No, that is sort of the opposite of what is happening.
Its all been given already. 
Begging is forbidden in this thread.
What is happening now is that the initial recipients are posting who they are giving it to as a benefactor, or whether they are joining the happy recipients group.
If you didn't get awarded, you could lobby the current recipients outside this thread, but no begging here, its all in the OP.

Goat was good enough to take some time from his travel schedule to reply that he will regift the 500mBTC to JVWVU.  The ball keeps rolling...

They are available from many retailers, and have been for quite a while.

Lots of people have suggested not putting a value on the piece.  But we will likely always do that anyway.  There are many reasons for that.  There isn't network everywhere, and one of the benefits is not to need to have our gizmos out every time we want to make a small purchase.  This is especially true for Point-of-sale transactions where there may be a line of folks waiting.  It is for the quick, truly anonymous, point of sale transaction.

The value on the front is the nominal value, put there for historical reasons.  It is the designer's best guess from the year before as to what the average BTC / Ag value is averaged over the year.
If Bitcoin is around many years hence it will serve as a marker for what we were doing with Bitcoin 'way back when'.  That it raises the question of what BTC is worth in silver is (we thing) also a good thing, as that changes over time and highlights the merit of Bitcoin as a store of value.  The real-time value is the value that ought be used commercially as indicated by the QR code link to http://colhardca.sh/ag

All the pieces from a single year will have the same design.  There are however a good number of "special" pieces made in any given year for the folks that are collecting them, but they are really not meant as collectibles, but are made to be pocket change for Bitcoin currency.  
Like pocket change folks should be spending and circulating them rather than hanging on to them.  It is one of the many ways to address the issue of block chain bloat for small in-person transactions.

Pyramid Scheme:

The software works.  The math works.  What remains is it being money wherever you might expect it to be money, and for less people looking at you funny when you want to give it to them for something they value.

Not so many people will refuse gold as payment, world wide.

Money is more than working software, money is in the minds of people, it is memory.
I agree with you that the review of Bitcoin is good enough for me, and I prefer bitcoin over any other payment type.  We are not most people, yet.

Even if, and after, BTC gains popular acceptance, it will take some history to pass by, decades, before it will be deemed a success.  The world is perverse.  The best things are not always the ones that win or even survive.  

I will never give up on Bitcoin.  I made a promise to someone that I refuse to let down.  I will keep that promise come what may, but I know better than to take success for granted.  There is a lot of hard work between here and there, and much stacked against us.

Bitcoin is entirely unproven. It is immature.  It has barely been in the public eye for long enough to be seriously studied and reviewed.

WE are the crazy ones.  Gold is over 4000 years as money and has mountains of evidence as being the "gold standard" for money.  Being the crazy ones, we have the opportunity to change the world.  It is up to us to convince them since they are the experts and have spent a lifetime getting to the point where the whole world knows them and values their opinion.

One by one, they will see it.  Can't expect more than that.

And be grateful for the time it takes for them to 'get it'.  That fact is why you have as many coins as you have.
If they are accumulating BTC and not talking about it until they do, that is another matter.  Though I doubt its the case for Rickards at least.  He seems very willing to say unpopular things to people that will be unhappy about it.

What's worse, is that we already do.
Back it with Gold, with our time, with silver, with whatever we are willing to part with for some bitcoin.

All your bitcoin are redeemable for gold and silver and whatever else you might like to spend them on.  
About a year ago, I offered to back all of bitcoin with silver at 4 ounces of Bitcoin Specie to a bitcoin, which was about the price at the time.  Some folks took me up on it and there is a lot of Bitcoin Specie out there as a result.

Neither Turk nor Rickards are stupid, but havn't studied Bitcoin enough to really get it yet.  They are however professional experts, so they get the spotlight.

Wow.  So unexpected.  You start at the top of the benefactor list for this for certain, Risto.

I have projects hungry for funds, but I like this project of yours, of tipping and fun.  Its like all the good things of Dogecoin but without any of the baggage and using BTC Bitcoin instead.  Love it.

I'd like to have half my award go to Goat, mostly for inspiring the CryptoCrypt.org as the successor forum but for so much more that he has done to promote Bitcoin, and the Bitcoin society.  He doesn't need it, but that's not really the point, is it?  

The other half to cypherdoc, also doesn't need it, but such a stalwart supporter of Bitcoin, and I just like his sense of humor.  Always thought I'd do something for him if I got the opportunity, and so I have.  That is 500 mBTC for each of you.  Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do.

How would one distinguish between these?  Aren't jobs programs a type of corporate welfare?

Nation states limit their power with checks and balances in proportion to their wisdom,
but these erode, and the reasons are forgotten in the face of "crisis".

There's no getting around the PR-cloud.  That's part of why the users of the first CryptoNote coin kept it quiet.
The MNCs have departments that do exploratory work with disruptive technologies.  Monero is still too immature for use, and likely will be for a good while yet, but the questions are being asked.

When disruption occurs, they all want to be on the side of the disruption that wins. 

The banks are a different story though, many are under the thumb of a central bank that is not fond of decentralization, only talked to a couple of those and the people in the disruptive research group are not optimistic about and real involvement, but most multinationals aren't banks.  Manufacturing, shipping, communication, distribution companies, franchises.

There were a couple banks that have made appearances at Bitcoin events for exploratory research purposes.  The 500startups bitcoin gathering in SF a few months back had a few from UK even.

Was the airborne Marburg strain ever verified?

The worst thing (IMHO) would be the weaponized form.

You don't know the others in the ring, and they don't know you.  But yes, if Law Enforcement can ID the ring members, they can talk to them all if they care to do so.

What's worse, is that if this is only used for criminal enterprises, all could be charged via the RICO act even if they are doing nothing illegal themselves and just transferring coins from one of their wallets to another.

If it isn't marketed at minimum for the legit purposes I mentioned above, CryptoNote is DOA as far as being the next gen coin type goes.

How much knowledge and exposure will it take for people to see?  Or will the result be that people will say "oh, that's why we have it so good now, its because they are in control"?

It is possible to phase out central banking without too many practical difficulties.  Its an asset/debt sale, and ceasing open market operations.

The downside is that most of the private banks are now bigger than what central banks once were.  The increased regs seemed designed to insure that the too-big-to-fail ones became bigger, which is what has happened.

That's not really how the FBI work either.  They can talk to anyone they like.  What people say in return is more the point of what matters.  Americans tend to be pretty authoritarian, with some exceptions for folks who assert their rights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_3dDNPwJTU

But even more importantly, the ring signatures make it hard for your competitors to figure out what business you are doing even if they own the bank you are required to use in that region.

I have nothing to hide.
I have much to protect.

The quiet before the storm...

Good criticism is necessary to advancement.
Without FUD, we'd have none of any Crypto Currency

It was the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt that the Central Banks have all our best interests in mind all the time (this is of course what we are told in our government accredited schooling), that FUD gave us what we are discussing.

There are some excellent problem identifiers, and excellent problem fixers here, usually not the same person.  When you get someone who is both, they tend to be very very busy.
Thank you to BCX for the attention devoted to the issues.

Placing governments in charge of when people die always struck me as a bit ironic, considering they are also responsible for paying out the survivor benefits via social security.