You have it right.

The workflow looks like:
Coins mined -> (green) Coins "age" to ensure they're considered valid by the network and so transaction fees are minimal -> (blue) Coins sit in h2o-controlled wallets waiting for an opportunity to sell at a "good" price (as determined by h2o) -> (red) When there's a "good" sell opportunity, the altcoins are sold for bitcoins and is converted to "balance" which is paid at the next payout time.

With some coins, there is no need for them to age and coins are immediately converted to BTC and credited as a balance, but it changes based on which coins are being mined and the particular exchange h2o is using.

^I honestly have no idea how it works. I've been in queue for what seems like forever.

What is the unexchanged balance?

This is your balance of coins other than bitcoins. My auto-exchanger will convert them into bitcoins, usually within a day. Some coins take a while to reach "trade maturity" to where you can send them without paying a fee. These coins will take longer to be converted into bitcoins.

What is the immature unexchanged balance?

This is your balance obtained from blocks that have not yet reached maturity, and are therefore possible orphans. After a designated number of blocks, you will be credited these coins, and they will go under your "unexchanged balance" column. Some coins take longer than others to mature. For example, NovaCoin takes three days.

from http://middlecoin2.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/faq.html

You'll more-or-less receive the unexchanged & immature amount, though since they aren't cashed out, it's possible it'll change a bit. In my experience, they've never deviated much from what's stated. (which is a bit suspicious since we're all in tin-foil mode )

Heh. They removed their contact details on the now-hidden support page.... wdc.theblocksfactory.com/support.php

You should probably try asking them?

Fairly ambitious "composite coin." Watching, but I can tell you right now I'll never be able to remember it as anything but "numb-nuts."

Could you give a rough ETA? (Q1, Q2, Q3+?) Are you looking for help? Do you have a team?

Coinwarz has a pool, but you'll be dead by the time you make it to the front of the registration queue.

>90% of Internet users, I'd conservatively guess.

Waddya mean? Scrypt is ASIC-resistant, not ASIC-proof. They won't have near the effect as ASICS are having on BTC/SHA256. You can just look at the pre-order #s -- upfront, they're more expensive than GPUs, so they're more like the early FPGAs in BTC.

It could be much stupider than that. Middlecoin's main page hosts a particularly large number of BTC addresses. Search the addresses to find "porn," "cp," "age," and "kid." There are probably other "trigger words" in there, too. I'd guess if a script finds too many on one page, it blocks access.

Tech support guy you talked to is an idiot either way, though (or just really lazy).

You're just trying to sabotage my Small Appliances Coin which's aimed at the unique needs of people looking to purchase small appliances online with virtual currencies (we estimate the market at approximately $15,000,000,000, so getting VC funding was no problem). Finally, a coin you can use to purchase small appliances. My team and I predict that within ten years, you could be able to use SACs to purchase microwaves AND blenders with ZERO FRICTION. For now, though, we're really focused on getting it on an exchange so we can make the dream come true.

It's 100% safe from pump and dumps because I've just announced so, and we have a long-term vision which includes a launch of Large Appliance Coin.

Oh - and also.... SACs are RARE! Only 50,000 will ever be made, so you know it'll be a solid investment.

There've been Scrypt ASIC projects going on for a good while. I haven't yet seen a gen1 Scrypt ASIC which can beat GPUs in terms of upfront $/kh/s (unless you live in a country with expensive computer hardware stores, maybe), but they presumably cost much less over the long term due to lower electricity consumption. I didn't know any shipped, yet, though many fanbox-peddlers are allegedly very close.

You wouldn't want to use a Bitcoin-designed ASIC for Scrypt though, no.

The only way I could see this being effectively implemented without forcing nodes to delay ALL transactions is to create an encrypted (with a sophisticated, proprietary algorithm) privkey with a delay flag which is only readable by closed-source clients which forces the delay no matter what. Within the Bitcoin network itself, there must be a chargeback feature added which allows you to recall delayed transactions, or else the closed-source Bitcoin client must be online, with the transaction broadcast to a central server which "holds" transactions until the delay has expired, then broadcasts to the Bitcoin network. Some online wallets may've already implemented this (some exchanges have, at least).

Anything else would seem to be ineffective. You're basically looking for an "undo" button, as I see it, but you can't enforce this at the client level by itself because once you've had your password and wallet file stolen, they have access to the raw privkey and wouldn't be restricted by what you've set the client to do. (though it could prevent "clipboard attacks" which switch out an address you've pasted into a client with an attacker's address, though if you didn't notice when it happened, you probably wouldn't notice during the delay)

AFAICT, the better solution would simply be to use "semi-live" cold wallets, which is already implemented in some clients (or at least Armory), or use n-of-m keys.

@whoever PMd - look at those graphs again. They look exactly the same after you factor in the times when the single rig dropped out, with the exception of the single on early Saturday... it looks like it was occasionally switching while the farm was pointed entirely at EU.

The job title is just a hash. I'm not even sure "DOG_a2" is valid.

Amazon GCs/vouchers are high-risk. Even smaller amounts may not work. You may have to sell something lower-risk before working up to GCs.

In early days of BTC, vouchers were sold @ 15-20% discount due to trust issues. Most sellers have enough trust to drop the discount, now, but it's probably more rational for a buyer to ignore a 15-20% discount and take a sure thing, depending on how they see the scam risk.

Downloaded bootstrap from lurkmore site. Verified. Everything's set with it.

Fresh install of qt (8.6.1beta on W7x64). Loading with "O:\Program Files (x86)\Litecoin\litecoin-qt.exe" -datadir=O:\LTC -loadblock=O:\LTC\bootstrap.dat -dbcache=1000

On client, says "importing blocks from disk," then "no block source available," then "synchronizing with network," but is syncing from block 0.

Yes, the file's in there, and no, it's doesn't have the .xz or .old extension after it. Any help appreciated.

ETA: Herp derp. I didn't understand "Decompress to obtain bootstrap.dat." in readme. I simply removed the .xz extension, having no idea why it was included. Will delete thread if resolves issue.

ETA2: Derpa de derp de derp du. Problem solved. Have never encountered that file type before. Will leave thread in case someone searches and has same issue.

(use 7zip)

No way. Miners are providing Winter heat. I'm super-stingy about the thermostat which tends to lead to a lot of arguments, so it's keeping the house 6*F above what I'd have it at right now, and hotter during day time when the sun's helping out. I put a copy of CGRemote on her laptop. It's an extremely intuitive interface. Profit, heat, involvement.

Well. They obviously wouldn't, and you can count Gmail and Google out without a government demand, too. They're hardcore about not revealing data on their users to the plebs. To what sites do Favicons 2-4 belong? I'm guessing #4 is the most promising.

It'd be significantly safer to use a lite wallet like Multibit or Electrum, then transfer coins from the lite client to the full client once the full client's sync'd.

Chosen here or not, this will be the naming scheme in the future, and gambling establishments which regularly deal in small amounts of BTC already use an identical or similar system. There's no longer any reason to keep the radix point in Bitcoin. Most people aren't dealing with 10BTC+ transactions every day.

Well that's new. Escrow's free, btw. (and sorry for your loss)