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Won't be true if cash in the form of notes and coins remains viable long term. However, my point was the many siren voices which are increasingly heralding an end to physical cash and a total reliance on digital transactions either by card or over the internet. I hope to Christ it doesn't ever happen, but there are those amongst us who seem determined that it will. Thankfully there doesn't seem to be this same push to go cashless, in other countries.

Thanks - just been into paypal and they have got some useful practical articles on not just bitcoin, but other crypto currencies as well. As you say, not regulated but definitely something that will grow in the years ahead, as well as probably offer ongoing virtual spending anonymity - which may be lost with conventional currency. Screenshot from paypal.

Yes, just noticed this myself. Genuinely decent guy, and very sorry to learn of his passing. @davidrj on here.

Thanks - useful info. Although I was thinking about its possible application as an everyday low level buying/purchasing tool, as opposed to an investment vehicle.

The contactless increase was just the springboard for the rest of the conversation. The wider point being the removal of cash meaning the end of anonymity, which many will resent. That's where the bitcoin came in, which I still don't fully understand and why I'm asking the question.

Talking to a colleague today about the raising of the contactless card limit to £100 next month. We then got onto the subject of a potential cashless society going forward, which seems to be what government, HMRC (which is obviously a part of government) and major financial institutions want, as they seek to possibly negate the anonymisation of exchange as afforded by the use of notes and coins, thus giving them control in the form of overseeing what we all do, and where we get our money from. He then mentioned bitcoin as the digital equivalent of actual hard cash and rambled on a bit as though I had the remotest clue what he was on about. I didn't, and essentially still don't even after looking it up. I didn't really want to appear thick/uninformed as this guy is a superior, condescending git. Websites on the issue are very technical and don't really explain the mechanics of the process as they would apply to an ordinary bod like me. How do I buy it, sell it, spend it, and what the hell is "bitcoin mining"? I mean, I genuinely hope we don't go cashless, but would still like to know how bitcoin works for dummies like me. Anybody understand it? I think paypal are already accepting it.

You get them on e bay too - just one side. Always a bit suspect.

I didn't even know one existed in that condition.

Very nicely struck specimen.

Thanks chaps and thanks to Louis as well.

I'm OK with pics when I select from "choose files", having previously saved the pic concerned, but a weird thing seems to happen when I copy and paste a pic straight into the post. I can see it, but nobody else can. So I'll try a little experiment. The first is a copy and paste from my own pics, and the second is a copy and paste of Will's cat above. Can anybody see either or both of them?

what happens when you try?

Really - oh well, I'll forget it then. That sounds a bit too Mickey Mouse for them to be taken seriously.

It's all a bit weird and inconclusive. I will e mail rather than call, and then show their reply on here. Hopefully it will be straight facts.

This is what I get. When I click on "OK", I get the sign in prompt screen which auto populates with my user name and password. When I click "sign in" on that, it just reverts immediately to screen 1. When I click on "sign up" (in case the system has forgotten me), I also just get screen 1. It's now the same on three separate devices using different service providers. Obviously if you can get in, then there's a mysterious technical problem at my end. I'll call LCA today and try to find out what the issue is.

Tried on my tablet (which is bang up to date). Exactly the same on there. Obviously not working. Yet for some odd reason LCA still have it as a now dud feature on their website.

I saw an interview many years ago, with The Stones, on the now defunct satellite channel "Bravo". It was from 1968 and the thing that struck me most forcibly was just how damn intelligent they were. Especially Mick Jagger. Coherent, rational, deep thinking and highly articulate, even on the subject of drug taking. Didn't necessarily agree with them, but I'd have found it difficult to present an effective rebuttal to the assertions being made. Compare that to some of the half baked idiots of later and present eras. I'd have enjoyed debating with them.

Another star from the past taken from us - RIP.

I presume the reason for non declaration is that the coins were found from detectoring done without the landowner's permission. Really stupid when you think about it. If they'd gone about it in an honest, straightforward manner, they'd all have gained financially instead of facing a needless prison term and a criminal record.

Very pleased to have obtained this problem free William IV 1837 penny in about EF. Scarcest date of the few William IV pennies, and very difficult to get in high grade.

I think he may be cognitively challenged. Personally I wish Obama was still president.

Would this be him, Paddy. Referred to in this article?

What a superb find. Well done Paddy ! First thing I noticed was that all the beads were intact, which is often not the case with an ordinary F6, so no surprise when Jerry pointed out it might well be a F763 pattern.

Indeed, hope both he and Peter are OK.

Totally agree Jerry. I've also noticed that his website is littered with errors of fact.