It'll be interesting to see what happens when the reward is halved. Either people will have to pay about 400x more fees than they do today, or the security of the network will be significantly reduced because it will no longer be profitable enough for many of the miners.

Except for the sales piece made by a FreeBSD fan they probably weren't, but the way you use them is.

So your cherry picking of data points is objective, but pointing out the obvious fact that you're cherry picking is subjective?

Also, I have never said anywhere that Linux is more secure than *BSD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation

Especially when you're picking data as selectively as you do.

As an expert you should be aware that security and reliability is not the same thing. Also, if you look at the full table, the bottom two providers with a lot higher outage than everybody else run FreeBSD. If you calculate an average, FreeBSD will be much worse than the other solutions. Basically you can pretty much get any result you want from this list.

The fans just aren't very durable. I've had 2 fans out of 8 have the same problem now, one 5850 and one 5970. The 5850 never ran higher than in the low 30% and the 5970 was usually well below 50%, so although it will probably make it last longer it's no guarantee against failure. Both cards have stock ATI coolers.

They're not rolling back the price, they're rolling back the trades. MtGox doesn't decide the price. If you think that is wrong you're just saying that you'll happily buy goods you know are stolen if the price is right, and it would just be proof of why your liberalist heaven would never work. How could it, when not even yourselves respect the right of property if you see the possibility to get rich?

Slightly less than whatever someone else will pay for it.

It often doesn't, but when people have decided they have found a pattern, they put a higher weight on the data that supports their view than the data that doesn't. This time I suspect so many amature speculators sold their bitcoins on Thursday/Friday to be ready for the "weekend dip" that it pushed the price down. When the weekend came there were few sellers left and lots of people with dollars, which pushes the price up.

How can anyone think this is a good idea? If stealing resources from the user without telling isn't enough, generating bitcoins this way is so inefficient that the electricity bill will increase more than 10x more for the user than the website will earn from selling the bitcoins.

I think you buy bitcoins instead of mining, and this is why you try to convince others to mine instead of buying. That way more bitcoins are mined in a shorter amount of time, and you will have less competition when you buy bitcoins so you get them cheaper.

Of course. Just look at how Namecoin mining continues to be more profitable than BTC mining after people started bragging about it on the forum.

Oh, wait...

Great, add more paranoia to the fanatic rants. That's exactly what Bitcoin needs to be taken seriously.

This. There is no way you'll be taken seriously if you give those kind of nitpicking rants as replies. Most of the "terribly misleading" statements are probably just worded that way to make sure they use terms their readers have some grasp with. They are not 100% accurate, but if you think this wasn't good enough you shouldn't bother giving interviews at all. Also, to claim that nobody uses bitcoins to buy drugs on Silk Road is just silly. I don't know anyone who uses Bitcoins to buy anything at all, does that mean it never happens?

I don't think those who can clock higher than 775 with AMDOverdriveCtrl have stock firmware. At least I haven't been been able to do it on any of my 4 5850 from 3 different brands. It can underclock more than aticonfig, though.

Agreed. How dares he ask for evidence when it fits so perfectly with what you want to believe?

There were particulary many blocks solved relative to difficulty. There is no way to know why, but my guess is a combination of luck (lots of blocks taking less time than normal to solve in a row), and temporarily added mining power. The calculation for making the graph is simple, and it's easier to handle the difficulty change right than wrong, so I doubt there is anything wrong with it. There hasn't been in the previous changes. There's often a spike just before the block change because of people trying to squeeze out some extra coins before the next increase. Don't know why most of it came just after this time. Maybe someone with access to a large pool of computers messed up and took too long to get it started.

No, that's only the estimate on Bitcoincharts. The graphs on bitcoin.sipa.be aren't influenced by difficulty change.

The pool seems broken again now, and I think it's ruining everything. If you use it you will get a lot of refused submits, and if you don't use it it will orphan your solo blocks because it takes so long for it to register other blocks.

Make a script (screenminers.sh) that contains
and run
screen -dmS Miner ./screenminers.sh