Investing in any currency is a bad idea if you think Armageddon is near.  Even gold has near zero utility under such chaos, but at least silver still has antibacterial properties that makes it worthwhile to keep some of it around.  Before the modern era of safe city supplied water, most people had cisterns.  Americans would take a 50 cent silver piece and drop it into the cistern.  Powdered silver was used on wounds during the Civil War, and up until WWII, field surgical devices were often plated in silver to reduce the need of disinfecting of the devices between surgeries in a combat situation.

No currency is useful without a functioning market, and that requires a civilization.  Bulletts are a good idea, though, even if you don't own a gun.  22lr, 38special and 9mm are the best choices.

I went to the website and couldn't make heads or tails of it, but as I was there exploring I was struck by what I was just doing.

As little as two decades ago, even if the Internet were available then, having this conversation about trade with players within Russian territory would have earned me a visit from the US Secret Service.  You kids probably have a hard time understanding a world wherein geo-political interests trumped free trade and business interests, but for the majority of my lifetime that was simply the way it was.  And we couldn't have imagined the world since the breakup of the Soviet Union and the rise of the global Internet.

As a child, we would have to regularly participate in 'drills' at school.  Wherein the children would either flee the classroom and huddle in the halls crouched into a ball, or under our desks.  As an adult, I rationally realized the shear futility of doing such a thing if the US had ever gone to war with the USSR; but as a child it was truly frightening.  I can understand how such propaganda could condition a majority of those children to ever distrust foreigners.  Fear is a huge motivator, particularly in children.  I have no doubt that the USSR used similar tactics with it's population.

Thank God for the Internet.

keypair transfers will probably be possible in the future, but they are not a secure way to move bitcoin.

So you would be selling ag futures contracts in Bitcoin?

Excluding the delay that bootstrapping the blockchain imposes at startup, then yes, it is possible for any computer to pull a hail mary at any time after it starts generating.

Disk space, but if you are an online merchant, a keypool of 20K might be a reasonable number.  It would take the client quite some time to crap out so many on an average desktop, but this would only be an issue upon first startup.

Amen. 

The answers that you seek are written in the forum's archives, as well as several different wiki's, at least one FAQ, and the technical white paper.  I'm more than happy to point you in the right direction if you are confused, and answer questions that arise from reading those documents.  However, neither myself nor anyone else who can answer those questions have the time to repeat ourselves for each newbie who misunderstands how the system works.  If you really wish to know and/or have this debate, then at least attempt to educate yourself on the details before you come to the table.

Funny!

Imagine how old this kind of stuff gets to those of us who have been here a long time.

What does it do when you are not trying to generate coins?  Do you show any connections?

Bobr,

I've just been reading through your post history, and I can count the number of posts that were directly relevant to the topic in question as being about 20 total.  The rest are you either engaging a flame war, continuing one, or simply being rude.  Why are you here?  Do you enjoy hijacking threads?  Is this what makes you happy?  I, for one, do not enjoy spending my online freetime deleting flamebait. 

BTW, I've had to spend time reading the histories of others in this thread as well, and you seem to be a common denominator.  If I wrong about this, show me; but until counter evidence is presented I will assume that if it walk like a duck and quacks, that it is a duck.

It's like moving cash from your left pocket to put it into your right pocket, except IRL your left pocket can't make more at will.

No, it's still different.  As the sender, you have the data, and therefore the ability, to claim the coins yourself; regardless of who might receive the card.  Even if you are honest, that doesn't mean that a dishonest customer can't claim that you aren't.  If the story is plausible, and it is, then PayPal isn't going to cover you for this more than once.

It's a limited term offer.  Jump on it before I take my meds!

BTW  The intrinsic value of every fiat currency on Earth is very near zero, and ever approaching that value in the market itself.  So I would extend my offer to $ and Euros as well.  I'll gladly pay $.05 for every Euro that you possess or .05 Euros for every one of those US Federal Reserve Notes.

I'm sorry, but are you agreeing with me in opposition?

If I'm wrong, correct me.  But make sure that you know what I'm talking about first, 'kay?

The transfer of the bitcoins wouldn't even be proof that someone received the card.  You could redeem the coins yourself without anyone else being able to tell.

I doubt that you could get seller protection this way, but if you can, go for it.

Doubtful.  I'd wager that even Satoshi doesn't still own that many.  No way to know, however, which is part of the point.

Well, they you would be wrong.  Not only is it possible, it's actually done.  It's not common, but a European can offer Euros to a vendor, and the vendor has the right to accept foreign currency, but not the requirement, as settlement of debts.  What is questionable, is whether or not a business with public access can quote prices in foreign currencies; but I'd bet that McDonald's isn't interested in a menu board that displays prices in Euros anyway.

BTW, the founder of the Liberty Dollar was recently convicted of some kind of fraud; but none of the associated businesses that accepted the Liberty Dollar could be charged with anything, nor none that sold same without advertising that fact.  Because a private business could accept payment in live chickens, if they desired.  Private local currencies such as the Ithica Hour depend upon this for their ongoing existance.

EDIT:  Also, I think you might be right about the future price of Bitcoins, and as a show of friendship, I'll pay you triple ($.03) your quote for any of those worthless bitcoins you might have.  This is a limited time offer, however, so hit me before I come to my senses!

That's correct, GetWork implies that you are using a pool miner, not an independent client.  So if you are successfully mining with a pool, you are not in control of the nonce anyway.

EDIT:  And yes, you can use a pair of pool miners to mine independently on your own machine, if you also have a client that is running that is modified to manage pool miners.  Either way, pool miners are probably the best route with a machine with multiple GPU's