Version 1.0 will not be a beta, by convention. 0.9 will be the last major new feature update during beta. Incremental updates 0.9-1.0.

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I can only imagine how hard this is...

I'm over 400 GB in < 30 days...wow!

How the big fish see it:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/885843-banks-research-report-on-bitcoin.html

I hear ya. You are running a full node and you wonder at what level of economic activity on the the Bitcoin network will your bandwidth requirements force you to upgrade to higher bandwidth. Clearly the late stage evolution of all crypto currencies is to centralize in pockets around cheap, wide bandwidth, as well as cheap electricity. If keeping up with blocks now is your concern, you need to ensure you can pull 0.1 megabyte (0.8 megabits) per minute (~15 kilobits/sec) through your connection. If you are using a 14.4 kilobaud modem from 1994, you probably are gonna have trouble doing that now; but a modern 56k modem from 1998 might work just fine

Seriously though, bandwidth requirement right now is fixed by the 1 MB/block safety limit. It shouldn't trouble your connection too much!

...because I don't need dollars...

If you wait a long time it may become economical to spend your dust. The transaction fee defaults go down periodically as price goes up but most miners don't change the default settings; the next version of Bitcoin-Qt will hopefully have a market based, free floating transaction fee.

No need to share wallet.dat; just post all your addresses.

A Fin (after Hal Finney: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0)

How much ฿? A lot can be done if significant value lost. Don't write to drive.

A January 2009 address was used to send bitcoins to DPR. That's the thrust of the article and claim (probably valid) of Ron and Rivest.  Whoop dee doo.

Probably of no consequence but could shake the markets at a time no one can put fiat money into an exchange.

(Reposted in this thread with a more informative title...in case you were wondering why the identical post in the haha thread)

A January 2009 address was used to send bitcoins to DPR. That's the thrust of the article and claim (probably valid) of Ron and Rivest.  Whoop dee doo.

Probably of no consequence but could shake the markets at a time no one can put fiat money into an exchange. That's rather clever at least...

Yes. That's the Shamir as in rSa.

Now _that_ was funny. Classic!

I didn't think there was a way to estimate easily...one would probably have to poll a sample or pool operators to make a guesstimate.

Blockchain.info reports taint analysis. Is this bad or wrong?

What do you think of this company that is creating a whitelist? http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/13/sanitizing-bitcoin-coin-validation/

Tge question is, how are we gonna point out the ill defined nature of such a task and the impossibility of doing it perfectly? The people who will be making decisions that will heavily effect the value of your bitcoins are likely to want this in the Bitcoin protocol. That's not on the table, but, they might even think they can demand it.

We done white or black list our dollar bills by serial number. Why should we do this to our bitcoins? Such arguments are more helpful than an angsty "NO NO!".

Others are working on whitelists:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/13/sanitizing-bitcoin-coin-validation/

We need to fully think this stuff through. It's happening. We should be clear to separate what is part of Bitcoin the protocol and what is a possible feature/crippleware in a wallet program.

There is no do discussion of making any such listing part of Bitcoin the protocol (which is silly anyway).

I think the foundation needs to have a policy on the issue. It think it's a non-starter, but, the foundation will be asked about it and the entire community needs a reply better thought out than "no."

Besides, the government doesn't need permission to make it's own such list. It's not on the table to put this inside the protocol (the wallet, sure, but not the protocol).

I'll defined question, I know, but any justifiable estimate?

Specifically, can you answer Jerry Brito's tweet:
https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/401025057105125377

Call your congressman's office and ask. The congress reps are really approachable.

Edit: Rassah -- glad to see you are on the right track.