Good point.

WTHA1: is in the northern hemisphere, likely south of 60 degrees north, north of 22 degrees north. That rules out Africa.

WTHA2: is closer to the equator, the only visible shaddows appear to exgagerated by the nearby creakbed. I Estimate summer, between 0 degrees north and 45 degrees north.

WTHA3: No visible shadow detail, hint given is "south america"

WTHA4: Cloud shadows suggest morning near the equator, likey between 30 degrees south/north. Hint was "Africa", my analysis narrows it to north Africa.

WTHA5: Shadow detail is hard to see; appears to be another morning image. Hint was Asia. I think I can narrow it to between 22 south and 45 north, which eliminates most of Russia.

PS: voted both "Yes" and "No" in the poll

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The authorities have been notified, and I have just (A) cancelled several PayPal transactions with false statements and intent to cheat, (B) made false claims in print and am butthurt from being bitch-slapped by the world, (C) just want all the noise to stop, why does everyone hate me so much, and don't you think I look pretty in this Pretty Princess outfit?

Just another public service from the House of Loup, "When only the best will do, let the Loup do..."

Why is the official bitcoinica line coming via you and not bitcoinica themselves?

Your average modern processor should be able to generate just shy of 1 million private/public keypair combinations per second.

Collisions are also practically nonexistent, taking 28.23 trillion trillion trillion centuries to brute-force if you singled in on a single address (and that's assuming one hundred trillion guesses per second, around ). This time goes down as the array of pubkeys you're trying to crack grows, but the processing slows down as you have to check every generated privkey against that array. I don't know where the trade-off is.

Still, that's.. uh.. 2823000000000000000000000000000000000000 years. Earth has existed for 6000.

<troll> USB UARTs are ASICs right? </troll>

Do you want to know? I'll be glad to tell you: [Tycho] AKA Deepbit is developing it. You're welcome.

I doubt there are many people outside of America who don't laugh and then feel slightly nauseous and then feel empathic embarrassment when the hear their name -  but if they need to make right wing middle Americans feel patriotic in order for them to give to charity then that's what they need to do. But the rest of the world laughs at this kind of thing - and for the record I don't want any of my bitcoins going to them.

Let's see where we are in mid-January, better data, better conclusions.

In response to phantomcircuit, and various other participants:

I'm aware of this issue and that's why I have reversed some of the forced liquidations that are deemed inaccurate. In the following days, I will do these two things:

1. Improve the pricing algorithm to prevent the unnecessary spikes.

2. Make charts for history quotes available, for every day since we launched. The chart will look similar to phantomcircuit's, showing both buying prices and selling prices.

I apologize for not doing enough to protect our customers' interest in terms of system engineering.

How many need to exist? My understanding is that first pre-orders should be delivered in mid-January.  I would rather have a late widget than no widget, or a widget that is in imminent danger of failure due to insufficient power handling/capacity.

Isn't the purpose of the prototype to shake out these types of design deficiencies?  I don't think it would make sense to fab 100 of these and then have 100 fail in customers' possession.  Sure the development process has revealed mistakes, but that is one of the characteristics of development by marketing amateurs.