Let it roll, man. I'm interested in experimenting with micro-loans...

Yes, I can spare you 0.001 BTC

Are you willing to pay 0.002 BTC up to a week from now?

Please confirm and I will send you.

I can speak for my side. I'm testing the waters on lending and generally learning to do business on the internet ...

drakedog is a fine guy. That said, I'm almost hoping to be scammed. I'd learn my lesson now with just a few satoshis, instead of later with serious money

Para alem do azure, aqui indica como sacar $100 de credito em Amazon EC2: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345073.0

Usem o jhprotominer "corei7sse4" no amazon e "generic" no azure

What do they exactly do? Regulate hashing speed according the ambient temperature, can one schedule power consumption during day/night cycles? (I pay more from 9h - 22h, than night and weekends)

I actually pre-ordered a Prospero X-1, received the btc address to pay, chickened out and canceled.

Indeed, BFL screwed people's confidence on pre-orders, and there are plenty schedule miscalculations, not to say scams.

That prospero x1 is very tempting though...

This I can agree with!

forcefedvr6, I'd bet your issues have to do with a connection reset by hashco.ws when it switches coins. This interferes with cgminer, for whatever reason

The way to work around this, is to load balance to other pool, with a quota. For example:

{
"pools" :
[
   {
      "quota" : "1;stratum+tcp://pool1.us.multipool.us:3342",
      "user" : "Wipeout2097.1",
      "pass" : "x"
   },
   {
      "quota" : "20;stratum+tcp://stratum01.hashco.ws:8888",
      "user" : "Wipeout2097.1",
      "pass" : "x"
   }
]


Above, I'm giving ~96% hash rate to the cows and the rest to some coin. The 1 and 20 after "quota" are arbitrary, but the secondary pool must still have "enough" quota. When hashco.ws disconnects briefly, cgminer handles it gracefully and requests work from the other pool. When it detects the connection becoming alive, it resumes asking most of the work from hashco.ws

The setup above also protects your video cards and psu from stop/start cycles

Then, you should downgrade cgminer. Newer versions resume work from interrupted pools after 5 minutes, while for example cgminer 3.4.3 does so almost immediately

Look, there's a limit to the crap is ok to post in a bitcoin forum, just because somehow that so called "assassination market" operates in bitcoins.

Nuclear weapons are built with fiat. Should people start littering financial forums with WMD discussions?

We would be in serious trouble if that was the best Portuguese singer 

No, you don't have problems getting fiat out of MtGox, you have problems getting USD out. I don't vouch for MtGox, but you're putting the blame on the wrong entity.

You can deposit btc into euros at okpay.com. You can withdraw after being validated, can have transfer to bank account and apply for a credit card.

Deposit rate is horrendous though, around ~520€ instead of 600€ per coin, and then I'm not even including the withdraw fees. I have no reason to trust them either.

However the process is "simple", as you requested.

lol! Seriously. You have no idea the kind of whitewashing that exists in history.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-24/banks-warn-fed-they-may-have-start-charging-depositors

The Fed's Catch 22 just got catchier. While most attention in the recently released FOMC minutes fell on the return of the taper as a possibility even as soon as December (making the November payrolls report the most important ever, ever, until the next one at least), a less discussed issue was the Fed's comment that it would consider lowering the Interest on Excess Reserves to zero as a means to offset the implied tightening that would result from the reduction in the monthly flow once QE entered its terminal phase (for however briefly before the plunge in the S&P led to the Untaper). After all, the Fed's policy book goes, if IOER is raised to tighten conditions, easing it to zero, or negative, should offset "tightening financial conditions", right? Wrong. As the FT reports leading US banks have warned the Fed that should it lower IOER, they would be forced to start charging depositors.

In other words, just like Europe is already toying with the idea of NIRP (and has been for over a year, if still mostly in the rheotrical and market rumor phase), so the Fed's IOER cut would also result in a negative rate on deposits which the FT tongue-in-cheekly summarizes "depositors already have to cope with near-zero interest rates, but paying just to leave money in the bank would be highly unusual and unwelcome for companies and households."
...

God bless Satoshi

lol, honestly, don't bring fake morality into this. We're not in 2011. Today, 90% of the seemly ideological and high-minded arguments in the context of virtual currencies are just pretty basic self-interest.

That said, he replied before to the questions you are asking now, why does he care:

My suggestion (as usual) is that you mine altcoins with ATI 7950 or 6950 videocards and trade for Bitcoins, or keep the coins and bet on their future (some will have it). A card keeps value when you end up selling to gamers unlike an obsolete ASIC, you can use them for gaming and other OpenCL yourself , there are plenty of altcoins out there worth mining, the difficulty doesn't raise to the stratosphere unlike bitcoins and so on. The disadvantages are that you need a CPU, mb, ram, GOOD psu, high power usage and noise. You can undervolt the cards though. Your choice of CPU depends if you only want to GPU mine; or also mine CPU-only coins, run software that pays(?) for idle time (and god knows what runs there), host, use as regular desktop pc, etc... If it's only for GPU mine, then a Sempron or Celeron is fine. Else, get a powerful cpu like the i7 4770k with AVX2 extensions

An alternative to the above for direct bitcoin mining is this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=329674.0

THEN, when you become experienced with the quirks of (pre-)ordering real bitcoin ASIC hardware, speculation on costs and difficulty, have an informed view, look for example at these: http://www.blackarrowsoftware.com/store/prospero-x-1.html

For high-end, expensive, ready to be delivered ASIC hardware (that may or may not ROI bought now), people at this forum seem happy with KnC miners.

For "cheap", hobbyist hardware that will never ROI, look at bitfury USB miners

Yep, the difficulty became too high 2 days ago and it's almost not worth the trouble.

However you can mine them and trade for BTC or hold. You can sell at bter.com

Yes, the early adopters have fortunes and I wish I was one of them. Did/do they make them at other people's expense (unlike some banks and armies out there) ? While the answer is no, I can only say good for them. Use some BTC to travel to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic, buy a supercar and private island, enjoy your life, contribute to charity and good causes like finding a cure for cancer, that's the kind of stuff I recommend

Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme (in the sense of being a ponzi)? No.

You guys can counter-argue whatever you want, but the OP has merit. Centralization of mining, risk of 51% attacks, profit-killing (go see what happens to a coin that tops as most profitable at coinchoose), more single-function "worthless" hardware being produced, etc...

People are not mining the bitcoin network directly and are into alts because GPUs are worthless against asics.

So, the 3 Th/s is now $5000 ...