I expect 00045 to be released in late January or early February, so a reasonable person should expect a release in late March or early April. Possible a hotfix will be released in a couple days.

000425a (released)
00043 (released)
00045 (unreleased, ETA 1/??/14-4/??/14)
shelved until later release

000425a-00045 feature list
1) Finally re-enable co-location.
2) Implement user debt and the user debt lose scenario
3) Add more loan outcomes other than default or being repaid in full
4) Add more WGSE payout options
5) Implement procedurally generated music (000475)
6) Add more news events, some which are educational/cosmetic, some which impact the user and may provide agency
7) Investment option for casinos, more business opportunities, special moral dilemmas in business operations (000475-0005)
Karma (will wait until the character creation system's rolled out)
9) Add more weight to non-historical crash and rally generation Done (also affects difficulty).
10) Tweak historical trends to better-replicate what happened, add new noise passes to price generation. Done-ish.
11) User can cause rallies and crashes by "threatening the market" ("post-tx slippage")
12) Historical difficulty checkpoints (it currently uses the AdoptionTrend variable [which is, appropriately, set for BTC Price, but is not fine-tuned in the difficulty formula] and then separated calculations factoring in time and luck) with separated calculations for time, possibly affected by user hashpower.
13) Fluctuating global energy market. Done (simple).
14) Quantity-based electricity prices. Done. (for each 10kW of power draw [rounded], electricity costs drop 1%, up to a 25% discount)
15) Global energy trends affect difficulty. (alt energy?)
16) Ability to re-wire office for 220V outlets. Done. (m³*$100 for 3.5% power efficiency increase, does not carry over if you switch office)
16) Re-write block finding & difficulty formulas to allow multiple block findings per hour and user hashrate affecting global network difficulty. (bug 27)

000425a-00045 squish list
1) Fix the WGSE logo not displaying Fixed.
2) Increase or perfect reliability of using space bar to pause and unpause time "Fixed." Chrome (likely most browsers) was disallowing JS to "see" the space bar keystroke when a clickable element was selected or previously selected (in a non-highlighted state). There doesn't appear to be a way to correct this behavior, so instead, I assigned the same function to clicking the middle mouse button (scroll wheel). Knowing not all people have a middle mouse button, the space bar is still an available option, keeping in mind it's unreliable. ETA: Casino & Lending screens will disrupt the speedcarryover variable if speed is at 0x when you click them. Also fixed.
3) Add ability to open and close casino in stats screen Fixed.
4) Force loan progress bars at zero if no loan is in progress Fixed. Issue was from copy-pasting formulas in determining whether or not to update the progress bar and only using the first loan slot's data.
5) Fix issue where users can't click the exchange rate box to get to the exchange screen Fixed.
6) Redraw the "Clear" button on the exchange screen (it's relatively blurry and slightly off-center!) Fixed.
7) Look into why BTC price & adoption trend formulas are resulting in very low, consistent BTC prices rather than high volatility Fixed!
Display appropriate warnings when a user is adding to Cluster 1 when the slot already contains hardware Fixed. (can finally stop including that in "Known Issues" for releases!)
9) Confirm Loan 3 button not working properly. Fixed.
10) Lending pop-out's "Repay" button off-center. Fixed.
11) Attributions page needs to be updated. Fixed.
12) Casino roll music is too loud. Fixed.
13) "Back" button in Stats screen is mis-handled with pop-out displays. Fixed.
14) Casino music really ought to stop when the bet button's pressed again. ETA: Actually, the "confirm" button should just be disabled until a run's finished. Fixed.
15) There's an audible "pop" between sound transitions (audio or audio engine??). (000475, holding up feature 5)
16) Casino roll alert texts should change color based on whether it's a win or lose notification. Fixed.
17) Loans are not re-rolling upon detection of expiry. Probably fixed. Needs testing. Changing lending code always intimidating...
18) Wk I/O page's lending income is.... not right. ETA: Unable to determine cause... need to look at it with fresh eyes later.
19) "Guy sounds like a cool guy" is embarrassing. "Fixed." The static phrasing is awkward.
20) Loan progress bars should be made invisible on Exchange (visible on layout exit). Fixed.
21) Loan slot 2 isn't re-rolling every two weeks. Fixed.
22) Hardware depreciation calculation in Wk I/O is not setting its variables which track cluster value at the last two week period correctly (and check HWInv page to ensure it's also resetting that when the cluster's sold). Possibly fixed... needs testing.
23) Price affects loan amount too negatively during the first major rally. Fixed? Needs testing.
24) Any rig with more than 2 GPUs should be assumed to need an external case and thus require both more space and more money. Fixed & added alert.
25) Slippage is still a bit too extreme. Slippage effect decreased by an order of magnitude.
26) Hardware should depreciate ~10-25% immediately after it's purchased. Fixed. (15%)
27) I broke mining income calculation somehow. ETA: If personal hashrate significantly exceeds 1/6 of global hashrate (as determined by difficulty), you will always mine 1/6 of all available blocks per day. This is partly due to user hashrate not being accounted in global hashrate and also due to a longstanding issue where users cannot mine more than one block per hour (there should be six rolls taking place, not one). ETA2: This bug requires a complete re-write of the block generation code to be fixed. Need more time. ETA3: Workaround is to use a pool to mine, which is not limited this same way... though I'm not sure whether or not I prevented the game from generating >100% of the block reward if you should have more hashpower than the network (in next update, user hashpower contributes to network hashrate).
28) BTC price & difficulty displays should quit rounding to decimal places when they're no longer useful. "Fixed." Difficulty display drops decimal places once diff>1k. Bitcoin price will now always only measure down to the thousandths rather than ten-thousandths place.
29) HWInv page isn't zeroing out volume consumption impact of cases on layout start. Fixed.

