laszlo,

The generate coins of course is always on and I'll leave the computer idle most of the day.  The software works my CPU to full trying to generate blocks and I keep seeing blocks going up from others but I never am able to get a block myself.  The thing is after weeks, I've found it is just impossible to generate a single coin/block ever.  I'd be happy if I got one per week but I'm certain I'll never get one and though I need to upgrade my computer, fixing my car comes first.

My bitcoin address is 1DcXvfJdeJch9uptKopte5XQarTtj5ZjpL

How do you expire a bitcoin address?  On the windows software, it has a "Your Bitcoin Addresses" screen and then I made some test addresses which I never used.  And then well the software only lets me create more and more addresses, but never delete them or no way to "expire" them.

So each payment on bitcoins goes into block generation?

So that means if bitcoins become as popular as paypal then bitcoins would need tons and tons of blocks and data that would take huge amounts of space?  Whereas if bitcoins were pretty unused then they'd take hardly any space?

I don't even understand what madhatter2 said.

It'd be nice to have just one single port to install and then I could just leave it as a terminate and stay resident program.  Then it would log payments received in a file and could be communicated with via shell commands.

Link2VoIP,

Do you have them use your website's static IP or do you give each person unique bitcoin addresses?

If you do the IP, what do you do when you get some bitcoin payment and you can't match it up?  Bitcoin payments have no return address.

I have an old Athlon 1.5 Ghz as my computer.  I've been running it for weeks trying to generate a single block/bitcoin.  I leave it running when I sleep and when I'm at work.  Never ever ever is it able to generate a single block/bitcoin, but I see them going up as others generate them.   Basically unless I have a recent computer, it's just impossible.

I run a website hosted on freebsd and well right now nobody visits it ever and so I can totally change it.  I am wanting to change it to allow people to pay for services from the website exclusively through bitcoins.  Now I see bitcoin has some linux program but I'm not sure that's compatible with FreeBSD or not.  I also don't know how I can integrate bitcoin into a website to automatically take the bitcoin payments so they show up immediately.  I'd really like them to work so my website immediately recognizes the payment coming in.

What happens if somebody has some data issue and completely loses their bitcoin wallet for good?  Will this mean the bitcoins that they had would be lost permanently from the potential maximum bitcoin money supply?  Then as this happens occassionaly, the maximum bitcoin money supply shrinks.

As this happens over time, will it destroy bitcoin or can bitcoin recover?