Oh, i never hit that block, i thought he was talking about the regular CAPTCHA that shows all the time.

You can only claim prize once a day anyway, why would you need to fill out the CAPTCHA more than once a day?

You should say "Zero backup needed", otherwise it sounds like a negative point.

Is there gonna be some sort of wall of shame for people that run away with loans?

I've been told it's 'cause they fear the auto-update function will be hijacked to trick users into installing malware...

When i saw the thread title i thought this was gonna be about some scandal involving the creator of Bitcoin...

Some biometric locks are surprisingly easy to crack

The current fee enforced by the official client is too big for micropayments, often bigger than the microamount people wanna transfer; and when bitcoins are worth significant more, if the mandatory fee is kept at a similar proportion of the value of 1BTC you would still be paying more in txfees than the micropayment itself.

There is a dead rat inside one of them?

Wouldn't Freenet be more suitable for hosting a decentralized thing that must be pretty much unshutdownable?

Would you mind if i ask what was the nature of the scam?

My vote is it will be worth 100USD per BTC before XMass, and then the upward speed will start to stabilize.

Why? Because believing in that reality makes me happy, that's why.

Isn't it for IPs that are in a range that doesn't has a location specified to anything more precise than country?

Isn't it slower to compensate when it was too fast in the past so it averages out at around 10 min exactly?

Some programs don't deal well with how Windows does the sleeping thing

Can you scrape Google Maps satelite photos and adjust the detail level automaticly with zoom?

Cracker isn't always bad either, it's all about how the person use their skills.

Phreakers weren't bad (necessarilly), neither hackers. Locksmiths/lockpickers can use their skills for good or for evil just the same.


It's like if people start saying traceurs (practitioners of parkour) and freerunners are people that invade private property and leave shoeprints on white walls.

I wonder how they will deal with people that had accounts on both sites using the same emails, and with different people that used the same username...

I believe he meant to say zero percent instead of just zero, but to not be too formal he just said zero.

"49 BTC is more than 0" Here you understand i mean zero BTC
"49 per cent is more than 0" While here you understand i mean zero per cent.

Actually, that is probably a significant threshold to consider Bitcoin a success, when people start using it as their everyday money instead of interfacing back and forth with govt. money