Making bitcoins illegal will cause their price in dollars to increase, because they will become more scarce.

Just with like with booze and other drugs.

Plus everybody already knew about those since forever. 

The publicity surrounding the bitcoin craze/scare/controversy/crackdown will bring more attention to our solution for the situation.

Happy Birthday!!!

I'm thrilled we're getting paid tonight.     Just in time for the crazy rally to $30 BernankyFunBux/BTC.

Will send you a birthday bitcoin ASAP.  Thanks for putting the confirmations on the stat page.

That block explorer stuff is barely human-readable, like an options chain or a bus schedule.

   Are you seriously trying to find fault with the late, great Robert Nozick on a bitcoin msg board completely full of info-anarchist and cyber-libertarian types?

OH NO YOU DIDN"T!!!  

Nozick was a professional logician and philosopher.  His Ultimate Defense of Liberty (a book called Anarchy, State, and Utopia) won the Book of the Year award.  How many vastly-influential bestsellers have you put out.  My guess would be 'zero.'

How long have you been a tenured Harvard professor?  Oh that's right you don't even teach at the local podunk junior community college.  

Yet, you disrespect the accomplishments of your superiors, via appeal to your own glorious Jesus-drenched personal opinion.  If you intended to persuade anyone besides yourself that your opinion is more than a gnat compared to Nozick's elephant, citing something besides your knee-jerk reaction would be advisable.

You keep name-checking Nozick and claiming to have understood his argument, while seeing through its fatal flaws with your monotheist death-god annointed vision.  But there's no reference to anything that Nozick wrote, only to his name and your amazing secret discovery of his hidden weaknesses.

And you wrap your inordinate self-regard in Christian superstitions, which you proudly display on your electronic sleeve.  How typical.

I've had enough of ignorant Fundy hicks insulting great men of mind such as Prof. Nozick.  It's time to push the personal criticism squarely back, onto both the mouthy, semi-educated liberal polisci hacks and the blue-nosed bumpkins who, while normally enemies, waste no time when uniting to disparage and attack brilliant thinkers like Nozick and libertarianism in general.

How often are you called upon to defend individual freedoms from hideous, terrible statist monsters like the incomprehensible John Rawls?  Probably never, because you're simply not up to the task.

"Anarchy, State, and Utopia" is one of the best books ever written.  That's why it's required reading for so many university classes (unlike anything you have or ever will have produced in your entire life).

With immense clarity and articulation, Nozick laid out and rigorously examines the case for the minimal night-watchman state with the practiced, orderly precision of a sushi chef.  

Then he proceeds to gut, fillet, and serve both stinking anarchist and Holier-than-though do gooders, like the mating pair of poisonous pufferfish they are.

When you try to tear down a great historical figure like Nozick, who is so much more respected and beloved than your entire family tree will ever be, using only negative feelings and emotional poo-pooing, it tells us far more about you than him.

I'd love to see you spend just ten minutes struggling as you try and read one his more technical books on the perennial mysteries, such as "Philosophical Explanations."  

Your simplistic, fable-filled head would explode on contact which such a dense tome of critical thinking.  All you would know is that you can always one-up anyone by saying "Well I put God on top of that."

But whatever, not everyone is cut out to live "The Examined Life" of a philosopher.  That's why the superstitious version of religion (you know, the one that makes dumb asses feel qualified by mere Falwellian faaaaayyyyth to disregard anything beyond their limited comprehension as 'unconvincing') is so popular.

Bounty 1

1 BTC for anyone who can tell me how to get rid of the WhileIdle window that appears when alt-tabbing between tasks.  OS is w7x64 pro.



Bounty 2

1 BTC for anyone who can help me get to Task Scheduler (or a system/registery hook) to launch WhileIdle on startup, without having an active directory user logged in.  I've tried all the obvious 'make-new-task' crap but it won't go.  Sucks because I'm supposed to be a guru, beyond such baby stuff.     Maybe I should just run it as a service?



Bounty 3

1 BTC for anyone that can help me get WhileIdle to run guiminer.  I've already tried putting the whileidle files in the guiminer\miners directory, and lots of other stuff.

