One question: How will you make sure I can't create a botnet that just keeps mailing each other all the time, to then transfer all the coins they generate to me?

What I'm trying to show you here is that there's still a possibility of a Sybil attack on this system, which is like the byzantine generals' problem of decentralized identity and reputation. If you know how to solve this, I'll gladly give you some satoshis to develop it further.

"The Sybil attack in computer security is an attack wherein a reputation system is subverted by forging identities in peer-to-peer networks. It is named after the subject of the book Sybil, a case study of a woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder." *

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

Much foodies! Wow.

For anyone having ISSUES with POOLS and/or SOLO MINING... Here's the guide on how-to solo mine EBT.
Just follow these 6 simple steps.

1. Download the QT (https://mega.co.nz/#!YpV1jBRC!zhm_drPqkalU8yIc8GvW2Qao9r-ohB7E94-THGU8mKE)

2. After you've downloaded the QT, extract the files to a folder of your choosing and run the EBT QT application. Once the blockchain is downloaded, exit the QT

3. After you've made sure the QT is no longer runnin, make an %AppData%\Roaming\EBT\EBt.conf file with the following content in it:

rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcallowip=192.168.*.*
rpcport=3136
daemon=1
server=1
addnode=206.72.206.148

4. Start your QT with these new settings

5. Make sure that the cgminer.conf in your cgminer folder doesn't contain any pool addresses. Settings for your cards are fine, but no pool URL / user / pass / etc.

6. Then start:

cgminer --scrypt -o http://ip.address.ofyour.computer:3136 -u username -p password

I'm hungry, and in desperate need of food. Please send me some foodstamps so I can buy w... er... eat. I've got the munchies like a m*****fucker.
If you help me, my family can eat. We can then all go to college and become banksters and buy mining rigs and then save the world with community gardens and lots of more awesomeness. Thank you for your help and your understanding! You will forever have our gratitude!!!

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