I bet you would Gavin, it will cause an increase in BTC price, which suits me just fine as I have a hella lot more BTC than any other chain.

mtgox fees are in whatever currency you are getting.  Buying BTC?  Fee is BTC.  Buying dollars (aka, selling BTC)?  Fee is dollars.

Also, MagicalTux has stated at least a few times that they don't ever buy or sell BTC because people would assume they are abusing their position.  Instead, they save their BTC to use on things like bailing out bitomat.

I think it would be wise for any alternative block-chain to discourage creation of exchanges for at least a month or three to get the bugs out.

That should also help build trust that the alternative chain developers/promoters aren't just trying to make some quick BTC.

Got you beat, I discovered BTC early 2010 and didn't mine any with cpu because I felt pooled mining was too much of a hassle  

I think this is a wonderful idea.

I think alt-chains are great.  But I think they're worthless if they don't add something profoundly valuable.

A *coin value value should only be what the -idea- is worth.  Value in the idea is represented first by the growth and sustained Ghash. If a coin has enough of a 'faithful' userbase to sustain it for (for fun lets say) 3 months w/o an exchange, that means people aren't mining for immediate value, they're mining for future value - that many people think the idea has a future.  Get that under your belt before you start -instantly- trading it for another *coin/currency.

Namecoin on schedule

Solidcoin- no need to attack Solidcoin with Coinhunter running the show 

Seriously SC is over, with his "kill switch" no one will have faith in a system that can be shutoff at the whim of the creator or possibly exploited by an outside force.

Also I have been informed that SA has their collective panties in wad over this and I have been "Dox'd"....targeted by the IRS (ROFL)....

If they Dox'd anyone, it was the wrong person 

Thanks for the announcement and sorry but I'm going to fight against this getting an exchange before the other coins are fixed. I would hate to see bitcoinexpress who was an early adopter of geist geld profit from his actions.

not unless it gets restarted

ppfftttt...

The one in french court that will decide if bitcoin is a virtual currency or not and to how much rules it must comply.

I find that mining IOCoin is easy, just a short time and managed to mine quite a bit.  But the problem, what to do with them?  I can't seem to see any exchanger for IOCoin?  Can anyone advise?

Cunning and complicated things that allow for doing unusual stuff like Escrow (when 2 or more parties have to sign a transaction to decide who would eventually get them moneys) or somesuch.

One of the most attractive, to me, was Gavin's hidden transactions, but it turns out it's not workable for now (I can't help wondering if amendments can be made to make it work without thoroughly ruining things and opening a large can of worms, it is/was such an awesome little thing...hm...food for thought )

In previous posts BitcoinEXpress has said he would attack other chains. Obviously this puts any exchange on those chains at risk hence my stopping deposits and withdrawals in the meantime. If you outline your so called "checkpoint hopping" exploit and other chain attacks for the chain authors to provide solutions for I can consider re-opening them. In the meantime they'll remained closed until I'm confident that a safe way for people to withdraw the funds is available. If you want them opened quicker I suggest you contact the chain authors to fix them.

In posts on the namecoin forums you've stated that amicable resolutions can be reached and implied that if I open an exchange for the GG chain you wouldn't attack namecoin. You even emailed me personally recently asking me to open a GG exchange. Why would I want to run any exchange with the issues you profess plans to exploit existing?