A pic of the finished product next to a coinedbits.com coin.

http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/3664/photo9yn.jpg

I miss p2pool, has its luck changed at all?

Did you not understand how Pay Pal works?  I think you bent yourself over.   

Sorry, what does bfgminer have to do with oclvanityminer?

I understand that many bitcoin users fancy themselves to be anti-establishment and like to 'stick it to the man' in modern parlance, but why do they feel the need to be so full of vitriol? It is not essential to expressing your point to use the phrase 'Fuck the government/establishment/rules/laws/your mother' to the excess that I have observed.

Cannot we all just discuss our views politely as gentlemen?

I hear forums member Zhou Tong is very knowledgeable in this area.

In general: Because you're trying to do business, and doing business as a hidden service will immediately kill most of that business.

What would happen to the trade volume of ebay if ebay.com suddenly moved to ebay(...).onion?

Even SilkRoad would (I presume) explode with traffic if it was feasible to operate securely in the clear. (Which it is not.)

Going hidden has to be an strict necessity in order to outweigh the not-so-trivial inconvenience.