So, I'm a bit late to this, but even having read from page 50 to 61, I'm still in the dark with regard to what actually happened.
I never saw what the last message was on the bitlc.net site.
Was the site corrupted, or hacked into, or something like that?
Did Erick guess the password for the cold-wallet and disappear with it?

Anyway, I think I had 0.1 BTC in my account, and you (Jine/Jim) are welcome to it, if it's ever recovered.
Even if 1 BTC becomes worth 1 million dollars/euros/pounds or so.

I'm sorry you have developed such an aversion towards everything bitcoin-related.
I do hope you get over it some day.

For what it's worth, I always thought this was one of, if not the best supported pool.

I would like to be on the whitelist as well.

Since I don't feel there's anything for me to ask or post about in the
newbies section, I haven't done so.
If I did that just to make 5 posts, I would be spamming, and that would be
very much out of character for me.
I must've been reading forum threads for a total of 100+ hours or
more, as I've done so for several weeks before I registered, from other places
than at home, sometimes I forgot to log in, or couldn't remember the
password (the browser remembers it for me, as I use a different pw for each
website/forum) when I wasn't at home.

I've used Debian since March 1999, and (x)ubuntu for about two years, and I
was already clued in about hashsums and their applications years before joining
here.
It only took me two days to get a mining-pc with Ubuntu 10.10 up and running
from a cold start, once I had the time(vacation) to do so.
There were some very useful clues in the mining/support threads. Didn't need
to ask questions about it.

While reading the forum threads I've several times wanted to;
- reply to someone, as I've found the answer to their problem in another
thread or elsewhere.
- contact someone about their mining pool, to give feedback, suggest a
feature, or request something.
- ask a non-basic question, which the search function or Google couldn't
give me an answer to.

all of which I couldn't..

Also, I'm an old-school overclocker, and I think I found a little 'trick' that most people don't know about.
I would like to post about it in the right place, instead of in the newbies section.


Btw; Wouldn't a karma / user-moderation-system work better, such that if
your karma went too low, you could only post in the newbies section?
Perhaps (also) a meta-moderation system like slashdot's?