Ok then here's my offer: I'll be delivering 6 (really good) Koestritzer to the first person bidding 110 BTC in the greater Zurich area

These aren't using the bitcoinr miners are they? It's using the standard JSON API, right?

Well the award for the first Pizza paid by Bitcoin's already taken, somebody needs a beer delivery for Bitcoins in Switzerland?

I'm pretty sure that I'll open source the protocol and wallet implementation, to improve reliability by peer review and augment trust in my code. What I'm still playing with is the thought of creating an Ad supported Android client, which would not be opensourced right away, since I know pretty good how that would turn out (people would just strip my ads and take the code and republish it without them). Since there is some serious time involved in creating the infrastructure needed to run an Android client (and the Java Protocol implementation for that matter) I think it would be nice to get something off it

Even if it's cold and twice the usual rate it still beats the Swiss Pizza delivery systems: they're incredibly expensive and always late!

Nice to see that we're over the micro-bitcoin increments.

Put down a 2.5 BTC for me ^^

ROFL, I like your thinking. But the idea was serious, most of the time people complain because of lack of seeders, why not let them put their bitcoins where their mouths are? Let them pay for seeders! The releaser gets bitcoins out of it and the users pay according to their ratio, users with a sharing ratio <1 pay for the download, and people with a ratio >1 get money for their bandwidth ^^

Nice to find people from around here, yes we should definitely grab a beer sometime.

1'000 BTC is quite a large order, I'm not sure I can spare that many at the moment :-)

Why am I starting to think about a private tracker that accepts Bitcoins as a way to say thanks, pay for leeching habits and reward seeders?

1.5 BTC

If he doesn't I do: I hereby bid 1 BTC for 1 eBay Share :-)

Would be nice to be the owner of the first share ever sold via Bitcoin ^^

Working on the Java implementation of the protocol: this protocol really has everything a Java Programmer doesn't like, lots of unsigned numbers (unsigned long requires to be mapped to BigInteger...) and little endian, which makes it particularly awful to read stuff from the wire. Anyhow today I read my first single message from the wire dump ^^
I hope in the lecture break I'll find some more time to spend on this one :-)

You're referring to this right?
http://veritas.maximilianeum.ch/bitcoin/irc/logs/2010/12/14#l3216

I already switched to the new server and it actually gives me a higher khash/s count, so my guess is that previously the server was slowing me down, while controlling my metahashes ^^

How many would you buy and where do you live? I myself live in Zurich so if your from Switzerland a meeting wouldn't be that far off ^^

I would like to change that: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2183
I guess a new address/account is good for sites keeping balances for their users but a reference id would be nicer, wouldn't you agree?

I myself banged my head against Wikipedia not allowing self published articles as references, but I understand the reason. I for one would love to have a respected expert take a look at it and actually put it under test, at least we'd know what we're all putting time and money into

That's settled then ^^
Looking forward to join the pool.

I'd be willing to host one of the pool miners, but I'm a bit strapped for time in near time. Also I'm wondering what resources I need. I can create a virtual machine with quite some resources but I cannot use all of the resources. May I host it through Tor?

A really easy way would be to release a statement distancing ourselfs from WikiLeaks, we don't want to do that either.

Let's just see if Wikileaks jumps aboard, if so, let's make the best of it (press notbaility, influx of new users) and if not, we'll still be at the same place we were before.

I guess that the whole discussion is going a bit awry, I'd hope that stores would put up a small access point for people to connect to when checking out. And actually there could be a lightweight setup keeping transfers low (do not request blocks you don't know yet) and just contact a single node which gets the transaction from you. That would allow people to quickly send transactions. As for the receiving side there is actually no way to tell it went through without listening for transactions and blocks.

With this setup spenders just need to transfer something in the order of 1-2KB, using 3G or even GPRS, while the receivers need an internet connection.