As a provider, we have found bitcoin to be an excellent payment method. The merchant fees are far less than merchants such as PayPal and you can get your BTC converted directly to your native currency

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Currently bitcoin is used for speculation. It has massive potential for other uses though. You have to read how it works to understand that. But, yes, it is very volatile. It always has been.

The concept behind Bitcoin has more potential than just currency, http://vint.sogeti.com/23172/

Those are transaction fees not donations and they go to miners who mine the block in which your transaction was included. Transaction fees are around 0.0001 - 0.0002 bitcoin per transaction.

I have to ask, does Bitcoin have any practical purpose right now? The amazing price action instability makes it nothing more than a cute idea currently.

Just reading mainstream news, there's rumour of a hack of 744K bitcoins from that exchange.

No, Gox != Bitcoin.

It's not really the start of a trend, but a continuation, first we had the mickey mouse php based bitcoin exchanges go kaput or get hacked and then the more serious/bigger players, it's pretty much a

Within the last 24 hours the largest (I think?) exchange, Mt. Gox, closed up without notice and with the general consensus that they are no longer financially viable.

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Hello, we do have in canada too, and we do accept bitcoin.

I've noticed them, and I like that they accept bitcoin, but I would like to shop around before picking someone. At this point though, they're probably my top choice.

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If you are looking to create something truly valuable, and possibly profitable, run an electrum server. Electrum is a lite bitcoin client that does not require a local copy of the bitcoin blockchain.

Nah, you don't get any bitcoins from running a node. You just speed up traffic for people downloading bitcoin blockchain data around your server.

Bitcoin just doesn't make sense to me in any way. No added value for anyone. But running a node basically just means forwarding transactional traffic or do I have to mine something with it?

You can run a bitcoin node, but it doesn't use that much traffic either.