I've learned a lot of new stuff during this year, thanks to running the pool. Now I don't mean technically, but pool gave me a lesson to not keep everything personally. I'm running public service which keep valuable tokens and I must understand that people are nervous when they don't get what they expected. Only few of them understand the troubles which I had and that I had only a little chance to pretend it, but it's obviously my problem, not theirs. So I'm very glad for all that support from people who understand, but trying to not get mad from people who're crazy about 0.5$ :-).

NMC payouts were sent and automatic payouts are enabled again. Thank you all for your patience.

RobertRibbeck: Exactly as I promised 19 hours ago.

i Find the chart to be extremly inaccurate anyways

$0.50 is not a lot to anyone.  If getting $0.50 today or next week makes that big of a difference than maybe you shouldn't be mining.  I mean come on have some perspective.

Wow! So you will get the amazing sum of about 0.15 BTC or roughly little over 50 cents for ALL your collected namecoins. Don't spend it all at once. Wondering just how high that energy bill of yours is. I'd really love to switch to your power provider.

It'd be pretty sweet to be able to include a short message with your transaction. While I guess this message would be pubically readable (i.e. in the blockchain) it'd be good for reference numbers and the like. There's no reason why this technically couldn't happen right?

bulanula: NMC payouts are still stopped, but BTC payouts works. Simply change your sending threshold to 0.01 and pool will send it to you in 15 minutes.

Great site.  Can you add a larger historical timeframe also.  Like block % over the last month, quarter or year.

No, I don't think it's that, it's just that SC isn't a 'traditional' scam. I don't think most of the mods frequent the AltCurrency board, and without informing them (here) of all the red flags, they simply wouldn't know.

Sue goes to the Marketplace forums, and says 'I have a 5850 for sale. It's brand new with an aftermarket heat-sink included.  Send me 150 BTC and it's yours.

People then weigh take variables into account before they invest.  They weigh their long-term electric cost, initial cost, they are able to weigh how much a 5850 and an aftermarket heatsink are worth to them, before they spend their money.

Now Sue sends instead a 5770 with no heat-sink at all. Though a 5770 is still technically a graphics card, what was received is not what was advertised.   Or what if the card was broken?  Or what if Sue left out the heatsink?  Further, what if any of those things happened and it was proven that Sue had prior knowledge? Or what if Sue used the defense she made a 'decision' she thought was best for you, without your input?  Sue would be labeled a scammer for accepting peoples investment and changing the terms of the sale after the fact.

CoinHunter goes to the Cryptocurrency forums, and says 'I have an investment opportunity.  If you invest X money (based on your hardware cost), you'll receive Y (coin reward) over Z period (time it takes to find a block), according to N parameters (design of SC). People then weigh all those variables into account before they invest.

Coinhunter has adjusted and concealed many variables people must weigh in order to make a proper investment. Further, CoinHunter has lied about his own 'earnings', to a tune of holding a whopping ~85% of the current coin supply. Coinhunter has changed the Y reward and N parameters directly, after initial investment was made. The investment made by those people, whether it be through buying on an exchange or contributing hashes to the blockchain, were done under the guise of A terms, but coinhunter executed the investment under B terms, of which B terms are directly beneficial to Coinhunter and directly detrimental to the investor.

Lets take TerryTibbs case.  He sold X-long Spotify accounts, which lasted only X-N. Since the investment advertised was not the investment received, Terrytibbs was labeled a scammer.

I do not see how this is any different than what Coinhunter is trying to pull off.

This is beside the Oracle DB licenses
This is beside the Bitcoin MIT licenses

In genuine sincere honesty, I'm at a loss of what else the mods would need in order to take action.

This. And also the BTC payout won't be so huge, don't expect any market move because of this payout.

I take it that's why the confirmed and unconfirmed reward is staying the same in spite of several rounds passing - same for NMC.

If I suck up to slush, will I get paid faster?
O Slush you are my hero!

Well, I don't know. I have visited it couple of times just for interest, and the amount of drug ads went from 1000 something to almost 1500 in a couple of months. (last time checked couple of days ago). Let's see if the trend grows.

I haven't used tor before, and I think the effort of getting to the site is easy - you just install tor browser bundle, the address of Silk Road is in wikipedia easily found with googling.

I also checked the feedback of one seller - he had 100+ pages of positive feedback. From my software business I have learned that only about 1-10% of my customers leave feedback in app store/android market. This is very different market of course.

Also it is very hard to estimate the amount of sales on silk road - you can estimate it by following the feedback, but i think feedback isn't required. (Somebody correct me if I am not right)

Speculators also like to think that the silk road business will increase bitcoin price - that is actually not the case, at least the effect isn't that big. Silk road and the sellers don't need to hold their bitcoins. During the escrow process the funds are hedged to dollars. Also probably now most sellers just sell their bitcoins as soon as possible, because of longtime downward trend.

I just consider NMC reward as a gift.

I believe NMC is paid out when your balance is over 42.xx NMC

what is the value of everpaid right after balance?