You can convert BTCs into an Amazon giftcard and deposit the balance into your Amazon account through Gyft.com.

An extreme example would be a universal currency...so governments would be the entities buying bitcoins.
Napkin math would say 100 trillion dollars in global currency divided by 21 million bitcoins is...$4.75M.

If your new  'unit of currency' was a microbitcoin, a unit would be about $4.75 and a "satoshi" would be 1/100 of that or about 0.05.

zzgundam,

Looking at your setup based on slush's pool...

 - you have to have a stratum mining proxy program running on your computer
 - your blade's Current Server should point to your computer's IP
 - Your Primary DNS should be whatever your PCs DNS is (usually your router or cable modem's IP)

In my case my computer was 192.168.1.109

My config read:

IP           192.168.1.254
Mask       255.255.255.0
Gateway  192.168.1.1
WEB Port  8000
Primary DNS   192.168.1.1
Secondary DNS 8.8.8.8
Ports 8332,8332
Server Addresses   192.168.1.109,192.168.1.109
user:pass    myuser.worker1:password,myuser.worker1:password

The mining_proxy program that Slush refers to will handle the connection using stratum port 3333. It listens to your network for blades on 8332 and passes it along.

The setup that worked for me was:

Blade (port 8332) ----> My PC running stratum proxy program (port 3333) ----> Slush's pool

Hope this helps

It could be that the blade connected and was able to test up its Vardiff. Slush talks about how that works in the FAQs, under Pool Features (http://mining.bitcoin.cz/faq/#pool-features).
In any case, glad to hear you're getting some success from it.

This is a very basic guide for using cgminer 3.7.2 with Mac OS X.
Use at your own risk - not responsible for any damages, loss, etc.

cgminer for Mac OSX supports Litecoin use up to version 3.7.2 (Nov 6, 2013).
I've worked with it on OSX 10.7-10.9 local and remote on mac minis and iMacs
with both AMD and NVIDIA chipsets. You do want to be careful about heat
and I would recommend monitoring your systems temp. Again, use at your own risk
- not responsible for any damages, loss, etc.

1. Download cgminer for Mac OSX from http://spaceman.ca/cgminer/
• for use in Terminal, select the “download miner only” option
• this will download a .zip file (cgminer-3.7.2-mac.slim.zip)
• move this file to an appropriate location like Applications
• double-click your hard-drive icon
• double-click Applications folder
• drag zip file here

2. Install cgminer
• double-click the zip file to unzip
• this will create a folder called cgminer-3.7.2-mac-slim
• SINGLE CLICK the cgminer-3.7.2-mac-slim folder so it highlights
• rename it cgminer for ease

3. Open Terminal
• Click on your desktop space so Finder appears in the menu up top
• Click Go...Utilities
• Double click Terminal and a window will open with a command prompt
• type cd /Applications/cgminer
• hit enter

4. Run cgminer with your pool and user info
• type ./cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://us3.wemineltc.com:3333 -u workername.number -p workerpassword

let’s explain

./ is Terminal’s way of saying ‘run whatever program follows’

cgminer is the program (or executable because it’s allowed to execute, or run commands)
     --scrypt   (with two dashes) very important for Litecoin or it won’t work
     -o tells cgminer what pool (or o for output to). You need to use the address and port (the thing after the colon)
     -u your worker’s name and number
     -p your worker’s password

Example
     I have an account at wemineltc.com which uses stratum+tcp://us3.wemineltc.com:3333 for connections
     - the worker name is johndoe.1
     - the password is coinzrcool

our command would look like this    ./cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://us3.wemineltc.com:3333 -u johndoe.1 -p coinzrcool

At this point you should see it connecting and beginning to process.

No clue about android. Asteroid is for a Mac desktop and pretty much install to Applications folder and run.
There is an option in the menu (Asteroid...Preferences) for Litecoin mining.

I can put together a guide on cgminer shortly...

I've mined both litecoin and bitcoin on a mac using 10.9 Mavericks.

There's a nice app wrapped around cgminer 3.7.2 called Asteroid (http://www.asteroidapp.com) for the mac.
It supports Bitcoin and Litecoin and is great if you don't want to get into Terminal.

If you'd prefer to go into Terminal/command line, I can probably point you in the right direction.

I have a v2 blade erupter on a mac successfully running at Slush's pool.

I was able to download the .exe file from https://mining.bitcoin.cz/mining-proxy-howto and clicking on the .exe link.

The blade's configuration has to point to the IP address of the proxy under Server addresses:

Ports: 8332,8332 
Server Addresses: your proxy PC's IP address, your proxy PC's IP address
user:pass: username.worker1:password,username.worker1:password

Blade port 8332 ---->Proxy(PC 'server' running mining_proxy.py) port 3333 ----> Slush's Pool

One other thought... make sure the blade's configuration points to the IP address of the computer running mining_proxy under Server addresses:

Ports: 8332,8332 
Server Addresses: your Mac's IP address, your Mac's IP address
user:pass: username.worker1:password,username.worker1:password

Blade port 8332 ---->Proxy(Mac 'server' running mining_proxy.py) port 3333 ----> Slush's Pool

Hi Morris,

Where are you not seeing the expected results? If it is on the Accounts page, it does take a bit before the Mhash/s registers.

Grim