Yup, me too.  I paid for a full 12 months up front. I have NOT even received a confirmation of payment.

Frustrating.

Perhaps we can somehow convince Jimmy Wales to start accepting Bitcoin!?!  I'd donate some BTC in a second.  Any thoughts?

https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1118_combo10/en/US&utm_source=B11_1120_If_10JKFT_US&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C11_1120_10KSvPFvJK

Is there a website that explains in detail how one actually redeems the BTC from a coin?  Somewhere we can refer coin recipients to?  Perhaps have a link to it on the Casascius page so someone who has no knowledge of Bitcoin what so ever but ended up with a coin in their hand, can figure out what to do with it (or simply learn what they 'could' do with it).  Ideally it would be one of the first results to come up when someone Googles Casascius:  "How to redeem Bitcoin from a Casascius Coin" or something along those lines.

EDIT:  And YES, I would absolutely buy 10 bitcent coins.  Given the opportunity, I'd pre-order at least 100 of them right now.

Maybe I am looking at this wrong but, lets say for a minute that somehow it were even pssible to forever limit mining to CPUs (which I don't believe it is but that's another discussion)...

Wouldn't eventually pretty much the same thing happen, it would become only profitable for those with the most  (and fastest) CPUs and the resources needed to support them (electricity, etc) at the lowest costs.  So for the average person with one or two average computers in their house eventually would not  be able to profit?

And even if there isn't specialized hardware available to those with the know-how and resources to use it, there would still be specialized setups/datacenters (like mine in my basement, lol), and enough of them, that the same end result would happen as we have now with GPUs, and will have with some other technology in the future that we might not have even considered yet.

Am I wrong in thinking that as long as there is profit to be made, there will likely be many people competing for a piece of it which will always and automatically lead to those with the skills and resources will be the ones getting the profits, regardless of any limitations of what technology can be used?

On my a 4x6970 Rig (Windows 7), I was getting 1481 Mhash/s with the previous Poclbm.  With the new version it's now 1553 Mhash/s = 4.8% increase!

Thank you!!  Keep up the great work!!

You do realize that there really was no problem to begin with, right?  This is complete BS and should simply be ignored.

So what alternative services would you recommend, that are guarenteed to be perfect?

I don't think anyone is suggesting anything but truth and honesty and disclosure, but when someone doesn't even give the site admin a chance to correct a potential problem (good thing this wasn't actually a serious exploit), they are just being irresponsible towards the users of the site in question and the community as a whole.  I for one hope that when/if someone does discover some potentially damaging exploit that they won't put us all at risk by instantly sharing it with everyone, including those who will jump at an opportunity to take advantage, at least until site admin has had an opportunity to take action.

If the original poster can't adjust the original post such that it stops implying there is some exploit, an admin should remove the post all together. 

Are we really sure this isn't a feature?

I was there the other day - allows logins via http!

p.s.  This OP was very much a dick move.  Either a fool or someone intent on causing as much trouble for the Bitcoin community would create such a post without at least giving the site operator a little time to address the issue.

I would never consider doing that either.

Fair enough, and thank you.  Donation address?

Yeah thanks for the effort but there is no way I would trust this.  I would however happily pay a donation to someone who shares with the community a detailed method for creating and later using paper wallets ourselves.  I know there has been other discussions on the very topic but haven't had a chance to go see if maybe a semi-easy to use solution has already been contributed.

I like this idea! 

Only part that makes me nervous is "Unless a way is found to break truecrypt encryption...".  If a way is found, POOF!!  All coins are lost.  Or, maybe if the wallet is broken into many chunks and the p2p network had no knowledge of which chunks go together but the client would be able to figure that out based on passwords/key files/etc and some algorythm, and then retrieve the needed chunks from the network in order to rebuild the wallet?  Or something along these lines.  Interesting!!

TrueCrypt maybe? http://www.truecrypt.org/

Agreed.

Ok so someone is for some reason triggering password recovery requests.  I am not sure what they have to gain from that, unless they think they can somehow intercept the outbound email messages from MtGox, that's a scary thought.

So confirm that the address is real by looking at the header of the suspect email?

Sure, I suppose it's possible that MtGox just goofed on the reply-to, which of course means that someone requested password recovery for my account and also ploum's (and it wasn't us).

Oh give me a break.  Have you never received spam and/or phishing emails?

No.  Anyone can send you an email and set the reply-to address to be anything they want.