Now that I think about it.... is it Rassah??

500/~850 card entered into the spreadsheet.

Believe I also have an N64 with a few games somewhere if there's any interest. (No idea where it is, but don't remember selling it nor throwing it out)

ETA: Whoops. Didn't set it to auto-republish. List is now updated.
ETA2: Cards marked in the "Gym" set may actually be from the "Stadium" set. I didn't realize my mistake until nearly finished. If you really want to know which set they're in, PM me and I'll go through them again.

Making a list of the cards in stock. If you want it, make an offer. I'll bump the thread once I complete the list (it'll be organized then ): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ao892S4MOoDZdGtwa3lmeEJWLUlHSGtlVDE4VVFxZXc&output=html

Cheers.

Pffff. I've been trying to get a one-year mortgage for a few days.

Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff.

Ba-dum psshh!

(believe OP was selling apparel)

Right. Miners effectively now have the option of efficiency through MH/$ efficiency (the GPU choice) or MH/KWh (the FPGA/ASIC choice). GPUs are relatively cheap up-front, but are risky for those paying a "reasonable amount" for electricity. As adoption of power-efficient miners increases as a % of total miners, there may be less resistance against a higher difficulty and lower price. That is, where old data show miners seem to drop out when Bitcoins lose value (whether this is because interest in BTC drops or because mining becomes unprofitable is up for debate) - what we may see in the future is that when price drops without a difficulty adjustment, GPU miners stop mining, but FPGA/ASIC miners keep going because, in any short-term scenario currently conceivable, there's no reason not to.

If difficulty remains where it's at now, and the price of BTC drops to $1, there isn't much reason for FPGA/ASIC miners to stop mining, because they don't pay much to create the coins. Many GPU miners, however, would not be willing to pay $5 in electricity to produce a good worth $1. Instead, in the future, difficulty may stop decreasing, and only increase at a slower rate when price drops. Just as CPU miners are now laughable, GPU miners may soon suffer the same fate, and in the future, were the market to adjust to having the majority of miners using high-efficiency FPGA or ASIC rigs, those too may eventually be superseded by something brand new and even more efficient.

As for "high power cost" (which was a bad phrase to use, but I'll run with it) - I'd consider that any amount where mining on mid-range ATI cards is unprofitable, which I'd guesstimate is something like $.15/KWh. Using that definition, and assuming FPGA/ASIC cards continue increasing in usage as miners, "high power cost" will lower with time, perhaps in a couple years settling at something like $.04/KWh.

(Quick disclaimer: I wouldn't be surprised to learn I'm overstating the impact of higher-power-efficiency hardware. It's a pretty big investment to buy something which has little existing demand outside of tiny markets, and which costs multiple times more than GPUs. I have no idea what % of miners run FPGA rigs. Maybe 5% currently, maybe .05%. In two years, FPGA miners may only make up maybe 3% of the network's total hashing power. *shrug*)

First off, my bought-in-April-2011 GPUs paid for themselves, including electricity costs and excluding the liquidation value I got from them after I sold a couple weeks ago. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out, but also pleased I got out when I did -- I'm not too far away from losing money with my remaining card at the rate I pay for electricity.

1) Not worrying. If my math is correct, 7.2k Bitcoins "should" be created every day with a 50BTC reward. The mysterious solominer finds roughly (from someone in a previous thread) 1/15 of the blocks. 7200*(1/15)=480BTC, which really shouldn't move the market much, even if the coins were being sold "fresh" every day (also worth noting the coins which are on market due to mystery-miner always selling all his coins doesn't necessarily equal 480 coins being put on the market which wouldn't have been there otherwise given the miners who would've otherwise received the coins also selling their coins as they're "produced" -- it's likely just increasing the % of total coins produced in a day being sold, again assuming mystery-miner sells his coins as mined). When the reward halves, mystery-miner's daily reward will be 240BTC, which isn't very scary at all.

2&4) I think it's safe to assume FPGA "market share" of the hashing power is rapidly increasing. Even if the market "adjusts," that doesn't mean GPU mining will be viable long-term, especially when/if we see good results on ASICs. I imagine FPGA/ASIC efficiency (rather, the cheaper cost to "create" a Bitcoin using that kind of hardware) would keep most miners happily churning out coins even at a lower price and higher difficulty -- there's not really any reason an ultra-efficient FPGA should ever stop mining and selling unless they're hoarding and hoping for a better price or the value of Bitcoins becomes near-worthless. That said, there will always be a large variation in what people pay for electricity -- for someone paying something negligible or someone paying nothing for electricity, they'd be foolish (barring revolutionary new mining hardware) to not use GPUs in their situation. In that situation, it will always be more cost-efficient (again, barring a future scenario where ASICs or something have better Mh/$ efficiency) to run GPUs.

3) Not sure I understand. I don't think electricity providers are raising their rates due to increased demand caused by Bitcoin mining.

CD rates have been increased. Please check OP for detailed information.

