Oh, I misunderstood that the Bitcoin Delivery Service is about delivering parcel for bitcoin.

Is anything getting delivered?

Obviously we can't tell if this is true, but you should now that it is an amazing claim. suppose rent is about $1000. You would have about a billion dollars in value. But in order to get you you would have had to refuse to spend a single coin when you had merely $100M dollars. Can you really do that? Can you turn down a brand new sports car or a house 10x better than your current house because it will cost 5% of your wealth? You won't want to give anything to people you know you need help? Or less happily, need an expensive medical treatment or pay ransom for your kidnapped daughter.

When people have more wealth they are more likely to spend some. There is no deflationary spiral, and equilibrium emerges.

The reason there can be a spiral in the inflationary direction is because all that is happening is small pieces of stained paper are going back to it's non manipulated price, roughly zero.

I dont get why people want to introduce incidental things into the currency chain.
If you want a different purpose start a new project.

Update: Currently there are 5 million bitcoins, with an exchange rate of $0.25. Clearly there is hording, artificially raising the price of a bitcoin. Classic pump and dump.

Hey. I forgot you! The 15 BTC weren't worth enough dollars to be able to deposit into projectwonderful. Do you want a refund?

Except that it means you trust wikipedia as a robust website that won't be destroyed or altered in a foreseable future.

The advantage of bitcoin is that you don't have to trust anyone in particular.

If I wanted to timestamp a hash in a publicly obvious way to prove later that I had known an idea at a certain date... I don't need Bitcoin.

I would merely go put the hash on my user page over at Wikipedia, and then perhaps remove it so it is visible only in the history.  The edit history is visible to the world, probably will never get erased, everyone understands Wikipedia, and there would never be any need to start explaining to the baffled ladies and gentlemen of any jury what a block chain is, never mind a hash.

You don't and neither do CEOs there companies need it during production when they billow black smoke into the air.

If BitDNS or <other programmers pet project X> becomes conjoined to Bitcoin, I am instantly selling all my BTC and leaving.

There would be no limit to how big of a hashing "supercomputer" I could build, because brute force hashing is so easily parallelized and scaled, there's no engineering difficulty on how to make all the chips interact with one another, because they never have to.  The maximum power of such a supercomputer would be limited merely by the quantity of raw materials available to crank out copies of that chip.  Naturally, it would be worthless for anything but hashing.

My guess is that SHA256 is so simple to implement in silicon that it's within the grasp of undergraduate-level engineers.  It is orders of magnitude less complex than MPEG.

Such a chip would blow GPU's away on two fronts - one on the hash count, second on the cost, because all the wasted resources and engineering that normally goes into a supercomputer useful for solving really complex scientific problems (or a GPU to solve problems necessary for 3d graphic rendering) could be entirely skipped. 

What I would like to see more in music sites is a bounty + exclusive release system.

For example, everytime the artist releases a new song, the 30-second sample is posted on the website. The artist can define a bounty and a timeframe. Fans can then pay as many Bitcoins as they choose into the bounty account (perhaps above a minimum, also set by the artist).

As soon as the bounty is reached, the mp3 file is made available only to those fans who have contributed, perhaps a month before it is released for sale to the general public. If the bounty is not reached in the specified timeframe the Bitcoins are returned to the fans.

edit: coming to think of it, this is more a ransom than a bounty, but I think ransoms work better for music than bounties because music is such a subjective emotional good that it's hard to for the listener define in advance what she wants.

Do you have php skill to maintain and improve the site?

Oh boy, it seems people will never get over this intrinsic value fallacy.

It's actually funny... one of the advantages capitalism brings is specialization. Not only skill specialization, but resources as a whole. Always trying to use the best cost/effective material for a certain purpose.
So, why do you people want money to be useful for something else? Why, particularly for money, people are against specialization in the use of resources?

Money doesn't need to have other uses. Actually, I dare to say it would better not have other uses.

And, by the way, why would one want to use money to timestamp stuff? Can't there be a cheaper (= most efficient) way to do it?

Just an FYI, I take identity theft very seriously.  In fact, one thief has already attempted a number of fraudulent purchases on BitcoinGateway.com.  Luckily I was able to speak with the actual card holder and have since forwarded all communication I had with the thief to the cardholder.  Hopefully they find the bastard.  It's that type of sh*t that are going to make normal people (and governments) scared of bitcoin.

Incidentally, the cardholder had no idea what bitcoin even was (not surprising) but was impressed overall upon further review

That's my rant.  Happy bitcoining everyone!