Should customers pay for the wrong information mtgox gives?

Please start researching and preparing.

Psychology has long understood that the stereotypical Hollywood imagery of people running panicked during a disaster is in fact a very rare case. Mawson's (PDF warning) social attachment model, for instance, fairly accurately describes the way we social beasts tend to flock together in times of crisis, gathering around what he refers to as "attachment figures" - our children, families, familiar places or objects. Even at a subconscious level, we recognize the obvious power in numbers and tend to group during times of distress, rather than run. In instances of panic, we tend not to run around like crazy people so long as there's something familiar to flock around.

Questions and comments welcome.

I've been trying to fully sync my (standard) client for weeks. My blk0001.dat and blk0002.dat are up to about 3.4GB total, and I'm about 98% synchronized. Is the multiple week timeframe typical or do I have something configured incorrectly?

So, what do you guys think about this idea?

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Probably it is safer to run some script locally than to upload original wallet.dat. I think it shouldn't be hard to modify fixwallet.py and wallet.py scripts from bitcointools (to add an inverse of "--clean" option).

I always purchased my bitcoins by using Bitinstant to bitcoin address and making a cash deposit at Bank Of America but now that Bitinstant no longer offers this option...is there any other service that has the same thing available?

I have three question all on the fictious bitcoin miner. (maybe someone who can put $1500-$2500 USD into hardware)

What would an average BTC yield be per month, day, or week for a solo gpu miner?

Great thanks! Is there any other?

New article just posted:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-04/bitcoin-seen-through-eyes-central-banker

The ECB has far more existential issues to worry about than whether people will be paying for that house in Calabria with BitCoin (they won't; at least not any time soon),

Is there a problem with my terminology? Probably. I've been looking into this stuff for just a day and a bit. I have not yet grokked how it all works together.

A wallet cemetery service.

Having bitcoin on many computers and virtual machines, I have many wallets that I've used at one time but don't think I will ever use again.  I'ld simply delete these but I never know if, for some reason, someone at a later time would send another transaction to the same address that is now in a dead, deleted wallet.

A service I think might be useful would be to accept my empty wallet as an upload, which would then import the keys from that wallet and associate them to my account.  If any funds are ever received to those addresses, I get a certain percent, and the cemetary service gets a cut for their efforts.  I would use it even if I only got back just half though I suspect the rate could not be too excessive or competition would emerge (and because I still might have the wallets backed up, the competitor could become even as far as ability to spend any coins that arrive.)

I do know that once the merge capability is in the bitcoin client that this cemetary service will be less necessary, but at the same time, uploading a wallet and entering an email address is going to be the simplest solution -- which often becomes the winning solution.

I'ld love to see someone offer such a service.

Any word on this?

As alluded to elsewhere, Wendon Group's petition to the New Zealand High Court to commence formal liquidation was approved on Nov 1. This comes after significant effort and legal expense for which Wendon Group has donated 100% of the cost.

The court appointed the principals of PKF Corporate Recovery & Insolvency to administer the liquidation. It will be their job to return funds to customers to the full extend possible. They will require the cooperation of MtGox and Bitcoinica's managing partners to accomplish this.

The British Museum is hosting an exhibition on the history of money around the world (http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/galleries/themes/room_68_money.aspx).

I came across this little gem there:

First, I've been seeing these messages saying, in part, "Cannot open source device ins /www/b/bi/bitcoin.it/www/phase3/includes/CryptRand.php on line 281.

This might explain why I'm not getting my confirmation email.

Does a site exist that provides the historical conversion rates in one place?

Or do I have to dig deep through the blocks