So I don't have a bone in BTCST or any of the bets around it, but I have a bit of time and a little bit of a mathematics background (undergrad degree in math), and am really curious to figure out exactly how many BTC were invested with pirateat40... has anyone linked (or could anyone share) the transactions of their investments with him?

I heard the claim that he's the owner of the largest bitcoin account account [1]. Does anyone know of evidence to support it?

1. https://blockchain.info/address/1DkyBEKt5S2GDtv7aQw6rQepAvnsRyHoYM

Say you want to send bitcoins to someone on a forum like reddit, Hacker News, Facebook, or by e-mail, and they don't have a bitcoin address. I propose a public service which will accept bitcoins on behalf of someone, reaches out to verify their ownership of the recipient account, and allows them to clam the bitcoins and set up an address to forward their bitcoins to in the future.

Would this be useful? What are the downsides?

When reporting unspent outputs on an address, blockchain.info and the Electrum servers have a field called "script" and "raw_output_script", which are 200 bytes, but the wiki [1] documents scriptSigs which are much longer. How is the former generated?

1. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transactions

So I realize this isn't enforced in any way, but is there a standard system by which addresses in a Bitcoin wallet are to be used?

I want to ask some questions about this bounty:

    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=80815.msg912315#msg912315

But I can't post there yet. What do I have to do to be able to post there?

Does anyone know where the HTTP protocol between server and client is documented?

Also, I have the client installed in Ubuntu, and am not able to select HTTP (it doesn't look grayed out, but won't select when I click the radio button). If I could get the client to use HTTP, I could just analyze the traffic (in leu of documentation, which there doesn't seem to be any of).