Oh cool, thanks for that link.   
 
A quick glance shows a few things I could use!

I'm looking for a website (or person/dealer) that sells parts for AR-15 for bitcoins.  Right now I'm looking for a (new) lower receiver parts kit, preferably from Spike's or Stag, or other high-quality manufacturer.  But I'm also looking for the rest of the build, from uppers, bolts, stocks, barrels, etc.

I mine on Slush's simply because when I started mining, his was the first I saw.  So without any research or anything, I blindly jumped in and don't regret it at all.  I did try btcguild at one point, but it "felt" like I wasn't making as much, so I switched back (but still use btcguild as a backup since I have miners set up on there anyway).

*whew* my coins are still safe on his server. 

I got into bitcoin when I saw it posted on Slashdot back in, oh June or so?  At that time it was ~$16 ea.  I bought a few.  Set up my GPU to mine.  When it was $30 I sold them all but kept mining.  Little did I know that the market would crash shortly after.   
 
Used the profit to buy some new computer equipment for my gaming machine.
 
I'm in it for the long haul, and have a couple troy ounces of silver that I purchased as well.   I like tangible objects, so I typically sell soon as I can afford something.
 
years later if they skyrocket in value, I'll lament why I didn't save.... but oh well, it's fun for me right now.

tl;dr version:  I hoarded toilet paper in college.

Long story:
In college one Sunday morning (while living in the dorms), I had to go to the bathroom.  So of course I go to the closest bathroom, but it's out of toilet paper.  Fine, just go down the hall... no toilet paper.  Ugh.  Go down a floor (I lived on top floor (3 stories)), check bathrooms.  No toilet paper, you've got to be shitting me!  (pun intended)

I finally found some in the lobby bathroom (of all places), but the lobby is usually disgusting.  This was no exception that day.  So I swiped out the remaining toilet paper roll (I left the one on the hook, but just took the spare) and took it upstairs to "my" bathroom.  Was happy.
 
But later that day I got thinking, so next day (Monday) when they cleaned the bathrooms and left new spare rolls of toilet paper, I swiped a spare to keep in my room.  But then that got me really thinking.  Everyday, except the weekends, the bathrooms are always replenished.  So about twice a week I'd grab a new spare roll, and keep it in the closet.  My roommate thought I was a little nuts... that is, you see, until one weekend he went to use the bathroom and discovered no toilet paper.    He then asked if he could have one of my spares (I had about 20 by this point), then he no longer gave me any shit (again, pun intended). 
 
By the semester's end, I had about 50 spare rolls.

ok, I get it now.  Thanks for the reply.

I'd like the ability to deposit btc and make interest on it somehow.  

Well I'll find out in approx 9-11 days... I calculated that's when I'll get .01 worth of interest.  


(er, assuming I'm using the correct formula for compound interest)


I totally had the wrong formula.  I'll find out in 4 months with my current deposit.

(can someone post a stupid formula that I can plug into Excel??)

Can someone dumb this down to the layperson?
 
I just deposited a small amount since I saw they paid interest.  Was I mistaken?  I don't plan on doing any trading, just wanted to have it sit there and collect interest. 
 
But I'll withdraw if I misunderstood this, or if I will end up being charged..

zhoutong>
 
Can you dumb this down for me?  I'm a complete n00b when it comes to markets, etc.
 
Can I treat this like a regular bank account, in that I can deposit my bitcoins.  Let them sit/accumulate interest, and then withdraw some or all at any time?
 
Is there a fee to withdraw or to use your service? 
 
Or do you make your money by "using" our bitcoins (like a bank uses our money), and then give us the interest as a way of paying us to use our money?
 
Do I understand this correctly?
 
Because I'm interested if this is all correct.

 
No, I did SETI@home for free until I discovered bitcoins.  So I'll keep mining these since it has great potential... better, IMO, than chasing green tiny men in rocket ships.

I put $1000 per.  With that I could finish paying off my house, and be tied to the banks no more!
 
I'd save at least one coin, maybe transferring at least one coin to other wallets I have.  But I'd definitely get my house paid off.

I read that the reason that "some regions" won't be able to cash out was due to like Korea or somewhere having a cow. 
 
So maybe there's still hope for us in the US being able to cash-out to Paypal or whatever they allow.

haha, yeah, before mining, it would be nothing that I might sit down in front of a game and just kill time that way, but now I have to ask myself, "Do you *really* want to play that game tonight?  At risk of losing that almost-daily bitcoin?"   
 
I've found myself getting more shit done around the house, fixing my boat, etc, etc.

er yeah, the latter.  I probably didn't word that very well in my original post.
 
I guess I just meant that if you love to game like I do, you can still do so... i've had games before that crashed when I tried to simultaneously mine, but with D3, I haven't had that problem.

So if you're a gaming nerd like me, you might like to know that you can play Diablo 3 and still mine nearly full-bore at the same time, and not taking any noticeable (at least that I could tell) hit on visible FPS.  Any FPS loss that I could detect seemed to be from network lag
 
If there were any hits, my eyes suck then, or I'm just too used to old crappy video cards
 
I wanted to try it so that I could still mine and have the miner use unused GPU processing power when the game wasn't using it, thereby keeping me from "wasting" when I was gaming.  That way it would be above zero during my gaming time, too.
 
Using diablominer

It disappoints me that you can't "cash out", tho.  Surely they could do something like 1099s or something so that the gov't wouldn't have a cow, too?

I suppose people might coordinate (from like maybe here or something) to join a game together and trade items for bit coins.
 
Like some ultra-rare item maybe sell for 100btc

Happy customer here.    I ordered a couple bars, they were shipped in a reasonable time, and got them today.