Someone obviously is selling..

Without increasing hash, the network is not secure.

I shoulda butted in, I think I'm too polite to be on a show with Jason Calacanis...

Yeah, perhaps I did get a little bit excited.

if you go to http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/ tomorrow it will probably be there. if not it shouldn't take much longer.

Mining being "too" profitable means there are too few miners. With the global hashrate at just over 1 Th/s a malevolent entity could overtake the whole currency with only a couple million dollars' capital investment.

Any government could shut down bitcoin at the moment. Even a wealthy individual could.

What the economy needs is a lot more miners.

That rocks!

Don't forget to print your Bitcoin address on your company's business cards too.

Now I wonder if one must start the client with the large keypool settings in order to maintain said large keypool, or if doing this once only will result in the client using the very large keypool until it's down to only 100 unused keypairs.  This would be a reasonable way to back up for archival purposes, as such a large keypool would take most people years to consume.

You only need to do it once if you don't need the pool to re-fill to that level.

I wonder if that many keys will slow Bitcoin down. I believe wallet.dat needs to be stored entirely in memory, so it will at least increase memory usage.