Well, you may be right about this company, I don't know all the facts, but in general I think the principle of "caveat emptor" applies when dealing with commercial transactions such as this.  For example, did KNC have better prices than the competition?  Well there might be a reason for that, see my views here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=802645.msg9205822#msg9205822   (Butterfly Labs thread)

I wonder what the risks are.   This sounds like progress but the fact the Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist thinks it's also risky shows there is stuff behind the scenes that we don't know about.  I myself took 44 hours to install Armory (not complaining, I'm happy, and it was probably not the result of my slower internet connection, but the fact nearly  60 GB of data had to be downloaded) and I think the network for bitcoin is possibly not that robust. 

This is not the place to make a principled stand.  Discretion is the better part of valor here.  If you're that concerned about your privacy, just find a trusted friend or relative who is not, and give BitStamp their information.  Since there are no tax implications, at the moment, I don't see the real harm. Then withdraw your money, go elsewhere, and likely BitStamp, as per their normal business procedures, will delete their records in due time and nobody will ever know you were a customer there.

By contrast, escalating this will only draw attention to yourself, the exact opposite of what you seem to want.

The wolf will be at his door then...pun intended.

In defense of speculation however, a study once found that multi-millionaires became such by simply assuming more risk.  For every multi-millionaire that's praised however, there's an even greater number of risk takers (due to the nature of risk/reward) that you never hear about because they went broke.

This seems to be a very advanced way of doing this, maybe this is a (kind of) hot swap.  I need to answer these questions, as this seems too complicated for me, but... (though maybe I can try it just after I backup everything, since I have nothing to lose, worse case if it fails I can always do things my old-fashioned, slow way)

1) why move swap partition out of C:, and into the new SSD? And how do you do this?  With a simple XCOPY or you need to play around with Registry settings? [update: see step 7) below]

2) My system partition is not bigger, so irrelevant, thanks

3) I can get Clonezilla, and will do this and the next steps no problem

6) OK, I will play around with the mobo BIOS

7) aha!  I see now why you want to do step #1.  So the question is:  let's say I ignore step #1 upon installation.  After my system is on the new SSD as the new "C:" drive, can I then swap partition from the new SSD to the old HD on D:?  If so, I rather do this after the installation rather than before.

I notice (and maybe I'm wrong since I've never actually sent or received a bitcoin) that some online services like blockchain.info have a service that says 'paste your bitcoin address here to receive bitcoins that you store here on blockchain.info'.  Now the second assumption is that you have a wallet that allows you to cut and paste a bitcoin address into the field for receiving--I'm not sure such a thing exists--but if it does, either in online form or hard drive local form, that would be the second element required.

That's nice to know.  Buying bitcoin this way avoids having to launder your coins, as you would if you buy with a credit card.  Still, it assumes that the seller does not keep detailed records of their transaction, as they should not if they have any business sense.

Thanks, but in a way it does.  If the bitcoin address disappears, because the recipient's digital wallet was destroyed forever, for example, the bitcoin money can never be used again.  But I see your point and it is a good one:  I was confusing wallet syncing with receiving the bitcoin and spending it again.

Nice website, in English and articulate, though you get the lunatic fringe story below.  Lunatic to us but I bet many Liberians believe in this stuff, that's why the newspaper carries these stories.

TonyT

The Ebola Breakout Coincided with UN Vaccine Campaigns
Thu, 10/09/2014 - 23:58 admin
By: Yoichi Shimatsu (Courtesy: Rense.com)

The ebola pandemic began in late February in the former French colony of Guinea while UN agencies were conducting nationwide vaccine campaigns for three other diseases in rural districts. The simultaneous eruptions of this filovirus virus in widely separated zones strongly suggests that the virulent Zaire ebola strain (ZEBOV) was deliberately introduced to test an antidote in secret trials on unsuspecting humans.

Either that, or she took a shower after having sex and all was well... ;-)

It's a big world out there RickDick.  There are people who buy PCs and don't know how to plug them into a wall socket and turn them on.  If Bitcoin goes mainstream I bet USA Today runs a story about this 'scam', lol.  And, the target audience would be a first time bitcoin noob who has never sent money (that includes me).  For example, it might be a "HOW TO" FAQ article that says: "to test your first bitcoin receive money procedure, do this:...cut and paste one of these randomly generated bitcoin addresses into your wallet" and then "...now, from your online account, send bitcoin to this address in your wallet..." and so forth.