I'll look into the formulas. I don't have much time to play - try to spend it writing in new stuff, so can't bug-test too well. I thought I let the game "auto-pilot" with moderate growth from 2014 onward (since I don't have historical data for the future, yet), but I probably mucked it up somewhere. Thanks! Were you selling many bitcoin in your game? You're on version 000425, right (with the casino)? What's the network difficulty at?

Slippage works both ways, so if you buy 20kBTC, the price will go exactly where it was when you sold 20kBTC (or at least, it should). As a side note, the exchange screen has logic in it to prevent the price from hitting absolute zero. Iin some displays, it will round to zero, but if the game detects the actual price variable at or below 0, it'll force the price to something like $.0000001 -- the exchange screen also has sanity-checks to prevent users from selling for less than nothing.

I have a couple days off to work on it, now. Could someone confirm http://www.bmgtg.cu.cc/ works?

You seem to be playing locally in the screenshots.

There aren't many moving parts to "wear out" except the fans. Electromigration can occur if components become too hot for too long. This could cause the hardware to become less efficient or fail to run altogether. Mining is very efficient in utilizing the GPU's resources and will run it hotter than any game. Therefor, you need adequate cooling with anything you're using to mine, and this includes ASICs.

You should monitor the temperatures of anything you're using to mine. If you're using a GPU on a PC, try to ensure temperatures stay under 90*C, and preferably under 80*C. For ASICs, you just need to stay within manufacturer specs, and you should know you can't just assume the ASIC will stay in temperature specs just because it's pre-built for mining -- you need to check its temperature every now and then to make sure it's running alright.

The overhead in using an ASIC miner connected to a PC is minimal. The PC will not overheat from the ASIC being connected, but the ASIC itself may, and the GPUs in the PC may if you use the PC to mine at the same time.

Ultimately, the effects of modern GPU over-exposure to heat on their MTBF isn't well-known. I'm unaware of good studies on the matter, and because GPUs likely won't be worth more than $20 in, say, ten years, the effects of running your components hot might not be worth worrying too much about compared to, say, boxes critical in a business' intranet server pool.

