Did I miss something? what happens on the 12th?

Holy shit, I was trying to kill that damn bug. good job.

There is a bit of a catch 22 when attracting illegal dealings to bitcoin. This catch 22 exists on multiple levels. The highest level being that even the medium sized players would need a lot more value to the bitcoin to be interested in participating. Currently, it's like taking micro payments to these types. I think there is a total value of about 150 million dollars? This would need to be in the billions to have enough to go around to satisfy all the players who think 10 million dollars is an average take.

Here are some suggestions for the illegal side.

Getting Kim DotCom on board with bitcoin will probably drive the price up more than The dread pirate roberts has.
While not really illegal, the porn industry probably hates chargebacks. They could offer lower rates to people who pay in bitcoin.
Money Laundering.
Rainy day legal defense funds.
Political bribes.
Credit card theft, turn the stolen funds into bitcoin through forexes that pop up and disappear.
A bitcoin fencing operation... buy stolen goods for bitcoin. Operates like a silk road for stolen televisions.
a bitcoin based cash for gold for stolen jewelry. (cue south park audio byte)
Identity theft. Buy a new identity with bitcoins.
bets for video based blood sports like cock fighting and dog fighting.


Shit I could do this all day. There is a zillion things that are illegal that could benefit from bitcoin... but all of this shit is moot - it will take nearly a full generation before the majority of the population has the computer skills required to participate in the bitcoin process. The drug buyers are somewhat used to a certain level of scammery and taxation... They get taxed when they buy their drug coins on eBay and they get taxed for the privilege of buying their drugs in a safer online environment. There aren't many dinosaurs like me who have the computer skills to even set up tor.

I think you should post a new thread in services while still posting to this thread. Cause this thread is awesome.

In your services thread, offer to draw custom avatars for some fee which you feel is worth it. It shouldn't be out of line to expect people to pay $1 USD I think which is a little less than a .10BTC.

I don't know how much of your time goes into these. I would hate to come off as someone who thinks your work is cheap. It's great stuff, you've got a great "minds eye". I was just thinking along the lines of the classic sales pitch....

what-the-fuck..... it's-only-a-buck!

I just compiled bfgminer on uBuntu to try it out. I have a couple of questions and a wow.

Questions that google didn't help me with...

  What is GCN
  what does GCN do
  why would I want to use it and...
  is it only supported by the diakgcn kernel?
 
WOW!!

   My rig is using 4-5% less power than with cgminer 2.6.5 and I'm getting the exact same hashrate. HOW?

I'm in Brighthouse cable in Florida USA and all three servers are not responding for me this morning.

The odd thing is they all show normal hash rates on the website. Obviously the website works fine for me

Just let me know when you're willing to accept a gifted rabbits foot. Luck demands the left hind foot of a small woodland creature.

I would have to agree with this sentiment... *if* the shit goes sour, the employees will be just as shocked as the victims.

I worked for a small telemarketing company when I was a young man... back when the world was in black & white and dinosaurs roamed the earth. One day when we showed up for work, the doors were chained shut by the feds and the owners were long gone. I mean, they ran off with the money OVERNIGHT. No-one was more shocked than the regional manager who gave all 20 of us $50 out of his own bank account so that people could eat while we waited for the unemployment checks to start.

We sold a real product that really existed. It wasn't worth $299 but it was real. We worked in a real office, there was nice furniture and we paid taxes and had health benefits. Just your normal phone room. Shit we had people who took care of the plants. No one had any clue they were part of an elaborate scam.

 This was the vitamin craze of the mid 80s. What we didn't know is about 6 months earlier they just stopped shipping orders and pocketed all the money. The customers got their first week's supply of vitamins cause we shipped that out of our office ourselves but they never got the rest of the year supply they paid for or the "special bonus item" they were promised which was a cheap boom-box.

 they had offices in vegas, providence RI, and atlanta GA. The feds chained all the doors at all the locations the same morning and they were not able to catch 1 single person who pulled a runner with the cash.

   When tax time came, the government wanted their tax money. The scammers had kept the tax money they had deducted from our paychecks and pocketed that too. The government didn't care that we had been scammed, we still had to pay double taxes that year.

For a short time it showed a negative unconfirmed NMC balance for me and a 0 confirmed NMC balance. it's back to usual levels now though.

As of this afternoon I've switched to PPS again. This week has been brutal luck and it's not looking any better today either.

Massive is completely an overestimate. There is only like 100 million in bTC... That is not enough cash to support a massive drug trade.

An impressive drug trade is a better term

But yes, all da coins are gonna be tainted with drug residue. Just like all the USD.

Can we have more pictures?

Bitcoins should be no different than real money. You need to keep it safe. Leaving it on your computer is a lot like leaving money just laying around. Most people don't even do this in their own homes.

Put your bit coins in a safe place. Store them on a paper note, or put them on an encrypted USB.

I wouldn't trust large quantities of bit coin to an online wallet service but for small amounts, the online wallets are convenient.

Dude it totally comes with windows 9 installed and you get a free steam game of your choice too.
I heard from this one guy that knows a guy who's little brother already has one and he says that it is way better than a sharp stick to the eye.

Not a bug, shit luck. really shit luck!
The confirmed number won't change until they solve a block and some block solves recently have been 8 hours, 6 hours...

Luck is shit for 5 days now.. Inaba needs to put a rabbits foot on the servers

How many days of bad luck do we have to have before you accept my offer to send a rabbits foot?

I'm willing to compromise. A horseshoe... an Oosik, a 4 leaf clover, a found penny, you choose. I'm stopping just short of a blood sacrifice though.

You seem a little nutty to me...

legal activities vary greatly from one place to the next and bitcoin is not limited to any single legal jurisdiction.
morality is maybe you what you really mean, and bitcoin is morally neutral.

I like nuts though. I always buy the chunky brand peanut butter and my parrot loves all kinds of nuts.

You gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

Since the topic is BFL is a scam, and assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that it really is a scam...
Do you happen to have the numbers for GPU/FPGA mining projected for 6 months?

How many people have to ignore you to be yellow?
How many to be orange?
Is there a red?

You listed the wrong skill set...

Try posting again with skills like....

have 19 memberships under 19 names at 19 dispensaries.
have a vacuum sealer and I know how to use it.
Within driving distance of the mexican border.
Dont Ask Don't Tell was underrated.


And you made me laugh so I'm sending you a penny

Initially I thought, "This paper does not address vanity bitcoin addresses." but of course it does. Because they don't just happen, you still have to search every possible address until you find your target.

Still...  all a gambler sees is "blah blah blah blah" there is a chance "blah blah blah"