Or, even better, using something like SSL (with compression) to avoid possible man-in-the-middle attack on the Stratum connection?

Lucky you. I hurried to test my Bitcoins .. opened them .. and found that they are inside made of just some random ASCII letters! Damn!

The OP question is indeed very important. I have some doubts, too.

Either the time will prove the Bitcoin idea as wrong and noone will care (and current early adopters will loose).
Or it will prove as fundamental and great idea - but then it will be STOLEN.

You may ask how one could stole Bitcoin. Simply. Setup alternative currency and offer you multi-million user base (Apple users, US tax payers, etc.) an easy way how to cooperate in new virtual currency based on similar ideas, but INCOMPATIBLE with current Bitcoin.

Check the IQ distribution curve. There is not enough geek to fight with average Joe.

After a day of playing and running through the Stratum mining proxy I must say I am really HAPPY with it. I can now manage 5 GPUs (1700 MH/s) total over 8 kbit/sec (yes, 1000 chars per second) poor local slow-ping GPRS limited connection link (tunelled via SSH with compression) without any problems and minimal stales! Something I was not able to accomplish previously with http requests (a lot of them).

Kudos to Slush! I think you should really more advertise this method.

Seems up again.

cgminer detects stale shares and does not submit them. However, there are pools which credits for stale shares. Is there an option how to force cgminer to try to submit all shares?

The major news of Bitcoin 2 is that they will replace the proof of work with proof of laziness.

Yeah, Bitcoin 2 will present the most wanted features. Namely bigger icons, transparent window background and nice sounds played when the wallet is being emptied.

I bet it is another MtGox glitch. I have pending both ASKs and BIDs and cannot cancel them either. Slow like trading using postcards.

Remember!:

You cannot count on any of Murphy's law (including this one).

Thats finally good technical analysis, IMHO. I was really tired of all those incomprehensible triangles, lines, channels. This shows the market mood much better.

No, I guess its just up to the MtGox quality standards.

Why the heck you simply do not rewrite the trading matching engine? Instead of silly "HALT" check.

.. but you can EXPECT product costing half the price you paid. And you can expect huge volume of such products.

I feel a bit irritated by the different slant of the logo and the text. Could you try to align it better?

That's where the double SHA256 will save our asses, IMHO. Reminds me that Satoshi had to be really smartass.

Thats similar to my thoughts:

Print left part of the redeem QR code on the right of side A, turn the note side-wise and print right part of the QR code, also on right of side B.

You then can half-fold the banknote to match left part to right part, forming complete QR code, to redeem. There can be some additional curvy lines guiding the correct fit.

You do not need transparent paper for this. Plus, you can torn the banknote in two parts, for redeeming you will need both parts.

Additionally, when there is single QR square for address and half-square for redeem on each side, I like the design more, its less boring.

Sorry for no images, but I am at campsite now .

Seems that trading has resumed.

CAN WE GET NOTICE IF THAT 40k BUY UP TO $9.30 WAS REAL OR NOT?

Never dare to extrapolate exponential .. 

What about the idea that the private key is more (cryptographically) protected?

What about if there were TWO QR codes, one on each side of paper? And you would need to scan both and XOR them to compose the private key? Or, on left and right part of banknote, and you will "escrow" passing just first part, then the second one?

Just thinking ...

IMHO this one looks most PRO. I wd definitely change the equation to something more inherit .. like elliptic curve equations etc.

Did not get the idea how the private key wd be hidden.