Include a 0.02BTC transaction fee to get very high priority among nodes.

The transaction will be fully confirmed in an hour or so.

A hidden club for 'serious' miners beyond 5-10ghash/s would be pretty good for several reasons, most important of which being zero downtime due to DDoS.

Simply put, don't let anyone except accepted members know the mining pool IP. So the next time a DDoS hits major pools, you are safe. Plus you wont be getting pool hoppers from other sites.

I quit mining at deepbit because the fees are ridiculous.

In the long term, for every 100 BTC you mine at deepbit you'll be getting 103 if you mined at a 0% pool.

Probably not, considering the 28nm manufacturing process only began mass production in late June.

Hell, the 6990 came out barely 4 months ago.

lol

I meant good sales ploy for them. Small sites tend to do that, so even if a thousand people check the non-existent card, most will leave but 1-2 will buy something else off the site.

I'd agree with Smalleyster, penny auctions fill every aspect of a scam. They are even illegal in some countries.

Only with bitcoins, you don't even need proxies or dummy accounts.
Just keep padding the price with your own money while waiting for suckers to send in theirs.

Real money can be printed infinitely and it's only backed by assurements and faith.

Bitcoins, gold, silver are scarce.
I.e. there is a very finite amount of them in existence. Some precious metals also have real world utility that no other metals can match.

BTC, AU and AG are not backed by anything. They are the backing itself.

Banks or governments can't control the price of those commodities. They have tried to ban their ownership by private individuals (at least in the US) which only caused hoarding and further appreciation in value.

Similarly, bitcoins have anonymizing properties that no other digital currency can match, and you can transport them across the world in a split second.
Correctly used, the owner of any single bitcoin is 100% impossible to trace.

Griefing, general hatred towards bitcoins. Someone is paying good money just to cause headache to all pool owners.

Those bots could be used for spamming, ad distribution, extortion of small businesses, but no..
They decide to slow down every single bitcoin pool.

Maybe, just maybe, they want to keep the difficulty level down. That's the only financial motive I can think of.

Your logic is funny at best.
Online HYIPs are without exception ponzi schemes. Every single one of them. In the end only the few people joining at the beginning make money and the rest lose.

The government has only to benefit if you make money or get ahead. Ever head of capital tax? They *encourage* you to earn money so that they can get a cut of it.

Only people in the world with a motivation to DDoS HYIPs are other HYIP admins who want to drive suckers to their own site by discrediting the other site with constant downtime.

This difficulty level is still *massive*.

Soloers and pools under 20ghash/s are undergoing 15-30 day rounds or worse. Some small startup pools might never find their first block at this rate because people will drop out after a month of not finding anything.

The fact is, the bigger your pool the safer your income is at the moment. Variance swings are huge at 1.56m difficulty for small miners. Some people wont be able to cope with month-long rounds & will join a pool that regularly pays every day.

Reputation systems eliminate this risk even on anonymous sites like Silkroad, let alone 'legit' sites on the real internet.

Only buy from people who are proven to send merchandise. Always make a small first purchase then gradually move upwards.

It's seems to be under DDoS.

Nice sales ploy of getting more visitors to the site.

As expected they don't actually have any for sale. Even if they do some day, they'll raise the price by another 100 dollars

Cablesaurus ships to anywhere in Europe in 3-5 days, or 2 if you use express shipping.

They take BTC payment as well, and the owner sends out all orders the same day usually.

They do if that control prohibits them from freely using their money.

Controlled currency: Someone else imposes fees on you, tells you when you can pay, how much you can pay, imposes restrictions on who you can pay to, and can even take back money paid to you already.

With bitcoins all those are irrelevant and unavailable. It's one reason why I think it will always have at least some future.

When 2 people have a bitcoin wallet, money will travel freely between them.
There is nobody to tell you what you can, or can't do with your money. If you have it, you can pay with it to anyone who accepts it.

I'm willing to bet that's pretty common around the forums.

Narcissism and jealousy are the modern day plague. If you can't have it then nobody should.

I'm willing to bet that's pretty common around the forums.

Narcissism and jealousy are the modern day plague. If you can't have it then nobody should.

Why do people use C2C exchanges at all?

You are exposing your personal details to a total stranger with no credibility, esp. if you divulge wire info they can grief you a lot if they're bitter.
(And they're slow)

Sure you can say the same about TH or Gox but they're automated exchanges dealing with huge volumes.

so will you give me 25% back of everything I earn you