Now imagine having $10k in user debt accumulating 25% annual interest and $1000 in new debt each month from rent and electricity costs once that system's implemented.

The game should self-correct in the next time tick if it truly hits zero (price is very likely to hit zero if you flood the exchange with coins because users cause slippage -- as a very early adopter, your own purchases and sales of coin which may be a small percentage of your holdings can have a massive impact on the exchange rate). The game has "adoption trend checkpoints" which attempt to simulate crashes and rallies based on the date in the game. They are not tied to to specific prices but are procedurally generated in each person's game, so no game is likely to emulate exactly what the price did, but there are time-based "trends" (based on historical data) in the movement of price. It is possible (but extremely unlikely) for price to increase in historical slumps and decrease during rallies. I think I also implemented some random changes to the adoption trend variable which aren't historically accurate to keep things interesting, but I might be imagining that (in such a case, the game can create new crashes and rallies or stop crashes and rallies before they did historically).

That's a good idea. I've been thinking about what to do in the next update. I think it'll be the procedural sound generation update. It'll beep and ding and whatnot... displaying shares is a good idea. I've been thinking about wiki links, things like that... unsure. Won't get to updating nameservers for a while, I guess (now that I have "free time," it's time to head to work again). I'll update the OP with the ugly URL.

I'm not sure I like features being unlocked simply by time, either... unsure what to really do there without punishing people playing how they want as, later, more features and play-style options are included up-front.

Nameservers are a bitch. About to go into work. Will fix it tomorrow. ETA: old host @ www.apoba.byethost17.com should work for now

What kind of eggs?

I didn't think of that. I'd guess your employer significantly subsidized healthcare costs where wages (especially for single adults) typically exceed Medicaid income tests and now face higher costs because they have to go from their own insurance pool of productive, able-bodied people to a massive pool of all sorts of people. I thought the practice of companies paying for insurance'd pretty much died off outside, say, $100k+/yr jobs where the tax benefits of taking health care over increased pay gets pretty extreme.

The IRS has no effective way of enforcing the individual mandate. They're claiming they'll withhold federal tax refund checks, but a household failing the Medicaid income tests are unlikely to be receiving a tax refund (though this could be extremely different state-by-state, and some states do asset tests).

... Huh. $140 two-day ticket?

What would you guess will be your top three annual expenses in planning and executing a festival?

A what? Is that like a handkerchief or one of those compacted discs my grandma has a prescription for? Or is it more like those old lightbulbs people used to have which'd burn you if touched?

Why, I remember way back... in my dad's day, people used to watch television for free. You put up this 20' wide satellite dish and used a star chart or something to align it. (btw, I laughed flipping through a Best Buy paper advertisement the other day... we went from CRTs to flat screens, and now having a "curved screen" is supposed to be a selling point again... can't wait for vacuum tubes to come back...)

Oh, and you had to talk to get things back then, too - like you had to talk to the pump jockey at the gas station, people used something called "voice phones," and human beings made food at these big brick & mortar buildings with all sorts of tacky crap on the walls where a service person would actually come up to people regularly to take customer input. They even used internal combustion engines! Apparently, people used to set up rows of metal cylinders in enormous car frames, pumped them full of flammable liquid, and tried to time freakin' explosions inside them like wizards to push the vehicle forward. Speaking of wizards - that's how they used to fight, too -- they'd take human beings and try training them to accurately explode metal bits at each other.

US AML license is more about audits and control than taxes. In most states, you need to either be a financial service or be rich enough for a company to be willing to lease a bond to you -- this intentionally keeps non-ultra-rich people out whether they're willing to pay taxes or not (I'd guess the reasoning here is relatively poor people don't have enough to lose and may behave irresponsibly or without sufficient regard for the law). US wants to ensure they can control the entry & exit points for the US dollar. It isn't even really about bitcoin.

Workers willing to labor at BTC.02/day + a shack and be eternally grateful for it. Just emigrate them from somewhere poor, like, umm... the DRC.

