I see addresses, like 1blahs6Gwq2op...... etc...
How to do that?

Virtex bitcoins are much "cheaper" than MtGox.
Is that because of Virtex exorbitant fees (3% vs MtGox 0.6%) ?

BFL - Selling showels to gold diggers has been the most profitable type of venture since the 1800's gold rush

I run PC giving ~80 Mhash/sec, which evolvesto about BTC 0.01 / 12 hours or so @ pre 210,000 block rates.
I do that just to let PC do something useful as it has to be turned on anyways.

I will use this balance to live test bitcoin payment solution i developing right now for Wordpress.
Will announce it once ready.

Oops, time to switch to btcguild ....
Thanks for the notice.

Thanks, but if I already have CAD balance on MtGox... I'd rather not to re-buy Bitcoins with it, but withdraw directly...

I used to make fun of them for begging but prohibiting ads, but with bitcoins it makes so much more sense - perfect donation vehicle.

Thanks, interesting read...

What the most cost-effective way to withdraw Canadian dollars from MtGox?
Anyone used OkPay for that?
I know Dwolla doesn't work in Canada.

It's hard-to-impossible to estimate total loss to fees, commissions and time [there is always something hidden] without actually doing it.

Anyone has direct experience with this?

I writing bitcoin integration module for popular ecommerce software and wonder what are recommended gateways for online merchants to start accepting bitcoins?

For example
- bitpay.com charges 0.99% - highest but seems to be quite popular.
- paysius.com charges merchant 0.49%
- blockchain.info - does not charges anything and have rather decent looking API.

Naturally i want to integrate with popular backend system first to cover most of market and evolve from there.

Whats your suggestions/experiences?

I wonder if Bitcoin was "launched" and now operating fully according to algorithms or someone can still "tweak" things, like hash difficulty etc... ?

My point is that potentially criminal (under investigation) chain of transactions is now attached to physical address of an innocent person after using of innocent mixing service.

Suppose you made 10 legitimate bicoins by moving a lawn to your neighbor and decided to "break" the chain of bitcoin transactions to have some fun on Silk Road.

You used some eWallet mixing service, which ends up like this:
Your Service -> You 1 -> eWallet 1
                                   eWallet 2 -> You 2 -> Silk Road -> Joy!

You had pot shipped to your door and had fun.
What you didn't know is that CIA and NSA is tracing illegal nuclear arms deal by setting up a trap pot store on Silk road.
Here's the whole picture:
Arms Buyer -> Arms Seller -> eWallet 2 -> You 2 -> Silk Road -> Joy!

Some coins that were involved in original arms deal are now tracing back to innocent *you*!
... and now CIA is after you as a potential suspect involved in illegal arms deal.
When they found that you're just an innocent loser - they just send you to a local police for "correction"

So my point is that using bitcoin mixing service might make things worse.

True/false?