Just to be sure: So it's totally okay with you if I create my own "Get a pretty addy"-thread here, and copy your Howto on bitaddress and partial keys?

I see possible problems here. Even though no single party can access the payment, what if Timelord2067 disappears^* or just doesn't answer? That means Alice has paid and shorena can't access the payment for a refund. So as an escrow, this can only be used for trusted parties, and if all parties involved trust eachother, there is no need for escrow.

^*For the sake of argument I've used Timelord2067 as an example, I have no reason to doubt his intentions

Cars only consume a small part of the oil produced. Think about plastics, aviation and shipping for example. And of course electricity still has to be generated, and oil can be used for that too.

I made 1Lingga, and since its your topic, the donation is yours

That is up to you

Address found It was like one minute, that's 2% chance on my system.

Starting with 1L makes it much easier to find. It gives me 22 minutes for 50% chance.

If you post a public key part, I'll make one for you. You can tip shorena a donation

You have reinvented escrow, very nice!
One suggestion though: get a shorter prefix, like 1Time. It's 30 times faster to find, you don't want it to take hours if the 15 minutes for 50% turns out to be unlucky.

The wallet is like the messenger, don't blame the messenger for the fee. It's the network that requires the fee, and wallets don't want people complaining transactions take forever, so there is a fee.
I used to do zero-fee transactions from bitcoin-qt, until it got stuck for 2 weeks. Unfortunately miners don't want larger blocks (as it is in their interest to gain higher fees), so we have to compete with eachother by paying them more.

I believe it's a bubble too, but there is no upper limit. I'm kinda expecting 37 mbtc was the top already though, the moment the exponential growth stopped, people stopped throwing more money in it.

@guitarplinker : I'm still a "Full Member" in the spreadsheet, while I've been "Sr." for a while. Can you change this? Thanks!

People seem to lose common sense when it comes to computers. If someone on the street would tell you to give him $100 and he'll give you $200 tomorrow, of course you don't believe him. Why do people want to believe it so badly when it's online?

Like "normal" money, a very tiny fraction of the population owns the majority. I read an article recently on the MtGox distribution of money: most people had a few mBTC, and a few thousand people own almost everything. That is true in dollars, and it will be true in bitcoins.
I would estimate there are at least 1000 bitcoin-users with less than 21 BTC for every person with more than 21 BTC.

This is like the opposite of what I would want to share for a VPS. If I use it, it is for privacy.

$0.50 per eth is also not that far fetched in my opinion
Fact is: it's pure speculation. In general it's recommended to diversify, if you put all your eggs in one basket you can also lose everything by 2020.

It can happen, and I have seen it happen. I remember a user starting at 500 sat faucet, and going up to 200 mBTC before he busted. He wagered several Bitcoin in that session.
It is possible, just not so likely. If we ignore the house edge, chance of doubling is equal to chance of losing all.So on average, if you start with 500 sat faucet 200 times, you can get 1 mbtc once.

You can try asking here: Vanitygen: Vanity bitcoin address generator/miner [v0.22], I've had great help there to get it working.
It doesn't ask me to choose a device, I have just one option I guess, so I can't tell you how to select it.

Thanks PD and ndnhc for the bonus and Bingo

If the people in the spreadsheet got paid already I think I was forgotten... If you're still working on it I'm just too impatient

If internet is unreliable, 6 confirmations is no longer enough. If you (or your continent) gets disconnected from the main miners in China, you'll be running on a smaller side chain that gets replaced once you reconnect.
Bitcoin will survive. It's just as unreliable as your internet will be.

No, I search 25000 keywords, the percentage is just based on the total chance.
I found a 6 character address yesterday in about half a second. I tried again, and it showed 20 minutes for 50% chance. It's just a matter of being lucky to have the right string in the random addresses quickly.