I agree with Andrew. Building a website that handles money is a terrible first project.

Solution: Have the ATM refuse to pay out on unconfirmed no-fee transactions, and instead have it print out a receipt with a QR code that can be redeemed for cash at the same ATM after the transaction gets confirmed (if it ever does).

You're just telling me how to calculate a percentage; I'm pretty sure I know how to do that.  What I said is that it's a meaningless number; which you ably demonstrated.

When you say "growth" you're using percentages of the current world's population; except in your growth example the world population starts at 70.  If the world's population was 70 why would you suddenly use 7 billion as 100%?  70 is 100% in your example.

The growth from 70 to 189,000,000 is indeed 270,000,000%; but 70 is not 0.000001% of anything in your example, and 189,000,000 isn't 2.7% of anything in your example.

As I say, percentages of percentages are meaningless.

If, on the other hand, in year 1 population grew by 0.00001% relative to year 0; and in year 2 by 2.7% relative to year 1, the population did not in any meaningful way grow by 270,000,000%.

This sort of percentage of  percentage shit is what politicians use to tell us that knife crime has decreased by 10% when in fact it has decreased by 1%.

30 BTC

100,000=one hundred

100.000= hundred thousand

Taking percentages of percentages is pretty meaningless.

If something went from 0.000001% to 2.7%; then it's grown by 2.699999%.

**Phew** I thought there was a contract killer accepting bitcoins...

dodged that "bullet"

For small amounts it's perfectly relevant, for big amounts I wouldn't trust bitbills (or any variant) anyway.
Regarding the hacking opportunities you're wrong, pulling off a double spend isn't exactly as easy as tricking the faucet, the ATM will just wait ten seconds in order for the first payment to be properly propagated.

I wouldn't worry about instant withdrawals from arbitrary bitcoin address, those people are going to have to wait. Instant withdrawals would be for people that have wallet accounts with the ATM provider, or maybe even networks of trusted wallet services.

Only at bitcointroll forums could giving money back to the chain be considered theft. Stay with your non interest bitcoin and see how far you go, SolidCoin is becoming a real economic force by allowing a variety of new services to be built on top its protocol.

Personally I think it's an awesome idea that reduces the effects of spam, essentially a self cleansing p2p network, while also giving funds back to the network in a fair manner.

Mt. Gox is adding complexity to the blockchain, making it more difficult to see at a glance the additions and subtractions I made relating to my address they gave me. I use the blockchain to monitor the activity on that address and they are poluting it with their accounting system. I'm monitoring the blockchain looking to see what value I'm getting mining at the pool I joined, to understand my earning ability with current set up.

The right way for Mt. Gox to pay out withdraws is from a withdraw address funded from 'cold storage' directly, not incoming deposits. Incoming deposits should be moved to "cold storage" addresses only.

You could say the Mt. Gox system of accounting which includes paying withdraws and moving to "cold storage" using a single address would make it easy, if they were so inclined, to hide shady payouts in the noise of their odd acounting system. Who would expend the effort to look through 4.5 million BTC of Mt. Gox transactions to find nK of shady BTC deals which would fund some obfuscated account which might then be used at some future time to crash the system for profit.

Have we not learned anything from how the Federal Reserve was created. Bankers created the stock market, got average Joe's to invest in it with money they borrowed from the independent banks, engineered the stock market crashes and while we were dealing with a financial crisis they offered to solve the volatility problem by creating a central bank.

If you could come out with a router thats ready to plug and play with these features is that something you could put on kickstarter since you would then have an actual product to give out as rewards for backing it ?

Be careful though. Sometimes, if the landlord traces it back to you, they might have the right to terminate your lease with very little warning.

I don't "live" there - that's an office I rent (utilities included) in an office building for $215, and when I work there for more than 20 minutes, I take off my shirt and work in my undershirt, like a redneck. 
I had an office even before I started mining, and got into Bitcoin mining less than a year ago as an afterthought, as a way for the office to pay its own rent.

Does that make sense, so far?

But now I've been infected by the Bitcoin fever and am trying to get a cash flow in the low-to-mid 4 figures going, with a Largecoin miner on order, a mini-rig box on order and 12 Singles on order, 4 of which have been delivered so far.

split 13GB file into multiple files (hint: winrar), then upload to mediafire. problem solved!

To jddebug, gigavps, sgtspike and others who don't care about 1 fan or 2 fans: I'm glad that's working out for you. It means you'll be happy no matter what shows up in the BFL USPS box.

For others, who cannot hide these things in a basement or closet or datacenter, the difference between 1 or 2 fans is more important. In fact, even the CHOICE of fans is important. There was a post earlier about someone trying to set a Single up in their bedroom. It doesn't matter why: Maybe they have no room elsewhere; maybe that's where their only computer is. The point is that a stock Single, with its dual 43 CFM 2100RPM 27dbA fans, is TOO LOUD for a bedroom in which you are trying to sleep. Perhaps it is even too loud for a living room you use to entertain guests, or a study in which you are trying to ... gasp ... study.

So if a Single arrives with just 1 fan, it's going to be significantly quieter than the 2-fan version (or the dreaded 3-fan version). In my personal case, I've put Singles into a basement office. They are the 2-fan style, and I found them to be disturbingly loud. Much louder than the SLI gaming PC I have in the same room. My solution was to replace the stock fans with quieter ones. Now, even with all other equipment turned off in that room, the Singles can barely be heard. Paradise.

So for me (and perhaps for others), the amount of noise coming from the Singles is very important. Yes, I care that they mine away relentlessly and reliably and that will always be the #1 priority. But I demand they do it with the least amount of disturbance as possible. And I'm happy with the balance I've been able to achieve.

If I had a datacenter next door, an empty garage, or unused basement I wouldn't care what fans they used or how many fans they had or how much noise they made ... because I wouldn't have to deal with that. But when they are in my face, in the same room, and I'm trying to think, they need to be quiet. They need to be SEEN and not HEARD.

So, yes, 1 fan or 2 makes a big difference to me. But I fully understand and respect jjdebug, gigavps, and sgtspike when they say they don't really care.