I am just so curious which of these companies are going to make it let's say 20 years? Just imagine the kind of PR they can make our of it. MtGOX making funny advertisement with people exchanging Magic Cards in the early 2000ends. Or Lab_Rat still in the mining game with substantial amount of global hashrate. This is the reason I invest in any of these IPO's. For any sane investment in that decentralized space I would say there is not much that beats buy and hold Bitcoin. With all the other investments you are carrying risk of Bitcoin plus risk of third party not doing what might have been best for you. And the strategy with buy and hold has been extremely lucrative if you look at the past. I guess many miners will find themselves looking back and seeing that buy and hold would have been much more profitable than mining, especially with some recent investments into products by a three letter company which I would be very very surprised to see in 20 years. Then again, each miner adds value to each bitcoin. Therefore an investment of say 10 coins to mine 9 coins in total which are worth more than 10 had you kept them. Mining is a somewhat idealistic thing. I guess the early miners, the ones that mined when bitcoin had "no value" still have coin. They tend to be idealistic which is why they saw the value. This is why they hopefully, in their own best interest, sponsor/invest and grow the economy and the total value.

Do_It, Lab_Rat! Find the right ratio of btc reinvestment into smart mining gear. If mining can be profitable, one can find the right reinvestments at the right time. you can do it!

Same here.

I think manual payout should not be such a problem for Lab-Rat. Just take the address list and multiply number of shares per address with dividend per share in a spreadsheet. Then make make a multi-output transaction to all these addresses. Not as easy as on Bitfunder but should work. I now it got mentioned many times before but please please make sure you are in control of the address which you registered with Bitfunder.

I also have problems with this latest version. I have Win7 64 4 gb ram and some quadcore processor. I installed and ran. The blockchain downloaded fine. The scan took forever and I finaly ended with aborting the scan after 14h. Progress bar was still showing 1%. With version 0.89.99.3 The scan was finished after 7h or maybe even earlier (i went to bed so I don't know exactly). Any sugestions? Should I have deleted some files or something before starting?

One back from the conference I'll spend some time on it. Have some other things to to do also but I am also excited about the new features.

anyone still around e hulp?
 I am there now

still waiting for the bag at the airport

Somebody wanted duty free cigarettes as I have seen earlier in the thread. Just bough some in duty free. 10 packs of "Parisienne Jaune" availabe. 0.0355 XBT each.

fine with me. Maybe just print out a paper with instructions on how to get to 1e and stick it to the door of the other place.

Will the coffeeshop be open? It states 10:00-20:00 every day.

Perfect thats wher I'm heading. CU there. I hope I can make it in time.

I will arrive at centraal station quite late (I guess around 23:00). I will therefore not go to the pre-event as it is a bit far to go at the hour. However, if any of you are somewhere central in a bar of coffeeshop please let me know by PM or in this thread and I might drop in if I'm not too tired. Anyone else staying at the Hans Brinker Hotel?

OK thanks for all the hard work Alan (and contributors and team):

Tested "Armory version 0.89.99.3-testing"
On: Windows 7 64 bit, 4 gb ram,
I had it scan the BC over night. This morning i got the message that bitcoin qt appears to be offline or something (sorry missed the screenshot). Armory was online though. I closed armory and reopened. I think it took even less than your 19 sec to download 1 block and go online straight away. very nice. Not a lot of testing apart from that. Will do more and also report on ram usage. First sight looks good. 

Just another reason to support Open-Transactions. Please give some of your dividends to OT so We can have a truly decentralized exchange and smart contracting system. We will not have to worry about such shutdowns any longer or at least not as much.

Congrats. Make sure Armory stays the best wallet. Oh and start a free T-Shirt promo! 

I love to see that you can seriously earn a living from your hobby now. All the best.

Will LabRat invest in bitmine.ch 28nm technology?

Same here!

Armory - Fort Knox of Bitcoin

I was thinking of selling my 03.April.13 BFL order to LRM but I think until I get anything I will have to pay someone to dispose of them as waste. I was hoping to get them way before 28nm is anywhere near. Now my hope is that all the 28nm companies also take much more time then stated on their sites. That said, it seems that even the early jalapeno orders will not make back their money in terms of BTC. I was at the time (April 13) thinking that the BTC value was overrated (140$) and therefore spending them on hardware at that price was a smart move. Turns out it wasn't. I don't think I'll ever see 35 BTC with those again even when neglecting power cost. I was stupid enough to pay 600$ for express shipping for my 180GH. Over 4 BTC down the drain. So it seems with investments in the BTC space it is very difficult to reach profit if you think purely in BTC. It is hard to outperform just holding BTC. Especially if you deal with a company which constantly over-promises and under-performs.

However, I think LRM has potential as LR can diversify and can operate much more efficiently than we can at home.

So if you started with BTC only, like it seem most of us did, then it very easy to calculate real profit and also see if the strategy is better then just holding BTC.

Just calculate the following:

BTC on BTCe + (USD on BTCe/currentBTC price on BTCe)

This will show you if you are making profit BTC wise and if the Bot is trading better then just holding BTC. This will be the benchmark which I will apply. This I think would also be the correct kind of implementation to show profits. However, this might be difficult if someone started with mixed funds. They could still go back to point zero and calculate how much BTC the funds were worth back then and go on from that point.

edit: @BTCRobot team: one should be able to manually choose point zero in the GUI. And maybe also switch between USD and BTC profit view.

You can see all trades it did in the BTCe account trade history. You can also see all orders which it placed. It looks like some initial problems were overcome. At least I thought it was good it didn't trade as long as the btc was going up that much. It will be interessting to see what will happen next.