I think you'll find there's miners in South America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, too  Not sure about Antarctica.  Could be a nice PR stunt for Bitmain though

Perceptions are important but real issues are more so.

I think he's actually serious...being humorous but still wants to create something. 

Then you need the  signature campaign blocker (Blocks every user that is participating or willing to participate in a signature campaign)

Believe me, if there were a revolution in USA right now and people were organizing and communicating via SHA256 encoded text, suddenly SHA256 would "get cracked".

Actually, there is a feature in the forum where you cam disable it. So the tool would be useless...
Goto Profile- Look and Layout Preferences - Dont show users signatures

So we have a little less than one year to sell our Bitcoin before it becomes a clusterfuck. Ok, thanks for the info.

For anyone who has a reasonable understanding of cryptography, this is as silly as not trusting the number 0 because we're unsure who was the first culture to use it.

Bandwidth becomes a problem at over 1 MB every 10 minutes?  My moderate Internet connection can download 1 MB every 1/8th of a second.

How is it a "Giant Leap" to complete centralization? The blocks won't instantly become 20mb and by the time they are it won't be a big difference that storage size will be larger than it is today. We are talking a full Terabyte a year at every block being 20mb, this would have to be one hell of a busy network and at the standard. For 5 years of block chain it would only cost 120$ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5AD2RS3903, if you don't think in 5 years the price of 5tb will be A LOT cheaper just look at my previous post and again this would have to be at full block capacity which it won't be for quite some time. The idea of nodes being centralized is only theory and it doesn't hold much water.

Light weight clients are nice and even I use them, but the blockchain is getting more and more centralized, what kills the initial concept o Bitcoin.

Long before the network gets anywhere near as large as that, it would be safe
for users to use Simplified Payment Verification (section 8) to check for
double spending, which only requires having the chain of block headers, or
about 12KB per day.  Only people trying to create new coins would need to run
network nodes.  At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the
network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to
specialists with server farms of specialized hardware.  A server farm would
only need to have one node on the network and the rest of the LAN connects with
that one node.

The bandwidth might not be as prohibitive as you think.  A typical transaction
would be about 400 bytes (ECC is nicely compact).  Each transaction has to be
broadcast twice, so lets say 1KB per transaction.  Visa processed 37 billion
transactions in FY2008, or an average of 100 million transactions per day. 
That many transactions would take 100GB of bandwidth, or the size of 12 DVD or
2 HD quality movies, or about $18 worth of bandwidth at current prices.

If the network were to get that big, it would take several years, and by then,
sending 2 HD movies over the Internet would probably not seem like a big deal.

Satoshi Nakamoto

So what do they got after they break it? And why OP ask the same question again? Will NSA break this again for the second times?

Why exclude gambling sites?
All this site can add value to bitcoin.

I'm surprised that an altcoin hasn't yet been released to do this very thing.
Still, even if the key was somehow found, I agree with others that this would amount to theft rather than once or twice in the lifetime of the universe luck.

fallacy spotted.

Where is your proof that he is alive?