Ummmm. BTC hit 500'000 USD a coin?

http://coinmarketcap.com/btc_7.html

Might wanna fix that anomaly from the stats? Looks not so good.

LOL. Seriously? The best way to communicate with you is through the maximum communication-complexity of 140 characters using Twitter?

Welcome to the 21st century people; we are now officially solving the world's most complex problems through the limit of 140 characters.

/sarcasm end

LOL seriously? 

"Ethereum" comes from Blizzard Inc, World Of Warcraft.

http://www.wowhead.com/search?q=Ethereum

I honestly don't take anything that just picks a random name from a World of Warcraft game any serious. Didn't even have the creative energy to make their own unique name huh? Had to "borrow" it from a game. 

And almost 40% pre-mine goes straight to devs? This is just another freakin' "DevCoin". Same shit, different package + some scripting language built into it. God-syndrome infected Greed Extravagante Deluxe. (As in, "I'm the dev, and all your money are belong to me(TM).")

I'm not even going to touch the mountain of technical problems and security-loopholes regarding the built-in scripting engine inside ethereum-coin will create at all. I'll leave that to the miners who experience it first-hand. Good luck. 

This is pure Keynesian brainwashing bullshit-theory. Almost 100 years of bullshit hammered into the minds of billions of people will take some time to get out of their heads again, thats for sure. But bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will hopefully within the next 20 years manage to kill this myth once and for all.

R.I.P Keynesian economy. You have ruined enough lives now. Time to go sleep 6 feet under.

Thanks for clearing that out.

What is this new grey line in the chart's orderbook visualizer?

Heres a image of what i wonder about: http://cl.ly/image/1h1Q1t2a0E02

Right. I would not be too optimistic to be honest, due to these facts:

1: Mark Karpele, CEO of MtGox is one of the chair-men in bitcoin-foundation
2: Several bitcoin-foundation chair-men recently took a strong anti-altcoin stance, wanting to get rid of them and create a bitcoin-monopolistic market.

Shortly put; politics in motion. I would be very surprised if Jon "Don The Boss" Matonis and the other foundation-gangsta's haven't silently shoved a crow-bar up Mark's ass by now, whispering into Mark's left ear they will twist it around if he dares to launch LTC on gox. When Simon says jump, I'm sure Mark will reply "How High!?".

That being said; Litecoin is good stuff in my eyes. Taking the bad reputation of gox seems to have in general right now, I don't think the LTC-price will be much affected ether way.

LTC is growing, slowly but surely; regardless of The Magic Wand of Gox-Wizards decides to sprinkle it with star-dust or not. LTC already got it's own star-dust.

IGHOR, the software you made works, but the "balance" seems not to update in it, it always shows this:

EDIT: Nevermind, I found the problem, it was MtGox web-site that was the problem. It showed "get info" as active, but in reality, it was NOT active. Solved it by re-creating a new key.

 All works like a charm now

Good work!

The best android wallet app has built-in easy backup system which also encrypts your backup file with a password onto a memory-card.

As long as you make sure to use that backup feature often and keep several copies of the backup-file on several disks/CDs etc it won't matter if your phone dies.

Just make sure you make a new backup every time you create a new receive/secret key in the wallet app and you should be as safe as it can be. And don't rely on just keeping ONE copy on ONE disk. Be sure to spread it onto several USB sticks/disks and maybe even burn a CD backup to ensure you are secure from major disasters.

Much better than using any online wallet I would say.

Yes, this is reality of bitcoin-mining now.

Don't expect to earn a dime unless you are some kind of super-nerd with a 1'000 square-feet basement filled with super-computers (or ASICs) and a mini nuclear-plant under your bed that keeps you warm at night.

So unless you are this crazy super-nerd I described above; if you wanna "earn" money now, your best (and only) bet would be to start as a speculator and actually buy bitcoins at MtGox, btc-e or bitstamp and HOLD them for a couple years and hope price goes up. Lots of ice-buckets on your stomach recommended.

