Would you have any inclination of the length of the password or at least some of the constituent characters of the password? I'm sorry to say it but without those you're going to be left with bruteforcing and that is going to be impossible for you if the password is longer than ~ 7 characters (assuming no special ones).

How exactly are they 'abusing' the system? Last time I checked switching campaigns at the end of your term doesn't violate the conditions of either campaign. Unless your arguing its unethical?

What you're offering is impossible. You are in effect offering 1200% returns a year and last time I checked no one gets those kinds of returns. With those you could become a hedge fund manager at any company you liked and they would pay you millions. You have no proof for your claims and they are stretch to the point of insanity. I would advise anyone considering this to reconsider.

Yeah, no. This concept in relation to theft has been brought up many times before. The problem with this idea is who is given the power to decide which coins should be 'deleted/blacklisted' as whoever they do give it to basically has everyone at their mercy. It breaks the whole decentralisation by placing a single entity with all the power regardless of whether coins should be 'deleted' or not. People could even do it against people they hold grudges against and not for the intended purpose.

Another competing exchange is always good to see - competition drives up innovation and value for consumers. I have my doubts though as to whether this will really have much of an impact on Bitcoin overall - India at the moment is certainly no where near the level of China in terms of economy scales and the population there isn't exactly suited to an online cryptocurrency yet.

That would be reason enough to celebrate IMO. No idea why people think we need some sort of 'body' to give us credence (not that they actually do).

@OP: Maybe if Bitcoin gets big enough (ie a large enough userbase) but I'm not expecting that this will happen anytime soon. Bitcoin poses a threat to PP so I'm sure they'd weigh up the cost of supporting a competitor against the value of a larger userbase.

Mining fees are fine as they are. The only people complaining are those who are so tight they can't afford 5c (0.5c once reference implementation is accepted) for the cost of a transaction. Miners at the moment don't care about fees - they represent a minuscule amount compared to block rewards.

@OP: Having read the article - the conclusion that I'm coming to is that it's bad for decentralisation. You're effecting giving up control of yours coins on the premise of being paid what your promised. Until then a specific person/body has a large amount of coins to play with. It really seems like the inputs.io scam all over again. The few times it is useful is if your making many small transactions where the fee would eat the tx - but those are exceptional cases.

AFAIK any actual transactions would have to be related to nodes and miners in order for the transaction to be accepted and included in a block. Hence all transactions must and are publicly visible. I might be interpreting this differently from your question - do you have a link to the article?

To get an address either find a client and use that (they will generate a private key and corresponding address) or use software like vanitygen (more complicated for new users). A wallet is simply 'list' of private keys nothing more. If you want to look into a Bitcoin client that doesn't need you to download the whole client I would suggest Electrum.

Here would be a good place to start - https://www.weusecoins.com/en/getting-started

If you need any more help feel free to ask here.

If there was a list I would think it would be better to have it in terms of BTC rather than fiat as the value of BTC to fiat fluctuates so significantly. Some of the coins we attribute to Satoshi have to be him from the sheer fact there was no one else mining - but there are some early blocks that could very easily be disputed. I don't see why we couldnt include Satoshi as long as the possibility of it being more than a single person is acknowledged.

Your running on the assumption of a continual increase in demand. Despite the best intentions there is always the possibility that Bitcoin fails (harsh government regulation from major countries would be an example) and as such demand falls significantly and we return to previous prices. If the human factor is significant enough to shift the market from where it should be  doesn't it logically follow that even if it is deflationary it may never actually follow the theoretical trend.

Oh and on a side note - I suppose you could always sell goods and services for BTC instead of fiat if you don't want to exchange fiat.

It will be quite a long time before Forbes will release a rich list and even then it won't include many large stashes that have not been identified. Unlike fiat where asset value can be estimated and it isn't too difficult to work out who owns what - with Bitcoin many of them don't have any name attached and I'd doubt anyone would come forward to prove they actually own the coins.

Why exactly would it be bad to use fiat to buy Bitcoin? Everything has a cost associated and Bitcoin is the same - your pegging a fiat value against it. I wouldn't suggest mining - it needs a reasonable amount of technical knowledge which a layman lacks and it requires capital. Your argument that Bitcoin is deflationary is not necessarily true, if it was we would be continually trending upwards at a small rate rather than sharp spikes and falls.

The big problem I have is having a plugin as your wallet. Browsers aren't exactly particularly safe and some users would no doubt fill it with all their coins because of their laziness and come complaining when they lost it all due to a scrutiny hole. Not to mention I don't see how difficult it is to open a client and send a payment if you wanted to. It just doesn't offer any advantages and has serious security issues that are necessary to consider.

GHash.IO simply acts as a company would. From what I've seen it doesn't really care a smidgen about its customers - just making sure that it gets new ones. It's really quite obvious after all the shambled promotions they've tried to run which has simply led to alienated users. Not that it would really cost them much to send BTC2.8. They could very easily afford it for the positive PR.

Last time I checked to be a full node you had to have the ability to verify transactions/blocks and to do that you needed a copy of the whole blockchain (minus some if it was purged). I really doubt that at the moment you can act as a full node without having a copy of the blockchain and be running the Core client.

I'm hoping that you're meaning to somehow memorise the private key right? If you're planning on using random words jumbled together to form the basis of it then I would highly recommend reconsidering. Unless you're willing to take the risk that your coins get stolen because you didn't have enough entropy or you used a line from a movie/poem/song then I would stay clear of a brain wallet.

Having a soft copy in the cloud (encrypted of course) and a hard copy in meatspace (preferably with BIP38) should more than suffice - your pretty much screwed if you get nuked or get knocked into a coma. There are bigger things to worry about in those scenarios than money (you'll either be dead or won't be able to use those coins till you wake up and still remember everything).

That is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a while. Having an IP doesn't really help you get into a computer at all - you'd need some security hole to exploit or an extremely stupid user (more likely to find the latter). But let's be honest here, most people using Bitcoin at the moment aren't the clueless type I'm referring to - you'd be better off phishing for card/bank details and probably have more success there.

Well hopefully you learn - best to use sellers who have had good long term feedback or just buy the games yourself when they are on sale. Always be suspicious if someone wants to sell you a game that has never been on sale before at that price point. It is highly likely they are simply going to scam you.

I would suggest you look at a pay per post option - it might not be a popular choice with mods (tendency to promote spam) but if you set tough guidelines and enforce them people will back off from simply mindlessly spamming. It also gives you reasonably good exposure - nearly everyone has heard of PD thanks to their campaign.

Your rates will have to be competitive, at least early on. Use a known escrow to ensure funds are there to pay people. Finally, make sure you follow your payment time - people tend to get fustrated if you can't follow your payout terms.