Yes, thanks.  So if you send to a bitcoin address that belongs to a dead owner, who lost their keys and their estate does not have them, the money just sits there forever.  I saw a thread to this effect once, and the amount of bitcoin sitting in this dead address was pretty substantial.

yes, I saw this feature of having two people send in Armory.  I also saw--either a proposal or implementation--of M-by-N I think it was called, meaning M people "sign" a bitcoin to be sent and N people can "receive" the bitcoin--does this sound familiar?  Meaning, two people can "sign" and three people can receive in their bitcoin address this jointly signed bitcoin and "spend" it (I guess any of the three can spend the jointly signed bitcoin, first come, first served)?

LOL boring thread!  Of course, strictly speaking, any Latin girl who is not a pure blood from Spain is also part Asian.

Wow, sweet, I think the regular price is what, a couple of thousand dollars a year?  I'm thinking of the programmers license.

I like to get Visual Studio keys, but most don't work.  However, I found one for free on the net for the 2012 edition that actually worked, it was the first and only key I ever got off the net that worked...

Office...this is another hard key to get.  I have not had success with Office keys after Office 2007, the last good cracked Office.

BTW I am talking about using any and all of these keys strictly for academic purposes, to see if programs can be cracked.  I personally never use any program that I've cracked, but I like the challenge.  And I never advocate piracy, let the record show that.  

Are you a techie?  So the private keys are in a dictionary: dictionary <private key, amount in BTC> ?  I think so, meaning each private key has a look-up table value (amount in BTC) associated with it.  So lose the keys, lose that value of BTC that is forever lost from the total number of bitcoin mined.  See also please my latest question.  Thanks for educating a noob!

Aha, this is very interesting. So the memory or state of the bitcoin system as a whole, for every transaction, is kept in the blockchain. The blockchain records each and every bitcoin, and who owns it now or can own it in the future (if you send it, you will be saying: 'in the future, this bitcoin belongs to somebody else').  But this raises an interesting question:  what if you make a typo in the "to:" field of the bitcoin address and put in a nonexistent address?  Probably your client will refuse to send it.  But let's say you type a legal bitcoin address, then what?  I bet the bitcoin just sits there until somebody 'claims' this address?  Perhaps even the original sender, if they realize they made a mistake?  Further, can you 'reverse' or cancel a bitcoin transaction *before* it is received by the receiver?   I bet that mechanism does not exist, though it probably should.  

Finally, consider this:  can two people have the same public key?  Yes, see here generally: http://learncryptography.com/bitcoin-addresses/   But can two people deliberately construct the same public / private key combination, in an attempt to fool the bitcoin block chain?  Of course they can.  But what will happen (I think) is that the first public/private key will win, meaning, the block chain will refuse to recognize the second pair.  So this is the thought experiment:  two researchers, A and B, deliberately create the same public/private key.  Then an assistant sends them bitcoin.  The first person, be it A or B, that logs onto the bitcoin peer-to-peer network first will 'win' or receive the bitcoin sent by the assistant.  First come, first served.

Good, I was right with my speculation.  But what about the other questions:  if the receiver dies and their PC is destroyed, what happens to the bitcoin?  Orphaned?

Ah, this relates to a question I was meaning to ask so I might as well ask you if you have a moment:  if I keep Armory on my PC, and have Armory turned on, and my PC is connected to the internet, am I part of the "P2P network"?  Is that what you mean?  And I am facilitating somehow the efficient workings of bitcoin?  That makes me feel proud...lol.  I think, technically, Skype the p-to-p network works the same way:  if you keep your PC on, and run Skype on it, somehow it helps with transmissions of messages to third parties, unrelated to you.  Don't quote me on that, but I recall some suggestion to this effect once.

I might take a raincheck on that, thanks.  I barely understand bitcoin; adding dogecoin to the mix might blow my mind!  Maybe later...