What's the point of this? we send you litecoins and you show us a picture of the gold you can run off with? Great.

'bet' and made a tiny profit at satoshidice


.. kept doing that until I lost it.. ah well, nm.

Are you still employed? Because THAT would be an awesome punchline.

"Plz send to bitcoin address, since I am now unemployed"

So is this the done thing here? Petitioning for 'release'? .. lol

Did you hear Darth Vader is single again? If you ask me, he’s been looking for love in Alderaan places.

Which Imperial commander was afraid of swimming? Darth Wader.

Star Wars fans are a fairly unhappy bunch. For every one that’s content you “see three P-O’d”

How did the astromech droid get around the road work? He took an R2-Detour.

What do you call a Tattooine coffee shop? Java the Hutt.

What movie were you watching when your VW was recalled? Return of the Jetta.

Were the deserts of Luke’s youth havens for body art? Yes, there was lots of Tattoine.

http://bitcoinx.com/profit/

Punch some numbers into that and play around with the ideas.

Edit: Don't forget the block reward will halve soon too! (25 coins/block)

Bitcoins, which you can think of like 'Internet Cash', can't be traced (easily) and cannot be revoked (chargeback) once sent). Once the payment is made, that's it.

It's a double-edged sword though since who you send to can just say 'thanks very much, bye'.

The value comes from it being used to barter for things that people wish to keep quiet, like illegal drugs.

The problem with setting up a pool now is that you will need significant traction in order to make it worth people switching. No good if you're PPLNS and there's not enough people to find blocks then there's long periods of nothing at all. If you're a PPS type pool, where are the funds coming from in order to cover payouts since pool hashrate will be low. Another thing too, where is this pool going to be hosted? You need an amazingly good uptime and connectivity in order to make it worth people's time to switch.

I myself am a programmer and system admin of many years and the idea of setting up a pool gives me pause, so I'm curious to know what you think about it.

If you don't mind losing them to scammers who WILL do disputes and chargebacks and all sorts of crap

Since I didn't know what the heck you were going on about, I'll put this here for other people that go '?'

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Dollar

blockchain.info works for me too .. nice and simple I find. What you can also do is make a private key for an address that you only keep locally safe (written on paper in safe deposit box even). The corresponding address can be added as a 'view only' address in blockchain.info. You can then send coins TO that address, but cannot be sent FROM that address without the super-secure private key. So periodically you can secure a number of coins.

Seems that's what to do here, is post here and hope to bide your time while reading other threads