Easy fix: Write them an e-mail or a message signed by a BTC address that has 100,000BTC on it. They'll get right on it then.

The client already allows you to encrypt your wallet, making stolen wallet.dat files useless. It's just that some people are paranoid about having both, a key logger steal their password AND a trojan steal their wallet.dat at the same time.

Hi. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to work with a company like yours. I e-mailed you yesterday with my info. Do you guys have any finance people on staff? I have a few suggestions for your site, but I don't want to give them up unless I'm either working with you, or building a competing service. Another bonus, I speak Russian, so can help you expand into Russia and Ukraine as well.

f*ck. You sound just like I do  Don't go impersonating me over the phone.

Hi. I'm looking to start a crowdsource lending business based on Bitcoin, similar to Lendingclub.com or btcjam.com. I have some ideas on how to compete and make the service better, but need others to help get it started.

Specifically, I am looking for a BTC software developer(s) who can help me code the site, and is willing to work with me. I have an extensive financial background, including experience with lending and loan risk evaluation, business development, management, and entrepreneurship, but too little experience writing software (it has been at least 7 years, and I am not willing to risk banging out sloppy code for a financial business). I am willing to provide the funding to get this thing off the ground, and would be working in the finance and business development capacity. I'm obviously also willing to take a fair proportion of profits. I.e. I am not looking for a programmer to do all the work while I just "manage" over his shoulder, then take all the profits. I am looking for a business partner with whom to share profits (or if need be, an employee, though I won't be able to pay any decent salary at first). I have some ideas for how to make this business work right now, despite bitcoin's deflationary growth, as well as how to make it more competitive than btcjam.com, and with less liability for the business.

If you wish to see my resume/qualifications, or get more details on the business idea, please PM me.

Hi. I'm looking to start a crowdsource lending business based on Bitcoin, similar to Lendingclub.com or btcjam.com. I have some ideas on how to compete and make the service better, but need others to help get it started.

Specifically, I am looking for a BTC software developer(s) who can help me code the site, and is willing to work with me. I have an extensive financial background, including experience with lending and loan risk evaluation, business development, management, and entrepreneurship, but too little experience writing software (it has been at least 7 years, and I am not willing to risk banging out sloppy code for a financial business). I am willing to provide the funding to get this thing off the ground, and would be working in the finance and business development capacity. I'm obviously also willing to take a fair proportion of profits. I.e. I am not looking for a programmer to do all the work while I just "manage" over his shoulder, then take all the profits. I am looking for a business partner with whom to share profits (or if need be, an employee, though I won't be able to pay any decent salary at first). I have some ideas for how to make this business work right now, despite bitcoin's deflationary growth, as well as how to make it more competitive than btcjam.com, and with less liability for the business.

If you wish to see my resume/qualifications, or get more details on the business idea, please PM me.

Thanks.

I'm actually wondering whether Honduras already has a huge wealth gap, or worse, has everyone being very poor, in which case how can something like this make things worse?

Aww godamnit. And here I'm waiting three hours for my transaction to confirm (stuck at work, Satoshi client still not fully synced).
Thanks for the heads up!

Will a Raspberry Pi be fast enough to process/verify the hashes? I'm under the impression that a Single, and especially a Mining Rig, will need something very fast to keep up with all the data, especially if running your own Bitcoin and Solo/P2Pool mixing. Anyone know?

I don't know if this will be breaking any recent records, but it looks like block 200771 is particularly hard to crack. About 7 minutes until it's taken 3 hours from the time of this post. Whoever finds it should get quite a few fees, too. Maybe BFL should turn on a few ASICs to test, just to help it along  

The evolutionary reasons are fairly basic: we as a species survive by trying to learn about and explain the world around us, and we survive by being social/tribal and rejecting other tribes so they don't encroach on our land and food supplies. Since we couldn't explain everything well a long time ago, we came up with religious stories. And since we're tribal, we tended to kill anyone who wasn't like us. Doesn't even necessarily mean that the religion outcome was evolutionarily beneficial. It could just be a side-effect of the previous two parts that we somehow managed to survive in spite of, like our appendixes and bad teeth.
As for being outraged over movies, that's to be expected when people are raised with the idea that they shouldn't question and shouldn't let evidence influence them. Yay for science instead.

He did spend two years in jail for it. What more should he do?

When someone believes something stupid (alien anal probes, bigfoot, communism as viable economic policy), you should at most point and laugh, but at the least explain to them why their beliefs are misguided, ridiculous, and stupid. Why should religion be exempt???

Maybe BFL can show how people who have previously done something wrong can change and be forgiven, and fly in Matthew N Wright 

Sonny Chris Vleisides - guy who was arrested
Chris Vleisides - Sonny's stepfather
Andrew Vleisides - Sonny's cousin who owns the butterflylabs.com domain name.

Sonny's middle name is same as his stepfather's. I also find all this confusing, and even I'm not entirely sure if that's all correct (Maybe Inaba can confirm?)

Chris Vleisides is not Sonny Vleisides. From what I understand, Sonny Vleisides is the guy who 2) is refering to, and Chris Vleisides is his stepfather, who, as far as we know, has no criminal record.

TL;DR; Chris and Sonny are two different people.

I don't think Piuk can get to your bitcoin, either, since your blockchain.info wallet is decrypted and encrypted in your browser, and no unencripted private keys ever reach blockchain.info's servers. But I guess he could change the code while no one's looking.

Not sure that even applies if it's the company that's doing the selling, and he's not the company owner.

Damn. Good idea, but I'm guessing no. For me it's only $220 to make that round trip, and shipping is $160, so not much more, but I seem to remember reading that they don't do pick-ups.

Reason for btcjam.com being a scam? I wanted to start a similar service (am in the starting stages of), but may just try to join up with an existing one if one exists already.