Unless you don't believe in net neutrality / free speech on the internet, there is nothing wrong with requesting and keeping coins that were hacked. Of course, there may be some legal issues involved, so weigh the risks accordingly.

But if you do receive these "tainted" bitcoins, it's completely against the decentralized design of Bitcoin to send them to some central authority (in this case Luke's address) for proper return to their owner. Why should I trust this central authority to properly return the Bitcoin? Why not return them in another way that I see fit?

No, I wanted to know the forum rules to determine primarily:
1) If it is a violation of them to post a user's personal information. (Doesn't appear there are any rules against this)
2) How far anyone can troll without getting banned. Not just you.

I just want to make sure we're not going to be banned for you making posts and me pretending to be upset about them over the course of the next six months or however long we choose to keep this theater going. I said when I bought your debt this was going to be fun.

I'm not going to give some stranger enough documentation to ruin my life to comply with laws that don't exist.

Can you direct me to the appropriate "legistration" (I assume you mean legislation)?

AML does not apply to Bitcoin.

This is insane.

Seriously, until you get that tag removed you are on my ignore list.

I'm sorry bulanula you are not invited.

Okay thanks. I was just curious due to your PM regarding not banning someone unless they had violated forum rules and I didn't know if these were guidelines and then there were actual rules (like I said, "do X and get banned") or three-strikes or what-not.

If someone wanted to make a case that another user was trolling, how many separate conversations where someone said one thing in private and then posted otherwise in public in order to make the other person look bad would need to be provided in order to justify a ban? Or would it simply just not be allowable because it was done in private? Perhaps a better way of phrasing this is, do you only ban when the troll is successful in upsetting the person in question, or would you ban if there was sufficient enough reason to?

Thanks in advance.

My opinion is that giantdragon's no-refund policy is perfectly reasonable, and he doesn't deserve a scammer tag. This is different than bulanula's case because:
- mcorlett can't prove that he sent the BTC by accident.
- This trade wasn't done on the forum, so it feels "out of my jurisdiction".
- giantdragon had a stated no-refund policy.
- giantdragon is not saying ridiculous scammy things like bulanula is.

Still, I think it'd be most appropriate for giantdragon to refund the BTC just this once because mcorlett was confused about the no-refund policy. I'd feel better about trading with giantdragon if I knew he occasionally bent his rules to help out his customers in cases like this.

Could somebody help me with an issue I'm having using any miner (cgminer included)?

My cards are only using 50% of their CPU constantly, as shown on the screenies below:





Any idea why this is happening?
My system:

- 2x 5970
- Ubuntu 11.04
- AMD SDK 2.4