Maybe you can buy all their old GPU's on the cheap?   

Yeah.  I think you have to make it as easy for them as possible.  Include your order number, date you ordered, etc...  Jody from BFL sometimes takes a while to reply, but she's always come through for me eventually.

Good one.

You'll be stuck anyway, unless I guess you manually sell your own buffer BTC's in an amount equally to what you received in your MtGox with 0 confirms.

So if the purchaser doesn't have a Gox account, they will simply pay in BTC and then, assuming the autosell option is on, they will be sold for dollars after 6 confirms.  Do you know if the vendor already has enough BTC as a buffer in his Gox account, can the autosell happen instantly?  Example...

I have a Gox account with 20 BTC and a non-Gox buyer purchases a product for 10 BTC.  10 of my 20 BTC are sold and the 10 from the purchaser get credited to my account, meaning I have 10 BTC + 10 BTC with no confirms.  Is there any way to make this work if it doesn't work that way already?

Do you know how one could use Magento along with the Mt Gox merchange API system, where users can pay without being members of Mt Gox?

I am thinking about opening up a web store that will essentially sell checks via mail for BTC.  Users would need to be in the United States and checks would go out M-F.  As such, users would be getting their USD much sooner than if they were to sell BTC on an exchange, then move the money to Dwolla, then move the money from Dwolla to a bank account... etc...

It will start very small - maybe only 10BTC for sale at a time, but I hope it will grow after that.  Fees would be in the neighborhood of 2%, plus a $1 shipping charge.

I am looking to use existing e-commerce software, but existing solutions seem to be few and far between.

So here is what I'm looking for...

A simple site that displays the amount of USD available for purchase.  This would go down as people make purchases, like a store's stock of items.

A field where the user can enter the amount of USD's they want to buy.

A purchase button.

The user clicks the purchase button, enters in their info (name, mailing address, etc...), and they are shown a BTC address to fund, with a timer that will tick down.

Once they fund the BTC address, a confirmation e-mail is sent to both the purchaser and me.

I will be using MtGox to replenish my checking account as it runs low, so using the MtGox merchant API would seem to be a fit here... but I don't know how to use such things.

So... what do you think about this?  Would someone be willing to code such a thing if there isn't an out of the box solution already out there?  If so... what would you charge?

I disagree.  Those are the best kinds of bets.

If Inaba really knows the answers and is willing to put money into escrow to prove it, it would send a very clear signal to the market.  The signal, conceivably, could mislead the market (he's sacrificing 1000BTC to make 5000BTC in more preorders), but that just raises another potential bet.  Bets are useful.  Take a look at Intrade.

I've got a PCI-e extender 1x to 16x (1x size with open end for GPU mining).  Purchased it and wound up not needing it.

2BTC shipped.

It would be faster, for sure.  But also, like musical instruments, you could probably do that.  Just buy an extra ticket for your package, like people do for cellos, and belt it down.  And if they didn't want to allow you to do that, a word with the stewardess and baggage handlers would probably be enough.

"In this package is extremely sensitive computer equipment.  It is also very, very valuable.  Can you please, please, please be extra careful with it."

It would be enough 999 times out of 1,000.

People in the Bitcoin community are very short sighted when it comes to returns.  1% per day sounds reasonable...     5% per month sounds low?   

If we could get 5% per month, we'd all be rich very, very soon.

Incorrect.  In the USA, a sales tax isn't a federal tax; it is a state tax that may or may not be imposed on sales of particular goods or services, depending on your state.

Just wait until you can fit the entire blockchain on a 4 dollar flash drive (after pruning, hashing, whatever is being proposed these days).

You can imagine the conversations we're going to be having 10 years from now with newcomers.

"So what's this bitcoin deal...?"

"Here, I'll show you.  It is a digital commodity, very valuable these days.  Let me see your phone....  There... I just downloaded every Bitcoin transaction that has ever taken place to your phone.  Took up less room than your Facebook app.  You can use it to securely send these digital commodities, in any amount, to anyone on Earth (or in orbit, or on Mars) for a fee of a United States nickel.  You have more security and financial freedom in your phone right now than even the richest man or bank 20 years ago.  If I were to send you $20 in BTC, .003 BTC, it could never be seized, frozen, taxed, lost, stolen from you, or linked to you.  Want some?"

Fun to dream right?

That's what I keep thinking.  If the ships are not perfectly level, you're other going to crush them with the heatsink, or you're going to not have good contact with all of them.

Why not just use these little guys?

If I were spending 30k on a rig the size of a trashcan, I wouldn't be trusting delivery anywhere.  I'd buy a $150 ticket to BFL and fly it back home personally.

So I guess he's not interested in my bet.   

Next couple weeks huh?  I hope you're right, but I fear you're way off, especially with the new announcement of shipping dates being November/December.

Would you be willing to make a bet with the community that x number of units will be shipped by some particular date and that the units will function at the specified power claims?

Late November or December huh?  Makes me wish I had enough BTC to hedge my bets with Tom, so no matter who delivers first, I can get in before difficulty shoots sky high.

So the answer turns out to be... Enigma is full of it.

Response Enigma?