Give the money out to companies that are trading which accept Bitcoin as encouragement and reward for their efforts.
And some to set up new businesses.

The distributed database that is Bitcoin will not only revolutionize money, but many other things with it.

There's already Namecoin, the distributed decentralized DNS alternative (which should probably be built on top of the current blockchain - more on that later).

I think one of the biggest opportunity the blockchain offers is to be able to witness a vote, live, and be able to independently check the results.
That's right:

• no more trusting someone to count the votes;
• no need for millions of dollars of logistic to prepare for "the big event";
• no need to go physically to a little booth (no need to even be on the same continent);
• faster results;
• no need to have an ID;
• possibility of a fallback vote (depending on bitcoin's contracts development);
• Protected by the blockchain.

Here's a little example:
I am a chairman in Acme.
We have an important decision to make in the next 10 days that will influence the future of the company, say option A and option B.
The message is sent to all shareholders, asking them to choose one of them.

• To select A, send 1 BTC to address 1thisisthefirstchoice,
• to select B, send 1 BTC to adress 1thisisthesecondchoice.

By now you should see where this is going.
Everyone can check what is send to which address, count the total of BTC (sent from authorized addresses¹) and yet still remain anonymous from every other shareholders.
The most transparent voting system - ever -.

This isn't perfect of course: there is still abuse possibilities for the vote organizer². However, if we assume the organizer to be honest, everything else is secured by the network. This is really important: the same blockchain proof of work that protects our Bitcoins can simultaneously guaranty the voting process. Which is why, as told before, I think Namecoins (or an alternative) should be built on top of the Bitcoins blockchain: to obtain the same protection for almost no cost!


<sub>1. You don't necessary want a limited number of votes: the voting itself can be used to finance something. However, in the case of a company, you probably want to limit the possible voters to the shareholders. To do that, the company either ask for a public key for every action bought, or, if the actions are bought using bitcoins, the buying address is in itself the proof of ownership and can be used in any subsequent vote (with some mechanism to be able to sell the action).

2. In case of an unlimited number of vote, even the organizer can't trick the system.</sub>

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No worries, I have the full page saved in my computer. Complete!

Paco Ahlgren moved the article to his economics blog. Here is the article's URL:

http://www.bottomviolation.com/bitcoin-cannot-fail/

Another happy customer here. The volume is increasing so I expect them to become one of the top exchanges soon.

Sorry, but I couldn't help posting my referral You get a 10% lifetime discount.

I've used them (along with MtGox, Tradehill & ExchB), and have had a good experience with them so far.  The interface is nice, everything works as expected, API works great, support is responsive.

Very reliable and easy to use, I like their graphs and their customer service is really responsive the only issue is low volume i think. Nice 2-auth feature for security

Most are hoarded, only 10% keeps on rollin. Keep it rolling guys.

Never had any problems with Instawallet. Sometimes it shows more deposited than is real, but that gets corrected fairly quickly.

Hopefully no one is keeping thousands (or even hundreds) of bitcoins with them. Hopefully.

But browser-based wallets do let you access funds on the go. I don't feel that it's their existance that's the problem, but rather the usage (although I have my fingers crossed that there won't be the massive losses to an online service yet AGAIN.)

No problems on my end.

I keep multiple wallets with a few coins total in them. The account balances are accurate, and things went very smoothly with it today as I was moving funds around.

I also periodically empty, then later reload the wallets (just to make sure there are SOME bitcoins behind the screen!) Haven't had any problems with that.

The only issue I've had was when I had two browser screens open at once to two different wallets. The balances began fluctuating oddly. Problem went away after shutting down the browser and re-opening only one wallet at a time.

So, no problems here. Still worth keeping an eye on though.

(Btw... it might have made sense to check with the other possible person who could have accessed the wallets before posting.)

No new vids from this channel http://www.youtube.com/user/BitcoinChannel in nearly a month yet prior to that he was posting up to 3 vids a day with very positive references to the future of Bitcoin price?

I notice he's been on the forums here recently however. He's also made no comments on his channel or replied to a PM I sent him a while ago. Odd  

Bruce is affected as well
The Bitcoin Show - Episode 033 - MyBitcoin, Contacting FBI, Discuss on Freenode https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34211.msg426546

And is very hands on with this situation
Make No Mistake: MyBitcoin is NOT Back Up!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34617.0