Thanks, but as I said I've checked the wiki and none of them have virtual Visa or Mastercard. Regarding Xenland's offer they're not virtual and I don't think the gift cards can be used outside the US. At least that's what it says on the Visa home page.

This seems almost too good to be true. Has anyone tried it?

Xenland: I suggest you change the title to "Cheaper In Bitcoins - Buy (almost) anything with bitcoins" or something like that. Also I was looking at the Visa gift card, and there is very little information about how it works. Is it virtual or physical? Can anyone buy it or do you have to be in the US?

Does anyone know if there's a reliable and preferably easy way to get a virtual/gift card VISA or Mastercard for Bitcoins? I have looked at all the sites listed on the wiki, and I could not find one that worked and offers this. Bitcoinexchange.cc has too many complaints so I'm not going to use it.

Your BTC/month is almost 50% higher than the real earnings at these difficulty levels. They'll fall at the next change, but not enough to earn 30/month at 950 Mh/s. It seems to me that it won't fall this much unless the price falls even more.

For how long will the NMC remain unconfirmed?

The purchasing power of bitcoin is directly related to the exchange value. If someone tries to pretend it's not they'll lose their bitcoins quickly, because they'll end up putting a too high value on either goods or bitcoins.

Glad I used your pool tonight, that sure was two hours of pure profit on the bitcoin side.

I've tried Slush, Simplecoin and nmcbit.com, and I'm currently using nmcbit. Slush may be the best, but it's hard to know for sure because we haven't actually got any Namecoins from him yet. Simplecoin finds suspiciously few NMC blocks. The hash rate of nmcbit.com is a bit low, but at least it finds the expected number of coins, and pays them out quickly.

Notice how you have to pretend I've said something I didn't in every message? It's good that you're trying to distance yourself from what you've written though, but it's too little too late.

You get a better hit if you spell it correctly, and judging from your comments on IRC about gay people and anything related to religion it fits you perfectly. Of course, from your point of view it's probably almost everybody else who are extremists.

You are right, found NMC blocks on simplecoin.us is way lower than it should be with that hash rate.

As I said, the largest that is not a religious extremist. http://www.google.no/search?q=eligius+bitcoin+prayers

I believe http://simplecoin.us is now the largest pool that is not attacked, supports merged mining with Namecoin, and not a religious extremist.

As expected, the NMC price is crashing. The guys mining at the other pools are probably selling as quickly as they can before the market is flooded by this pool.

I'm not asking how much he's collecting, I'm asking exactly how he will divide between the users. Apparently there is no accounting for each block like there is with bitcoins.

Do you mean the hash power we're putting in now, or when you start giving them out? If it's the latter it seems it would be better for me to use a pool that is already giving them out and come back to you later?

Anywhere from 2 days to weeks, in my experience.

I don't have the list of cracked passwords anymore, but it's not necessarily hard to crack sentences. If you use only dictionary words the entropy is "number of words in dictionary" ^ "number of words in string", and if you use a grammatically valid sentence and/or mostly common words it's much lower.

The MtGox incident showed that people writing password crackers are much more clever than most people think, so these kinds of passwords are likely to be cracked. 8-9 bytes of random chars is better than fairly long strings of words, even if they are obfuscated.

Skis are the only thing that may be a problem, depending on your weight and skills. It's a bit harder to get out of the water if you don't have a lot of power, but once you get up 30 hp is usually plenty.