wallet.dat age is right. Never will let someone else control my fund's again and pay them fee's for an illusion of service.

if i were PayPal, i'd be much more concerned with Facebook Credits than with Bitcoin - at least for the short term.

http://developers.facebook.com/credits/


after the various anti-trust filings have been successfully dealt with (if they are...) - and note that Google will be in the mix as well - this is going to be the battle of the decade.

For once we can agree with paypal, physical wallets will be thing of the past in the future.

You're just lucky if they don't freeze your account and keep everything in it under the guise of "suspicious behavior".

Will facebook survive google+ ?

hard to say.  google has certainly had their failures, recently - but they're pushing a lot harder on google+ than they have on anything else.  i think they underestimated FB for long enough to be put at risk.

but the thing is, Bitcoin will be - essentially - fighting for market share with the big boys.  and when you get right down to it, most of the advantages that we all know and love are irrelevant.  what Bitcoin has going for it, out there in the world of Aunt Tilly, is no fees.  and that's after you deal with the drawbacks:  complexity, poor UI, perceived security, etc.

i'm pretty big on Bitcoin, and seriously invested - but i'm not going to bury my head in the sand.  i need to get off my ass, just like everybody else.

+1

indeed.

Yea you will...  eventually (if commercial adoption is high enough) you're going to go to the store to buy something in BTC and see your coins are at your machine at work.. or at home..  anywhere but on your phone where you need them now...  you'll have to remote in a few times...   then eventually you'll be like "forget this,  i'll just put them in a bitcoin bank ewallet whatever"   so you can access them securely from anywhere.

You underestimate me. I drive 10 miles out of my way to withdraw cash should I have no cash to buy a pack of smokes. I refuse to have merchants be taxed extra because of credit/debit card purchases. Opened up a bank account just for Bitcoin, been 6 years since I had one prior.