Yes, but this option is ultimately annoying, because i can't have both GUI and daemon running.
I like GUI better for now, and i can't use it to backup wallet.

So i have to shutdown GUI, and start daemon, then backup wallet.... as i said - annoying.

Well, i don't trust all of supermarket's products. I simply choose the ones i trust from all avaiable.
I certainly know, that they are trying to rip me off with some of them.


1. Supermarkets creating currency-associations... isn't this too far-fetched ?
2. I would still have to have an account at multiple places/supermarkets since i visit many supermarkets so no, this is far from satisfactory & convenient...
3. The situation when all supermarkets are associated, will simply not happen.

That depends how many possible combinations there is...
If it is more than number of atoms in the universe, then OK. Otherwise, hmmmm...

Not going to work.

Now imaging today having to transfer money to supermarket's account, just so you can go shopping & drinking.

1. Would you trust such institution with your money (of which not all will be spent) ? I would not.
2. This is not convenient at all

Well, that would explain different number every time i check it.

As far as i understand, the receiving addresses are generated pseudo-randomly based on private keys which are generated when the bitcoin client is first run.

So,

1. Is it possible (however veeeeery unlikely / low probability) for 2 clients to generate the same adress ?
2. If yes, then what will happen if somebody sends bitcoins to that address ? Will both people receive the coins, none of them or some other weird thing will happen ?

Is it ?

I have been observing it, and it changes in weird ways. I though it's hourly or something...

Does it have "backup wallet" option in menu ?

This is the thing i'm most missing in the original GUI client.

Doesn't matter. If they are not attached to casing, they will loosen because of higher work temperature.
You have to place them perfectly straight, or there will be troubles.

We have been slashdotted twice & podcasted lately, so the user base may have grown 200% or something in the last 2 months, which can explain that.
This chart should look like that if the userbase grows many times faster than new coins are digged out from the ground, which is happening with high probability.

Anyway, even if this is a bubble, then that's even better. I can't wait to buy new bitcoins cheap - I'm investing in the long term

If money supply grew 100%, and number of currencies/goods/services offered for it grew 500%, then increase in value is really nothing unexpected.

As there is no 100% reliable way to calculate how much stuff is offered for Bitcoin at any time, then the growth could have been 1000% or even 10000%.

Very good idea.

Cheers.

OMG, this is devastating o_O.

Three disadvantages:

1. When you will be mining like for few months/years, PCIE slots will loosen and get damaged (because the cards are not properly inserted into the slots, they're bent). You will have to buy new motherboard then.
2. The slots will loosen even faster, if you make the case stand vertically. You have to put this horizontally to work.
3. When you start mining, this setup will overheat with 99,9% probability. This is not for serious solutions.

If you want this to really work and cool off, you should consider flooding entire PC (except hard & dvd-drives of course) with oil and adding some pump, as they did here:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/565060/mineral_oil_submerged_computer/

(You will probably need to add another oil circuit going through a car radiator if you want this to properly cool off)

However the disadvantage of this solution is that you probably can't properly clean the cards after, so warranty void.

There are probably very few people with access to Sourceforge account. So this is not a matter of having no leader.
The person who has access should take care of it or comission it to somebody else.

And here we go again, seems that history will score a loop.
80 years ago we had similiar situation. First, everything was backed, and then value was robbed by government from american people (when they took the gold away after great depression).
Will the same happen with bitcoin after/if it replaces gold ? Will it be replaced by fiat currency, of which government says it's backed ?
I don't think so. Unless they shut down the internet completely to seize control.


Lucky us. Contrary to gold, using Bitcoin one can convert his home into digital Fort Knox and store as much value as he wants in it practically without the possibility of thievery ... So i don't see any need to store some bitcoin-based currency. I choose to store the real deal.
That would not have been possible before the internet era.

This is truly the century of wonders.

Bitcoin - the first decentralized Peer2Peer digital gold standard currency.

Yep, I remember discussing it several times...
Move along, nothing to see here.

The new network would have to be totally technologically superior to the current one.

That could work, providing another Satoshi-like (japanese ?) genius happens to come along and make a new revolution on top of the current revolution.
Otherwise, IMHO unlikely.

Well not that i mind it as a Linux user, but still - this creates unnecessary mess.

I agree.

As long there is no technical weakness of the protocol and there is no reason to lose confidence in the network from the technical side, Bitcoin is most likely to rise forever (of course with spikes and falls).

Only the speed of the deflation can vary, and there can be small or medium bubbles which would be caused by overspeculation, but in the long term Bitcoin should always rise - as the number of goods, services & currencies offered for it will rise.

The only thing that can really harm bitcoin is some heavy mathematics or a bug, which would break the cryptography used.