That sounds cool!  How much can you make in a year, probably maybe a half BTC?  My reason however is more immediate:  I need some small bitcoin so I can play around with sending and receiving it on Armory and some online wallets I have set up.  I have ordered bitcoin but it will take a week to get here.  Oh well...I just have to wait I guess.

Very interesting indeed.  Spendulus actually IMO hit upon a cutting edge topic in virology.  It's not well understood how viruses can spread.  For example, Magic Johnson's wife never caught HIV/AIDS even though she had unprotected sex with her husband for a long time.  And regarding Ebola, all the researchers were wearing 'bunny suits', and every incentive to be careful, and were trained nurses, yet caught the virus.  The discoverer of Ebola, a Belgian doctor, said something like if you rub your eyes when taking off your protective goggles, you can catch the virus, but I would bet valuable BTC that some of the nurses did not rub their eyes.  I think what Spendulus says is the key:  microdroplets.  And I bet (or hope) some researcher in the field at CDC and elsewhere is thinking the same thing.

What happens if your PC is turned off when somebody sends you bitcoin?  I am using Armory, which resides on my hard drive of my PC.  So if somebody wants to send me bitcoin in the next 48 hours (but I don't know when), I have to keep the PC on for two days?  I think so.

Next question:  suppose the PC is turned off when the bitcoin is sent, then what?  Does it bounce back to the sender?  Probably not.  Does it stay somewhere in the blockchain as 'pending' (I am guessing so), until you turn your PC back on?  If nobody ever claims this bitcoin, say their PC is destroyed and they never rebuild it, does the pending bitcoin become what is termed 'orphaned bitcoin'? (I am not sure but I am guessing so).

I think you are right lynn.  BTW, I have ordered some bitcoin, and it will be delivered in a week's time, but for fun, if you want, send me some 'dust' (sounds like drugs?!) so I can play around with sending and receiving bitcoin.  My public bitcoin address is in my profile, and is:  135D1oL8Ud6cCJZaSZ34pU2qrpC81xPQTi    I can send it back to you if the amount covers the transaction costs.  The smallest amount you can send is something like 0.00015 I think, or about a nickle in USD.

(1) you can give several addresses, but put the fake one at the top, and the rest being OK.  Chances are they will take the top one.

(2) http://btcaddr.es/gen  <--bitcoin address generator.  Why I have no idea

Sorry, what is a signature campaign?

Thanks Holliday. This is way off topic, so no need to reply, and I've built a few PCs from scratch, and recently added as a D: drive a HDD that was SATA, but what is a good way to switch your C: drive from HDD to SSD? and what is the protocol? and what is a good model (or are they pretty much the same, and use 'trim' I think they call it for efficient writing of data) for Windows 8 install? (as a Linux man you should be able to give me advice even for Windows, since you Linux guys are supposed to be so advanced, lol)

I think:

1) Backup everything to external USB drive using say Acronis or similar doing an 'image' .  Also since I use my D: drive solely for backups, I will also backup the C: drive to the D: drive
2) Use a special program to transfer from HD to HD?  No but if you think so I might.  I think step #1 solves this anyway
3) Install the SSD as your new "C" drive, clean bare metal.  Play around with BIOS to make sure it's recognized. I have a modern BIOS which does auto-recognition but you must enable AHCI switch for SATA drives
4) install Windows 8 from your DVD onto the new SSD drive (I have a copy of my DVD so this is OK, it's not a factory install where they don't give you a DVD)
5) once up, install your Acronis or similar program and then, from the external DVD, or, in my case from my "D" drive, reinstall everything back to the new C: SSD drive
6).  So not to waste a HD, and I don't think this is a performance bottleneck, once everything is running stable you can create a new "E" drive that has the (must first format) old C: HDD.  As I say I don't think this is a bottleneck, and actually I read somewhere that you are supposed to put the OS on the SSD as "C" drive but data goes on "D" or "E" drive(s).  I wish I could also put the blockchain on D: or E:, but though I saw some suggestions on how to do this, I'm afraid to do it.

Thanks.

Please post your experiences here, I am keen to know if the HD is the bottleneck; if so, I might switch to SSD.

Also where I'm at in southeast Asia the internet is usually 1.5 MBps, which is decent, but during installation it seemed the data for Armory was coming in in smaller than usual trickles (see this thread), but Kluge implied in his message this was not too off the mark (see his message).

I think maybe the HD is the bottleneck in my system...

Also I'm glad from Kluge's message to see Armory has the angel Trace Mayer pumping money and ideas into it, to make it more anonymous and robust.

Good question, and I suspect that yes, the way the program is written, every time you connect to the internet the Bitcoin Core will automatically 'synch up' with the most recent blockchain, and if that blockchain is compromised, the old, 'real' blockchain will be deleted and/or modified.

