You are not alone.

Myself and at least one other person are experiencing this delay.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=138071.0

I'm experiencing this, as well. Two deposits cleared Dwolla Thursday and Friday, respectively, but neither have been credited to my account. I've sent three support emails in the past week, all more than 48 hours ago. Silence.

I've used CampBX for more than a year and never had this kind of delay in credit or support response.

I stopped by the booth Wednesday afternoon and took some pictures after speaking with the Bitpay guys and Josh from BFL. Josh and I talked briefly about the technology behind the ASIC mining units and showed them to me. While I like many would have liked to see a working unit, I was impressed with the brushed aluminum case and impressive heatsink. It's regular to see non-working prototypes or samples on the floor. Josh stressed the importance of getting it right and delivering a product that meets the much discussed expectations. The Android mining application is pretty cool - I can definitely see its usefulness in conjunction with a repurposed older phone or tablet in a dock. 60 GH/s on your bookshelf is convenient and perhaps even a talking point for visitors, haha.

Here are some pictures I took. I had a video crew with me, but this wasn't really relevant to our site's market so we didn't film here.

http://imgur.com/a/h8gOb

I would have liked to spend more time there talking with the Bitpay guys and other folks, but my time was unfortunately limited! It's good to see Bitcoin represented.

Edit: I should also note that I came to Vegas with several hundred USD in BTC and sold out twice over via LocalBitcoins. AFAICT, all of the transactions were to new(er) buyers.

I'll be at CES as press and will make every attempt to drop by the booth. I'll contact you privately about the party - I have a prior engagement that night, but want to come if time permits.

I'm going to assume that it's the latter case now, where it will extend for 12 hours until there hasn't been an entry posted here for 12 hours.

When is the deadline?

Does that mean 12/5/12 3:00 AM EST, which has passed? Or now 6:00 pm EST today since it's 12 hours since the last submission? I may have gotten my girlfriend to do up a submission, too, but she won't be able to get to it until about an hour after this post, around noon EST.

If I have some time today, I'm definitely putting in for this.

Does it need to be a working version? or can it just be a graphic or HTML concept?

I kinda wonder in this case if some kind of control panel for managing a large farm of s would be useful. They're largely just set and forget, but I'm sure there's some need for management.

Day of days, that's for sure. Not many bad days to ask like yesterday's Halving Day.

It depends on how powerful the mining device is. A CPU? You won't see more than 1 BTC every couple of months. A GPU? Before The Halving, I was mining approximately 4 BTC per month on my Radeon HD 6850 at 191 Mhash/sec.

This was resolved a few hours ago, but likely won't be available for download until the next release. Hopefully that release will come soon.

https://github.com/m0mchil/poclbm/issues/54

Actually, again, I'm bearing bad news.

Unless you're willing to make a potentially substantial investment in ASIC mining hardware, you're unlikely to see a significant return on anything that you'd purchase for the intention of mining BTC. The block reward is halving tomorrow, meaning that miners will generate half of the number of bitcoins per unit of time that they did previously.

I think your best bet mining-wise is to go in with a few people on an ASIC miner.

Better yet, I think your time and money would be better off spent buying BTC at the market rate and playing the market (buy low, sell high) or arbitrage (buy low at one exchange, sell for a tiny percentage more at another) or establishing a business that accepts BTC or pays in BTC.

It's all in the algorithms, now. A change in a client produces a different output than the other clients expect, causing that changed data to be invalidated by other clients in the network.

According to NewEgg, the ASUS laptop you have has an Intel integrated graphics chipset. Even if you could mine on it, you're not likely to see a return on your time and electricity investment. You're better off buying coin than mining it.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

I kinda want this on a T-shirt.

Paper wallets seem also attractive for snail mail relay of purchased BTC.

If I understand postal law correctly -- at least US postal law -- the sender can have a better way of tracking the transaction (registered/certified mail). I realize this is considerably slower than standard digital transfer and kinda negates one of the advantages of Bitcoin -- (near) instant transfer -- but it seems to take advantage of some existing legal recourse by partaking of some court-admissible actions.

Thoughts?

I read a lot of suggestions about an offline wallet. If I have a computer that is completely and entirely disconnected from the Internet -- it never connects to a network under any circumstances -- how can I get a transaction it generates onto the network?

I can obviously move the blockchain files between computers, but how will the online client react if it sees data in the files that wasn't there previously? Will it identify "unsent transactions" or something like that and forward them to the network?

I've had great service from CampBX for more than a year now.

On the topic of even more personal service, I recommend http://localbitcoins.com for trading in-person.

You should read Why Shouldn't I Accept PayPal when Trading Bitcoin? over at Bitcoin SE.

Summary? It's not safe unless you have influence on the person's reputation outside of these forums, etc. PayPal may eventually rule againt you or your trading partner, so it's best to find an alternative.