Bitcoin will be most successful when new organizations force you to use it without your prior knowledge or consent.  Sure, right now there is no demand for it, just like when Automobiles came out, there was no demand for them as the road infrastructure was not built for them - it was dirt roads built for horses. 

Bitcoin filled an early demand for money laundering services and drug sales back in 2010 and 2011.  Thus early on, it has had a convoluted history with crime and corruption - just as how fiat, CASH, money has.  Bitcoin is a simply mathematical peer to peer system that is less efficient than a centralized fractional reserve banking system but it has the ability of peer to peer consensus and gives people of the world a 'choice' on how to hold their methods of stored value.  We always think of dollars and credit cards and bank accounts - but before the romans (or was it phoenicians or perhaps the ancient chinese) there were things like gold and gold coins to hold and store value - the idea was that their spot price was either at value or slightly lower than melt-value. 

Do you remember the huge spike in demand for Dialup modems?  No?  That's because it didn't happen - by the time the internet was in demand, modems were practically a required feature for desktop computers by the time the internet became 'consumer' grade.  That is why people all around you say that bitcoin is still in the early internet age.

Saying bitcoin has no value is like taking a time machine backto 1989 and saying that the arpanet was doomed to failure because no one in their right mind would pay 10K for an electronic device nor hundreds of dollars in access fees per to replace what they could get for free from a library - information stored in books to be checked out.

In my case I only need to worry about things like damaging my computer or destroying my paper wallets (somewhat concerning too)

Such an enticing idea to try for myself - convince me why I should try this or not

What is 'confirming' them meaning - through your software output or via an external service block explorer like blockchain.info?

What software are you using?  Could be possible to do in the firmware or possibly on the workers page in Slush's Pool Settings

So thus by proxy, Steve Wozniak is Satoshi Nakamoto? 

I don't think so.

Sounds fun, like how 3d printers are fun.  Cool to have and tinker with but I cant see a practical purpose beyond being able to trace transactions - something like for an analyst capacity and also - what would be the latency?  I would damn near want to have 64 Gigs of memory to have the blockchain stored onto RAM so that its easy to navigate and search through transactions.

Like for instance, I would want an app that prunes through "X" known addresses to locate all mt gox coins.

This looks like a job for Danny Hamilton

Mine (Eric Voorhees and Roger Ver's HoneyBadger Of Money)... people who know better will put your sign at 'mythical status' like
"Holy crap!  the honey Badger just moved across the country to Orlando from Santa Clara CA!"

I figured I would have a little fun and try this as an experiment which will also be posted on my own blog for public enjoyment purposes soon but, using full transparency, provided by similarweb.com I have deduced:



Coindesk (which is essentially doing what you're doing here)  = 4.9 million impressions so far this month
Cointelegraph (which is a wannabe copy of coindesk)   = 460K impressions so far this month
Bitcointalk.org (suprisingly)       = 1.85 million impressions so far this month and falling from a trend
Bitpay.com (also suprisingly)     = 850K impressions so far this month
Coinbase.com                           = 4.5 Million impressions so far this month
Blockchain.info (control group)   = 8.9 Million impressions so far this month
you offer approximately 4K impressions per month

For what its worth, you've got me beat, I can barely pull 3K impressions myself at this point.

quick answer: no it will go by network difficulty for the block it is trying to solve.

If the network lowers difficulty, then the software will 'retarget' the lower difficulty with the next block.  average time is just that - an average.  Some days blocks are found very quickly like within minutes or seconds of each other. 

If you are meddling with the core software to try to solve at a targeted lower difficulty, the network itself will reject your block if it was discovered at a difficulty lower than current.

bump

Edit: Nice, New page... Please post your efforts to spread BTC adoption so you have a chance to also win a prize:

I'm announcing mannedmssn2M winner of page 4 for me.  I too very much want radio shack to come back into promience at least online with taking bitcoin payments, I'll go ahead and send a tweet to them today.  Please select one of the following from my website:

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To the moon Bumper sticker

clear window decal

Bitcoin Postage Stamp


and PM me with a shipping address or PO Box for your prize!

miningrigrentals.com is the company name.  You'll never be banned for whistleblowing. 

I refuse to click your link, why couldn't you at least have the decency to copy/paste the body text here so we can have the entire getdown of what happened.  How often did you rent your rig for?  Have you tried to contact support multiple times before going so far as to file the ripoffreport. 

Just to keep it safe and not have it out there for everyone I'll pm mine to you so we can play some xbl!

smh...1st world problems

Sounds like the funds are there - can't you send the funds to a second wallet you own or control like one stored on blockchain.info, coinbase, or I suppose you could send them back over the 2nd mycellium address and then keep a backup of that private key. 

TY they've been shipped!

Psychic's aside, I would imagine that they used the same tools we use to perceive a possible outcome, only difference is that psychics feel urged to state their opinions to everyone else and will use confirmation bias to justify their so called esp.

BTW I just noticed i was referenced on Boondocks  as a 'freelance honey badger'  FTW!!!! If that's not a signal to buy more btc I don't know what is. 

One made of cubic zirconia with QR codes etched inside them - the BIP 38 ones that require a password.  Safest wallet evar = if you set a diamond on fire it will burn to soot - cubic zirconia will not!


oh sorry, cold wallets  Those are by in large the safest wallets to have bitcoin on.

imagine that you don't watch tv 24-7.

Bitcoin was referenced on Law and Order SVU for a cab service (like lyft).  Its mentioned multiple times on the TV show Almost Human for being the de-facto future internet currency.  

So i think it happens more than you would give it credit for.  

It was even mentioned by Krusty the Clown on the Simpsons Last season as he lost money on the Bitcoin markets.

I'm personally waiting for it to be made fun of in an episode of southpark.


edit:  as for a tv commercial -  I think that forward thinking companies realize that traditional mediums like tv and radio to advertise with are dying - they are embraced more so by the older generation and it would be a colossal waste of marketing resources to 'shotgun approach' market bitcoin on TV.  I was thinking that paypal finally did it with their last string of commercials but apparently they're trying to steal the whole "people to people steelow" that bitcoin encompasses without any regard to referencing. 

I'm curious, does a TV advertising reseller accept bitcoin payments?  Could i pay bitcoin to be a commercial on nationally syndicated television?

I believe you could set the core client to run in testnet mode and run a command in the built in console to "setgenerate=true" iirc.  This would allow you to mine on the testnet effectively.  If you had an asic, run bitcoin core as a server using the -d flag when running it (use dos and type that after bitcoin.exe) and point your asic to the host machine running the core client.