LOL  
No, you are a proven troll.
You completely deserve by your own actions what you get.

You pay $0.0015 per KW/h? That's amazing.

There aren't millions of people mining.

$0.15 @ 2500 Watts = $9 per day

$0.15 is the listed average base rate that represents most urbanized areas. Tiered rates apply, and aren't usually factored in the two dimensional forecasting that most miners seem to use. Rates can go as high as $0.50 per Kw/H. It does depend on where you live, of course. In California, there are quite a few areas where mining is simply out of the question. This also applies to other states.

Thanks for your input, and congratulations on the (almost) free electricity!

-Jonathan

Flippro, don't get irritated. I'm a friendly.    If you can get input, then you should try to run with it. The last thing you should do is take a combative attitude with potential users.

I think you should consider a more targeted approach (e.g. give people 5 possible stories to comment on, with accompanying pictures, and change them every week.) People do not like to have to consider too many options simultaneously. Make a contest for best comment on the five articles. To start, subsidize the entry fees heavily, but charge something so people get used to interacting with the site.

Here are some questions to consider...

PRODUCT
What type of content does tweetforum aggregate?
What message about content does the tweetforum main page convey to users?
Are there better sources of this content?

ACTIVITY
How do tweetforum users interact with content?
How does this differ from interactions which could occur on another forum?

USERS
Who are the target users of tweetforum?
Where do these users hangout and how can you get their attention?

COMPETITIVENESS
What advantages does going to tweetforum have over an alternative venue?


Ideally, answers to these questions should be short and obvious.

Wax scratch-off like on lottery tickets, with a custom image stamped into the wax?
Oh, wait, hackerish.... Nah, I got nothing.

I want to produce denominated bitcoin bills, but there is a little problem.

To do so, it seems that I would have to create a custom made tamper evident hologram to cover over the private key of every bill. This is because, while in circulation, someone could take off the hologram, copy the private key, and apply a new non-custom hologram and pass off the bill.

This is a problem because the minimum that I can get away with spending is $1500 on custom holograms. That is quite a large investment, and one that I am reluctant to make since I would mean that I would have to sell about 1,500-3000 bills to cover my initial investment (depending on the markup). It is possible, but that is quite a bit to put out to just break even in what a year or two?

I want to break even immediately and not on some future date after sinking huge amounts of time into it.

So today I thought of a solution, a very hacker-ish solution. I am not going to tell you what it is though. I would like to see if the security minds can come up with it themselves this weekend.

So let me spell out the exact problem that you have to figure out:

* Must be cheap (Less than $0.20 per unit) with less than $100 investment
* Must protect a private key on a paper bill, and be obvious when someone has exposed the private key
* Must be fast and easy to do on large sets of bills
* Must be unique and very hard for someone else to replicate

My solution is far from perfect, not exactly elegant, and I'll need to see it can handle a decent attack. But it might work.

I have a guts feeling that we are entering a unprecedented volatility region, wild swings were encountered the last time from 2 to 3.5 but this time there are the big players involved.
All it would take is some counterpart to the person who owns the bidwall @2.9.

I think this time we are heading for 100% swings between 2 and 4, with the final result uncertain. Of course there is a possibility that the bidwall remains unchallenged in which case we would have stagnation and slow downwards movement till we reach the wall. Anyway I liquidated my long position, the amount of selling makes me doubt further upside this weekend.

Unless of course the buywall pops, that did cause a panic sell off every time.

Main point:

The problem with tweet forum, witcoin, etc. is that there is no nucleus of content. People are not going to start writing stuff just
because of the voting mechanism. They need something that interests them to write about. Thus the idea of hijacking yahoo's content.

Free vs. Pay:

By free, I meant that you could post for free, but then you wouldn't be able to earn anything.
You could also vote on free posts, but they would get low priority for display.

Voting would also be free. Standard use of a login such as openID to limit voting manipulation.
Also people who pay to post should be able to vote with more weight (say 5 times as much weight as an unpaid vote).

Witcoin was around a while ago, but wasn't successful. It was based on paying people bitcoin when their posts were upvoted. People had to pay to post.
It's a nice idea, but had asinine content.

As an alternative, would it be possible to piggy back on yahoo content? Say you made a site exclusively devoted to yahoo news links. Then you would not need to bootstrap meaningful content yourself. Yahoo would make it.

People love to post rabid comments on yahoo and vote on them. The principle is that yahoo creates the content and the site offers a forum for commenting on it.
The site could feature some stats about the earnings and losses of registered users to encourage competition. You would also be able to look at their comments.

I think payment should be optional. Payment would allow you to earn money from upvotes. However, you would lose money if you got fewer upvotes than average.
It would be a competition and the site would skim some off the top.

I know the thought of this site is sickening, but in my experience that is positively correlated with success and popularity.

I'm taking odds on who is the next Coinhunter groupie to be thrown out on the streets Viper Lemon Bitch or Clipse?

I cannot even believe I am about to semi defend Coinhunter, but let's get real Flip. You come over here trash talking CH and expect to NOT get banned?  

RS has done nothing, I am just tired of battling all the FUD. And to be quite honest right now, SC seems like more of a liability than an investment. This is sad because I like many here own NMC,SC,and LTC.

I wasn't listening to only rico, he is just another in a long line of people that have questioned why you are a moderator. Your behaviour has just gotten progressive worse which is why it was done now. I don't think you need that pressure of being a moderator and having people take cheap shots at you like they have. If you value the "community" here and don't want some of them insulting you because you're a mod or using you as some political talk piece then not being a mod is a good start for that.

Are you still going to come good on those SC offers you made to other people or are you also turning your back on that too?

You haven't been banned flippro, you were just removed as a moderator. I think people expect a certain behaviour when you have a higher standing in the community and you failed to meet those standards. So now you're just a normal user and people won't hold you high in SolidCoin terms anymore, allowing you the freedom to speak your mind without that pressure. Better for all involved isn't it?

@FlipPro, I have absolutely zero sympathy for you as you were one the hard core Solidcoin fanboys early on. Everything you are suddenly having an epiphany on right now was evident to many of us here on the day it launched. Concerning the deleted post, I personally made more than 25 post over there asking legitimate questions about SC20 prior to launch. I also asked questions about the source code after launch. I was banned and my post heavily edited before finally being removed.

Honestly, you should not have been surprised. RS is quick with banning people on IRC. And there has been many cases of him censoring stuff on his forum. Say something bad about SC and RS on his forum, you will find yourself banned and your posts censored or cleaned up. Say something bad about SC and RS here, do you really expect to still be a moderator on his forum?

I can see how that might be upsetting.

Since you are in the know, do you mind explaining what advantages you think that Solidcoin has over Bitcoin?

Well started a thread on this page I found about mining the trusted blocks on SolidCoin and one of the SC trolls had this to post in the thread apparently the page was correct and someone has exploited the "unbreakable code of the master programmer" RS.