Come on, people.

Hasn't anyone seen "Fight Club" or "The Usual Suspects" ?

Zhou Tong is Chen Jianhai.

FWIW, I'm at ~3 BTC per day w/6-7GHash/S pool-hopping with Bithopper across Bitcoins.lc, DeepBit, and MTRed as my backup.

What are the negative ramifications of being un-score-able ?

I'm extremely fortunate, in that my wife and I are double-income-no-kids, and each have top-rated credit scores. I grew up in a culture of fiscal responsibility, mostly because of a family banking-industry history, so it is with a large degree of naivety that I make this honest inquiry.

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 Thank you again.

 Thank you for this summary. I had seen mentions of some of those theories on IRC and on BTC-E chat, but nothing as collected as your list.

 I do not plan on investing in any funds - I'm a miner and that's my investment there.

 I should have rephrased my initial question a bit; I'm not really concerned about Pirates activity damaging Bitcoin per-se, more like tarnishing it's image if his scheme collapses, in the same way I guess the Bitcoinica and prior MTGox hacks had "tarnished" the image... as if outsiders would say "Oh look at nascent Bitcoin and it's growing-pains with this latest bout of scamming thievery..."

 Apologies for the topic-necro then. Didn't mean to rustle anyone's jimmies.

 I was hoping for some responses like "No, it's not a ponzi, or damaging otherwise for this, this and this reason..." or "His market moving and pricing manipulation is nothing to worry about."

 I'm not trying to claim anything; merely try to gain an understanding of how he works and which mechanisms he is employing to maintain his payouts.

 Sorry, I'm a bit new to these forums (mainly reading the mining sections), it's only recently I've taken an interest in the long-term economic aspects of BTC, and became curious after watching pirate in action on IRC and reading the ensuing chaos (... and it was my first time visiting the IRC chat. What a show !)

 In retrospect, I should have fully digested the Economics subforum before making this query, but I don't have the time at the moment. Again, apologies for the topic-necro.
 

 Respectfully, not sure if this post is sarcasm or what, but if you could kindly point me in the direction of some Google search or Forum queries I should run, I'd be happy to read up further on any studies.

 I'm not sure which studies you would be referring to.


Again, not sure if this is sarcasm or not. I'm merely trying to understand how his "schema" works.

I've been giving some thought to how he's able to continue the payouts he's making, and something doesn't add up.

It seems like a classic Ponzi, but with his recent activity of market moving, something more sinister and damaging seems afoot.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

 If we're hit by a big enough solar flare to affect your FPGA, your FPGA getting toasted will be the least of your concern.

It's not. So much for thinking we should hold moderators to a higher standard.

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 Great. So if it wasn't bad enough that some moderators seemingly have no sense of objectivity, we now have a moderator endorsing and organizing gambling ?

 Diablo, it's time to step down. Your jimmies are way too rustled over all this BFL stuff.

 Better watch out. Jesus doesn't like prideful statements like this.

 Or I'm sure a ceramic-coated, PFC-free, metal pan would act as a pretty tremendous heat-sink for use as an oil-based popping solution.

 Either way, I think you are onto something with ASIC-based popcorn makers.

 I would buy at least one I'm sure the guys over at /r/subredditdrama would buy them in droves.

Diablo, dude, I love your mining software, I use it, but man you come off as sour-grapes with this post, and being overly melodramatic given the fact you are a moderator of these forums.

What's the going rate for 0.5mg of Xanax on SR ? I might suggest placing an order for one and calm down.

EDIT: Shit dude, I will GIVE you the BTC for 0.5mg of Xanax to calm down. Please don't flake out on us.

Do you deny having private code that increases performance, you are using it, yet you refuse to publish it because it would give BFL an out not to "properly" fix an apparent issue with interrupting stale shares ?

Are you using Chrome perchance ? I almost missed the small popup in the bottom right of the browser window telling me the page had changed, and to click the reload button; not sure why it didn't refresh automagically.

Edit: Chrome v19.0.1084.56, Mac, Adblock installed

6/25/2012, Order #2158, Trading in my current single for a Single SC

 Respectfully, how many hardware manufacturers do you know offer payment plans ?

 Just as I suspected Nothing sinister.

 Thanks a bunch for the response, and really looking forward to your new product line !