Did you even read that paper? It's a technical paper, describing the basic details of how the various components of the Bitcoin system operate. There aren't too many adults who could understand it, let alone children.

So, you're saying I can't buy infinity bitcoins for 1 cent? Damn, I had plans for those infinity bitcoins!

Also, what the heck's going on with your domain?

I would want people to find out about Bitcoin on their own terms. Trying to force it on people is just going to turn people away from it.

This idea is not merely mistaken, it's possibly the single most ill-conceived idea in Bitcoin history (and that's saying something).

Why? Giving different addresses to different people is not just a good idea, it's downright necessary if you want to be able to keep track of where your money's coming from. Limiting users to only serves no other purpose than to make things needlessly difficult and complicated.

Why? To prevent people from getting the bonus multiple times? What about proxies? Or NATs? Did you think this through at all? Or is this just to make it easier to trace transactions back to a specific user?

You're telling people what they can and can't install on their own computers now? To what end? What's stopping people from just putting Tor on their network gateway and connecting through that?

Seriously? What. The. Fuck? Suppose someone installs this Bitcoin Promo Wallet, sees that it's a steaming pile of bullshit for all of the above reasons, tries to uninstall it, only to find out they can't even get this crap off their computer? What then? They're going to decide that this whole Bitcoin thing is bullshit spyware that takes over their computer, and when they finally clean up the mess they're never going to want anything to do with Bitcoin ever again, that's what. This whole thing is designed to just get people totally pissed off at Bitcoin.

You know what I like about Bitcoin? The fact that nobody's forcing me to pay money for bullshit reasons. I seriously doubt you're going to get many supporters with this nonsense.

Bitcoin is like PGP in that in uses public-key cryptography for digital signatures, but differs in all other respects. I don't know what you mean about "code that can be fractioned"...

Actually, bitcoins are stored in the blockchain, a public ledger that everyone has access to. Addresses link bitcoins to public keys, and the wallet stores the correspoding private keys which are used to sign transactions.

If you don't know anything about him other than that he is referred to as "this guy", then it's a distinct possibility... However, it's also possible your software hasn't fully synchronised with the network (which will take a very long time (usually several hours) the first time you do it, so be patient). Assuming you're using the standard client, you will see a green check mark in the bottom right corner when it is fully synchronised. If you're seeing circling yellow arrows instead, you just need to wait a while (assuming there's nothing wrong with your connection, which you check by hovering the mouse over the icon immediately to the left of the circling arrows - as long as you've got at least 1 active connection, you're good).

Good luck finding a radium watch these days. Glow-in-the-dark watches now use tritium, which is much safer and much more useless in an RTG. (Though an RTG built from household radiation sources would be pretty useless anyway.)

Three possibilities:
1) This is a net-gain fusion reactor, which is impossible because the described process has nothing to do with nuclear fusion, or anything else even remotely plausible (the "theory" of hydrinos has been repeatedly debunked as pseudoscientific nonsense).
2) The first law of thermodynamics has been broken, which is especially impossible.
3) This is a hoax, just like Brown's gas and similar "discoveries".

My money's on number 3.

You must make five posts, and spend four hours online.

Switzerland isn't even a member of the European Union, let alone the Eurozone. Ignorant American indeed.

Damn. And here I thought yellow was a combination of red and white...

Bitcoin has a fixed monetary base of 21 million BTC, which will never increase or decrease. These coins are initially distributed (as mining rewards) at a limited and constantly decreasing rate, and once they have all been distributed, no new coins will ever exist. However, this will not be the end of Bitcoin, because the initial distribution of new bitcoins is not the only reward for mining: miners also collect transaction fees. Although transaction fees currently only make up a small fraction of the total mining reward, this will change as Bitcoin becomes more popular, since more transactions means more total fees (assuming the fee per transaction stays the same).

The number of coins in circulation (as opposed to the total number in existence) will slowly decrease over time as people accidentally lose them, however it is virtually impossible for all the bitcoins to disappear (since that would require that everyone loses everything), and because Bitcoins are divisible the economy can continue to function normally even if only a single bitcoin, or a fraction of one, remains.

+1

I personally don't mind spending and receiving stolen coins for exactly this kind of reason.

My address too. We can split the stolen coins equally. That seems like the fairest thing to do. Any other takers?

Specifically, some viruses include a copy of cgminer (or other miners) to use unsuspecting people's processing power to make some money for the virus creator. Some anti-virus programs seem to think that the miner itself is the virus, when they're actually targeting the wrong program altogether. If you installed cgminer yourself, then it's definitely a false alarm, and you should consider installing a better anti-virus program than the one that comes Windows.

FTFY

A GeForce 210? Are you serious? That has to be one of the absolute worst cards for mining that is even capable of mining at all. But don't worry, for there is a way to increase your hash rate with this card: Enable CPU mining. That should at least double the hash rate you're getting from just the GPU. I wish I could say I was joking, but I'm not - your card really is that bad.

Or you could just buy a better graphics card.

It's not OK, it is stealing and it is a crime, but since we have no cops, the best we can do is give bulanula a big sign saying "SCAMMER" which he has to wear for the rest of his life* as a warning to others.

*He actually only has to wear it until he gives the money back and then he can put this all behind him, but he's made it clear that he's not going to do that because he's just that much of an asshat.

I think you mean irradiate (bombard with radiation), not radiate (project in all directions). You'd need more than a single nuclear plant to actually radiate half the planet.

Yeah, but facebook doesn't tell sheeple that they're being sold to advertisers, except in their ever-changing privacy policy that nobody ever reads. If they were more open about their sheeple-selling practices, there would be no problem, except for the fact that sheeple would no longer join them in flocks.

Um, 5000% is 50 times, not 5000. Which is it?

Yes, they're selling you to advertisers. They openly admit that. That's the whole point of free bitcoin sites.

Of course it's possible, since all transactions are public. It's possible to trace a particular coin's entire transaction history all the way back to its generation and look for transactions known to be illegal. It's also possible to go the other way, and look at a particular illegal transaction and find out where all those coins are now.

The real question is what should be done about tainted coins. I personally think nothing should be done about it, except investigate illegal transactions as soon as possible after they are discovered. Preventing people from using tainted coins would harm innocent people more than it would harm criminals, since criminals are likely to launder their coins (putting them in the hands of legitimate users) before anyone even realises the coins are tainted.

I, for one, am perfectly willing to buy/accept tainted coins, in the same way that I don't care that at least half of the notes in my wallet probably have traces of various drugs on them, simply because I have no way of knowing whether the person paying me is really involved in illegal activity, or just happened to receive money from someone who was. I don't want people's money to be made worthless just because they may be a criminal. That's not how a civilised society is supposed to work, and goes against everything that Bitcoin stands for.