Does anyone know what's up with support requests for the mcxNow exchange?  I've no no response to multiple emails I've sent  to them over a 4 day period?  
Problem solved.

[non-paying]

Supercomputers are extremely expensive, and the computing power of the Bitcoin network far exceeds the capabilities of any supercomputer, at least as far as computing SHA256 hashes goes.  I'm not suggesting that Bitcoin ASICS are useful for general purpose computing - they aren't - but would the Bitcoin "business model" work to build a distributed super-computer?  There are dozens, possibly hundreds of distributed applications already - seti@home, protein folding, calculating prime numbers, and on and on, but these are all non-paying applications.

Would it be possible to build a business around having you install some piece of hardware (or using GPU cards), having you connect up to some central server, and return answers to bits-and-pieces of a distributed computation - paying some set fee per computation block?    The business would rent out some particular measure of super-computing calculation-ability by the hour or calculation rate, and pay the various nodes that participate a per-computation-per-difficulty rate.  Might be a business just waiting to happen, given the cost of super-computers and the cost of an hour of time on them, not to mention the power, cooling, staffing and maintenance contract costs....

An FYI for everyone. Someone is attempting to log into one of my online wallet accounts using my Bitcoin forum user ID and password!  

Don't use the same password multiple places!  Maybe not even the same user account name.  I'm now getting lots of these emails:

Code:

An attempt to login to your xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wallet was made from an unknown browser.

Please confirm the following details are correct:
Time: 2013-07-04 14:42:35
IP Address: 173.254.216.67 (Anonymous Proxy)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0

Has anyone heard anything about this?  I caught a snippet of this discussion -somewhere- but when I wanted to go back and read in more depth I couldn't find the article again.

The premise of the article was:

BFL chips = 20 days from the foundry.  Delivery to chip buying customers=100 days.  Float = 80 days.

Accusation: BFL is selling chips and using the 80 days worth of float as a way to have chip buyers finance their chip purchases.  They are using the float and that free financing to obtain chips - at no cost to themselves - that they are building production units out of.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?  Can anyone point me to the article/discussion concerning this?  There was a lot more depth to the article than just this, but it seems to have disappeared.