The Islamic rules are often implemented and taught without truly understanding the point of the rule. Gambling is not allowed because of how it encourages taking advantage of people to take their money through the false possibility of wining money for nothing. Mining is not a comparable activity and hence cannot be considered haram on these grounds. If you intend to profit from selling your Bitcoins during the price hike then that could constitute as gambling (due to making profit from doing nothing) and hence could be haram.

Note, I am not a scholar nor am I a Muslim but from what I learned about Islam it appears that a thorough logical analysis is required when deciding the impact of new "things".

If the vote fees fund the proposal, what is stopping Blizzard making 900 accounts and voting with 1 bitcoin in each account and then they get the money back when they win.

These two people could be colluding like how politicians and companies collude to have certain contracts handed to a specific company...
Also someone who creates a proposal could then vote for themselves, surely that invalidates the integrity of the system?
Since the vote amounts are being refunded, it doesn't cost anything to rig a vote.

A fully fleshed out example:
Problem is proposed
People make pledges
Person A bribes Person B to propose a solution that will use Person A's business/company/services
Person B proposes solution
Person A wants Person B's solution to win so makes a lot of fake votes thus crushing the other solutions
Vote fees are returned and Person A witnesses improved business at little to no cost
Some people cry foul play but because the votes are anonymous you can't deny the results because there would be no explicit evidence.

If I have correctly understood the system you have produced then this method will work 100% of the time.

What you have made is something necessary in the world but I don't think its in the best form.

Wouldn't an anonymous system be open to fraud? There is no barrier to anyone producing millions of bitcoin addresses and voting for their own idea and then running off with the coin.

This is a good idea but it doesn't seem to scale well.

How would you restrict votes to one per person? Or is this supposed to work like kickstarter?

EDIT:nevermind, i watched the video and it does appear to work like kickstarter

I had a similar idea, its basically some kind of authority that says a certain bitcoin address is associated with a person similar to SSL certs. You would also have to allow switching through bitcoin addresses as more than one transaction can occur at the same time and I don't believe its safe to assume that customers can be identified by the sending address as some web wallets don't use consistent addresses.

Just got a used 6850, trying to mine with it in conjunction with my 7850.

On bfgminer, with default settings i can only get around 300MH/s with both GPUs maxed out which is the same as the 7850 on its own.

Am I missing something?

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CAL isnt provided with AMD APP anymore, version 2.7 and below have it

will ASIC deposits give bonus to first level sponsor when they become active??? and if the ASIC deposit completes before the sponsor's will the bonus go away???

The idea is to either chain multiple accounts so that you get a ridiculous return on one account and 10% on the others or get tonnes of referrals

How often will the infrastructure be upgraded after the introduction of asics? I imagine demand will increase and so there will be more capital available so I am assuming that over the next year we should be seeing several upgrades allowing for very large increases in hashing power. Although, that all depends on the restrictions on producing more asics.

After doing some more research, i have come to the conclusion that if we consider that all money will be spent at some time and that net change in spending should be near 0% after inflation etc. is taken into account (some people will spend when others save etc.)

Global expenditure was set at $23.42 trillion by the CIA
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html

If we consider that this value includes money which someone has saved in the past then we can say that this is all the money that bitcoins will need to cover because storing money in bitcoins at this stage will reap no benefits (at the stage when everyone uses bitcoins and its price has stabilised). That means that each bitcoin will be worth $1 million, however, businesses may push litecoins into the mainstream due to its faster verification in which case bitcoins may be worth significantly less.

After reading the replies here are few ideas i have put out,

lets say bitcoins become the primary means of transactions, would that then be a feasible axiom, people could keep other currencies for storage (metals) but transactions occur in bitcoins

Also, im going to ignore lost wallets because that will only drive the value higher and no one will complain about their bitcoins being worth more than expected.

Im going to look into this more tomorrow, so feel free to add anything i should look into

Would it be possible to calculate the maximum theoretical value of bitcoins by dividing the world gdp by the maximum number of bitcoins, if so then i am going to have the best retirement ever!  

if we say the world gdp is $80 trillion (its rising so this will cover future estimates) and knowing that the maximum number of bitcoins is 21 million then we have something like $4 000 000 per bitcoin.

I am sure this number is wrong and makes some massive assumptions but if we were to find a theoretical maximum value how would be go about it, is it possible? I mean in the context of when/if the world moves to bitcoin

EDIT:
Someone asked about the total cash in the world and a very nice person gave calculations and explanations leading to a value of $46 trillion which was around the same as the GDP at the time so it seems that GDP may be an adequate estimate for the amount of money in the world. Either way, with a total amount of cash at $40 trillion we would still get $2 000 000 a bitcoin
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=480224

I have been lurking around and reading into different things, i think bitcoins are a great platform for developing digital goods and transactions

Funny thing is, that is roughly what happens. If you open a savings account, the money is invested elsewhere, if you want your money back they have to get it from someone else. (Please correct if I am wrong)

Just imagine what would happen if everyone went to the bank tomorrow and empty their accounts just to troll the bankers, actually don't do that, i have £2200 in my account that I need to pay rent with 

Another alternative is pyramining.com, you pay a deposit which will buy you X amount of hashing power until your deposit and dividend is paid back, you can increase the dividend by chaining your own referral accounts or adding referrals (You can refer yourself an account and that will increase the dividend or you can refer others)

We can just go to Litecoin, the mass exodus from bitcoin would raise litecoin value to near the previous bitcoin value and developing ASICs for litecoin is much more expensive and inefficient than for bitcoin so it would not be an issue