I know what you mean, but there is a difference between explaining something new and "pushing it onto people".

I don't tell many people. I imagine all my acquaintances who I don't tell will be pretty pissed at me in 2013, lol.

That's amazing, Bruce!

I imagine the show will be more about the economics than the technical details? Do you know if the host will be coming from a "we need gov inflation" angle or a "gold is the only money" angle or something else?

People will provide information about keeping your savings wallet encrypted and with you, and stored in a cloud. Banks are dying. Bankers will go down with buggy whip makers in the annals of history.

I never sent the 100BTC pledge of the animated movie to escrow, so I can send for this project once everything is firm.

If you hold balances centrally until amounts reach, say, 1BTC, attacks on you won't be particularly profitable.

There has been some discussion about the downsides of multiple chains. The main problem is that you can't convert 1 to 1 without people trusting that you'll do it for them, and if they do trust you they will generate on your chain until the difficulties are equal and you will bust long before that since you don't have millions of real coins I assume. If by some miracle this happens anyway, we are all worse off because the two networks can be attacked with only 50% of what would be needed to take them down if we worked together.

Eh, it occurs to me that you could tweak generation rates and total coins and such. But that is the same as backing at 10 to 1 or whatever anyway.

Also you will have the same problem, generators on your network still might charge or ignore your spam size transactions.

If anyone with coins thinks they are overvalued they can sell them right now, they are not, so that's not what's happening.

Fool us? Into thinking fewer trades are happening on mtgox? That's actually true, so we can't be fooled into thinking it.

People's relative desire for BTC compared to USD has not been changing much in the last few days, that's all.

Think about a very simple case. Person A has some red rocks and Person B has some blue rocks. A needs to have 2 blue rocks for some purpose, but generally prefers to have blue. Person B thinks they are roughly equal in value (since he just puts them in a bag hits people). So they trade 2 rocks on the first day. Now both have what they want. If nothing changes for them, they'll never trade again.

The more people involved the less likely it is for volume to drop to zero, but the idea is the same. Trades only happen when two people disagree about their marginal preference for the things involved. Once they happen the tension is relieved and another trade doesn't happen until there are pair of disagreers.

He said they would be reported after they happen. It seems large bids/asks have the ability to be hidden is all.

So if I am understanding this correctly this is the same as writing a trading bot that watches to see if there is a certain size bid at a certain price and only then issues the offer?

That's crazy talk. I don't have any credit problems, but my last 6 rentals have not done background or credit checks of any kind. I give them money, they give me keys. A few had contracts, a few didn't. I don't even have a job.

You will absolutely be able to find a place to rent, assuming you have money.

Loopholes to get out of owing $3400? or to get out of being homeless?

Don't rent from people who check that stuff. Lots of private people will let you live on their property in exchange for money.

I disagree. Hoard them if you can stand it! As the value rises you will all be tempted out of your stashes.

I am accumulating because I know I will spend a lot on coffee in the short term, and I need to make sure I still have 10BTC left in 2030 to buy my spaceship.

I think bitcoinwatch and bitcoincharts are excellent at what they do. Mtgox is possibly the most beneficial site right now, but the execution isn't flawless by any means.

Provided the risk of death/amnesia/imprisonment is greater than theft by trusted members it makes sense to have two different longtime members with access, either by copying the wallet file or using a mybitcoin or mtgox. I am not volunteering.

3, 4, or 5 would be success. If I was closer I'd try, but it's just not possible (this time anyway).

It doesn't matter if the 20 are brothers, as soon as they collude prices will invite new players. And you don't need their permission, gov permits, licences, etc. You just do it.

That all sounds great.

I think your idea of wait will surely happen, but it won't be waiting to release, it will just be waiting to start working. It is actually more elegant the way it is as we get the most difficulty for a given amount of power that way.

That's wrong. There are lots of types of incentives that are not bitcoins up front.

60BTC would be a steal, I'll bid it.

No change, just a bump.