Do you spend them at some point or are you simply 'hoarding' them forever? One thing to consider is: You never actually make a profit unless you realize your gains at some point (sell your investment).

No more killing random black people?

I doubt the few bitcoins earned each from signature campaigns really matters much to the market  You should make the decision to hold or sell based on other factors.  Hodling has always been a very good strategy up to now with bitcoin why should it change?

Bitcoin miners are working on a very complicated mathematical puzzle that seeks the answer to: "What do we do with this extra electricity?"

Mt Gox customers can now formally make a claim against the defunct exchange, with the potential to receive their payout in bitcoin.

The process is being overseen by exchange Kraken, appointed to assist Mt Gox's bankruptcy trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi last November.

According to instructions posted on the Mt Gox homepage, account holders have until 29th May (Japan time) to fill out forms directly from the site, or open an account with Kraken and begin from there.

SOURCE: http://www.coindesk.com/trustee-opens-formal-claims-process-for-mt-gox-customers/

How many coins do you guys earn posting in say 12 months?

I'm a senior member in about 3 weeks.

What could I earn in 12 months as a senior member?

I have a fairly decent sized stash that I HODL but I might aswell earn by posting like everybody else.

Does he have to check whether the credit card payment is valid or wait to see if the card is going to be chargebacked or has been stolen x amount of days later? Payment processors are used with both cash cards and bitcoin and they will protect against this sort of stuff but regardless once coins are sent they're as good as spent the vast majority of the time.

if they already have a couple ships in the area, then having a Aircraft Carrier is overkill. Saudi and Egypt have already sent ships so there's a lot of Naval presence there. Definitely ulterior motives in place and flexing their strength to the world.

What is the cost associated with having one of these Aircraft Carriers out on the sea for a day or week etc. Can anyone with knowledge give some insight?

The ownership is with the content creator, the owner itself, so I would like to maintain(and pay) for my website and blog, hosting my images and even maintain and install my own crawler to find things I like and people who want to share. It is owned by yourself and therefore you can decide what to share and with whom!

For economics sake there is money to be made of me, but not indirect by selling my personal data, only direct for me to secure my private data and keep it in my own hands. I can buy a crawler, an app, some storage space. But then again, why and how should an open network like that be able to keep google and facebook out? They have the means and power to overtake and ruin it again by supplying and then when people are hooked again make it a closed community again.

The digital age is all about addiction and keeping people addicted. All marketing is directed towards that goal. Keep them coming back for more only to sell them more.

It is freaky to realise how many people, including myself rely on those big internet players. Most of my friends and family, there is no internet, there is Google and Facebook and for some, Google is just a way to type 'facebook' and see the internet just as that, internet equals facebook, the wet dream of Zuckerberg and the likes. Why do we so heavily depend on those centralised, closed and totaly evil systems?

Would be a great sullotion if there was a true, decentralised and open social networking protocol, XML RSS or whatever that would be ready to let you share from where you are willing to put it, be it a personal website or a wordpress blog, the data is stored localy, the search is done with your personal crawler that crawls your selected feeds and tries to find feeds that are open and related to your search by empowering the crawlers of others, you become a node sending your feed, only that what you want and getting only what others want to share. You do not need big data centers if all node crawl together and share.

It should be back to the drawing board for the true geeks again and like Satoshi revolutionise something that has been doing Evil for Google is the Empire and it is striking back with force.

Slower than the 2 days it takes credit card payments to go from pre-authorized to cleared? Nope, a TX can be verified to comprise valid UXTOs and not be at risk of double-spending in muuuuuuch less time than 2 days.