Websites that are anonymous do not have a good track record when Bitcoin is involved.

I would never keep much BTC on any anonymously run website and if I did I would certainly not do so for very long.

Am not clear about your second question but if you import a private key into the Satoshi client that presumably has no existing balance and then you "send coins" then the "change" will go to a different (and in fact *hidden*) address.

Just make sure when doing this one to use the new argument to prevent a complete rescan from happening with each address (i.e. just do the rescan once at the end).

No argument with that - I think that the state (PRC) will of course only allow what it thinks is going to be beneficial to itself (but even that is a complicated thing).

I think that is a bit of a *reach* (the Chinese government is not stupid).

When it comes to "bricks and mortar" shops maybe not that huge but on Taobao (the Chinese eBay) it is *huge* (we are talking millions of tx's per day).

The likelihood of Chinese using Bitcoin to buy things at this stage would be hopeful at best (the charges for credit card purchases here are amongst the lowest in the world).

I think that the fact that Bitcoin is *decentralised* is helpful in comparison with something like QQ coins (i.e. it doesn't threaten the value of the RMB like a private organisation just *printing* virtual money could).

Where this will lead is hard to say but as China holds so much USD (that gets worth less and less every day) I don't think they are going to be that quick to try and stop it.

One drawback with creating more and more addresses is the size of your wallet.dat file (which is probably not much of a concern in reality) - the other one would be if there are any performance issues that will arise from a bigger and bigger wallet (due to a lack of indexing say).

I do recall reading a thread about the latter (with a huge wallet) so you might want to do a bit more research about that (it may be an old problem that was already solved).

Clearly the following (from your own post):


I do not have a Mac and haven't played with Qt myself so I can't probably be of much more help here - but for sure you need the "include path" to include the QtGui path.

Probably best to check your compiler documentation about that (the "include path" and "library path" are standard things for most if not all C++ compilers).

If you read my original reply then you'll see I asked you whether the Qt stuff is in your "include path" - is it?

(as you didn't answer that I assumed you hadn't even installed Qt as your OP said nothing about it)

And what I have been trying to suggest to you is that maybe you need Qt installed in order to create a Qt GUI application.

If that is trying to "act smart and all that" then I guess I will just leave you to it.

So still sticking by this statement then?

I think you might want to try and Google "Qt" to find out what it actually is (and it is the same thing whether Bitcoin or Litecoin).

Qt is a separate project to Bitcoin so if you haven't installed it separately then you are not likely to get very far with creating a Qt app (the console daemon should be fine though - and being a fan of console UI I would suggest forget the Qt stuff and just learn to use a console).

Yes removing #include's is not generally something that will help - most likely you are either missing these or they are not in your "include path".

QQ coins are still very much alive and well - it is simply that they can't be exchanged for RMB but instead only for the purchase of goods and/or services (basically this was to stop one company from effectively being able to create inflation by arbitrarily printing its own "money" which if course is not really the same situation with Bitcoins).

Also what is *legal* is not the same as what is *enforced* and in fact what is *common practice*.

Yup - this is the Speculation board so of course everyone gets excited (or depressed) by any news here - certainly though it is more exciting than the latest alt coin announcement.

The amount of BTC traded per day has increased from some hundreds to now over 10K per day over the last few months - it might not have increased as rapidly as some are suggesting but for certain it is rising dramatically (it is now the 5th highest listing on the bitcoincharts.com list).

I'm not sure if it is the same thing but there is a CCTV video about Bitcoin that interviews a miner (who mentions making 0.8 BTC per hour) and then discusses about the mystery of Satoshi - after that there is some explanation of what Bitcoin *is* and interestingly there is no real political type of commentary beyond mentioning being able to make donations for the victims of the recent earthquake in BTC.

Probably a good sign.

Another possible approach would be to effectively have a "message" tx that is not mined but is broadcast and any client that picks up the tx and sees that it has previously *sent* a tx to the address in question could display a warning message (or mark the address as *bad* or similar).