BTW, not to change the thread too much, but what's wrong with a 51% attack?  Unless the attacker was Al Qaeda, or North Korea, it would make more sense for the attacker to not rock the boat too much, and just slowly steal coins once in a while, but not too much, and post a notice saying:  "I will randomly steal 1% of any bitcoin transaction from time to time, but I will not steal 100%, so please, bitcoin user, continue using bitcoin."  And then, for PR effect, the 51% attacker can say: "I am taking 1% because I intend to give the money to a worthy charity and/or improve bitcoin, blah blah blah".   Right?

So use the rule of 72 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72) to estimate inflation:  most of the items have doubled since 1991, 23 years ago, so 72/23 = 3.1% inflation a year, sounds about right and not far from the official figure.  You are correct that incomes have not kept up, this is a well-known US / Western world economic phenomena. 

It's fine today.  It was only un-fine during the installation.  I never use Task Manager to set priority or do anything but monitor and occasionally kill a process--I don't trust it to work properly. 

Offtopic:  Armory is OK for me, as I say, but for non-power user I'm not so sure.  I will donate some BTC to the developers soon... I hear they or whoever backs them also have found a deep-pockets sponsor to take Armory to the next level, which I'm afraid is going to be a thin-wallet client for mobile phones.  A step backwards by the bitcoin community:  they should be figuring out a way of making bitcoin transactions even more anonymous (such as requiring mandatory washing of all bitcoins after every transaction, which would of course require one or more central nodes).  To make bitcoin more user friendly, by making thin wallets, where bitcoin user details are kept on a third party server, the bitcoin community is selling out to The Man by going down the path of non-anonymity.

Dumb motivational poster dude.  Because French guys are really into Asian chicks you'll find out if you travel outside the States...Vietnam and all.  Also, a lot of cute Asian girls, upon closer inspection, are in fact really cute...ladyboys.  It's really hard to tell, and I'm not talking about the obvious ones, but the ones that have all the plastic surgery done.  Hard but not impossible, which raises the question (which has been debated over a beer many times here in southeast Asia):  how much investigation do you do with a new date?  Where do you stop?  DNA test? The Crocodile Dundee test, which only old geezers will remember from the movie (reach between her legs and squeeze) is passe these days with world class plastic surgeons, many of which work in Thailand.

Trollin'?  That was a cheap shot if you're on a crypto forum.  Because we are all paranoid here....lol. 

For noobs, you would have a website that says: "generate a random new Bitcoin address from your browser!  No need to use your digital wallet, try it today!"  The noob would click on the link, and the bitcoin address would in fact be the address of the scammer.  Noob would cut and paste this into their wallet, online or offline, and hit "Send", when they are transferring money between their different wallets, thinking they are sending themselves money.  But any money sent by noob would go to scammer and not into noob's wallet, since it is the scammer's bitcoin address, and not a random new bitcoin address.

A foolproof scam.  Or am I the fool who is missing something?

Now that you mention it, everytime Armory boots up, the mechanical HD goes to 100% activity for several minutes, indeed, close to 10 minutes and counting while it syncs up with the network.  Should I get an SSD?  Armory is great but it's like a virus in terms of impacting my system.

Yeah those droplets can get mighty small.  Recall Millikan's famous electron oil drop experiments.  Imagine now one of those tiny droplets landing in your mucus membranes...and causing 'instant death' from Ebola!  Then you'll get the CDC saying that you were at fault for not wearing your respirator properly....

Reading this thread, you'd think the market was having a dull day.  Then I check out the DJIA, and see WOW!  it's down almost 400 points today!

Yes, good luck!  The vendor, if they are honest, is going to be having a battle with Visa, Mastercard, etc every time there's a claim by a dishonest buyer that no good or services were received from the vendor.  It will be interesting to see how this plays out.  It might even make new precedent, or at least end up in Yahoo News!  

Wow?!  Is this site for real?  If I do the math right, then 10k clicks only costs about 0.15 BTC or roughly $60 USD or so?  That's too cheap?  Anyway I bookmarked them, and might use them and see.

http://www.bitvisitor.com/getvisits.php
Get More Bitcoin Users Today!
Just 0.000015 BTC per visitor!

Yes, I read the ~2005 paper on rhesus monkey airborne transmission and it was not compelling.  As you allude to, a virus will evolve in a human to become less lethal, so it sticks around and infects people, the same way they say syphilis and small pox did.  As for asymptomatic transmission, the other day I read (I'm not in the field like you, this was a blurb in the lay press) that an Ebola patient can in theory transmit Ebola up to several months after being infected through sexual contact, when the patient is asymptomatic (that was the gist of the blurb).  So there's a fear apparently that perhaps the virus can be somewhat dormant in a post-Ebola patient and maybe infect others?  Or that was my understanding.  Anyway, I'm predicting disaster next year, and am 'stocking up' on my bitcoin.

TonyT