Not that you should do this or anything.... But. Here is one of my favorite get even techniques. Go to the book store and collect the subscription cards in all the magazines. Fill them out and sign your "friend" up for as many subscriptions as you can. He will be receiving a bill with the first issue of every magazine. Canceling these subscriptions is a huge pain in the ass. If he fails to cancel them, they will turn him over to collections.   

That sux man. If I were in Ohio, I would put on a suit and go scare his pants off with talk of "the lawsuit". And forget paying me $50, I'll get it from him. 

Perhaps he just wants to clean up after himself? I have a friend who normally asks for his account to be deleted when he is done with a forum. Just to reduce the amount of info out there.

That's what I was thinking. For a comparison, one would need a highly comparable website in terms of numbers. 

As mentioned above, you will need to explain more. Remember it will not be in the same folder as the client. If you are using windows, type %appdata% in the search field by your start button. Now in the folder "roaming" you will find a bitcoin folder. Look there. If you are a linux user, go to your home folder and select "show hidden files" from the view menu. There you will find a folder named ".bitcoin" , check there.

I do the same thing. Then when they say "what are bitcoins?", I give them a judgmental look of pity.     

+1  And in a ponzi scheme there is a victim who is unaware of the plan. In Bitcoin, it's open source and there for all to see.

Not sure where you live, but this may be a safe, fast choice. http://btcnearme.com/

I am going to take a wild guess here. Gabi is not a parent and BadBear is. 

What good would bitcoin be if it were being manipulated by the Chinese government? I think I would sell off at that point. To me that is a fatal flaw. It completely undermines bitcoins strengths.

If China wanted to destroy bitcoin I think they could do it. Yes, they have that much juice.

Yes this is like the wild west of finance. Because of bitcoins unique properties and because of lack of regulation you will see all kinds of crazy transactions, like open ponzi schemes. P.S. As no one is being deceived It's not a ponzi, It's really just a kind of quirky game. In an environment such as this there is both opportunity and danger in abundance.

@jgarzik I agree with you. The idea of "code sampling" may be to high a mountain. But not inconceivable, right? Perhaps working in some distributed way and following a well defined set of rules about what constitutes a good candidate for testing. But I really don't know enough about programming to know.

Also, the digital cell stuff you are thinking about is so cool. I used to be into; http://www.framsticks.com/ . The idea of modeling evolution and biological systems with computers is compelling.

My amateur analysis is predicated on a correlation to recent media stories. As anecdotal evidence, two nights ago at a business related dinner I met a person who had already heard of bitcoin. My wife practically did a spit-take when he mentioned it. He saw an article by wired. Then again last night at a party I hosted, a friend says he read about somewhere. This morning I have another speaker request in my email.
There is a lot happening right now and despite organized attack, bitcoin is still standing. That has attracted new attention and changed the way bitcoin is portrayed. The old message was something like; "Bitcoins are a type of electronic Monopoly money used to buy hit men". Now the articles are more sensible and less sensational. They also tend to focus on contrasting it against the current state of the euro and dollar.

Congrats your all early adopters all over again.

Let me help you avoid further pain.
Forget about mining. Unless you are committed to a large cash investment an much learning, it is just not worth it. I have a friend who has a profitable mining operation. All he had to do was build a special room in his house, install two 25000BTU AC units, build twenty specialized PC's each with four high end video cards. Now just rewire the entire house with commercial grade components and your all set.
As far as the hassle of buying coins, yes it kinda bites. But once you have a funded account then it is very easy.

Mr. Rodgers is cool enough. Back when the U.S. invaded Haiti I spent some time with the army special forces. Being the new guy, the troops could not resist screwing with me. They had me convinced that Fred Rodgers had been a baddass sniper.  In retrospect, wtf was I thinking?

But my favorite person? Well, I wish I was as smart as Richard Dawkins.

I can't stop thinking about this. I think I'm done being productive for the day.
So here are some elements that could be included in a “BitBot”.

Self hosting- The bot can rent a server and install itself. It may even have preferences as to the location of the server.

Begging- Code that identifies forums, sets up an account, then begs for bitcoins.  It might also beg via tweets. It may explain itself or beg under a fictitious pretext.

Code sampling- The bot identifies code from appropriate languages. It then snips out logical components of the code, such as a routine or function. It then produces multiple copies of itself  that includes the new code in various positions. If the bot passes a self test of core functionality with the new code, then the new code is included in future iterations. Of course, overwhelmingly the new code will break the bot. Just as most mutations are not advantageous to organisms.  

Solicitation of features- The bot checks a website regularly to see the results of a popularity contest. The contest asks visitors to suggest additional functionality for the bot. Ideas voted up the most are copied by the bot, and then is posted as a programming job by the bot. Anyone who writes the code is then paid in BTC and the bot recompiles with new abilities.

This list could go on and on.

Humanity's only hope is to take down skynet with PayPal chargebacks.

Visionary julz, just visionary. 
And like any such idea, awesome and dangerous.  One could envision AI bot nets and viri. even software that incorporates and tests new code. Allowing the code to evolve in unexpected directions. Or code that autonomously requests new functionality over the net and then pays programmers in BTC.
SKYNET is alive! and she takes bitcoin.

I'm in.
For those not familiar with the way back machine, it is a great tool for finding old internet content.