I would like to request to be whitelisted as I would like to be able to post in the marketplace section. I have just registered a username but I have been browsing these forums for a few months. This site is an excellent resource for information about bitcoin in general. I would consider myself proficient in many aspects of bitcoin and how it functions as a P2P currency. I have browsed the newbie forum to find some posts that I could reply to just so I could be promoted but this was really the only thread that I feel I could post in without posting worthless contributions in hopes of being promoted. The following is what I believe I understand about bitcoin in hopes that it will prove that I understand enough about it to be promoted:

Bitcoin is considered to be a cryptocurrency as it is based on public key encryption. The Bitcoin address is public string that can be distributed to anyone without fear of the bitcoins assigned to that address being spent by the parties it is distributed to. The private key is stored in the bitcoin wallet (wallet.dat) and must be kept private (duh) as knowing the private key is what allows the bitcoins assigned to the corresponding address to be spent. The address can be determined by the private key but obviously the private key cannot be determined by the address (aside from brute force which is impractical in this case). To my understanding bitcoin utilizes elliptic curve encryption for this which I discovered when I tried to build the client from source on a machine with Fedora OS. Which needless to say was a pain because apparently the people over at Red Hat believe that elliptic curve encryption is patented or something that prohibits them from including it in their OS. So after days fooling with static linking of the OpenSSL library, I eventually gave up and built it successfully in Ubuntu in about 15 minutes. From my nightmarish time attempting to build the client from source I have a pretty thorough understanding of the bitcoind client and its dependencies (which I won't bother listing but I have unfortunately memorized them).

I hope this is enough to prove that I have above newbie level knowledge of bitcoin. I would go into further detail but I don't want to bore whoever is reading this more than I have already. I am not new to Bitcoin or this forum. I simply now have a reason to post and unfortunately it must be done outside of the newbie forum.

I hope you will consider my request. I have been reading this forums for quite sometime and now I feel I would like to contribute to the bitcoin community.