Hmmmm... interesting.  I can think of some out-of-the-box ways to track transactions, to where I could just as easily find the hardest transaction to track as the easiest.  So... Challenge Accepted. 

I assume you would give the starting address and initial BTC amount sent out?  Or... what information would you be giving?

Here's a couple of things I don't quite understand about fees...

I can set fees from my bitcoin client's wallet.

I cannot set fees from deepbit.net, virwox, mtgox, etc.

Are transactions from those sites always fee-free?  Or do those sites always pay a fee?  In my mind, if a fee is suddenly required to send a transaction, and it renders a bunch of websites completely unusable because they are not paying a fee, that's a problem.  We would need a plan in place to deal with such circumstances before making a change like this.

Also, what would happen to free transactions that are out there when/if such a chance is made?  Are they just forever stuck in limbo?  Is the BTC from the transaction eventually returned to the sender if it cannot find a block to place itself in?

"Ethnic diversity" is just a way to discriminate against white males.

Example:  College scholarships.  You get special scholarships for being of a different culture, something besides white.  Whites get nothing.  Fair?  No.  Equal?  No.  Racist?  Absolutely.

I stopped taking so-called "equality" seriously a long time ago.  There is nothing equal about it.

If I understood even a small part of what the OP was talking about, I'd be all over that. 

Huge corporation or small business, it doesn't change the market wage.  If said man's labor really is worth $10, then he'll find a job at $10.  Might take some looking, but it'll be out there.

I know right now, I wouldn't take any job that pays less than $17/hr.  That's what I value my labor at.  Everyone has the same choice - they can choose not to work for $3/hr if they want.  And if many people make such a choice, then an employer, even a corporation, will have to raise their wages to keep employees.

No one likes employee turnover.  The companies that treat their employees the worst and that pay the least will have the highest turnover.  They might have to replace their average employee once a month.  All of that constant retraining and movement of employees can take a toll on management, co-workers, morale, and the general workability of the corporation.  If a corporation did try to operate in such a manner (as some do), their customer service will be terrible, their sales will follow, and eventually, the company will cease to exist.

I'd rather let the free market take care of greedy corporations than try to regulate our way out of it and make things that much worse.

One example:  Restaurants in my city are always PACKED.  Uncomfortably so, to the point where you end up waiting quite a while to eat on any weekend evening.  It would seem that there is much business to be had if you are looking to open a restaurant in the area.  Unfortunately, there just aren't enough to meet demand, because if the restaurants couldn't overfill their facilities on a nightly basis, they wouldn't make enough money to pay the 20+ laborers the ridiculously high minimum wage we have here.  Since they are forced to pay their workers a good deal above what their services *should* be worth, we have a smaller selection of crowded restaurants.

Is it worth it?

I disagree.  I think people will be more curious about bitcoin than anything, so they'll check it out online.  Then, when they're traveling by the sign a second time (the vast majority of traffic that sees said sign will probably be past it several times, at a minimum), they'll make note of the company that is selling items with bitcoins.

If 75% of the advertisement was the typical boring "shop here, blah blah blah" ad, I don't think nearly as many people would take note of it.

Just my completely unprofessional and possibly biased opinion.  

I'd also change the color scheme to black/yellow or black/gold.  Black/orange is just kind of... unattractive, IMO.

What PSU?  I'm having trouble mining on a 5850 on a Dynex 400w PSU... yeah, need something better than that piece of junk. 

Old & irrelevant thread is old & irrelevant.

You don't necessarily have to look up a seller by an address.  Once more merchants are involved, you can simply type their business name in the search to find them and look at their feedback rating.

Just run it open-sided.  Not as ideal as a high-flowing case, sure, but I just don't think that sort of expense is necessary for a degree or two of difference from running a cheapo case open sided.

Meh, that'd only be about 23 grand for me at this point.

I suppose I'd put it towards my student loans.

My honest opinion?

Go for mining, not resale value.  If you sell it in the future, part it out, don't sell it as a whole rig.  You'll generally get more for it, especially if you have dual or triple high-end cards in it.  Not many people are willing to pay such a premium for cards they'll never make use of.

With that in mind, I would suggest the following changes:
- 1GB of DDR3 ram, the cheapest you can find.  Should be about $13 shipped.
- 250GB HDD, $39.
- Cheap generic case - just something that works for mounting a motherboard and PSU - $20
- Single core Sempron - $39
- Can't really argue with your choice of PSU - if you need a good one, you need a good one.
- Can't argue with the choice of motherboard.

With those changes, you'd save about $227.  Of course, maybe that's pocket change for you, I don't know.  But that's my suggestion.

Also, check out the link to the spreadsheet in my sig.  It'll help you figure out how much money you can expect to make (or lose) by building a rig and mining with it.  It's the Mine or Invest link.

It's really odd, but you're right.

I'd say the next best thing is a physical magnetic HDD stored in a sealed firesafe in a temperature and humidity controlled firesafe.  It wouldn't hurt to also put it on an SSD, a USB thumbdrive or five (hey, they're cheap!), CD-R's and DVD-R's just for the heck of it.  Email it to several different websites/email addresses, and make note of what those websites/email addresses and passwords are on a sheet of paper placed in the firesafe.  Also, print out the raw ASCII of the file, just in case.

I would also copy the data many times over on any given backup medium, provided there is space for it.  That way, if you end up having a large some of money tied up in it, it would be worth it to get some forensics analysis done on the drive to recover the data if none of the files were intact.  If the data is repetitious, then whoever is analyzing it can more quickly piece it back together.  Just grab the good bits from here and there...

I wonder if there's anyone who provides some sort of digital storage that is 100% failsafe.  I mean, they have backups of backups and more backups, several offsite locations for said backups that are both online and offline, and switch between the two.  Backups on many different types of digital storage mediums.  Printed backups.  Backups in nuclear bunkers.  Etc, etc.

If you're going to create a commune, then you HAVE to allow the freeloaders.  There's no other way to work it.

Wow, that's sad.

It's also why liberals are wrong.  So wrong.  Liberals think they are helping people, but really, they're only hindering them.  Give someone money, and they'll become dependent on it, not independent as the liberals would so like to proclaim.  Give someone money for having a deformed baby, and surprise surprise, people will find a way to "cheat the system".

And those mothers are so morally messed up as well.  But I wish the US wouldn't give them the means to screw up other people's lives for the sake of making themselves a few more dollars.

Liberals, take note!  This is what happens with your worldview and policies!

I lol'd.

But serious justcause, you're the reason I'll be changing some things around on my feedback website.  Namely, to allow people to give feedback on people who have not signed up for it.

1. Linux is better, but I use Windows because I'm a linux noob.  It makes a ~5% performance difference, IIRC.
2. No idea, but poclbm is pretty good.  I hear varying reports about phoenix, though it is supposedly a faster miner.
3. -v -w 128 -f 1   (or -f 60 if you plan to use the machine every so often)
4. Absolutely!  Mine overclocked to 925mhz without a problem, resulting in an extra 32MH/s.

I'll see what I can do.

EDIT:  Will this do?    (NOTE:  I didn't create it, don't pay me bitcoins)

Filled out and emailed.