The fact that EVERYONE isn't operating on this assumption already is of utmost concern to me. People are so blinded by their greed that they have forgotten all of the evil entities that prey on any new technology. People are so quick to hand their money over to some mostly anonymous person they met on the internet. And we're not just talking about bitcoins either. Bitcoin related scams are sucking up real cash just as much as they are sucking up bitcoins.

Make money slowly is the method that all good advisors recommend. The time to be an early adopter has come and gone and bitcoin is now in the make money slowly phase of it's life. A skilled speculator might be able to game the system but greed gets those peoples money too.

Mining has followed the make money slowly model for a "long time" now... ASICs may indeed come. I hope they do, I would like to own at least one. But I don't believe the profits promised are realistic. It will still be a make money slowly situation and anyone who tells you differently is probably a liar. I don't want to be first in line to own one thats for sure.

I'll sign up for a free FPGA any day of the week though and I don't care what sig I have to wear to get one cause I'm only slightly less greedy than the next guy.

I need my lawn mowed.

Are you within driving distance of Daytona Beach?

I mine for vanity addresses and I've checked thousands and thousands of them. Literally 10s of thousands of them.
I have NEVER found one in use. I mine for very common vanity addresses... 1eBay, 1Coin, 1BTC... never ever found a used one.

I'm an honest monkey. I wouldn't steal found coins. But who knows how some honest monkey would react if they stumbled on an account with hundreds or thousands of coins? They say locks only keep the honest people out. Open doors change people.

(true point removed and I totally agree but lets address the above for a moment)

Without the miners to secure the network it would be shit, so you're missing the point.

I've seen so many people on a moral high ground claiming "BITCOIN WASN'T MADE FOR MINERS" when in fact it was, is, and will die without.

When it stops being profitable to mine, you better sell your coins fast cause this shit's gonna crash faster than a yugo with bald tires on an icy road.

I suspect the number of $$$ invested in GPU mining will cause an alternate currency to take off once the reward halves or once these ASICs finally materialize.

Also, the word is out... the end is near.. the scammers who have been being good, gaining rep... they're all gonna scam you. You can expect people you trusted to flip and become a scammer. It's the name of the game.. the funds are drying up, call in your markers.

This is the cruelest thing I have ever seen.
First, most birds do not fly at night.
Second.... why the hell would you do this? The poor animal would be driven mad by the device you clamped onto it.

Shame Shame Shame.

I would like to enter the contest please

Great job. I have some suggestions.

I think that the psy artwork appeals most to the folks not in the US. It's so radically different than the dead presidents we're used to. I like your site because the work is done on the client and not the server. That said, trust is hard to obtain when using websites. Running this locally makes some people feel safer. This is why I'm using RobKohr's print.printcoin.com project and I recommend it to other people. The problem is, the people who I have told about print.printcoins.com have a hard time getting it to run on a windows machine which is what most people use.

Do you have plans to add other note designs? Is your project on github? I could help add more notes.

I still wish all the participants had provided layered image files. All of the designs will appeal to someone. To those that entered the contest, if you can give me a layered PSD or gimp XCF (preferred) I will add the note to the print.printcoins.com project by RobKohr and perhaps we'll see it on the bitaddress site also.

I am also interested in the "bond style" design where it takes up a whole page and resembles a stock certificate.

  VS

I dunno man... You both look pretty weird to me.

Often only the fear of something happening is enough to provoke the fallout from that something actually happening.

I personally feel that bitcoin is completely propped up by the sale of drugs, perpetuation of scams, and the laundering of those funds.

Granny always said "You can fuck up a perfectly good things or make a bad thing worse by getting the government involved" Looks like you just got yourself a government like it or lump it.

If I were an MtGox, You bet your sweet ass I would be trying to form myself a committee, surround myself with legitimacy, make every effort to hold onto the funds I have now before the shit comes crumbling down around me. If I were an early adopter sitting on enough coin to plug a sewer pipe you bet I would forming a foundation. If I were a miner with so many dollars invested in hardware that is about to become bricks you bet your sweet ass I would be forming a trust. And I wouldn't make it easy to join either. Fuck all you peons. MINE!

