Noob question: what about supporting the satoshi client wallets in Multibit? I don't know how hard this is to do, so if it's a noob question forgive me

It's like saying "gold is a get rich quick scheme"

Bitcoin is not a get rich quick scheme

The coins that the standard client shows are the one in the wallet.dat file inside appdata/bitcoin

If you want to have another wallet.dat you must first remove that one, so the client will create a new one. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BACKUP OF IT! Yes, you said you backuped on the USB stick, it's fine, just make sure you never lose it!

Use the MultiBit client, much much better and no need to download over 5GB of blockchain

This said, what do you mean it "is unable to sync"? Probably it's downloading all the blocks and it take like more than a day (that's why i strongly suggest you to use a lightweight client like Multibit)

Waiting for Godot

Well, now it's waiting for BFL 

1)VLC think .dat files are file it can open, just ignore this.

2)No, you don't open files with the standard client. You have to put the wallet.dat in the right folder (appdata/bitcoin on Windows) and then start the client, it will then read it and show you the coins in it. (or add -datadir blablabla in a shortcut and set a different folder)

3)Don't use the standard client, it isn't exactly... meant for normal use... use a client like MultiBit, much better interface, it let you open a wallet file exactly like every other software on this planet, it doesn't have to synchronize and download the full blockchain...

It is if you are a newbie.

Yes, if you already know everything about bitcoin then it's ok. We use it and we survive with it, but it's far far far from being "decent"

Just copy-pasting the interface and features of multibit in the standard client would make it much much better.

Consider that for a newbie to find a lightweight client like multibit takes a lot of time, they first go on the bitcoin website and find the standard client. Maybe later they discover the forum and inside it a thread speaking about lightweight clients and different interfaces. But probably after they spent more than a day downloading a blockchain wich, for them, is useless

My opinion? He is right!

The current situation of the bitcoin clients and their interface is that they sucks. The standard client is not easy for a newbie to use. It's interface sucks, it automatically create a wallet no-one-know-where (yeah in appdata bitcoin but you need to search for this info!), it automatically download the whole chain even if a newbie don't even know what it is and don't need it since he will only run the client for 5minutes, do a transaction and close it.

Multibit? It's much better but why it cannot open normal wallets? I have no idea...

Here in Italy if a casino website isn't registered and have the authorization/license/whatelse to operate in Italy then it's automatically CENSORED

Saying that stable is good is bullshit.

BTC price depend on how many ppl use it. More ppl use bitcoin, more ppl buy them, price increase
If price is stable then bitcoin use isn't growing. Wich is not good as far as i know.

This said, btc price depend on speculation also, so maybe i am totally wrong 

Well don't expect wikipedia accepting bitcoin now. They now are like "ahah these guys give money to us even if we don't accept their currency, why should we accept it now? "

Just join p2pool, the best pool.

LOL

People on the wurm forum are complaining about a 50% decrease that for them is unexplainable 

They don't know about the Halving day 

Guys face it, bitcoin is not easy to understand.

That would be EPIC

Actually nothing is better. the electricity you save is worth more than the bitcoin you mine. So, not mining is moar profitable

Remember connection via satellite 

Namecoin is a decentralized DNS system.

Litecoin use another mining algorythm

Even if it's open source and better than what we have?