How long dose it take for me to be accepted as a normal user?

I have already been here long enough to witness one scam... dose that mean I win?

Well, right now I'm running the bit coin miner getting about 100mh/s on 3 Nvida cards. I'm not too concerned about losing money at this point (I'm not responsible for electricity), I'm more interested in getting Bitcoins. When the parts come this week, I'll be up in the 400 to 500 MH/s range using a bitcoin miner that is more economically friendly: but probably still won't be very profitable.

That's not what's important to me, what's impotent to me right now is helping to establish a currency that is something other then the dollar.

Being a miner is like being part owner of the Federal Reserve, you just keep taking little sips off the top and eventually you have a fortune.

However unlike the Fed with Bitcoin, all you need is a graphics card and you are part owner of it's Globule Reserve system. It's not quit equality for all, but it's a lot closer.

Looks like the two groups believe in completely different economic models.

Bitcoin is a better replacement for the dollar, me thinks.

the government and the hackers are at war: Bitcoin seems to be in the middle.

Difficulty is based on how meany nodes are on the network, correct? Growth will slow when miners realize it is unprofitable to mine, at the same time the value of the Bitcoin will go up thanks to increased scarcity.

It seems to me that the Bitcoin was not designed for stability. Oh well, just means you can make a ton of money real fast... but also lose it.

So a lot of people say that BitCoin is a scam because it only benefits early adopters.

This is true; but the thing I don't think a lot of people are factoring in to this is that all money systems are inherently scams. The Dollor, the Ero..  all currencies, benefit the issuer. Whoever prints the money, makes the money: that's been a fact ever since money was invented. Yet, you're still gonna use dollars even when it systematically takes money away from hard working middle class people and gives it away to greedy snot-nosed wall street Banksters. You're still gonna see gold as a highly valuable metal, even when it only goes to serve the reptilian overlords (lolz).

What I'm saying is: if you didn't realize going into this, that money is a scam; you're really not getting it.

This is very true, Bitcoin just got a huge surge of newcomers. People like me; right at the point where we are thinking about upgrading our gaming hardware. Looks like my next upgrade is gonna go to ATI this round. I probably will be mining at a loss just to accumulate some Bitcoins for a few months.

Anyone who decided to start mining now to make cash is going to be mining at a loss until the market balances.

^^ I'll take that as a no.

At lest Tor is getting increasingly easier to set up; then again I have no real reason to visit so...

Anyone notice that the government using it's super new spoofing technology to try and destroy Bitcoin as a currency?

I would just like to say I'm new: I found out about bit coin the other day from watching Adam vs The Man on RT; probably the same way the government did (lol)!

And I am not a robot. I am a real person.

I am not a lizard person.

When the price of the Bitcoin goes up, the number of miners mining goes up. When the price of the Bitcoin goes down the number of miners mining goes down. This all adds up to a situation where mining for bit coins is, overall, a 1 to 1 ratio.

The value going in is the value coming out.

It's in playing the market where you make your money.

I not into buying anything on Silk Road, too paranoid etc. but if one wanted to look just to see what they got, dose that mean you got to use Tor just to visit the site?

The public media in the US doesn't even take itself seriously. I doubt the corporations have a chance.