Virtual Keyboard and Mouse.  A well known bitcoin casino had their data center's maintenance site hacked.  Someone put in an order to have a VKM installed.  The machine rebooted and the attackers attempted to use the vkm to get console access.  Thankfully, the casino used full-disk encryption, so reboots required a manual password step. 
Attackers in this space are really, really clever.

But you don't need stratum to use p2pool do you?

Doesn't p2pool adjust the difficulty to optimise for your hashing speed?

Also what miner does not support stratum?

-MarkM-

If I owned the site, I certainly wouldn't even consider this, not for one nanosecond.

I do own a different forum, and I am certain that if such a thing were suggested there, my response would be an unqualified "fuck off".

Huh? What do proxies have to do with p2pool ?

-MarkM-

I didn't have one successful auction on eBay because the highest bidders could not pass my very simple verification process. I was only selling $10 to $50 BTC worth at the time. I lost money from all the final value credit refund fees that never covered the auction cost.

im lost

say i mined 10 Bitcoins over 1 year. i did not sell any. i accumulated extra $200 per month in electricity than normal. i also paid say $3,000 for my mining gear. what do i report/deduct for my taxes?

the only thing i understand is that while i created 10 bitcoins out of thin air, i did not sell it for cash, so i do not report capital gains. but can i still claim a deduction to my expenses such as the electrcity, mining gear, and the depreciation?

Wow, you seem very attached to Bitcoins lol. But I'm with ya, especially with the part about there not being a replacement. Either a.) Bitcoins are never replaced and grow into a respected currency. Or b.) They are shut down  and banned as they don't promote the National level.

I don't see anything replacing them.

Canada will go the way of the US. The Canadian bitcoin industry has been very responsible and is in regular official communication through one main lawyer with the government. We are no India or China.

If the US moves against Bitcoin, Canada won't be far behind. And remember, if they move against it, it's a badge of honor for bitcoin. Bitcoin is it's own hedge, it's so superior that if it's banned it'll be an admission by the central banks that their system can't survive crypto's adoption, meaning everyone will choose to hold crypto to guard against the poor house as fiat collapses from the straw on the camel's back (the straw being crypto).

Anyways, I'm super glad for all this bearish news because I got a whack of fiat waiting for all the idiots to sell to me (why would you sell below $4000 in the next three months?!?!?). We know that btc will reach $40,000 with Zynga, Overstock.com, etc., and porn industry and the 250,000 ZipZap (or whatever) convenience stores adopting it. The major retailers are lining up to adopt it for payment.

So can we safely say the community now assumes Bitstamp as the 'official' BTC value?

I think MTGox should go back to trading Magic the Gathering cards and drop bitcoins  

If MtGox price is distorted, why is it often taken as a reference in transactions? Or is it just sellers that intentionally take it as a reference to profit from its higher price?

In the U.S., legal tender refers to what forms of money cannot be refused by a creditor for extinguishing a debt.

Legal tender DOES NOT dictate what can be used as money or currency. Is the use of this term different in Canada?

Definition of Legal Tender "coins or banknotes that must be accepted if offered in payment of a debt."

By this definition Bitcoin is not legal tender anywhere in the world and probably won't be for a long time to come. This is just governments posturing and making themselves seen to be warning their citizens about Bitcoin, while they figure out what the hell it is