So you're suggesting we just hold a really large-scale video chat?

As a long-time Las Vegas resident, I can definitively tell you that this place was MADE for conventions. You will have precisely zero problems laying your hands on every last thing you need and you'll have no issues drawing attendees from anywhere in the U.S. since flights to Vegas are made often and cheap, we have massively developed taxi/public-transit infrastructure, etc. (Just don't hold it during the summer, that's suicidal)

Site is showing 502 bad gateway. Why no landing page?

In Soviet Russia, blocks mine you!

For bitcoin mining? I wouldn't. By the time you design a custom GPU solution you could have bought an FPGA board or designed an ASIC, which has the benefit of consuming far less power to do the same job.

+1

As it turns out there are a few good examples of cryptocurrency floating around right now. Bitcoin and Namecoin are currently the most noteworthy but certainly we shouldn't exclude the others. If this happens, NMC should DEFINITELY be mentioned.

A few months ago I actually got an automated email from TED informing me that someone had nominated me to speak about bitcoin. I personally feel there are better choices (Gavin springs immediately to mind) but perhaps my nominator wanted more of an end-user perspective than a developer?

In any case I will +1 this in every manner possible, I want us to get on TED and I don't care who speaks on the topic... Though I'd be lying if I didn't selfishly wish it were me

Just saying, I'm pretty sure my work would give me time off with THAT as an excuse lol.

I believe this is the stage we're in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ1L0ZhzGqo

+2 kuba_10

Bought some hyper-inflationary bank notes and he was honest and up-front about the condition of the bills, communicated well and the bills arrived very quickly considering they were postmarked from Poland!

Or he could have given each of you a new address because that's recommended standard practice

Then why bother listing it at a price you know you won't get? I love bitcoin and all but I can buy those for $150 ~= 14 BTC on ebay. I'm sure it sucks for re-sellers and hobbyists alike to have inventory that goes from $350 to $100 MSRP overnight but that's how electronics goes and you don't get to ask for the old price any more when the market is flooded at the new price.

http://blockexplorer.com/address/16yDAsjXs9a8rbPLpMfDJU33pgDGGABCrh doesn't see it yet, but http://bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/ does:

Aug. 25, 2011, 4:05 p.m. dcdfbf985b7ea21c276cf01b93abd134fa503c66df2e732573efa6b0277a1e82
This is a low priority transaction.
This transaction includes 0.00050000 BTC as fee.
size: 258 bytes
priority: 34,813,953
input: 4.99000000 BTC
4.99000000 BTC from f603d3c840f966b8ca24d97b25d0adcf2f1bbafdfd1ae5a1a6683ca6163767ea:1 (1LVJZFuHuvUNWwBuTUoU2KGKtGPxEMoWCT)
output: 4.98950000 BTC
4.53329757 BTC to 1EtKdePjVGaTNUPNsYDE1heNfXqYsCpqWC
0.45620243 BTC to 16yDAsjXs9a8rbPLpMfDJU33pgDGGABCrh

0.0005 BTC fee makes the transaction low priority so anyone paying more gets into blocks first. Just be patient and it'll show up

Edit: and kokjo said the same thing while I was typing Damn you for being brief!

I actually live in Vegas. I don't exactly have the resources to whip something up from nothing - least of all the TIME to do something of this scale - but I can say this: bring bitcon to Vegas and you WILL have a fair amount of local assistance and one hell of a turnout. I'd also advise that there should be a bitcoin booth at next year's CES and Defcon, and there may still be time for a booth at this year's HOPE.

Could always give browser footprinting a shot

At 168 hours (one week) inactivity time this is gonna be a LONG game.

http://bitcoinduit.com/watch_the_world_burn

25% ROI and a massive 25% jackpot should make this an interesting round!

+1

Had to do this myself once or twice. I understand it when I'm buying a board with one PCIe slot, small form factor, but if you're designing a motherboard with 2+ PCIe slots you HAVE to know that your market is probably gonna slap a full-length monster of a card in all of them at some point. Never understood why they couldn't use right-angle SATA connectors on the board itself or just not put them right under the flipping card, but they do and so right-angle SATA cables were born

That's actually what I meant, my language could've been more clear, sorry.

I just love that anyone is shocked that the guy who named his pool after the patron saint of goldsmiths is a hardcore catholic. I liked Eligius for a long time, it's a good pool with a good payout system. I found out about the big ball of crazy behind it a while back and voted with my feet (er... voted with my GPUs?). I can't blame the OP for wanting to disseminate the information, though I will say that there are probably more tactful ways to do so than posting "omg gaiz he iz nutball!!1!" on the forums.

Edit: Also apparently the patron saint of coin collectors, which seems more appropriate. I should probably read things before linking them 

In a world where I could've walked around streaming a feed from my freaking PHONE through the whole thing, I honestly am very disappointed not to have seen a dedicated web site with constant updates, videos, the whole nine yards. The documentation at defcon is better, and that's a conference full of people who try their best not to be documented. Bruce, I love you man but I am disappoint.