Network effects (people go where there are already other people), and currency risks (5 day auction could result in you paying twice as much, value-wise, as you originally intended to, if bitcoin value spikes up in price). It may be near impossible to take out eBay even if/when bitcoin stabilizes due to the networking effects, since even higher fees will be outweighed by more bidders competing for your product.

Simple short answer is that nobody would mine it, making it a non starter.

I only started mining on that pool about two weeks ago, and so far have been paid everything I was entitled to. As long as I'm paid for my hash rate, I really don't give a shit what it's used for. The way I see it is we buy pool management service from Luke for a small fee, and he buys our hashing power with bitcoin. If he pays for it, he owns it.

Is that Lamb Chop meat or Shari Lewis meat?

What? Why? I can't find any posts of his that would suggest that.

I can totally see him solving the hash for the private key and claiming that Satoshi by hand.

I wonder how many people missed that the Raven/Writing Desk question was directly from Alice in Wonderland, and was related to the rabbit hole question?

Why are we doing this again?

Can you tell me why is a raven like a writing desk?

I'm back from my vacation. 100BTC is now $600 to $700, instead of $250. Does anyone have any plans to do anything with the stash yet? What's the progress on contacting charades? Please don't let this project die. There is already a lot of bitcoin committed to it.

Since I have all the private keys backed up anyway, I'm mainly wondering how effective this is for keeping others from stealing my wallet.dat or bitcoin remotely.

I wouldn't recommend Red Cross. Few people I know who worked with it say it's a majorly scammy rip-off. Way too high overhead expenses.

FYI, this past semester in one of my classes we had group projects where we had to organize some sort of a group to manage a project of our choosing. One of our class groups organized a bar crawl for charity (people go bar to bar around down town, and part of the proceeds, plus whatever is donated or earned from selling raffle tickets, goes to the charity). That group's first charity of choice was St. Jude's, since they have a major research hospital right here in our city. St. Jude turned them down, because they wanted to know where donations were coming from, and they did not want to be associated with money coming from alcohol sales. In short, St. Jude is not short on funds, and is very very picky. With Bitcoin having such shady publicity, I wouldn't hold your breath. Sorry. Still, at least it's a good practice run.

I would say 6, since some people on that list are no longer on this forum (ALPHA).

FYI, I will be traveling from Tuesday Dec. 27th to Friday Jan. 6th. I'll have internet access in that backwoods country I'm going to (London, England), but I won't necessarily have access to my PC. I guess that's where StrongCoin will be useful.

Sorry to dump this working somebody else, but could somebody please do a search for India charity school kids and research some of the charities?
Downside to India is there's a lot of corruption and scamming there. Upside to this idea is giving kids schooling is secular, and something that would be supported by both rabid socialists and extremist objectivists. It's just a good idea in general. The benefit to bitcoin is publicity if the charity is fairly well known, and education about bitcoin in India, where it is sorely needed due to PayPal pulling out of India last spring, making it hard for people to send money there.

A 1,277.5%APR loan? BTCurious must have a credit score of 1 

At most, it may be a global equalizer, if only because it allows anyone in the world to get paid for work regardless of the distance between employer and employee.

Meh, I got my own stockings. And the rest of the sexy outfit to go with them.

Um, bump? Anything going on with this?

I can return the money already in the wallet. Just give me an address to send to

Then he will hurt the neighbor. Who ever said there are any assurances? What assurances do you have that one of your neighbors won't shoot you tomorrow?