This pool is fantastic!

I'm getting .4% stale.  Amazing!

Still confused (by the wording) of "share score" versus "proportional."

It seems like a share-score system would be proportional.  In what (contrasting) way is a share-score not proportional?  Not proportional for pool-hoppers and their victims?   

mouser98 is right and rynindaclm should listen to his words of wisdom, instead of pretending to be a mind-reading psychic.

pool hoppers join for the first 43% of the round and leave if they don't get lucky.  they don't come in towards the end of a round and help push a fledgling pool over the top, into its first 50 BTC award.

why complain about your pool's power being doubled?  that makes no sense.  you get half as much, twice as fast.  the only net effect is *REDUCED VARIANCE*.

haters only hate because they jealous.  if you prefer to stagnate in a tiny static pool that never grows and pays out on doomsday, then mine solo. 

meanwhile, the rest of us will enjoy many quick dimes while you are growing old waiting for that one slow dollar.

/early back-to-school lesson

Muslim elders/scholars/lawyers could declare that bitcoin is in compliance with Islamic law, unlike trashy heathen fiat fun-bux.

Also, Hugo Chavez might decree bitcoins be the new People's Currency, and only sell oil to the Imperial swine for them.

User #2631?

That's my machine at the office, a 128 qubit D-Wave One.



Just wait until I finish my overclock3d Beowulf cluster of these quantum thingys.

They'll solve the block before pushpool sends it!

I am assigning blame to both sides of the aisle. 

You failed to comprehend that I already acknowledged GOP corruption tales as "all true" in your haste to pretend that one party is worse than the other.

Don't you realize that Obama is Bush on steroids? 

Get over the partisan nonsense, so we can move forward with BitCoins and a post-political economy based on actual production, instead of nepotism and printing fiat money.

/Watch out! The Koch Bros are buying up all the BitCoins!  Booga-booga!

That's all true, but don't forget to include a study of George Soros and other limousine liberals' use of Foundations to fund Democrat BS.

There's no way, short of sting operations, to prevent BitCoin billionaires from using poor Ron Paul supporters as donation cut-outs.

Maybe it's easier to just contribute to the grassroots and meet-ups than the official orgs.

Yes, we're on the threshold of a metasystem transition, courtesy of bitcoin.

Let the progressive tweeters twitter witlessly about which they know nothing.

The louder they scream and whine, the more publicity and traction is gained for the bitcoin project.

They know they are useless parasites, and that it's almost time to purge western civilization and polite society of their endless complaining.

Progressives and their Banker-Mobster-Rat enablers are the disease.  Bitcoin is the cure.

There are plenty of Share-And-Enjoy pools that forgive flakey workers for leaving before a block is found.

But I'd like to see at least one instance of puddinpop's Winners-Take-All share scheme, because competition is a good thing.

If you subsidize unreliability, and possible pool-hopping, you get more of both.  Economics 101.

I had to Hide the inactive workers at the bottom of my list, to get total hashrate to report correctly.  (Even after a reset.)

Thought it was a cache issue for a while, but figured out the problem by comparing mine with a working stat sig.

Thanks for setting up such a fast, stable pool Eleuthria.  btcGuild is a pleasure to use, and very profitable!  

I've been with you since ~50GH, enjoying watching our pool grow and develop.

Suggestions:

1) Add a Hall of Fame for top donors.  I've been very unlucky with solves and would like another chance at recognition.

2) Add a Hall of Fame for most dependable workers, for the same reason as above.  

3) Award dividends and prizes for those placing in any of these categories, to encourage loyalty.

4) Strongly discourage pool hopping, either with a share decay rate, or the (harsh) bright line of puddinpop's proposed "contributed" distribution method" described here:


5) Add NameCoin (namecoin.btcguild.com:9098) support and a free members-only NameCoin<->BitCoin exchange.

I'm sure you are already very busy, so I'd be happy to throw down and invest some of my own BTC if that would help git 'er done.  

Now that the basic services are stabilized and robust, let's keep btcGuild light years ahead of the competition!