How many PPC have currently been mined into existence?

Am I correct in understating that PPCs do not eventuality stop being mined – as with BTC – but are continually produced in decreasing amounts based on a proof of stake? If so at what kind of rate is this expected to decrease and will there be a sudden drop off in PPC production (to a rough order of magnitude)?

I have not been able to find any specific information on this or any projections/graphs.

Anyone? - Or even a Linux wallet would be fine. I'll just have to figure it doing an install on a virtual machine or something...

How would this proposed union work?

Vircurex are also offering trades at 0.1% till the end of April; which is half the price of BTC-E according to BTC-E's FAQ:

"BTC-e charges a 0.2% fee on each transaction carried out by users on the website. This transaction may vary and may be different for each individual account. Specific job openings will be posted but we are always interested in hearing from you."

Using a code will therefore make it less than half price...

Me too.

damd: anyone signing up with a referral code receives a discount on all their trades for one year. Those who sign up without a discount code trade at the normal undiscounted cost.

If you are thinking of signing up to Vircurex to trade LTC, PPC, NMC and TRC and someone has given you a URL like this:

     https://vircurex.com/welcome/index?referral_id=179-4876

Please be away that it is their personal referral code from Vircurex. It gives you discounts on trades and gives them a % of each trade you make.

Below is my code, Vircurex support have given me permission to post it here, if you us it you will get discounts on your trades for a year and I will get a % of each trade you make for a year.

     https://vircurex.com/welcome/index?referral_id=179-4876

This is what their technical support says:

Referrals
Recommend Vircurex to others. Have them sign up using your personal referral code and
    • Allow them to get a discount on all their trading activities
    • Receive part of the fees that we charge on all trading activities they are participating in, this covers trades as well as loans. Excluded are fees charged for bank transfer’s as the exchange is passing these fees through to the bank, hence not making any earnings on these.

So, now you know and if you're happy with this, feel free to click someone's link.

Else you can sign up to Vircurex here:

    https://vircurex.com/welcome/register?locale=en

+1 - Very well argued article. Thanks for the link.

I like your Avatar tag too!

I don't recognise any such person as the bitcoin central bank president.

The very concept of any form of leader for a group or organisation has always seemed a questionable societal assumption from my perspective...

The word 'central' makes me very suspicious. What are you proposing?

This is the kind of thing I wanted to discuss in this thread before it 'went to print':

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=169440.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=169438.0

The very concept of an elected leader has always seemed a very odd social assumption to me. I cant seen any benefit to the above.

The word 'central' makes me very suspicious. What are you proposing?

Below is an excerpt from MoneyWeek Mar 22, 2013 / issue 632 by John Stepek about the Cypriot banking crisis. This excerpt is provided under UK fair use.

Many of us in the UK and other EU countries believe that what's happened in Cyprus couldn’t happen to them, but for many it already has:

"Let’s say that you – a British saver – had put £50,000 of savings in a bank account in Cyprus at the start of 2008. At the going exchange rate back then (around 74p to the euro), you’d have received around €67,600. Over the last few years, Cypriot bank accounts have paid a typical rate of around 4%-5% a year on deposits, according to Credit Suisse. So by now, you’d have €84,240 (assuming a 4.5% a year average interest rate). Let’s knock off 6.75% for the bank levy (which looks unlikely to happen now, in any case). That gives us €78,554. Convert that back to sterling at the current exchange rate of around 85p to a euro, and you’re left with £66,770. Compare that to keeping £50,000 in a UK bank account since the start of 2008. At an average interest rate of 3.12% (a figure boosted by the fact that savings rates were still quite high in 2008), you’d now have just £58,317. In other words, even given the banking levy, you’d have been £8,453 richer now by banking in Cyprus. Let’s throw in the impact of inflation. Since 2008, the UK retail prices index has risen by 17.2%. So for your £50,000 to retain its purchasing power, it would have to have grown to £58,579 by now. So only the Cypriot option would have delivered you a ‘real’ (post-inflation) return. By saving in Britain, you’ve actually lost £262-worth of purchasing power…"

Certainly shows how inflation and fractional reserve banking slip under most people's radar.

Very interesting point notig.

I did have a look before posting this - can you point me at the other thread?

Mainly server upgrades and streamlining their services.

Careful as there are some entities impersonating Vircurex on Twitter. The real Vircurex support team have posted here (see latest messages):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49383.160

This month:

    1. Casascius coins
    2. Yubikey from MTGOX - they just fixed the feature to let you pay in BTC
    3. Computer from my friend to setup a mining rig
    4. Money I owed a friend who's just moved to Australia

I think it interesting how my purchases branch more outward into the world as they progress from being bitcoin centric to more akin to normal trading. We're getting there...

According to this article Western Union are thinking about providing a Bitcoin service:

http://mashable.com/2013/04/02/western-union-bitcoin/

If true that could be big in leading the currency wider acceptance.

Does anyone know how to create an IXC paper wallet?

Now Vircurex have announced they will no longer be trading IXC I would like to keep mine rather than sell.

Preferably I would like to keep them off line in a paper wallet somewhere secure.

Does anyone know a way to do this in a windows environment as I'm not hugely proficient with unix?

I neither believe nor disbelieve what you're saying. Can we get some explanation for either side of this "discussion" as I'm curious. I do not even know how anti-DDOS would work...