What misdeeds?

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The guy was kicked out because he was supposedly promoting illegal activity, not because he was off-topic. I was wondering if Jeff Garzik did anything regarding illegal activities I listed above. I hope he comes here and help us understand what happened, and more importantly what will be happening in the future regarding his involvement with Bitcoin and people in Iran.

I'm talking about everything he did in the Nazi Germany. Don't get distracted.

I am late to this party, but in case anyone is still reading, here are my thoughts:

Regarding legality of what was said in IRC - discussions of this kind are perfectly legal in the US, Finland, and I am pretty sure in Iran, too. Regarding legality of providing Bitcoin software to individuals in Iran - I am not a lawyer, but even a lawyer would admit it's a complex issue depending on your jurisdiction and your specific actions.

Everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was legal. Everyone should think about this for a moment.

Finally, and most importantly, there is the issue of hypocrisy: if my reactions to illegal actions are selective, I am a hypocrite. Specifically, if Jeff Garzik considers provisioning of open-source Bitcoin software to people in Iran to be illegal, and acts to prevent this from happening or even being discussed, he should be prepared to act in similar fashion when other illegal activities take place. For example, war crimes committed by the individuals in US forces or the government. What has he done about it? Dropping bombs and depleted uranium on the civilians?  Executives of Bayer who knowingly sold for profit HIV-infected materials, and FDA agents who were compliant?  Executives and workers of Trafigura, who knowingly and for profits dumped tons of toxic waste on people of Ivory Cost? Blackwater employees murdering civilians indiscriminately? Madeleine Albright, who claimed "the price was worth it" when asked about tens of thousands of children who died directly as a consequence of the US trade sanctions? The doctor behind MKULTRA experiments jn the US and Canada?  The Bush Five? Oliver North?

I apologize if this has been answered; what steps will be taking place in China, and what will be done elsewhere after shipping and customs clearance? Specifically, I would like to know about packaging, assembly, and self-mining.

Quoting, in case you've got Phin on "ignore". Call it the locust effect.

I've been happy with Havelock Investments for many months now, and that is exactly why I would not like to see BAKEWELL migrate there... I don't want all of my eggs in one basket. Btct.co seems interesting, not least because of the cautious approach to legal questions.  It appears that, the way they are set up, they couldn't do much damage other than run away with whatever funds they are holding at the moment.

That's a fair point. The only reason I was asking questions about BFL and people involved was that I was trying to make an informed decision on whether to give them my money in exchange for an almost anonymous promise to deliver ASIC miners by October/November. Since those reasonable questions (see "townhall meeting" thread) remained unanswered and ridiculed, I decided not to give them my money. At this point it is safe to say that, regardless what happens in the next month or two, I made a good decision.

It's been 12 days now since you started collecting claims. Would it be wise to set a deadline, so we can move forward?

And just to be sure, finish off with a propane torch - especially the tongue and those hard-to-reach areas around the molars.

Alright, I'll try a more serious answer this time. After deciding what factors are important to you (cost of living, lifestyle, mentality, violent crime rates, political stability, language, diversity), you should look not into latest data for each country, but at trends in the data. Gapminder.org is a good start, and so is the CIA World Factbook (with some manual processing of their older editions).

Wait, what?! You are skipping town with BAKEWELL funds???

If we properly explain to a newbie what to expect, there will be no worries or disapointements. If you want to run your own bank, you'll need a full client, which initially takes a few days to prepare itself. Once this is done, it will quietly run in the background, and you can use it whenever you need to.  Alternatively, you can use one of the "light" clients or Web services, which rely on third-party servers, but you still keep and control your bitcoins on your local machine (bitcoin spinner, blockchain.info, etc.). Finally, you can keep your coins with a third party (online wallets, exchanges).

Yes, it will work regardless of your WAN IP.  Note, however, that your LAN IP (the one assigned by your router to devices within your home network) needs to be static if you want to manually set the router to forward port 8333 to the device that runs your client. This is usually easy to set up through you router settings.

UPnP allows your client to configure the router to open port 8333, so you can have more than eight connections. Of course, this only works if your router is uPnP-ready.

Are you done yet, and how is it going?  Port forwarding can be done automatically if your router supports uPnP. It might take many hours to download the whole blockchain, but once this is done, it's done.   You will be running a full node.

So, my unqualified questions are: has the source code been ever reviewed by independant groups, and has anyone ever compiled any version and compared it to the packages offered on the TC site?

Old topic, fortunately still relevant. Donations are dripping in, and project is moving on. Personally, I find it extremely interesting as a concept, even though I can't find use for it.

Unless we suffer from similar issues, which is not unlikely. I am sure our engineering team did their best, but so did the competitors - and yet mistakes happen. Building ASICs is a complex project for small entities.