I'd only be interested in bitcoin-bank.com
Registered bitcoins-bank.com and a couple of others, also planning on actually opening a bank there.

PHP is server side scripting.  CLI (command line interface) is just the ability to run it from the command line.  You could use this to run a console client, but again it falls on having the user install software (they at least need the php client) + run the script on their local machine.  If I choose to encrypt the client code, then they'd have to trust me.

PHP CLI is mostly just for running offline scripts (like perl or bash).  Most people use the PHP apache module.  I'd be running the PHP-FPM and fastcgi on nginx.

Also, I doubt most people would have any interest in playing with a command line poker client. <--WTF

No, I was referring to http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-create.php. 

What that box got? A dual cpu (amd opteron perhaps) with boatload of RAM? I don't think a group of those servers can compare to the power of even a humble 5770.

Think about it. Google is the biggest company that backs free, open software and culture. Google also happens to more servers than Intel, Rackspace, Microsoft and Amazon combined.

If Google wants to use Bitcoin for adsense or whatever they'd need a large supply to fund it. Buying Bitcoin in the mass quantities that Google would need is currently impossible, but since they have many servers to work with it's easier for them to mine it themselves.

Once they have their supply, they'll announce their involvement. They can't announce it early because the news that Google is working with Bitcoin would cause the the value of Bitcoin to rise dramatically. If they play their cards rights, they can mine whatever amount they need and when they announce it that amount will be worth 1, 5, 10, 100 or whatever times as much.

But mostly I'm just rumour mongering 

Although who else would have the resources to drop that much power into the network at random?

Window Phone 7 is a dying platform.

Well, you learn something new everyday.  PHP does have some UDP functionality, although because it's a server side scripting language, I'd still have to figure out a way to have the client's requests not go through the standard http overhead.

There is no rule regarding transactions fees, except for offer and demand.

"transactions _can_ be free, but if the amount is small and the transaction's inputs are not old, you might have to pay a small fee to get it through fast enough" just doesn't cut it marketing-wise

If someone could come up with a nice way to put it without being inaccurate I would be happy.

(Oh but we are chasing bad guys playing poker online, trading goldbits and smoking weed on their couches ... whatta a load of BS).

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I saw that too.. bogus.