Though, with Bitcoin (and the various Poker sites, and I read there's some strange LotR online thing involving physical slot machines), the casino is in your house. 

BDK & BCB aren't banks, son los bancos. Huge difference.

We don't offer demand deposit services, we offer services which aren't necessarily guaranteed to be paid when the depositor wants.

"BDK" & "BCB" don't offer loans or issue CDs (and by "CDs," I of course mean personal loans issued to us), we do.


Thanks to laws, consumers win.

Chinese. We can stop fucking around with incomprehensible Engrish and have Theymos directly translate everything. Tons of good information and products in Chinese, but often, the translation to English & Western numbering systems makes it difficult or impossible to understand. There could be a "Request Translation" button near the "Report" button which requests Theymos output an English version of the text in the post. How much would he charge for doing that, I wonder.

Hmmm.... It'd be funnier if the "ou" had a long "u" sound. Jew-Tong'd. (spoken as a Pollock)

Invisible Hand doesn't work very efficiently without all parties being informed ("creative destruction" isn't necessary if parties pulled their money out prior to the "destruction" -- that's a concept only logical when a company's already insolvent and unprofitable). Threads like this are necessary. (not that I agree with Atlas, though I like the concept of p2pool)

Most of my family stuff should be done and I ought to be able to reply in a timely manner. Cousin's husband most likely (according to the same doctors which said he had a 98% chance of having lymphoma) does not have lymphoma. They found two tumors (instead of the one they previously thought), but they're liquid-filled and thought to be benign, though they're waiting on another biopsy.

The I/O report for March is completed, and April's has been started. We ended the month with ~฿60 in profit (excluding profits from equities), with over ฿4 pushed to IBB & BTC100 (these donations should finally start to be significant in May as "forked" loans expire). We begin April by writing off >$400 in loans, though I still expect profits for April to exceed the value of last month.


Other Recent News:

     S² Capital Management recently made their first deposit which should signify the beginning of a long, mutually-beneficial relationship. First dividends to S² will be made on Tuesday, and each Tuesday after.

     The transaction to get in on Goat's latest (and, IMO, his most interesting) project has gone through. I'm looking forward to being able to talk about it. Also considering investing in his Spread Bot.

     For better or worse, I have gone through with investing more directly with Pirate (currently, only ฿100 is invested in Pirate without it being insured by someone else). I have received a PM from someone who was interested in buying a CD who then cancelled because of this gamble. While I don't yet intend to change course (expecting ฿1000 in Pirate within a few months, though that's the hard limit), I would like to just point out that ownership equity far exceeds not only what I have in Pirate now, but the limits I've set (฿1000 in an insured program, ฿1000 uninsured), so if Pirate defaults AND the insurer defaults, ownership equity will still exceed liabilities -- BDK will still be solvent.

     CD rates will remain the same for the month of April.

You are correct. They pull ~200W way less than 400W. 

What did you learn from your experiment?

How many coins were taken? Do you have any data on the people whose coins you took? Or was it just, "could I do it? Would they really download it?"

Good idea. Ordered. Thanks. 

Nutella, raw onion, jell-o with vegetables in it (WHY?!).

Finished the ULINE catalog. I've seen every single product they have to offer and probably read the description for over 80% of them. I know the different width & tensile strengths of their cable ties, know the NRR of their various ear plugs, and know the load capacity of their shelving units. Next up is product/# memorization. The 5+ hours I put into memorizing these prior to BTCMag arriving will save me minutes if I were ever to order packing, organization, cleaning, and/or trash receptacles over the phone.

Any updates on when this will be back up, or if owner is even aware of issue?

Alright, I'll contact them, too, to make sure there is no free shipping on $99+ orders. They say the product needs some specific icon near it to get the free shipping, but that icon doesn't seem to be on any of their products, so Idunno. Maybe it was something they discontinued and never bothered updating.

It's still a reasonable deal. I was paying ~$5/lb before. Thanks! 

Just thought I'd make this more visible since I'm still getting a steady stream of PMs. There's something up with my Dad, too. I'm not sure what, but he never calls (ETA: And that tid-bit of info is relevant because he did call, three times yesterday while I was sleeping - no message). I'm going to be out-of-town between 4/9 and 4/11, too, for something unrelated to all this. I don't carry anything which connects to the Internet while I'm away from home. I'll update as I know and try to give time-frames on when I'll be slower to respond than usual. Please don't quote my phone #, and please don't call between 5pm-8am US Eastern (and PLEASE don't call me for the sake of conversation).

Thanks. 

Hmmm I didn't realize "Whole & Broken" was its own grading category with "up to .2% foreign material in any order including but not limited to shell pieces, rocks, or twig material."

If you can find the free shipping code (I don't see it mentioned on their site, and shipping costs $60 using their estimator at checkout), these @ $3.79 a very fair price: http://www.justalmonds.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Nonpareil_Supreme_23-25

The first two batches were tests. I still lack licensing, and am working on securing the most optimal ingredients & packaging (see sig). On top of that, I don't want to send out something I'm not sure of. I don't want a variation of the recipe going out if not satisfied by it. I stand by our coin-back guarantee and have no interest in encouraging refunds to be sought with poor granola.

Covered. Please pay 1.725BTC to 1PiwducwmfkEqoVSxZH5G3nfeQetf2PY9D when able.

Cheers!

In 4-10 weeks, yes, that's intended to be an option. 

This was already covered @ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74513.msg824777#msg824777