<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><br></div>Hi Max,<br><br></div>Currently the best thing for someone in the US to do is open an account with Coinbase.com. Then you need to go through some optional "Know Your Customer" (KYC) information providing and such to increase your trustworthiness and limits. You can, and should, set up the optional two factor authorization, using the "google authenticator" app on your phone. (And it's a good idea to have someone else's phone linked in as a backup.) That way, if a virus get's on your computer, and get's your password, they won't be able to spend your money without your phone.<br>
<br></div>Then you need to link your bank checking account up, which is like setting up an auto payment on a credit card. All this takes about a week or so. Then you just enter one Bitcoin in the purchase form, and say buy. It will instantly purchase the coin, at the current price, and start the process to auto deduct that amount of $$ (including the %1 fee), from your checking account. If you hurry, you might be able to get a coin at below $1000/BTC. This might be the last opportunity for anyone to do this.<br>
<br></div>And right now, <a href="http://coinbase.com">coinbase.com</a> is offering a referal bonus. $5 worth of bitcoin to you, and $5 worth of bitcoin to me, if you register using this link, and purchase at last one Bitcoin.<br>
<br><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="https://coinbase.com/?r=51709be3194e3316cd000057&utm_campaign=user-">https://coinbase.com/?r=51709be3194e3316cd000057&utm_campaign=user-</a></span><br>
<div><br></div><div>And once you do this, if you give me your new bitcoin address, I'll pay this $5 of Bitcoin back to you, so you can see how easy it is to receive Bitcoin from Coinbase, and from me. I'll probably also do this for anyone else, if there aren't too many of you.<br>
<br><br></div><div>Oh, and for all those that think Bitcoin is nothing more than Tulip bulbs, and such, you should try to canonize that view, to see if there are any other experts that agree with you, in this surprising historical open survey asking experts what they predict the future value of Bitcoin will be:<br>
<br><a href="http://canonizer.com/topic.asp/154/2">http://canonizer.com/topic.asp/154/2</a><br><br>But good luck finding any experts that don't see the obvious difference between tulip bulbs and Bitcoin.<br><br></div>
<div>Brent Allsop<br><br><br><br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br><div><div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 8:15 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Omar Rahman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 07, 2013 12:09 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a></span></p><div class="im"><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] What happens when Bitcoin goes to a million bucks?<u></u><u></u></div>
<p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in"></p><div class="im"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">From: Max More <</span><a href="mailto:max@maxmore.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">max@maxmore.com</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">><br>
To: Brent Allsop <</span><a href="mailto:brent.allsop@canonizer.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">brent.allsop@canonizer.com</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">>, ExI chat list<br>
<span> </span><</span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span></a></div>
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">><div class="im"><br>Subject: Re: [ExI] What happens when Bitcoin goes to a million bucks?<br><br><br></div>Brent: You say that "Everyone should have at least one Bitcoin". <span style="color:#1f497d">…</span>--Max<br>
<br style="text-align:start;word-spacing:0px"><br></span><u></u><u></u><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>The main problem with bitcoin is precisely this: it is impossible for everyone to have a bitcoin. The system was designed with an upper limit of 21 million coins availabl<span style="color:#1f497d">e</span>...unless we want to get into 'virtual' bitcoins. ;)<u></u><u></u></p>
</div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">…</span>Regards,<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span>Omar Rahman<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Can you buy shares in a bitcoin? Why can’t we have fractional bitcoins? Can someone with a bitcoin issue currency representing a fraction of that bitcoin? If I had a bitcoin and I could create a table with a limited and fixed subdivisions, such as the letters A thru Z, then each bitcoin with that number and an alpha would be 1/26 of that coin. Then if someone owned all 26 suffix letters, she could retire that and create a new closed-ended set of subdivisions, such as cents, so that there are 100 divisions of that coin. I might plunk down a few bucks for a centi-bitcoin.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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