In fact, if the ASIC miners are smart, they bring their hardware online right after a difficulty adjustment.

Yup.  The second chain doesn't need incentive due merged mining, unless it's particularly resource-consuming.  If the software is already written, and integrates into bitcoind or other mining software transparently, and doesn't impact mining performance, then miners would [likely] have no complaints about adopting it given the huge upside it offers.  It's basically free, from their perspective.

Though I don't agree it would be a "protocol requirement."  Miners have various reasons for doing what they do.  And this is being promoted as non-disruptive and optional.  But you don't need more than, probably 20% of mining power to engage this idea for it to be successful.  I'm not even sure what a 51% attack would look like on the alt-chain, but it wouldn't be very exciting -- the worst you could do is prevent some lite-nodes being able to verify their own balance -- but there would be no financial gain for it, and it would cost a fortune.  20% seems like a number high enough that there would always be a "checkpoint" nearby, and high enough that it would be vastly too expensive for a prankster to do anything to that chain.

What about the guy who was serial killing homeless people? What about whole areas in poverty?

I still think using the term bank in any form will just confuse people.  Remember, we're talking about people who most likely don't know zilch about economics, banking, or bitcoin.  And they probably won't really care to know (they're busy people).

The term bank makes people think of large, complex, and expensive institutions.  Wallet is something they hold onto that stores their money.  Wallet is very easy to understand and personable.  

Does the bitcoin client accept deposits, and give out loans?

It doesn't seem like a bank.

I'm talking about "true libertarianism" in which even the NAP is rescinded. You are truly free to do whatever you want. Rescinding laws until you're left with only the NAP is arbitrary. Give me a good logical argument why libertarians insist on maintaining a NAP, and yet insist on rescinding lots of other laws.  Or, alternatively, why libertarians insist on creating the NAP, yet refuse to create other laws.

Of course, people would still have the right to defend themselves; foolish is the bandit who attacks the rich martial arts expert travelling dark lonely streets without bodyguards and foolish is the thief who steals a ferrari with the remotely activated defense systems, and so on.

Yeah, this flow has always bugged be somewhat too. I am thinking of allowing users to leave tables from the withdrawal page which would hopefully alleviate this. Thanks for the heads-up - I'll prioritize this change!

I got that part but sometimes I want to tell the broadcaster and not the whole room, and this could be a way to solve that

I think the rss feed is alot more important than that, plus if you implement freemoney's feature, do it so only the broadcaster can see it. Cause one thing I hate on the site is when you donate and people just keep asking you to donate. It is annoying and somes I don't even donate cause of the freeloaders keep begging. Especially if your the only one donating.

Site down???

more people buying than selling
its sorta how a free market works

Currently the only way to bring more to the table is to click "leave". Something like an "Add chips" button, maybe even just renaming it?

I just had 3 blackjacks in a row at Strike Sapphire:


If each is a one in 21 chance, then that's a 1 in over 9000 shot!

All three were Ace + Jack.  That's even less likely, by a factor of 64.  That makes it about a one in a half-million shot.

I sent an email to you last week about it, but I guess you didn't get it. Had a problem on the site where my chips reset to zero. Any chips I get immediately disappear.