Let me know how this turns out, http://bitcoinnavigator.com is adding real estate and rental options and doing a site overhaul; would love to add the first chicago restaurant to accept bitcoins.

I can probably modify and add to http://bitcoinnavigator.com for this.

afiak Yifu from BitSyncom is to plan to test-execute a Finny Attack with Sybil elements on the prod-network after they get back from GDC, and documenting how hard is actually to pull off, and how it is generally a no-issue to accept 0 confirmation tx and talk about how to minimize risk.

From what I know:

if there's enough interest I'll bug Yifu and write an article on it since there's talks on considering investing into a BFL Single or multi-set ups, feel free to ask any questions.

have you contacted http://bitsyn.com?

Do it and let me know so it can be added to http://bitcoinnavigator.com

There's your mistake, though it is not too late to learn and catch up. mining is profitable again in the USA, assuming you have existing hardware.

but mining is no way by far the only method to obtaining profit when it comes to bitcoins.

Yifu did a impromptu interview with the Bitcoin Show this afternoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTH4wcQfCts

Oh wow, he just mentioned these tablets will be soon ready to order for about 40 Bitcoins.

Yeah, oh man, lots of stuff was talked about,



it opened with
why our current monetary system is terrible, e.g. fiat money and interest based credit lending; and the fact nobody really knows what's going on anymore.
what bitcoin actually is, as a digital notary system as oppose to a virual or crypto-currency; mentioned a different take on the value behind bitcoin, that the technology itself gives it value, p2p, decentralization, transparency, bitcoin's rules built on top of a p2p system that makes bitcoin worth something, also mentioned the possibility to use other currency system such as TimeBank's hour, or even kilowatt per hour as units of value as other alternative currency suggested, or it can be USD and other government fiat currencies because bitcoin can be easily adapted to this.
bitcoin being a unbiased technology, I don't quiet understand my notes here, but they mentioned about how Bitcoin is anonymous because it doesn't have a obligation to connect to your social life, it's open source, and have no allegiance to any entity and other examples.

they mentioned bitcoins problems too, like how it's designed for a future, where internet access is easy and devices are cheap,
then they bought out the MIPS tablet china just announced! http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222417/Tablet_priced_under_100_with_Android_4.0_surfaces
and talked about the gap between technology release to consumerism and how this takes way too long, and cheap tablet solution like this is perfect for bitcoin propagation, and how this is really not a new technology at all, and they are in the talks to get NFC onto a next version of this tablet and trying raise some funds, but didn't due to some kickstarter revisions, they are still working on this. called up Stefan Thomas via Skype on this tablet and he talked about some development on the software side e.g. bitcoinjs and then they transferred some Bitcoins using a android app, I think it was Bitcoin Wallet.

then they said how these tablets runs on wifi which means they still need internet access, and Yifu Guo mentioned how he's been working down at #occupy and is the person managing the Bitcoin funds for #occuy and met some interesting people such as the freenetworkfundation who is buidling a mesh network, and that they were also pretty excited by bitcoins, and a very exciting idea was to allow each of these "super-node" towers to also act as a hosted wallet and when you provide bandwidth, bitcoins trickles in, and when you leech bandwidth, bitcoins trickle out; this in my opinion is GREAT.

Yifu is calling this the BitSyncom Initiative, and he said he going to edit the recording and upload it soon, and maybe do another presentation to give some updates and since a lot of people couldn't make it on the 15th, he also mentioned there will a site that'll be tracking this progress.

edit: oh Yifu gave a nice example such that you need infrastructure for bitcoin, like you can't sell the Phones(Bitcoin) without the PhoneLine(tablets+mesh). I say he made a amazing call a few month back because he thought
p.s.
it's was a crazy day, SOPA vote, NDAA vote, Dwolla annoucement, and this :O

I asked him for some more info, he replied:
and Attached this image


then I inquired some more and he send me this one



and said
I'm guessing the circle represent Bitcoin.

I gotten wind of some exciting news.

Yifu from BitSyncom(they are the people behind Operation Bitcoin and Bitcoin Navigator) is doing a presentation/press release
on the 15TH of this month,
at the Wunsch Building second floor,
at 6PM.

Stephen Thomas is apparently going to be a guest speaker.

I'll try to get some more details from him.
but it is open to the public if any of you guys are in the area and wish to show up.

At your location close to you.

http://bitcoinnavigator.com

source: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/n2ar6/update_operation_bitcoin_state_of_things/

.android_secure is a folder there should be a file named com.bitcoinandroid.asec or something similiar in there. you'll need to use the ADB tool from the SDK to pull files from the secure format, I don't know the exact structure either but Yifu should and I already messaged him about it so when he gives a reply I'll let you know,

Good work on Electrum btw! (Yifu's pretty interested in it.)

I've looked into this with Yifu awhile back

the source is here https://github.com/barmstrong/bitcoin-android

check if .android_secure has the files for that app on the SD card?

if so the prodnet.wallet file should be in there you might be able to use ADB to pull it out.

I'll send him a message on Skype to look into it.

Three proposed changes to simulate testnet to what the Future for Bitcoin will look like.

• Fixed Difficulty/Fast Adjusted Difficulty as in the future I do not suspect difficulty to change too much. e.g. controlled environment.
  
• No BTC generated per block like in the future, block are mined purely for quickly confirming/verifying transactions.
• 21 Million testnet BTC generated in Genesis Block, emulating the future of circulation, transfer to faucet.

This will make testing much faster,
one can fire up miner, point to testnet,
request coins from faucet, proceed to test,
send coins back, shut off miner.

Yifu's been very keen on providing transparency in the stuff he and BitSyncom(?) gets involved in, I'm sure he'll be uploading this too.

from what I hear there are plans to go down to china with Roger from memorydealers.com to talk to manufactures to accept Bitcoins but this is just rumor status for now I think, but it's definitely been discussed about, china is a big market.

this feature has been backlog'd, but let me know which particular design you need I'll just ask Yifu to upload it for now instead of waiting for him putting them onto the site.

source: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/lmhjj/help_bitcoin_presentation_at_nyu_in_december/

I'll be forwarding the information in the forums over, Thanks!