Can someone bring me up to speed on this 21 inc? I have apparently missed everything about it.

I fear this would have a lot of consequences. I'd rather we did this slowly, from 10 to 8, from 8 to 6 or 5, over the years.

A billion dollars were stolen(lent) to/by unknowns by Moldova

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/352pvl/someone_stole_1_billion_from_moldova_thats_an/

Even if Satoshi gave you half of his private key and let you guess the rest of the numbers, you still couldn't do it in a sensible timeframe. Don't waste your breath on such dead simple software for private key cracking.

A VM tries to keep bad stuff in, if the virus had infected your PC, doesn't matter if you were using a VM, however it would have to know and handle the fact that there is a VM.

So what would realistically happen if we were to in say 10 years have such bad variance? Like say, 24hrs with no block?

It occurred to me, when playing dice games there's like some chance of having really long losing streaks, but they are not impossible. So isn't it then possible for mining to have some chance of having longer and longer rounds with no blocks, for the entire network?

Good for you, but I meant that there are likely people who lost too much because of mtgox and may have various debts/loans they need to repay, or simply bad financial situation due to gox.

So, I am not sure what % people will get back, but I assume that we will have a lot of selling of those recovered BTCs.

Speaking of the ad-campaigns, I am thinking of signing up for one, can anyone tell me the one with the least requirements? I am low on bitcoins, and...well, I need to earn some pronto.

For somebody with a shitloaded of money, he is pretty dumb holding it all in a single address.

Around the 28:45 mark or so.

EDIT:May not actually be linked to Silk Road, kind of disappointing, but they have mentioned Bitcoin before so..

Maybe this article can help http://www.dursi.ca/hpc-is-dying-and-mpi-is-killing-it/

I watched the anime back in late 2009 and later read the manga, around chapter 500 or 600+ but haven't read it in a long time.

Look again.

Let me guess, another rich dude will get the coins, *again*.

I would usually caution against installing any Chrome extensions, because they update silently, and can include various keylogging stuff.

This type of thing takes YEARS to learn, I'm afraid. You'd have to do like 6+ months of FOREX on a demo account, to learn all types of patterns, trading strategies and whatnot, try and lose your real money on FOREX first, and maybe just maybe start to get the hang of it to do Bitcoin.

Or try blind luck.

Well shiit. Why isn't this on reddit?

I think he wasn't discovered because by the time Bitcoin gained more attention and traction, he was already gone with most trails(if any) of him had already disappeared.

I mean think about it. In 2008 he posts a paper discussing decentralized electronic cash, but nobody believes him or interest is too low. At this point nobody is really trying to figure out who he is. By the end of 2010 Bitcoin does gain more attention than in the beginning, but...was it enough to have CIA,NSA,FBI after him? Doubt it. Today though, different story.