Yes, foreign customers may perhaps save money going through bitcoin+BitPay+PayPal rather than using a credit card or bank transfer.   However they would have to send the bitcoin to BitPay USA or Canada. 

Anyone knows why PayPal is restricting the service to digital goods only?  Perhaps it has to do with their cancellation/refund policies?  (Digital goods are usually non-returnable, correct?)

The US government had been pressing Brazil for years to enact "anti-terror" laws that would let the police trample civil rights.  Lula and Dilma, because of their experience under the military dictatorship (1964-1985), always resisted, and so did their party in Congress.  But last year the black blocs appearead, financed by no-one-knows, turning every pacific protest into violence and vandalism.  That finally convinced Congress to enact an "anti-terror" law... 

bash> units
Currency exchange rates from 2012-06-06 
2414 units, 68 prefixes, 64 nonlinear units

You have: 16.5 kW
You want: btu/hour
   * 56300.337
   / 1.7761883e-05

So your air conditioner will have to pump ~57'000 BTU/hour out of your house.  Here "btu" or BTU is British Thermal Unit, a unit for amount of heat (like the joule or the calorie) that is used in the air conditioning and heating industry.

I suppose that the capacity of an air conditioner depends on the temperature outside and the temperature that you want to keep inside the house.

So the Canadian victims too agreed with the Sunlot plan? All of them?

IMHO, if the Japanese court agrees to turn MtGOX over to Sunlot, you can expect that the management of MtGOX will walk away free and keep all that they got, that Sunlot will distribute some part of the remaining 200'000 BTC to the victims (after taking their cut),  that there will be no criminal investigation, and that the new MtGOX will flop so those 16.5% equity will be worthless.

I understood that PayPal is merely accepting dollars from BitPay/Coinbase/Coinsetter and delivering them to merchants who subscribe to PayPal.  And for "digital goods" only. And only in North America. Isn't that so?

In other words, it is just like Dell: people who buy BTC now (on the exchanges or over the counter, in bulk or retail) are paying the shopping bills of owners of old cheap coins who choose to "pay with bitcoin".  Only that there is one more intermediary (PayPal) taking their fee.

It would be very naive of me to expect that, wouldn't it?

You mean, I could even ask whether the Eastern mistletoe of North America has sticky pulp inside its berries, like the European mistletoe?

U.S. citizens (and residents?) may want to know about this, if they don't know already:

FBAR and FATCA Compliance in the Age of Digital Currencies
by Rajiv Prasad, J.D., LL.M., for The Tax Adviser - May 01, 2014
http://www.aicpa.org/publications/taxadviser/2014/may/pages/clinic-story-07.aspx

Amen to that!

Once I tried using that method to post a question in Chinese on the Chinese language sub-forum.  I don't know what came out, but judging from the replies it must have been something quite funny.

Does the Eastern mistletoe of North America have sticky pulp inside its berries, like the European mistletoe?

Hm, do you think that there a market for a forum devoted entirely to off-topic posts on off-topic threads?

Are there rules for off-topic threads?

Aha, so "obviously" it was your fault that the cards burned out. 

Was he working for AMT on that day, perhaps?  I sometimes confuse the two myself.  Philadelphia is not that far from Kansas City, is it?  Just take the wrong turn on the highway, and...

Should it matter that I don't like it, as long as there are some people who do?

I am still not convined that PayPal's announcement was the cause of this rally.

The news should have had a positive effect, sure; but the rally started suddenly, rose steadily for less than one hour, then stopped suddenly, oscillated a bit and then stagnated at the current level.  Those news must have taken a lot more than one hour to reach all traders and be assimilated by them; therefore I would have expected a slower rise over several hours.

Ditto for the theory that the rally was caused by people taking profit on the AliBaba IPO and investing it in bitcoin.  That "Back to BTC" migration (if real) should have spread out over several days.

Coin buying by GABI (or some other single rich investor) would be a better fit to the chart, IMHO.

Since memories are not real,  does it make sense to ask what memory "really" is?

You mean, like parity errors or memory exhausted?

Is it possible that the BTC price jump earlier today was a fewMonero holders (or just one?) dumping XMR for BTC, for fear of the announced attack?