yes

also, you shouldn't be solo mining…there's little point to it.  Time to join a pool.

Bankers don't work weekends; with all the newbies who don't know the money stops flowing, they're surprised by the fall in price as we head in to sunday.  If it weren't for china, I should think we'd rise every morning and crash every night!

uh....not all that well....who knows, maybe they ~150k bitcoins they got were his whole stash.

I was able to compile bitcoind from https://github.com/donSchoe/ptsminer for OS X; that's as far as I can get; I'm not sure if ptsminer is supposed to compile on Mac or not...I'm no programmer, so it took me like two hours to fix all the bugs in the makefile.osx and get my libraries linked correctly...

Any news on a mac pool miner?

Oh, I'll keep my nodes running in validation mode to help others get started:

addnode 96.42.211.116:3888 add
addnode 96.42.211.116:3889 add
addnode 96.42.211.116:3890 add
addnode 96.42.211.116:3891 add

None of these are speed demons (the oldest is a core 2 -- not even a duo; I'm not even sure how much ram it has...)

seems to be compiling ok now...if you get stuck compiling db.cpp, change the makefile.osx to say:

 DEPSDIR=/usr/local

(instead of /opt/local)

make sure you have deps installed:

brew install berkeley-db boost miniupnpc openssl

(make sure you install berkely-db 4.8...this might be useful:
cd /usr/local
git checkout e6a374d Library/Formula/berkeley-db.rb (get right version)

brew unlink berkeley-db (unlink wrong version)

brew install berkeley-db (this should install the right version...but it didn't work for me...I'm trying brew install berkeley-db
4 right now)

(grrr....where the heck does brew put db4?)

I'm working on fixing the make file for OS X...I've got fair amount of brew installing to do first though...It's been too long since I've compiled stuff...

Awesome service to the community. Well done, sir!

I hear ya…my old MacBook does too (although I did find a block!)

Wow…much harder than that I thought it'd be! My 2009 mac laptop…no so much cutting' it!

Pgqh7CW6nrneH94NS3UG76UH2P3qjUgtR5

Awesome job all.  I must say that our community has been scammed a great deal and defenders with skeptical inquiries will always be needed; we're a motley crew and we all do our best. In time, we'll all get more used to expecting / using the awesome transparency that Bitcoin provides.

Well done Goat. Thank you for your support of the community.

Cross-posting my experience here:

Wow…Upload speeds are crazy fast (~2.8 MB/sec…likely limited on my end; see below). Program runs flawlessly in the background; no problems closing the laptop lid or rebooting.  It gracefully resumes where it got cut off. Functions similarly to Dropbox and allows the upload and download bandwidth to be limited independently.  So far very impressed.

Wow…Upload speeds are crazy fast (~2.8 MB/sec…likely limited on my end; see below). Program runs flawlessly in the background; no problems closing the laptop lid or rebooting.  It gracefully resumes where it got cut off. Functions similarly to Dropbox and allows the upload and download bandwidth to be limited independently.  So far very impressed.

Flag dimensions?  Hard trip. Mustn't be too big.

Busy in the hospital at the moment. What we have here are simple cultural differences (computer culture differences as well as geographic ones). It takes a little not-so-obvious work to fully utilize the transparency that Bitcoin affords. I don't fault anyone for not following what seems like standard operating procedure to many of us in the community.

Misunderstandings like this are to be expected with such a new technology. That said, I think we all should thank Thorkill/Sirius money for sponsoring this rather brilliant campaign.

Does anyone remember when John Matonis's Twitter account was hacked and started asking for donations? Stuff like this is going to keep happening until we all, as a community, come up with some best practice guidelines. I will be working with the Bitcoin foundation with input from members here to devise some guidelines for journalists and fundraisers.

To put my money where my mouth is, so to speak:
https://blockchain.info/fr/tx/958a8f11c0f27d2ec01eb5f5189a1b29082d8f88d42a90ff0f68535a4436c225

He's over ฿15 now.

Richard, the author of the coindesk article, interviewed Faysal via both gmail and his public figure Facebook account and confirmed the Bitcoin address with Faysal (the brave explorer). This is as legit as it comes without signatures and irc logs.

I think we need some best practice guidelines so folks not as accustomed to computer nerd security culture can make themselves stand out more clearly from scammers.

Again...I believe this address to be valid and Thorkill (the big 6.8 BTC donor/Sirius money) to be legitimately acting on Faysal's behalf.

Looks like the goal of €2000 was met. What we do not have is irrefutable proof that the donation address is valid (but no specific reason to think it's a scam either).

Looks like the goal is essentially met (€2000).

A signed message from the donation address is the next step. (In retrospect ought to have been my first step and the first step of any bitcoin journalist).