If using a hardware wallet I'd hope you would keep a back-up of your seed/master key on paper as well just in case. Ever since I can remember every piece of hardware storage I have had can fail or corrupt.

How can you expect to have a quality conersation when you immediately come off defensive and with a nasty attitude? Calling people fools and idiots because they don't agree with you is a great way to keep people away.

I think a lot of these companies that say they want to research blockchain technology and look into creating their own don't really understand the point. A small centralized ledger is pointless since it can be way too easy to change old blocks, just use a database instead. Sometimes I think companies just throw around hip terms without knowing what they are. Just like they did with "the cloud" 3-4 years ago.

You should create your own thread. It's kind of rude to hijack someone else's thread and post your stuff and call it better. Not cool.

That's cool! Did you do this with PHP's imagettftext(); ??
This could be useful for bloggers posting on their site or even here at the forum using the IMG tags.
It auto updates right? Each time the PNG is called it grabs the current market rate and re-renders the image?

Wow, looks like we have some risk takers in the crowd. It all comes down to personal opinion in the end. To me, moving ones savings into bitcoin assuming bitcoin will be a future success is irresponsible money management. Perhaps I'm less wealthy than you guys, but I can not afford to lose my savings account. One could counter and say leaving your money in a fiat centrally owned bank is risky and irresponsible, so again in the end comes down to personal opinion. Currently my opinion is my savings is safer in a centrally owned fiat bank... wow I think I just lost a part of my soul typing that last line 

Paper wallet is the way to go. It's costs nothing and as long as you do it offline your coins will be safe forever. Check out bitaddress.org - you can save the page and generate paper wallets safely offline.

No, you should not move your savings into bitcoin. That is very risky.
Instead start budgeting differently and take the money you save every month and put that into bitcoin. Still continue to put the normal amount you would into your regular savings account. Your bitcoin savings should be completely separate.

It's pretty common with blockchain.info.  I see this response most frequently when using their API. I wouldn't be surprised if it was from the stress test, more people are watching addresses and transactions to see when they will get confirmed.

Would have been nice to receive a PM that a sig change was required last week

We're not really doing this again are we? Will there be another next month, and the month after until the blocksize debate is settled? I'm sure the miners don't mind since last time this happened the fee's per block nearly doubled.

My wife thinks it's super nerdy and after explaining it she still says "I don't get why anyone would use it". She is thoroughly annoyed by bitcoin because I'm usually doing something BTC related everyday. So she sings the "pizza-bagel" song when she sees me on the computer "bitcoin in the morning, bitcoin in the evening, bitcoin at supper time, cuz when you have bitcoin on your laptop you can bitcoin anytime!"

Not sure if this executive is stupid or just trolling. If the 21 million cap was ever lifted or raised or changed in anyway you would see a huge run out the floods gates myself included. His post doesn't make any sense. The 21 million cap has been in place since the inception. The 1MB cap was a temporary cap that was intended to be removed later. His post may as well say "Block size fork will lead to one mysql database keeping track of coins instead of decentralized blockchain". It's just pure idiocy.

Ok there's your issue, I don't know your hashrate, but I'd assume you are below the minimum amount.
Check out their FAQ:  http://clevermining.com/about

Here's your answer: If you earn 0.01 BTC per day you will get daily payouts. Other wise you will receive weekly payouts with a minimum balance of 0.001 BTC.

• Daily Payouts with 0.01 BTC minimum payout balance.
• Additional weekly payout for small balances (0.001 BTC).

That might not be that exclusive or difficult if you think about it.
I know a lot people dismiss the bitcoin rich list since a lot of people hold coins on multiple addresses instead of just one.
I still think it's surprising that there is only 250,000 addresses with 1-10 BTC in it. And only 369,758 address with >1 BTC.

After you work out?? Where are you getting your bitcoins from?  You said you need to transfer them, where are they currently? We need more details in order to help you.

You mean the temporary 1 MB block restriction that was only added after the fact, and is now preparing to be lifted as planned?

Very true, in 2025 everyone will wish they had a time machine to go back to now so they could own at least 1 bitcoin. What's crazy that time period is only 9 years away, and there will be 3 halvings in that period, 2016, 2020, and 2024. The reward will only be around 3 bitcoin per block. It will be interesting to watch this unfold over the next decade.

Sounds like you are using a website or service or bitcoin faucet where you are accumulating bitcoins for free. Am I correct?
If that's the case you will need to check with that website.
Anyways sounds like you have to reach the minimum cash out amount and you can't retrieve the "accumulated BTC so far" until you meet the minimum.
Good luck!

That's not true. Any coins placed into an address today will be present no matter which fork ends up being the main chain. The fork(s) will use the existing blockchain to know who owns which coins. For someones cold storage coins to "disappear" from a fork the fork would have to delete the existing blockchain and start all over with a new one, which no one would agree to.