With Bitcoin we as a community cannot take unnecessary risks. We can probably risk producing buggy code for Space Shuttle or automatic nuclear missile launch systems, but not with Bitcoin.

Atlas main concern was different back then (ultraprune implementation and possibility to break it) but he still was right about fundamental database engine changes who might cause trouble.

I also agree that no testing of 0.8.0 could reveal the fault because the unknown fault was in 0.7.x

So the cautious approach of not updating paid off this time.

I liked the glue sniffing man more!

Atlas warned about database change some time ago. Original discussion here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119566.0;all

Just my 0.5 bitcents to calm down the panic - Bitcoin protocol was not compromised, regular users should not change Bitcoin software version right now, only miners should change back to 0.7.

Now sell all your coins so I can buy them for cheap!

Not a kid but still jobless. Economy here is seriously fucked up and the government in Orwellian style continue to say that crisis is over and things are improving, the unemployment levels are lowering and so on. In reality crisis have become deeper, nothing is improving at all and unemployment levels are reduced because after few months being unemployed the unemployed status is lost and these people dont show up in statistics. Also many have left the country for better life in other parts of EU and they also dont show up in statistics.

I understand that my current situation is my fault and gross mismanagement of computer backup plans.Lets see. 450$ per month for full time job in construction. All living expenses about 350$ per month now. How much time it will take to get 2000$ laptop?

And there is no jobs in construction right now. All builders have left for work in UK and Germany.

Probably You are right. I'm absolute beginner with murders so probably I will leave these kinds of job to professionals. It is much like bomb defusing, you can only make mistake once.

And some trolls in past made unstable people to commit suicide over internet. Even no money was involved, they did it for fun. Not everyone will be comfortable with it but it is how life and internet works.Will he send back all coins when BFL scam will end?I did some bitcoin sells and purchases when the price was low. I exchanged my new desktop computer brought by bitcoins to high-end laptop for increased mobility. Sold the laptop to spend money on my girlfriend. Girlfriend rejected me. My 4 years old workhorse desktop died. My backup desktop computer was destroyed when the place it was kept caught fire and then was flooded by fireman. Now I'm without secure and powerful computer to work on and earn money. No adequate computer no Bitcoins for me.

SMF is good choice. Many high profile sites run SMF without being hacked even once, like Bitcointalk, Silk Road Forums and HackBB.

Expect to find and replace motherboards on both of them. HP DV series are notorious for over 50% graphic chips failure rate and the crappy cooling solution coupled with low quality solder only accelerates the death of notebook.

Court decision can slightly limit the privacy breach. TrueCrypt will prevent the breach completely.

The problem of government snooping is not technological but social. Cryptography is solution to technical problems. Ballistics are solution to social problems.

If I'm rich enough to get 90 coins effortlessly and they don't change much in my life, I will most likely send them back if the person asks me.

In my current situation the 90 coins will change everything. It will be turning point in life. Will never send them back.

I will keep all of them. I'm much poorer than 90% of people here.

You, because of having damn trojan on your computer!

Seriously, make sure your PC is clean and any other PCs from what You made purchases. Most of purchases are made without 3D secure even if the 3D password also are intercepted.

Check Your bank contract what is liable in case of unauthorized purchases.

TrueCrypt and forgotten password will take care of this problem for some time.

And even if my encrypted device will be returned, I will junk it anyway because who knows what tricks government might play with it.

Im lazy to search but here it was calculated how much time needs to be spent for 50% probability of collision. But the irony is that the collision might happen right now with simple New Address press. It is highly unlikely, even more unlikely to be hit by comet from outer space while masturbating to Knight Rider rerun.

A Bitcoin address is a 160-bit hash of the public portion of a public/private ECDSA keypair

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

Dont mix up autists and aspergers. They are similar, but most often social awkwardness and extraordinary computer skills are aspergers.

This is discussed here numerous times. Search for "hash collision" or "address collision". In theory it is possible, but super ultra extremely unlike in practice.

It is nothing to be worried about.

If someone can generate the same key or different key that hashes to same address, he can spend all associated coins. But as I told it is too unlikely to ever happen in lifetime of Bitcoin as long as random number generator is not faulty.

Luke-Jr might not share the ideals of Bitcoin spirit but he is good at coding. Even if Luke-Jr is wrong socially, his code adheres to laws of math and computing, so he cannot break these laws easily without anyone noticing. Double check his commits and Bitcoin are safe for now.

The OP is right in most accounts. I don't agree with most of libertarian views, but I'm hardcore unregulated internet freedom and anti-censorship activist. So making Bitcoin into regulated currency is completely unacceptable.

I do it from time to time.

Look, the questions are uncomfortable to You. For kids they are just simple questions, just like "what digital signature algorithm Bitcoin uses?"It was not that bad. And I got my point. Most of us takes a look at internet porn. But if some pro-censorship law is proposed "to protect children" from porn or from distracting from C++ code at work, the people are willing to give away their right for freedom and unregulated internet.