. And, of course each step charges a transaction fee as well.
Just seems like a big hassle to me.
I wish I had listened to my instincts and bought some a few years ago when I first heard of them after one of the big hacking incidents and the price on them dropped like 50% and was in the single digits.
Or, even when Crete was first announced and they were still in the $30’s and I was thinking again about buying some (apparently so did a lot of other people.)
But, at this point, my instinct is saying there is a huge bubble and people are buying purely for speculation. Since I’m interested in them more long term, I’m going to wait for the bubble to pop before buying any.
I guess I should go ahead and establish an account with one of the exchanges so that when the time comes I will be ready to buy some. But, of course, with the possibility of exchanges getting hacked I am somewhat wary of attaching my bank account info to one of them in the first place.
A friend of mine texted me from the there tonight and told me it was closing. That along with the classified ad certainly make it sound true.
A friend of mine texted me from the there tonight and told me it was closing. That along with the classified ad certainly make it sound true.
I don’t necessarily agree that no guns in a society is better, but I do agree that it isn’t an option in the US.
Too many people in the US, if asked why they want guns, would say “to defend myself against the government in case they go power mad and start trying to take away my rights.” Then it’s sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy as the only way you are going to get those people to give them up is by force, which of course would justify their thoughts.
Personally, I don’t own any and don’t really care to. But, I would like to keep the option available should I ever change my mind.
Since this thread was bumped I will update to say I have expanded my definition of “steak” & have a new favorite steak in Chengdu. The beef “Ambassador Tacos al Carbon” @ Peter’s are really good. The beef is like little chunks of steak that have been strongly marinated in lime so that it’s really tender and has a nice citrus flavor. At 79RMB it’s cheaper than most steaks in restaurants here and tastes much better IMO.
I understand and appreciate it. Having seen both of us in person it is quite obvious you know much more about health and fitness than I do. 🙂
I’m typically all about questioning medical authority (or anyone as I’m quite a contrarian by nature.) But, when my little girl is miserable with a double ear infection and a very high fever I change my tune pretty quickly and will do just about anything they say that might make her better.
This is awesome news as I was planning on flying to Frankfurt in late May. Looks like it costs about $1,000 RT per person.
We leave in just under 200 days, so hopefully she won’t be sick anymore before then. Our next destination will be much sunnier and warmer. Hopefully, she will do better there and get back to her healthier normal self.
My daughter was 4 when we moved here a year and a half ago. She had never been sick before then. In the last 18 she’s been on antibiotics 4 or 5 times now for various problems (usually infections resulting in fevers) and she (and we) have a pretty nearly constant cough when we are in the country and she always seems to have a runny nose. On the bright side, every time we leave the country the coughs go away, so I’m hoping there’s no permanent damage.
It is easy to blame the pollution, but hard to know if that’s really the cause. She is also exposed to many more children here since she started kindergarten and I’m sure that contributes to it also.
Since the US consulate only started monitoring the air quality last summer we have no real data to compare to previous years. But, everyone seems to agree the is worse in the winter and seems extra bad this year compared to last year.
Some think that it is worse due to all of the construction going on around the city in preparation of the Fortune Global Forum here in June. If that’s the case, hopefully it will improve after that.
If I were you, I’d have to compare moving here to whatever other opportunities you have. Everywhere has it’s pros and cons. Also, factor in the amount of time you plan to stay here. When I came, I knew it was just for 2 years, so I think that it makes it easier to live with when you know it’s only temporary.
Also, consider your family’s personality types and what they like to do. I’m the type that would be happy almost never leaving the house, so it’s not too bad for me to stay inside with my air purifiers all the time.
