I'm going to vote total scam. They have nothing to invest the bitcoins into to get you interest. Selling them for another currency (in an attempt to create interest) would be too risky. I don't see how they can do what they say. I could be wrong.

THe expired option are now correctly gone from the "my contracts" section, but my funds are still in escrow. I have an extra 4 BTC and $10 being held in escrow compared to what I should, all from freshly expired options.

The developers are already working on this, of course, and it is a priority for the next release.

You can follow their progress here:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/232

Your pool might be rounding to two decimals. I know deepbit does this.

You can't paste the wrong receiving address, each address has a checksum to verify it's correct. You would have to get extremely unlucky to get a different address. 

My sources tell me aliens are using our hashing power for nefarious purposes. Make of it what you will. Take it of leave it.

LOL, I was really tempted to post something similar.

My cellphone was just hacked and someone stole a whole case of FUD. I've been saving that FUD, now I'm screwed. This is the end of everything, what am I going to do. If I don't have the FUD, Satan himself is going to kick my ass.

The expired options aren't gone again.

Sounds fishy.

Bumpy bump. I'd really like to see some data.

The 18 years number requires the network power to _double_ every month. That simply cannot continue without technological advances to match. We will reach a point were the growth of the network stays even with Moore's law, matching technological developments. Which will give us closer to 400 years.

Switching to SHA-512 would be completely painless.

Are you asking if it would be a good time to sell sometime in the next _18_YEARS_? I'm sure there are many more pressing concerns involving the right time to trade bitcoins then reaching "maximum difficulty" which is really a non-issue.

And no, I don't think something 18 to 400 years from now is reflected in the price. How would it be? What would it even matter? At that point there wouldn't even be a reward to block creation it would just be to store transactions.

I would prefer if you didn't use quotes from me to troll.

The maximum difficulty with SHA-256 is 2^224.

If we continue to double every month, as we have been, (which is very unlikely), we would reach it in about 200 months from now or 18 years. At that point the hashing power of the network would be gigantic. The network would use magnitudes more electricity then the entire world uses now.

If we just continue at Moore's law (double every two years), it'll be about 400 years before we reach the maximum difficulty.

And, if that happens, we just switch to SHA-512 which will give us another 400 of exponential growth. This modification would be simple.

And by the way, the "weaknesses" in SHA1 just make it so that someone can hash a little faster with certain algorithms. It would still work for bitcoins, the difficulty would just be a little higher.

I am not here for the speculation, and many others, much more than the 10% you give aren't either.

Trolls, trolls, trolls. Run. Hide your children, trolls.

Indeed, could you please confirm that password will not be stored in plaintext. If you could detail how they are stored that would be best. It is a topical concern considering mt gox.

Security in a transaction is different than security in the currency itself. Two different ideas completely. Investing in bitcoin is a speculative investment. You should never invest more in a speculative investment than you can afford to lose completely. There is a good chance bitcoins will never really get off the ground. Some people believe that there is also a good chance that it takes off in a very huge way and investment could make thousand-fold return.

You decide what you believe. No one (sane) on the forum has any interest in convincing you one way or another.

When the reward goes down to 25 it is just like a 100% difficulty increase. It isn't that big a deal. We've had > 85% difficulty increases and it didn't cause people to quit.

"25 minus 1.3%" gives you the wrong value, you need to type "25 minus 1.3% of 25". So if your story is true, it does not mean that mt gox was charging 1.3%. You just got your numbers wrong.

Honestly, the google thing looks like a bug. It should be able to calculate "25 minus 1.3%" correctly. So it isn't completely your fault.

Did your trades happen to be for 2 btc, because if so then your story checks out, the numbers are just wrong because of google.

My 10 char password was accepted. It used lower and upper, numbers and symbols.

If anyone actually installed this, let me be the first to say, you are a moron.

For god's sake, if your wallet is on that computer move your bitcoins ASAP.