Thank goodness I don't have that shit to worry about. It would weigh damn heavy on me. I have enjoyed the free lunch though. Thanks for that I hope it lasts a little while longer.

Well tomorrow is the 28th....
The thieves have collected a grand total of 3.794578789 BTC

I've been counting the days like a kid waiting for christmass. I want satisfaction.

Because the criminal organizations know something most honest people don't know.
You will fuck up a perfectly good thing or make a bad thing worse when you get the GOV involved.

The police can't be counted on to help you any more than the army can be sent on a peacekeeping mission.

Armies are trained to blow shit up.
Police are trained to arrest.

I have never seen an alien but I believe I've seen a UFO.

It was in 1978.

A HUGE triangle shaped craft flew slowly over my house. It made no noise. It was completely black with no lights.

When I say huge I mean about 1 mile on each side It.

it flew so close to the ground and so slow that it could not have been a commercial aircraft.

It was square edged.

I remember this sighting as if it were yesterday and I've always got my eyes to the sky looking for more.

Before anyone accuses me, I was not on drugs. I was 11.

I bought my RPI just for this purpose and it's wonderful for this. You can even print paper bills like the kind you can find at http://print.printcoins.com but it takes a little while to generate the PDFs. My setup is completely offline. I have no block chain there, just wallet and wallet related tools. I have 1 SD card for this task and a couple more SD cards for using the RPI as a media center.

Vanitygen works on the RPI too. (oclvanitygen does not)

The block chain might be the only tricky part.

I got my RPI from element14 3 days after I ordered it. I think I just got incredibly lucky cause they just happened to have 100 in stock the day I ordered. I hear most people are waiting 12 weeks (OMG).

Worth the wait, this is the funnest little hack-box ever.

bump

I have a little extra time on my hands and I code for a living. I'm an old man, I know most languages well. I could maybe attempt a true pool where users work towards a common goal and take a proportion of the reward.

I have a serious question  / concern.

How can we do this without the generator miners/server knowing the private key. Assuming a "trust no one" mentality the end user should be the only one with the private key.

Are you taking pre-orders yet?

In the land of bitcoin you will find a villainous  hive of scum and deceitful monsters. Every third person is out to make sure people are totally pwned. The other two will feed off the misery of those that have fallen victim to the monsters. I suppose I'm guilty of this point and laugh business myself.

In this land, ShittyBitcoinDrawer is a small light of innocence. Cartoons for cash he says. You're offering much more than cartoons for cash. You are a good example. You make me feel better about bitcoin.

tip sent I hope you're here for a long time. Toon slinger.

I'll give you partial credit for johnny cash and merle haggard. But only partial. Rock Stars (country music stars) are kinda allowed to do shit you and I would be put in jail for.

Holy crap you have michael vick on your list? Dirtbag to the Nth degree still. Kevin Mitnick? Small time! He hacked a few phone switches and stole some unix. And now he's simply found a way to monetize hacking.. Junior Johnson? Did you ever see the history channel show about him? "If I had to do it all over again today, I would".

People don't change.. they just are more careful the next time around. Or not.

Someone from the bitcoin magazine needs to hire you.

I ran some notes printed on a Konica Minolta BizHub c360 color laser printer. Used 32lb 100% cotton paper with a tamper evident seal. I put it in my pants pocket and laundered the pants. The entire note was a little beat up especially on the edges but the ink didn't run at all. 100% readable.

put the note in the microwave and the seal got all sparkly and it left a little burn mark on the private key but it was still readable.

I'm looking for other ways people abuse money to see if the notes I printed will stand up to the abuse. I realize no one puts money in a microwave but I was feeling adventurous.

Also, I added the BitPay note to RobKohr's print coins project. I would have added all the notes from this contest but I could not locate layered project images for most of them. I also put aristus's turing note in the print coins project. It's easy to add a new note and the project is on github and I hope people ad more notes cause I love these things. http://printcoins.com