Either keep his coins or donate them to charity.

Eclipse is a mining pool.

Just connect the ICSP header and fire up mplab.

The pickit3 comes with a big fold out step by step guide.

How did bending the pins go?  I'm really good at snapping them off.

The hex is in this post:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=244235.0

Ah good catch, could be an incorrect define in the header.

If flashing again doesn't help, make sure you have the latest cgminer.

On top of escrow, use some provably fair way of determining the winner, like dabs' raffle.

Just use escrow.

2nd Law of Thermodynamics

Thanks, sounds like that may be a good way to avoid some of the risk of transferring money overseas then.

He'll have a prototype PCB made.  This is just 1  PCB.

Steamboat said he has sample chips ready to fully test the final revision of the board.

Are transfers to coinbase within the US?

You could always add some error checking to ProcessIo if all your errors are coming from communicating with cgminer.

And then change you and your wife's direct deposits, move your safe deposit box (if the new bank has any room!), change the mortgage payment, the car payment, all of your credit card auto-pays, the water bill, the garbage bill, the insurance bill, order new checks, deal with a new ATM pin.

Banks fear the government and aren't greedy?  We're talking about the US here.

Moving to a different bank isn't an easy task.

What would be the point?  No one would use it.

This is why I'm terrified to use my bank account to buy bitcoins.  I know this guy was doing a lot of transactions, but if they closed down my account it would be terrible.