Can anyone here comment on how things work with donations other than dollars? Can you contribute coins? A used car?

A small step for a poltician, a huge leap for the mankind. I wonder about the legal implications. How are donations usually collected in the US at the state level? Can I just drop some cash in a box, or is there always some paperwork involved?

Yes. Less preaching to he choir, more practical ideas and action items (kudos to Gabi).

Most of remittance flow between the US and Mexico is in the direction of Mexico. Your kiosk in Mexico City would run out of Pesos fast. The local market price of btc would decline. Now they need to sell their btc elsewhere (in the US, for example). They need to either buy Pesos in the US and move them across the border, or move USD across the border and exchange them to Pesos.
We are back to old-fashioned fiat remittance business. Bitcoin only made it more complicated and more expensive: you need to have means of moving fiat internationally anyway, so why bother with bitcoins?
The only way btc remittance would ever work is if btc already is reasonably adopted in both countries (exchanges or ideally goods/services). The market can then absorb btc remittance without being moved significantly, and when it does you'll rely on arbitrage players to take care of things. Remittance can therefore never be a killer app for Bitcoin - it can only thrive where a diverse btc economy is already established. I can vouch it works between the US and Canada right now. I use it by simply exchanging between virtex and gox. No need for "remittance businesses".

I agree with BCB.

Sorry to disappoint you, but there is no counter-argument I could offer. 

1. Even if SHA were broken, nobody can spend my coins. They might be able to hash faster, perhaps take over the network for a short while (it would become obvious immediately). My coins are still safe, and the community would transition to a different, unbroken hashing function. A temporary disruption of this kind, while painful in terms of delayed payments, would not be the end of Bitcoin.

2. The more people (including those involved with governments worldwide) have vested interest in Bitcoin, the less likely a concerted attack is.  Most vulnerable days are behind us, and it's only getting better. Gaddafi was a gold bug, no one has outlawed gold; they simply killed him and took his gold.

3. Yes, this would be a problem. However, try talking to people who have been through recent conflicts. Communications infrastructure is surprisingly robust, and disruptions are usually short-lived. Where there is a will, there is a way.

Fortunately for everyone, gox users who have no problems with the service do not start threads on this forum to talk about the fact.

In any large group of users there will be special cases where people get hurt by rules that are otherwise sensible and protect the interests of the majority of users. The role of customer support is to be responsive and work out solutions in these exceptional situations. From what I see, this is exactly what is going on. Hope everything works out fine.

Speaking of feature requests, their donation address has received only BTC11.81 since March. To me this is one of the most useful sources of information and raw data, and I hope it stays there.

The consensus is that multi-sig feature is desirable, and will only open new ways to use Bitcoin. I agree, and look forward to it.
There are some general, non-technical implications of this feature, though, that might affect Bitcoin economy as a whole. What do you think of the following questions?

1. Will it lead to higher deflation? Inevitably, various disputes will lead to funds being frozen indefinitely. Also, the rate of loss due to technical glitches will go up (it only takes one of the parties to lose their private key for the whole address to be lost). Together, these factors will lead to a higher rate of monetary deflation than what it would have been without multi-sig. I personally don't consider this a problem, but obviously people still have strong opinions on the issue of deflation.

2. Can it be abused to hurt your oponents in much the same fashion as lawsuits nowadays are often abused to simply bankrupt (smaller) competitors? Surely you can't steal the money, but you could be sneaky and freeze it indefinitely making it unavailable to the oponent.

It all ended well. There is a Bitcoin entry (thanks to everyone who contributed and fought for it), and it is relatively more prominent because there is less noise (thanks to deletionists).

Having said all that, the current version has some excellent writing, but the introductory paragraph is too technical and surely turns off many curious people. While I am qualified to bitch about it, I don't think I'm qualified to re-write. Hopefully the likes of Erik and Stephen can get to it soon.

Great, thanks. I am happy the way it is now, I was just confused with the description talking about "keys" in plural, and wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

I was thinking tags only, no boards. I come to the forum, and click on "economics" tag, see what's new there. Then I also click on the "speculation" tag (check box) - now I see topics (aka threads) that have both "economics" and "speculation" tags applied. I start a new topic at that moment, it's got automatically those two tags applied to begin with. I can add/remove tags as desired (from the predefined list). There has to be at least one tag.

You come to the forum and choose to view "speculation" topics. You see all topics with that tag, including mine. Then you add "mining" tag, and you are you viewing topics filtered based on that. My topic is not there.

I've been using spinner happily for a month. One detail bugs me: descriptions on Google Play and the wiki repeatedly refer to "private keys" in plural. And yet, from what I see there is only one private key involved, and its corresponding address. The only way to obtain a new key is to erase app data folder, so the new key pair is generated on the next start.

Am I missing something here?

You can't step into the same river twice.  Better ponder on differences between now and then.

Hours have passed, and nothing has happened.

Especially the p2pool!

We have a nice list of btc-accepting organizations here:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Donation-accepting_organizations_and_projects

Try to think of organizations that are not on the list, but you feel they should be.

I have so far contacted the following:

• Adbusters magazine
• Globalresearch.ca
• Truecrypt foundation
• Safer-networking (spybot)

Feel free to suggest more candidates here, and to contact those listed asking if they accept bitcoin. If contacting them, I suggest keeping ideology out of it and try not to sound like a spammer. You might want to check out https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Public_relations

Here is an example of what I sent to the director of global research:

Have you considered adding bitcoin as a donation option? Many organizations, from wikileaks to archive.org have so far received tens of thousands of dollars from users all over the world using this open-source, decentralized technology.  It's much simpler and more accessible for users and for yourselves than credit cards, and certainly wouldn't hurt to have it as an option.  If you are unable to handle bitcoins directly, there are reputable services available to help you automatically convert to USD, for example paysius.com and bit-pay.com.
Cheers, and keep up the good work!

 

That much for technology making your life easier...

Alright- a question for those who think it's a pirate and pirate-like bubble: when will it pop? Just don't state the obvious.