Plenty of free trials. Plenty more that will cost you $5, $7 or $10 per month.

Were you trying to mine with your laptops CPU?!?

Really, devs need to pull CPU miners from the repositories, or at least have them display a huge warning when launched. Too many people are hearing still hearing about Bitcoin for the first time and attempting to fire up CPU and GPU miners in search of free money.

Are there any faucets To be found in the open source arena?

Have you paid attention to all the drama involved in increasing bitcoins blocksuze? Imagine that times 1000 if you suggest changes to the hashing process.

Yeah, at least give us some info so we don't have to waste a click to find out what you're selling. We already clicked once to get here...

No. For one, while the core and protocol are likely ready, or will be once the blocksize increases, applications need to be created that simplify the experience for end users.

Which gets to point two: even if/when the protocol and attendant apps are all polished and ready for the nainstream, people will need to be efucTed/re educated about the pitfalls, the differences between btc and fiat, security, etc. otherwise the transition from fiat to btc will end up resulting in large scale thefts and losses.

Umm, if someone can zip 10.000 years into the future, then pop up at the dawn of time, I doubt they'Ed have any interest in any encryption key. Just saying!

Ultimately, the numbers were likely arbitrarily chosen. When satoshi first developed Bitcoin, there weren't prior examples to look at and see how different settings affected each coin. Nor were there enough users or miners to make it worth while to play with one setting and then another. Basically, to push Bitcoin forwRs he had to decide on values for those settings and what you're looking at is the result

I'd rally be curious, if he had to do it all over again, knowing what he knows now, what, if any, changes or adjustments would he have made? I know there is a huge contingent that thinks tha satoshi is basically anxiety, couldn't have gotten anything wrong, and therefore thinks the code and settings are perfect as-is, so such things are never discussed here, which is why I wish we could ask satoshi himself.

A) it is far easier to mine a block of Bitcoin than it is to randomly generated a valid private key. Unless the Chinese team thinks they know something that could help them with a shortcut, thinking that the PRNG in sayishis computer was flawed somehow.

B) knowing that it's far easier to mine a block than it is to guess a key, and realizing that sayishis coins haven't been consolidated in anyway, why devote that much computer power for a 50Btc reward (the amount in any of satishis addresses), why waste the energy when that same compute power could be used to generate far more than 50Btc?

C) assuming the go ahead and mine one of satoshis addreses, then there goes Bitcoin. If one if his the private key for a random address can be recovered somehos, then that would mean that none of our coins are safe. Don't get me wrong, if it's possible to do Then absolutely they should do it, just so the fault they're working off of or discover becomes well known, giving everyone the chance to jump ship, rather than take such an invention and use it for nefarious purposes.

Overall, on a threat scale of 1-10, I'd rate this minus 10.

Cloud mining companies have costs just like you or I. I for one would be even more wary of a service that didn't have expenses like electricity being passed out to customers. Of course, the whole cloud mining scene in general seems extremely sketchy at this point. A few bad apples ruining everything.

Paying shipping doesn't seem absurd. You'd have to pay snyways, breaking it out separately makes it easier to make an apples to apples comparison. Now, as to the fitness of service, that's a whole other question

Some valid points, yes, but why so afraid to post under your real name rather than a throw away to foster discussion?

Is this an ad for your qr generator or their hosting service? Seems like the latter?

I'm aorry, but deflation can't be masked by inflation.

I can't imagine this is legit? Newbie member for starters, selling clearly fraudulent accounts. Really?

Why is it always a conspiracy?  Flip a quarter 100 million times, you'll eventually get heads 100 times in a row. Now flaw in the quarter, just as it's not a flaw that a few blocks get solved in a short period.

Why not leave him on as an honorary member? Just like universities give honorary degrees to people who never attended but who's work in real life the university wants to acknowledge?

Lol. You're funny.

Citing 5 year returns makes things look marvelous, never mind that barely anyone on this forum was here back then, and the huge returns you cite were only achievable because Bitcoin started from nothing, where even rising in price to a dollar a coin would yield phenomenal returns statistics. Plus, by zooming out to 5 years, you get to pretend that bitcoins on an ever increasing upward trajectory,and that its been a phenomenal investment year in and year out. Never mind the last 16 or so months,never mind thAt BTC was at the absolute bottom of investment results last year.

But yeah, somehow thee entire world is going to hop into BTC, I'm sure...

I can understand not revealing the name of the company, but you can't even name the country it whose citizens it serves? Not all citizens, mind you, but people who live in Country X and work for Company Y... Kind of hard to come up with ideas without knowing what frameworks it has to operate with

Why do I want to do that rather than just open my own account?