Not really a bad idea. I would rather "bet" on bitcoins than any real-life stock-market company right now. Both are risky, but bitcoins in my eyes much less risky than the dang stock-market.

As you said yourself: "It doesn't make sense mining this."

Sounds like a pretty intelligent conclusion to me. You're obviously a clever dude; start trusting your own intelligence more. You seem to have enough of it, just need to add a dash of self-confidence and you'll soon find a way to conquer the world with it.

Never forget the old quote:

"During the Klondike Gold-Rush, the ones who got rich was not the miners; but those who crafted and sold the tools they used."

This is why bitcoin generates xx new coins every 10 mins i would believe. (Currently 25) Not to completely prevent cornering/stall of bitcoin, but to make sure even if it does get "cornered" there will always be new bitcoins generated and delivered to a random miner which sells them on the market. The randomness in this "reward the miner" part makes sure no cartel can ever get 100% control. Maybe a cartel "could" get 99% control yes, but that very 1% left will make sure the bitcoin will forever work as "intended".

But hey, look at USD or any other currency these days, they are already completely "cornered" by the governmental cartels owning the rights to print them. (And they already own 100% of the control, and will keep 100% control, forever and ever in eternity) If they [the fiat cartels] decide, they can, and WILL create a hyperinflation in a flash, just to steal all your savings if they see it fit. They have done it before (1920's Germany, where a fresh bread once cost 1 billion D-Mark), and will do it again. And again. And again.

The risk of bitcoin being "cornered" is of zero concern to me. I trust bitcoin more than any hyper-inflatable "real" fiat you throw at me. And why? Due to the very randomness in miner rewards which keeps it running until 2140. And by that time (127 years), I'm sure there will be another even better system in-place.

My two cents of thoughts.

I'll happily dust off my Commodore 64 when the code is ready. Just for the fun of it.

Oh and add some multiplexed sprites and border-interupt flashes that shows the progress in a funky way. And a cool sin/cos text-scroller with greetings, kudos and info of course. I miss all those neat eye-candy stuff from that good old times...

Epic answer... I Broke two ribs, and my left leg, laughing so hard i fell straight off my chair, through the floor and smashed into the basement-concrete floor at such force the friction almost created a China-syndrome started to melt down to earth-core, but managed to grab hold of a water-pipe nearby... I'm fine now. But be careful next time ok, lives are at stake here!

here it is on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw3OSTkdE-s

Do you sell bitcoins for Linden Dollars? If so, I'm interested in buying. I am a well-known person in Secondlife with high rep.

Hi, Eric! Greetings from Thomas 

btc-e.com seems to work good. However, I would not trust keeping my coins there for long, I usually do "drive-by buying"; Fast in with my coins, buy what i want, then trans back to my local wallet as fast as the wind. I don't like trusting 3rd parties.

Wow. Insane amount of verification waiting-line. It was "only" 3700 back when i registered a weeks ago. I guess that indicates the fame of bitcoin ain't dead just yet then! Go home mainstream media like CNBC, Fox or whatever; you can talk as much lies you want about our beloved bitcoins, but it ain't gonna stop the world from adopting it!

I'm watching this very thread. over and over. For 3 more hours.  

They said the same thing when internet itself got made public for normal people in the late 1980's, i watched it first hand. I was running several BBS's back in that time, and also telnet BBS's. mmmm. Good old memories. And look at internet now. 

They said the same thing about VISA credit/debit card when they created that card in 1958. NOBODY would ever use it, they said; it was madness to trust a piece of plastic with unprotected numbers on it! Look at the growth of creditcards now. (Now I personally still think its madness to trust a creditcard with unprotected numbers like VISA tho, but the world seems to ignore that. Bitcoin will solve that problem once and for all)

They said the same thing with Paypal too. Who would trust a private owned non-bank corp for payments. Look at the growth of paypal now.

Same with bitcoin today. But within few years when enough web-sites has adopted it, rest assured, it's unique way of working will make sure it will be a highly popular way to transfer money. Unless we in future somehow discover a insane bug in the protocol which opens up for a major security-breach, bitcoin is here to stay.

Period.