Okay, so you create a mining pool. But instead of getting his share proportional to contributed computing power, each member gets a chunk depending on how early he joined in. That's about it. Like Bitcoin Randomizer, only for pooled mining. I guess the reward could be adjusted/weighted for contributed hashes/sec to prevent this from being too unfair, and to encourage good mining rigs to join, even later on. So what do you think? Sounds to me like something that should have already been done by now, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

If someone actually implements this, I will be more than satisfied with a 4% tip or something.
(that's a modest 4 percent of the pool's entire gain, but I guess that's up to you... )

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Just curious...

Now don't take this the wrong way. I'm not trying to prove some sort of anti-bitcoin point here. I already know that a vast majority of people (including myself) will not be able to seriously vote "Yes" in this poll. However, this question has been lingering in my mind since day one.

When a handful of people first downloaded version 0.1, we basically crossed our fingers and trusted this "Satoshi" fellow not to screw us over. This move seems to have payed off pretty well and all, but still: how many people can claim to have actually seen and felt in their very souls the proof that bitcoins are "cryptographically secure" and will be capped off at 21 million? I for one opened some of the .cpp and header files only to be greeted by a sea of vague functions, structures I'm not familiar with, and C++ libraries I have never used. Back In 2009 I'm sure most users were similarly overwhelmed. By now out of the many thousands there must be at least a handful of programmers skilled and persistent enough to stubbornly sit through the whole darn program. I would really like to hear responses from some of them. Thank you.

  Here is a screen I captured on January 16th, 2010:



  Now here is a screenshot from today (February 26th, 2011):



 that's more than a 47-fold increase!

 I guess I saved this screen-cap because I had a gut feeling that I will see a dramatic change in a short while.


 Let's not forget about AltaVista:

   January 23rd:


   Today (Again, February 26th, 2011):



 And does anyone still remember Alltheweb?

   January 23rd, '010:


   Today:


 And here's Lycos...no, just kidding.
    but seriously,
does anyone have some older screen shots or statistics, maybe ones from 2009?

By the way, is it just me or did the Google logo get a little bit bigger?
Anyway, that's it for now.

Here is an image I created some months back:




I don't know about you, but I still prefer the first logo which had the actual letters "BC" written on the coin

 instead of the strange double strikethrough "B" :

It reminds me too much of the dollar and other currencies. Am I the only one bothered by this? Now, I'm obviously no graphic designer, but are there any out there who made logos with a similar way of thinking? (maybe some logos that don't look like the looney tunes title card, unlike mine)

By the way, I have been generating bitcoins since at least April '09, but this is my first post here. I guess I was starting to feel left out of the discussions.