Tor has nothing to do with it. You have to "do something" (make a post, read a thread, even just refresh the page) every 15 minutes for your "time logged in" to increase.

jimmijames was quite a funny man.
But his limerick just wouldn't scan.
  He put up a good fight,
  But try as he might,
It just wouldn't work. But it can:

A man whose life couldn't be finer,
Decided to build the world's biggest miner.
  He called Butterfly Labs,
  After seeing the ads,
And now he's a poor dumpster diner.

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(Please only judge the first verse, as the second is (obviously) not my original work.)

A grocer once sold lots of oranges.
Alas, his slippery floor injures.
  When the customer sued,
  The grocer was screwed.
He lost everything, even the door hinges.

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There is. Go into Profile -> Look and Layout Preferences then set "Use quick reply on topic display" to "show, on by default".

No it doesn't. It's not post-scarcity at all. Even if goods and energy are free, real estate and professional services are still scarce and money will still be needed to trade them. </thread>

Same day I bought the computer. What else would it be?

There's nothing odd about that transaction. It has a single input, from this address: 1MbojQQSdNA2kVJT9rkkhBt2hqL8An9DgG in this transaction: b6bfd604bd4bb0227106d8e8d1b8e81f9ba3509470dee028512eae8dcf33594b. What's odd is that blockchain.info doesn't have that transaction, even though it was confirmed in block 238008, which blockchain.info does have, and it does show that transaction there. What's going on here?

EDIT: It looks like the first transaction was unconfirmed at the time the second transaction was made. That's the only thing in the least bit unusual that I can see. Though that sort of thing is far from uncommon and certainly doesn't explain why blockchain.info doesn't seem to know about the first transaction.

Who are you talking about? We don't depend on Gavin Andreson, as he himself noted in the article you quoted. Satoshi Nakomoto already stopped doing what he was doing, and guess what happened to Bitcoin as a result? That's right, absolutely nothing. If the U.S. government thinks it can shut down an international, open-source project by telling U.S. citizens to stop working on it, they'll find out the hard way just how wrong they are.

Because hardcore porn typically features men as well as women, and is therefore non-discriminatory. However, these men almost always have above-average sized penises, which I'm sure JohnRambo will claim is the result of a feminist conspiracy to make men with average sized penises feel inadequate. Or something.

No? If you want to mine with other computers, you have to actually run a miner application on each computer. Why would you even think that's not the case?

Of course it makes sense to create altcoins:

Step 1: Create altcoin.
Step 2: Convince suckers to buy it by telling them it is GPU- and ASIC-"proof" even though a) it totally isn't; and b) that's not even a desirable property to have in a cryptocurrency anyway (*cough* botnets *cough*).
Step 3: Profit!

Oh, you mean does it make sense for other people to actually use altcoins? No, not at all.

Actually, a satellite can be seized. It's impossible to hide, everyone on the planet with a telescope knows exactly where it is, and anyone with a space shuttle can go grab it. Of course, if you don't need to bring it back in one piece, there's an even easier option.

No. The effects of a 51% attack are only temporary. As soon as the attacker stops attacking, or is overpowered by legitimate miners, the network will instantly resume normal operation. Some people may have been ripped off the attacker's double-spends, and everyone will be forced to temporarily stop accepting bitcoins to avoid becoming a victim of a double-spend themselves, and the exchange rate will likely take a massive hit as many people lose confidence in the currency, but apart from that it'll be as if nothing ever happened.

Not true: ECDSA as used in Bitcoin is indeed vulnerable to quantum computers. Fortunately, real quantum computers of sufficient power don't exist yet, and likely won't exist for a long time.

(Sorry for stealing your name, by the way.)

I don't know about the UK specifically, but in general mining income is taxable as ordinary income based on the market value of the coins at the time you mined them (even if you don't sell them). If you later sell them for a higher price than they were worth when you mined them, you have to pay capital gains tax on the difference (if you sell them for a lower price, you have a capital loss; I don't know whether you can claim a deduction on capital losses in the UK).

But what if they're actually innocent? What if they're insane? What if their actions were somehow justified? It's not the lawyer's place to make such judgements. That's for the courts (treatment plants) to decide. A sewer conveys shit and water equally. It's up to the treatment plant to separate the two.

Because lawyers are like the sewers of society. See, they provide a useful service by helping society's shits (criminals) on their way to the sewage treatment plants (the judicial system), and if we didn't have lawyers, our streets would be completely full of shit. But not everybody understands that. They just think lawyers stink and see them as a convenient scapegoat whenever the system breaks down and a total shitstorm erupts.

No, that's not the joke. The joke is that a long time ago, 99 cent stores actually did sell things for less than dollar, after tax. For example, I have a first paperback edition of Biggles Flies West, which is now rather dated by its price tag: 3/6 (that's three shillings and sixpence), or 0.175 pounds sterling. A reprint now costs 6 pounds. In the book, Biggles and company dine at the "Jolly Shipmates" tavern, despite the exorbitant price (a whole shilling, or 0.05 pounds) charged for sausages and mash. Currencies in which you can't get a decent meal for a fraction of a currency unit are something of a novelty, and most people old enough to remember what prices were "back in the day" complain endlessly about how worthless their money has become. I think these people will welcome Bitcoin.