That's the cumulative, and if you're saying what I think you're trying to say, 1000x1000 isn't 10 million.

Isn't the FSP - west already in Wyoming?

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

Oh noes, some bloggers said bad things!!1

Idiot currencies die rather quickly when they're scarecely adopted because, well, they're idiot currencies.

Regarding the similarity of names, It appears that Tatsuaki Okamoto and Satoshi Nakamoto are about as similar as George Johnson and Dave Richardson.

Sure, they have similar letter strings, and to someone who didn't speak English, it might appear peculiar. I can't help but be curious if someone from Japan finds the names to be as similar as we might.

Regarding the LEO privacy issue, they have no expectation of privacy while on the job. Further, they provide transparency in everything including evidence collection as well as an unbiased transcript of the facts.

That said, they provide more harm than good. I can drive from one end of town to the other and on occasion not see a police officer, and certainly not one facing in my direction. I can't, however, do the same without encountering one of several traffic light mounted facial recognition cameras.

I'm not sure if this qualifies me, but before I knew there was a minimum requirement for posting in the main forums, I'd been following the Mt. Gox wall tracker thread in the speculation forum since about page 250. I'm certain I've spent more than 4 hours on it, haha.

Had I realized the requirement, I would have created an account a long time ago.

That said, I'm a casual bitcoin user, mainly buying and holding. I've been somewhat successful at light day trading but don't consider myself good enough to throw large amounts of money at it just yet.

In the meantime, just doing what I can to turn people on to it.

Thanks.

Personally, I'd prefer if newbies could post anywhere and posts would have to wait to be moderated until a member was approved and considered to be contributing and not spamming.

This, of course, creates more burden for the moderators who, AFAIK, aren't getting paid.

All in all, not a bad deal. It'd be nice if there were a good supply of topics that were actually good conversation rather than just gimmicks to hit the post count, but alas...

I'm curious your thoughts on something. I saw this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=233479.0

In which JimCGSavings said


The next poster asks him what he'd like to bet, and he replies that he has no bitcoin to bet and what the 'taker' would suggest he put up.

So, wouldn't it be best just to bet $100 cash against 1btc, considering that if the asker wins, he'll have enough to buy the 1btc, provided the price is lower than the current $100?

If the bettor wins, then he's got his >$50 coin and the taker is only out whatever the price of that coin was. It's like options trading via a message board.

Thanks all.

After all my reading about mining and several hundred pages in that wall tracker thread, I still didn't realize there was a newbie prison until I tried to reply to an outside thread. It seems there are some clever solutions here though. I shouldn't be surprised.

Hey all. I've been lurking for quite some time, I've found the boards to have pretty valuable information, especially the Mt. Gox wall tracker thread.

Anyway, I figured It'd be time to say hi and contribute to the conversation.

See you around 

-V