Very cool, best of luck!   

Kudos to BTC-e for handling this situation well.  My account issues are all resolved, thanks.

I was cautious of the site prior to this event and kept a minimal balance, but I have a lot more confidence in them after this and will continue to trade BTC & LTC there. 

LTC/USD has the same problem.

Awesome!

Just wanted to mention an issue I'm having with the send to email function.

I have a few watch addresses in my wallet along with an address with valid private keys that has 2 btc.  I tried using the send to email function to send 1 btc to a friend.  Whenever I go to send, it begins the process and indicates that it has created a new receiving address, but then it prompts me to import the private key for the first watch address in my wallet even though I have a subsequent addresses with private keys that have enough BTC.  Initially I thought it might be due to the # of confirmations but I waited a day and the same issue is still occurring.

I tried using the custom send feature which lists "Bitcoin Address, Email or Firstbits" as the options in the receiving address field, but when I enter the email address as the recipient I get an error stating that it is an invalid receiving address.  I'm guessing the custom send feature can only take a btc address and not an email address as is indicated in the form field prior to entry, but it may be a bug with sending to email in the custom send feature otherwise.

That aside, thanks for all your hard work on the site, it just keeps getting better and I love all the new features.  I also sent you a PM with some other questions if you have a few minutes to discuss.

+1 for MPBM on linux, it's really fantastic.   The management interface is very easy to use and you can access from anywhere over http, out of the box.

As for throttling, ambient temp and airflow make a huge difference, so keep them in a cold room or blow some cold A/C on them if you can, and duct away the warm exhaust.

Rule 30

I was generally referring to bitcoiners in Vegas.  You guys are reading into my comment too much.

Mean Well makes high-quality external power-brick adapters:
http://www.meanwell.com/search/GS120/default.htm

I can envision a bunch of geeks sitting along the back wall of a casino playing satoshi dice on their phones.  

How about this for a conspiracy theory -

Members of BFL worked in R&D for crypto chips used by NSA for cracking.  After Gavin's talk at the CIA, a plan was devised to secretly build an ASIC mining cluster that could take over the network, just in case bitcoin ever became a viable competitor to the fiat currencies of the world as they slowly crumbled.  BFL was set up as a front company and the vanilla sha256 bitstreams and chip designs they had already developed were modified for bitcoin mining.  The FPGA chips from an outdated NSA cracking cluster were re-purposed for the initial BFL singles and the serial numbers were removed to reduce the chance that they could ever be linked back to the government contract in which they were purchased.  The existing ASIC fabs were redesigned for the "SC" and a slew of moles posing as miners and bitcoin businesses orchestrated a plan to project the illusion of a large market of miners who trusted BFL and received their products as promised.  This was done to lure any potentially serious investors away from competing ASIC efforts and into their honeypot, thereby allowing them to dominate the entire market.  This included fabricated botnet stories to cover for the incremental ramp-up of the NSA hashing cluster, which actually already controls over %60 of the hashrate while running only a small fraction of total capacity.  Now the US government has a bitcoin "takeover switch" that they can turn on at any time to control all transactions in the network.  Nobody will question BFLs questionable business practices because they have a govt. contract.  They will slowly sell a trickle of ASICs to the public to recoup some of the redevelopment costs and all the ex-TIA guys in the back room at the pentagon get a fat raise and a retirement gift cigar from Howard Schmidt.

+3 this is a fair solution.

The bitcoin protocol uses greed by channeling it into a feedback loop that increases security.  You can't change human nature, but you can direct it.

The FPGA subforum is really cluttered with BFL / ASIC talk, perhaps it's time for an ASIC subforum?

I just posted this in the other thread, but it seems more relevant here -

It looks like mini-rig purchasers are still screwed the most, unless they get priority for upgrading.  Based on the the order list thread some people are scheduled to receive their mini-rig in August.  2 months later a handful of jalapenos will equal the hashing power and then the mini-rig owner will be forced to upgrade (shelling out another $15k) or lose out entirely.  If they do decide to upgrade and end up in some order lottery it's really gonna hurt.  Seems like punishment for early customers who put their faith/$ in BFL.

Fishing for a few more locals in hopes that they see this post and try to make it out...


Pittsburgh Bitcoin Users Meetup #2 - Wednesday June 27th at the Hofbräuhaus.

http://www.meetup.com/Pittsburgh-Bitcoin-Users/events/67826952/

We had about 15 people show up to the first meetup and it was really a good time.  Many topics were discussed over good beer and good food and attendees spanned the BTC spectrum from crypto-researcher to satoshidice addict!  

Me too, that's why I leave it to the blockchain!  If you have a lot of keys you need to backup then by all means secure your wallet.dat.  But if you just want to have a few secure offline/cold addresses, a paper or brainwallet is hard to beat.

Do you backup your secure TrueCrypt password in multiple locations?  If not you are exposing yourself to the same risk as losing/forgetting a brainwallet key so you might consider that for your backup scheme.