All CDs purchased in March prior to the CD dividend rate increase will be given the new, higher % at time of payout.

Maybe more like selling soup at a soup kitchen, and paying the soup kitchen the give samples of the advertiser's soup. ... Or something like that.

1) Not everyone who's clicking relevant ads (even when paid) are Bitcoin-poor
2) Not everyone who's clicking relevant ads are uninterested in the content

Looks to be geared toward US residents, and if it's like many similar sites, only acts to charge for public information.

No. His father isn't responding to contact requests and some of the contact information on him is invalid. Without knowing his father *is* his father, and without knowing for sure where he lives, I'm not willing to send sensitive information to the address I have, especially not with everyone's real name on the letter.

If another lender would like to take this up, I'll gladly turn over the written-up document and all information on DI & alleged father I have.

If you have the coin, I'm now willing to consider offers entirely in BTC, though I would like significantly more than asking price as I'll need to sell off a good number of the coins (at least half to give to the other owner) and I suspect I'll run into serious slippage issues.

Interested in the first house sold for Bitcoin? PM me!

I have to go out-of-state tomorrow for almost the entire day, but I shouldn't have any problem getting it done on Sunday.

Cheers!

I've been digging through basement of yore trying to find a particular system with games. Oddly enough, haven't been able to find it, but I've found plenty of other systems.

If you're interested in any of these (or want me to dig for particular games) for an amount worth more than the time and effort digging back into all the unlabeled boxes (after postage), please let me know (all of these are assumed working and come with proper adapters -- I think one of the C64 units doesn't function correctly, and the tape-reader for it might be quirky):

*Sega Dreamcast, at least one controller (with the quirky LCD/save cartridge in it - though the battery in it's dead), probably at least 5 games somewhere. Not sure where Dreamcast went off to - still looking.
*1 N64 with few games, expanded RAM, and a couple controllers
*1 PSX unit with one controller, one memory card, and a good few games
*1 NES unit, no controllers, no games
*2 Sega Genesis units (I *believe* both are the newer, smaller models), couple controllers, few games
*Large bag of Atari(?) games
*2 C64 units with assorted modules (RAM expansion module, joysticks, disk-reader, tape-reader), at least 50 disks/tapes for it, productivity, games, weird shit the previous owner had
*VIC-20 unit (I had this working at one point, but don't recall if it was compatible with everything on the C64)
*Embarrassingly large cache of Pokemon cards in a box (more embarrassing because this's after I dumped another large box of them a couple years ago while cleaning). If there are some which particularly interest you, just ask and if it rings a bell, I'll look for it. They were all organized, but appear to have just been dumped in a box. Even so, vast majority are in excellent condition. These were collected ~1999-2002 -- don't believe I have any first editions. Sold!

If you're a collector, know I'll dump the vast majority of unpurchased goods into a trash receptacle.
If you're an eco-freak, know I'll burn all of these plastic components, probably burn down the surrounding trees in the process. As well, when nearby houses burn down, they will replace their charred wood with petroleum-based products.
If you're a gold bug, know I'll scavenge the components for gold, melt it, and sell it to devalue your holdings.

Items are shipped from the US.

Please don't make me dig for specific items without being willing to pay at least 1BTC + shipping.

Had I read the error message entirely, I wouldn't have wasted your time.  I did have .004BTC, and it demanded .0005BTC fee, which I was trying to ignore. I can send .0035BTC with .0005BTC fee, no problem, and that satisfies my desire not to look at a balance of .004BTC in a wallet. Sorry about that. 

I'm not involved with Bitmit beyond using it for sales and purchases (and collecting very minuscule referral fees). However, I happen to know the fellow who sells the baklava (if we're talking about Mandrik -- never heard about that article, though  ) from somewhere else -- he's a Ron Paul activist.

You can get the best of both worlds by investing, either directly yourself or by giving the coins to someone else to manage, receiving either a set MPR rate (CD or bond), or buying a share in a fund.

This offers a few huge advantages over just holding the coins:

*The value of Bitcoin needs to fall over 30% to 400% in value (depending on who you loan your coins to [/ invest your coins with]) per year against various fiats for you to actually take a loss (assuming no scam) due to declining BTC value.
*BTC is reinvested (effectively "spent") in the community. Further, with investments in productive business, the economy expands even moreso than it would just purchasing goods/services.
*You don't need to worry about somebody stealing your .dat or .wallet files. Somebody handling exponentially more coins than you likely has exponentially better security. That said, there's also the risk of fraud on the part of the person you loan to, or invest with.

Disabling the minimum fee still requires >.005BTC to send. I wanted to consolidate a wallet (the sending wallet contains .004BTC) out of OCD tendencies and ignore the fee (as I'm unable to pay it), but was prevented from doing so on the basis that I cannot cover the fee (even though I set it @ 0BTC).

That's where I lean. Bitcoin (or something similarly convenient & secure) is part of my "perfect world."

Updated OP. Accepting up to $5k in BTC.