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Whoha... downvotes and no constructive criticism.

They should integrate bitcoin, I stopped using levelup after a little while, but I would like to pay with bitcoin everywhere where levelup is accepted.

Just my 2 cents :)

Glad I could help you out!

Nope. Already sold my initial investment!

I believe the reasons are that it's A) decentralized B) portable C) easy for businesses to adopt

The liquidity part of it is a big factor, but we've had pretty good liquidity for a while if you're willing to do a bank wire or trade with someone in person.

If you're trying to figure out how to buy bitcoins, check this out:

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/

I recommend Bitfloor at the moment because they offer free capitolone360 transfers as well as cash deposits at local banks for only 1%.

If you're an accreted investor, check out http://tradehill.com/

If you want to find other providers (or leave a review for coinbase) check out http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/ - it's a free site full of guides and reviews for buying bitcoin.

I would be willing to tip 1 bitcoin for anyone who can write a bitcoin guide for the country of Cyprus.

Here are a few from around the world:

* USA: http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/in/united-states/

* Mexico: http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/in/mexico/

* Malaysia: http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/in/malaysia/

* Russia: http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/in/russia/

* Germany: http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/in/germany

* Germany (translated): http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/de-de/deutschland/

More on http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/ - all the guides are free and updated regularly.

Send me a message with your email address on http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/contact/ and I'll send you a small amount for free.

I don't underestimate the volatility... I watch the price very carefully, and understand how volatile it is. Bitcoins are converted to USD and back to BTC every day. If you were to try to sell ALL the bitcoins in one day that would clear out the order books, and would likely cause a crash and then rally, much like we saw when there was a bug in the blockchain. The price dropped to $37, and quickly went back to the original price due to the demand.

The volume of MTGOX-USD is $69M for a 30 day period, which is about $2.3M a day. Source: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html

> we're in the middle of another one.

Can you back that up somehow? It seems like we're in a rally based on the price.

Thanks for sharing!

PG invested in Coinbase (YC)

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/coinbase/

I would love to know how many bitcoins PG personally holds:

http://www.quora.com/Paul-Graham/How-many-bitcoins-does-PG-o...

It's already profitable... has been for at least a year now.

This is driving the price up, and is great news. I know of two businesses with FinCEN registration IDs:

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/ziggap/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/bitinstant/

Digital cash isn't going away anytime soon.

Build in SHA256 signing and you have something rock solid.

In fact, you could make everyone who attends register by signing a message- that way everyone at your event would be ready (and have a public key registered with YC) to sign any contract digitally.

Welcome to the future.

Why not have both parties sign a contract digitally with crypto?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opengp/id414003727?mt=8

Mine is #bada55.

SWEET! Can I pay via coinbase by sending to an email address instead? It's super easy :)

Too bad they don't integrate with Coinbase.com!

A: Chargebacks

If you don't want chargebacks, accept digital cash in addition to credit cards. Give your customers a discount for digital cash, and charge your price + (estimated cost of chargebacks/sales) for a given period. BitPay / Coinbase are probably your best options for accepting non-reversible digital cash.

I help run a guide site for bitcoin newbies trying to buy:

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/

I recommend the following services right now: http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/bitme/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/localbitcoins/ http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/ziggap/

Whoha, that's awesome!

Ding ding.

I worked with the dev who wrote this at Wells Fargo.

To be fair, they do have windows in their office.

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant" --U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

Would we really go to war if we knew the true extent of human suffering? Maybe, but visibility to such suffering at least allows people to feel sympathy, instead of simply being ignorant to suffering.

Where is the data from? How reliable is it?

I scratch your back, you give me job.

False. I pay my coworker back for lunch with bitcoin.