You might be able to use a small nettop and configure it as a NAT/DHCP device and hang it in the side of the cabinet beside your SP30.

Yeah, I also use data centers meant for internet hosting and they give you a static IP block with a gateway IP address. This doesn't work well with Spondoolies and KnC default setups. However, I have space for a NAT/DHCP 1U device.

I've had foreign brokerage accounts closed out on me last year due to FATCA reporting requirements. I had them for years primarily to gain access to Asian securities that for whatever reason were not approved by the SEC for trading by US investors. I've always self-reported activity related to those accounts on my tax returns so I have no issues with the IRS. For my purposes, the money that was in those accounts would not be going into Bitcoin as I already have enough BTC for my needs.

I had such fun time upgrading a couple of S1's that I tried to order more upgrade kits today seeing as I have a pile of unused S1's in my basement. Unfortunately it appears like they are no longer selling them.

With the number of people monitoring that address, it is probably cheap advertising for Laxo.

And unlike copper it doesn't corrode, which is why it is used in electronic components.

At the very least I think that most regular wallets should have advanced coin control features to give you the option of splitting your coins into segregated buckets that you can use for different aspects of your life. Each bucket would maintains its own set of addresses, including change addresses, that are isolated from the addresses in the other buckets. If you need to move coins across different buckets you would do so through a mixing service.

Short term trading has few consistent winners. You have to be really good and the average trader without an edge will almost always lose in the long run (and on Bitcoin Talk some will even loose big time). Nothing wrong with taking the long term approach if you believe in the fundamentals that Bitcoin will be around and in use years from now.

The algorithm controlling number of coins created over time and the method of initial distribution is also key. As is whether the protocol is open or closed source.

As a child I've fantasized of scuba diving up to a Greenpeace ship under cover of darkness and planting a limpet mine.

No, not every laptop has a reader, but Windows now has built in Biometrics support based on standard driver models.

And why would I trust the big Bank and their servers?

Innovation is great, but on the other hand you also need stability and backwards compatibility if you want the platform to succeed in the long run. If every few years a new coin takes over the world in a manner that devalues the vested interests in the previous coin then people would pretty much consider cryptocurrencies as flash-in-the-pan bullshit, only good for short term speculation at most.

Of course, nobody really can control what happens. For me personally, the key feature that I am looking for is inflation-protected long term store of wealth. If the cryptocurrency scene becomes too dynamic such that it is unable to offer me this then I will pretty much leave, as would many others.

As for switching to PoS, that would definitely be destabilizing to Bitcoin and you will risk alienating some of the current userbase. It would certainly move the flow of wealth away from the hardware manufacturers and utility companies, but it may not have the desired effect on BTC price that the OP is hoping for.

The internet has gone through both periods of hype and FUD. For example, I remember when Google IPO'd 10 years ago I bought some shares and everyone just laughed at me saying "they are just a search engine".

I think I will loseloose everything.

How much do one of these XCVU440's go for and what hash rate do you think you can extract from it?

Edit: It looks like the chip might go for $15,000 each. You'd better be able to do 30 TH/s to beat the current $0.5/GH/s price point. Lol!

Well many BCST investors went indirectly through passthroughs because they were getting better rates at up to 7% a week. The problem is that many of the passthrough operators were anonymous and are now long gone. I just don't see how these investors could ever make a claim and get something back as Pirate does not have their individual records.

There are already bitcoind nodes running as Tor hidden services.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fallback_Nodes

The list is a couple of months old and most of the nodes are down, I think because frankly not many people really need them at this time. I have a node accessible through Tor running in a different country from where I live, but that is for personal use. I may publish it when shit hits the fan, and I am sure many other people with hidden nodes would too.

Quite a number of gleeful people crawling out from under the rocks lately. 

This has happened to me before with Seasonic and rather than open a can of worms by trying to explain what a mining rig is, I simply told them that the PSU was powering a high-end home made gaming rig with 2 monster nVidia GPUs. It was replaced with some comment to make sure to not use PCI-e splitters.

Hmmm ... actually I've had 3 Seasonics melted out on me and never any other brands. I only bothered to RMA one of them.

You have any better ideas on how to get these scumbags, seeing as law enforcement is usually unmotivated and of little help?