The listing already shown as ended for me.

If it is Garziks picture with intentional manipulation, then I call it scam. Probably someone without camera can use pictures found on internet, but there is no reason to rotate picture.

The encrypted wallet is downloaded to hackers computer together with text file containing all keypresses on your computer. It includes the wallet password. Your coins are my coins.

Encryption is only good if the computer is not compromised in any way.

Vircurex can exchange them for other currencies. I will keep my ixcoins as novelty item.

Resurrecting this old thread. Now the summary of events in past months follows.

Did not get the electricity from free project, it was taken over by another persons. Handed over the project to another people.

Managed to get free electricity from municipality home heating system. This is no problem as key persons in home management and maintenance know about this and with possibility of many computers producing heat they could disconnect some heaters in shared public rooms.

Had few junk computers running servers and two ATI cards mining in pool. Everything was almost ready except physical security. Drunk persons coming and going with only curtain separating shelves with hardware from the drunkards.

Fire erupted in neighboring apartment from unknown reasons. Most likely smoking while drunk or electrical short. Whole place was first hit by smoke and then heavily flooded as fireman arrived.

Still have a hookup to free electricity but the location of hardware must be changed and secured. I was stuck to find sane and orderly person who can host the hardware in her apartment. Some where afraid from radiation (!) or objected to noise it produces.

We can probably lock this topic to end the flame war about ASIC. BFL still have not delivered and for great surprise seems that Avolon have ASIC.

Will write again if I get secure location for server location.

And call spoon eating shovel 

Solo miners and polled miners are called so from beginning of mining. The change is unnecessary and will not stick.

Right. Also it uses NVIDIA crap instead of ATI cards. NVIDIA is better at some other computing tasks like cracking specific hashes but for raw Bitcoin power and gaming experience ATI is absolute chempion and it costs less.

Surprisingly for me this deal looks legitimate. If in doubt ask for more pictures. And pay with PayPal. And chargeback when the ASIC arrives in working condition  

edit: It have jgarzik picture. It is not legit.

The same chances as with first batch of 900$ of coins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamblers_fallacy

my ixcoin address is xa68YmpBtNq72Ba2rS3bDoyScKyrkPv86Q

Would like to get as much of this historical coin as possible.

Only the private keys of wallet are encrypted. All other sensitive information like receiving addresses and public keys are unencrypted.

The greatest threat are trojan horses and keyloggers. They both make wallet encryption useless. With secure enough computer the encryption is unnecessary, but this kind of setup is out of reach for beginners and ordinary users.

Mining on laptop is not worth in long term. The laptop does not have enough mh/s to make 900$ of coins in reasonable time and also the additional heat might accelerate the death of GPU chip or mainboard. But if You have desktop computer with dual HD5870 cards and free electricity it can be a reasonable way in long term to get the coins back trough mining.An Silk Road must be banned too, right? How technically it might be possible to do? He lost his coins in gambling because of bad luck or stupidity, what the SD have to do? Some people have big wins there. SD is the most transparent and honest way to gamble that I ever seen.

Bitcoin is not limited now and will scale in future. I'm confident about that. For me it seems that someone is using multiple accounts to spread FUD on this forum. Or simply have installed Norton Antivirus on his Celeron laptop with 5400RPM drive. Bitcoin is scaling, will scale and is going to be usable for blockchain transactions in future.

Today we have deep web, darknet and similar technology that was unavailable at e-gold times. As long as the coins can be withdrawn to blockchain at any minute, it is doable. Most of it depends from service provider. Compare MtGox, Silk Road and MyBitcoin. The same basic principle, first have coins immediately available but non-anonymous and can withold your coins, second is both very anonymous and coins available, third is slightly anonymous but coins unavailable.

I agree that building traditional service upon Bitcoin destroys most of Bitcoin advantages. But it is already done and for some uses it is working.

No, the Cancer Man is key player in Pentagon - CIA communication. According to X-Files.

Probably no one in White House or Pentagon understands how Bitcoin really works. The traditional mothod of FBI seizing server will not work. The ASIC development costs time. 51% attack will not destroy Bitcoin but ruin transactions after hardcoded checkpoints.

The transaction volume is not a real problem. It is possible to build traditional centralized service dealing with Bitcoins such as MtGox. It is similar to banknotes that are redeemable for gold. Not best solution but doable.

Specialized nodes also was in planning some time ago.

No, if serious I will choose SAT

_{as a second to STD}

It is nothing wrong or dangerous if they hash. If they produce valid block, then valid block is valid block and they helped the network. Even if they choose not to include any transactions like someone did it in past, it is not a major problem.

Using government supercomputer to mine Bitcoins is like using APC vehicle or T-72 tank to drive to liqueur store to buy more vodka. It is possible to do and some russians already did that, but both supercomputers and armored vehicles are not well suited for these tasks.

If You don't know, nothing can beat in hashing power GPU cards or recently ASIC chips. General computers are somewhat slow at these tasks.

And now for drunk russian soldiers using armor to drive for more alcohol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaaP7bQglcU

This was Your mistake. If I'm Your attorney I will arrange Your death, extract private keys from the time capsule device and enjoy my 50 millions.If Gavin would say that it will be different.