Sat Nov 07, 2015 11:25 pm

Hello OgNasty,



I know you are big fan of philosophy of Bitcoin. How much of your real world transactions are in Bitcoin? Maybe you could provide a percentage or ratio vs. fiat.



Do you believe that people should hold Bitcoins for the long term? Or do you encourage spending Bitcoins as much as possible to support Bitcoin economy?



Is mining easier now than early days with first generation ASIC's?



Do you expect home miners to be viable in longer term (10 years)?



What are your thoughts on new forum.bitcoin.com? Do you expect your fans to transition here from bitcointalk.org? Or must they follow both?



Thank you for participating in this AMA!

I use Bitcoin for as many of my purchases as I can in my daily life. All of my food, clothing, & a large majority of my entertainment is paid in Bitcoin. The rest of my expenses that I am unable to pay in Bitcoin, I convert BTC to USD as needed in order to pay. I have been doing this for quite some time now.I think people should hold bitcoins if they want to own them. Owning bitcoins is surely better than not owning bitcoins. I would encourage people to spend only what they want and are able to, but to use Bitcoin if at all possible when doing their spending.Mining is easier now in the sense that hardware has been refined to more or less include everything you need. In the early days you had more customization options with software and airflow was a custom solution. Now you just need to worry about the included solution, which means dealing with lots of noise and heat. I definitely miss the days of slapping water blocks on GPUs and overclocking them to the limit.I believe home mining will always be viable. If Bitcoin is successful, people will probably be mining them on their solar powered cellular phones one day.forum.bitcoin.com is still in it's early days. It is that reason I believe I haven't had the same level of interaction here. I don't expect my "fans" to transition here from bitcointalk.org or to follow both. I always try to make information available through all outlets possible, but the home base for NastyMining will always be the OP