Thank you Mr. Joint.

I want this to go as smoothly as possible and help add more credibility to Bitcoin.
I just moved 20k BTC to show that I didn't lose anything in the Linode hack.
You can see it at this link http://blockexplorer.com/address/1yvnLFMNRDRGKJ2dMqprzD68mtKga8uoJ
I'll probably move it out after it confirms.

I want to have this 99% wrapped up (getting close) before I move on to another project.
I've got a few things lined up that shouldn't be nearly as stressful and I can have a little more fun with.

Jered Kenna

There is nothing to worry about, I am sorry for the delay.

TradeHill approved these on Friday and we are working as fast as we can to finish them off.

Gareth is ill and I'm in the office on a Saturday trying to get this done, without making any mistakes. Please bear with me.

By the end of the weekend, we hope to have caught up.

Thanks for your support

Charlie

How long does the Tradehill->Mtgox transfer is supposed to take? I made a transfer yesterday, the funds were gone by today morning but still nothing in Mtgox.

edit: <3 is a heart right? It's not in my normal vocabulary.

Might as well express my opinion as well. I'm a nobody, not familiar with technicalities (Thanks, Amir, btw, nice intro for the lay person), nor a big miner, so not like I carry any vote or weight. But, I think there are a lot of people in the silent majority like me.

I have observed Gavin and others for many months. I have always thought of Gavin as reasonable, polite, devoted, sane ("security first") and competent - in short, a great choice for the leader of this project.

Regarding leadership of the project, I can't say nearly anything similar for some of the detractors - if I had to choose between him and one of them, I would undoubtedly choose him.  (Not talking about particular technicalities here.) If one person has to go, it shouldn't be Gavin.

I realize it's been much harder and time-consuming for Gavin than it was for Satoshi. As Gavin said in a thread, Satoshi  could just commit, and the world would unquestionably follow.

Also, as he said, these debates have lasted 'forever', and every time they are nearly done, someone comes and starts them all over again. And, that these debates are really about the choice of color of the lock in the bikeshed, not about the mechanics of the chain reaction in the nuclear power plant.

Just saying Gavin has my support. I trust that he will come better off from this, and also sincerely hope that with his leadership skills, he will also be able to avoid future conflicts.

The wiki seems to be down, but here is a google cache of most gpus/cpus and their wattage, hashes, etc.  Note that references to hashing is BTC only, but you should still be able to get an idea of watt usage.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9FiOofDGPJAJ:https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison+mining+hardware+comparison&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Perhaps the idea of an "official" group is not wise.  Instead, the core dev team could create an organization, with special logo and name. This organization would be the de facto official group, but only so long as it held up its reputation. At all times, other groups can form and compete for "de facto officialness."

In essence then, this would just be a Non-profit, spontaneously organized by individuals. If multiple such organizations sprout up, then each community member can support whomever they wish.

Think of it like a market for competing representatives. No group official by law, but any group official by market sentiment. We would see one group come to dominate the sentiment, but Bitcoin would not be irrevocably tied to it.

No group should be granted an explicit monopoly... but an implicit market-derived monopoly would not bother me.

Why is it that some of us see this thing as a true - to use OP's word - transcendence, while others see it as an impossible and laughable scam with no value?

Aggressive use of Ignore Boards.

This is exactly the type of tool merchants need. BTW, I've been trying to get the script to work and haven't had any luck. Maybe I don't know enough about Java.

I wish it had BRL...

But nice anyway! Very elegant design!

The number of exchanges isn't that important.  Mt Gox has 90% of the volume.

A better algorithm would be one which is volume weighted over a period of time. 

Say in last hour there were 5 transactions.

1000 BTC @ $3.99
 200 BTC @ $4.06
 800 BTC @ $4.01
    1 BTC @ $4.80

obviously the $4.80 is an abberation but it is what users would see. 

Taking a weighted average (volume * price) / (total volume) = $4.01 (technically $4.005397).

The only thing to consider is how large of a weighting period.  The shorter the period the more reactive the average.  The longer the period the more it smooths out the spikes but the longer it takes to react to sustained price action.

For a more "immediate value" I think 1 hour would be good starting timeframe but you may need to adjust.

Great.  i think the transitions can be extended just a bit longer for new viewers to think about each slide.  maybe one second longer...

Actually I am sure most people here oppose the Occupy Wall Street protests.

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