..... Hm. Have governments ever considered buying exceptionally poor and dysfunctional countries in modern times? Deploy the military to ensure order, pump loads of money into welfare to please the peasants, bring in foreign investment, watch it for a few years, and if everything looks good, drop the floor and institute a permanent 2.5% of GDP annual "fee."

That map service is always like that. The company hosting is in St. Louis, and that's presumably where their largest "honeypot" is (they basically have PCs run scripts on websites, trying to get infected, then scan received packets to see what the attack was). It's kind of like measuring rape figures not by reported incidents, but by sticking an attractive young woman pretending to be drunk in a loud, poorly-lit night club with a bad reputation. "Attack targets" is meaningless, but "attack origins" should give an okay guesstimate of which countries have the most infected websites.

I don't really see bitcoin being compatible with the community marketplace and the amazing circle of money-skimming it creates for Valve, but I also don't see why it'd have to be. What Steam really has to steer clear of is becoming an exchange, and there's really no reason they couldn't do that if they didn't allow users to do anything with bitcoin balances except buy games directly from Steam/Valve.

Apple has ApplePay, Google has Google Wallet. If Microsoft has a similar offering, I'm unaware of it.

Fwiw, surtax is .9%, not .009% (3.8% on investment income). The CBO estimates ~2% of the pool of uninsured Americans will be penalized by the individual mandate requirements, roughly half of uninsured Americans. Oddly enough, this indicates almost a decrease in non-Medicaid-insured Americans from 2007 census data, where uninsured Americans are mostly (~60%) made up of people who are making under $50k/yr and very likely exempt from the ACA's individual mandate. This'd suggest to me that the CBO is estimating the ACA will have little impact on healthcare coverage in the US, roughly in line with 2007 levels. The CBO estimates $9B in receivables (still no word on viable plans to collect since few subject to the individual mandate will have a federal tax refund) from the individual mandate, while the Joint Commission on Taxation estimates ~$45B in additional revenues from ACA taxes. The CBO suggests it's unfunded, with the law creating an additional ~$100B/yr in unfunded federal liabilities from baseline (presumably from Medicaid expansion).

I don't mean to suggest Obamacare is bad or good - I just don't understand why it's such a popular topic when its effects are almost nonexistent outside the related expansion of Medicaid in most states, which could've been done by simply expanding Medicaid - and I doubt "Obamacaid" would've caught on. Since a free market approach to healthcare is outside the realm of political possibility in the US (and mixed [crony capitalist] systems are terrible everywhere, all the time), I'd be willing to support measures to enact single-payer systems with full, hassle-free national coverage, which the CBO projected in the 90's as being nearly cost-neutral or even cost-negative (compared to current system) due to the greatly reduced administrative costs. Politicians always seem to half-ass things in the US; "compromise."

Is there a quick way to pour thousands of address pubkeys into a script and have it show which ones had an active balance in May to save you the hassle?

Electricity costs should be ~$80/mo for a place suitable for colocation (~$.08/KWh), so $70/mo is basically avoidable costs (assuming the unlikely situation where you have electricity costs ~$.08/KWh). Mining is an energy cost game again and you're SoL unless you have access to cheap electricity.

Looks pretty shit-free, though the wording here confused the Hell out of me at first:

"l. (User agrees to) pay for any unauthorized purchases made with the Credit Card before you notify us that the Credit Card was lost, stolen or possibly used without your permission. Your liability for unauthorized purchases is the least of (1) $50.00, (2) the total of unauthorized purchases made before you notify us, and (3) the amount for which you are liable under applicable law. You may give us notice by telephone or in writing in accordance with the section of this Agreement called "Notices and Customer Service."

I couldn't understand why a user would agree to pay unauthorized charges before notifying the credit card company (rather, that they MUST pay before notifying the company). Still an awfully worded clause, though. Assuming state law doesn't conflict, they'd be liable for the unauthorized purchase total or $50 since it's impossible to notify them of an unauthorized purchase before it happens (2).