actually, you called everyones scheme fraudulent, by claiming yours is the first non-fraudulent ever (which obviously isn't true).

huh?
since when do miners know, or tell about how many coins we have in our wallets?

check your deepbit-account, it'll tell you how much you earned
and if that amount has been send to your wallet, your bitcoin-client will show,
miners won't do that, they're supposed to generate hashes, nothing more than that.

maybe he's calling mine fraudulent,
but then again, i'm not taking a cut to "..gain the ability to finance [my] day-to-day needs", 100% of all investments go back to my users.

that's untrue,
at current difficulty and market-prices it would take just about 3months to pay the 50bucks for a HD5570,
so in about 4-5months you'd be in profit.

running 45CPUs at 100% probably won't gain you any profit ever.

maybe you should get some cheap video-cards to plug into those machines,
a single HD5570 would gain you as much hashes/s as your whole cluster at an equal power-cost of 1 CPU at 100%,
45 of them and you got a nice and cheap mining-farm.

why do you think that all coins would lose value to zero, as soon as a new currency arrives?
it wouldn't actually have a big impact on Bitcoin,
Bitcoin would still be as functional and useful as it is today.
people would just trade bitcoins for that new currency and vice versa and maybe (!) over time bitcoins will lose value, but people also might choose NOT to use the new currency for whatever reason, noone can tell.

cuz they can?

no, the 31% are 100% your minings earnings,
what you share in a pool is your LUCK, not your earnings,
your (expected future) earnings do not depend on the number of blocks you found in a given (past) timeframe.

you've been just very lucky to be the one finding those blocks for the pool (not that it matters for yourself),
how could you tell what would have happened when you would have been mining solo?
you could have made 200BTC, or 500BTC, or none at all, noone can tell.

don't feel sad, the fun part about pools is, that you'll also receive your 62BTC (or less while difficulty rises) without finding any blocks at all.

not sure if that matters, isn't it actually more important where you are? 

that it's not available in my country is only what i read on my quick-search anyway, i might be wrong here,
as said i don't use Steam, so i never used one of these vouchers, or the Games menu myself to Activate a product on Steam.

can there be enough exchanges?
everyone should exchange whatever currency to BTC and vice versa, then noone would have problems to cash-in, or -out.

my bad, but you got the idea. 

it's not easily manipulated because of that ratio,
it's easily manipulated because of the small economy-size of just around 5million USD,
every "one guy" with a couple of million USD to spend can manipulate the market.
to distribute the coins in some different way wouldn't change anything.

what i don't get is, what this has todo with fairness?
"wealth-distribution" will never be fair, no matter what currency we use.

maybe he's buying coins daily from the market, no need for him to "truly mine" them.

we should be glad that here's one more service-offer for bitcoins, instead of dollars, isn't that exactly what the bitcoin-economy needs?

and what's the point in converting dollars to bitcoins by leasing hardware and wait for months,
if you can buy them cheaper within a few days (if it takes that long to transfer your dollars to LR- , or MTG-dollars)?
 

if most people give up mining, because it's not worthwhile, less people mine more blocks and get more fees in a shorter timeframe, what again makes it worthwhile to them.
i don't see a tragedy here.

and what exactly do you have todo with bitcoincharts, or that list?
i expect you to donate to tcatm, or was that your plan anyway, to send all donations to him?

i might fart a few times today though

i'm glad there's finally some competition,
but even at the actual $0.5 per MHPS and current difficulty- and price-level, renting such a rig is still more expensive then to just buy coins on the market (not to mention homegrown-coins).

uhm..no,
thing is, you can create multiple accounts with different usernames, but only a single mail-address.

i guess you only have one account, so just let me know your email-address and i'll tell you the username. 

sorry to say, but...well, long polling actually isn't as efficient as you want it to be.
no idea what it's like for others, or on other pools, with long polling i get ~0.90% stale shares, without long polling i get ~1.05% stale shares.

that's not really much of an improvement.

it seems i get more and more of these
while already using latest m0mchil's python miner.