Did vlad get his GPU farm online?!   Because someone just broke the difficulty barrier and is finding blocks again.

Result:  The whole nuggets network has 2 nodes currently, a block viewer, and a block explorer.

How many NUGs miners do we have right now?

Why not just let people pay the forum directly in order to evade the Tor registration block as part of the signup procedure?

Yes, that is correct. It has already been fixed. 

...So we herd u liek to triple ur monyz while u triple ur monyz

Isn't that vulnerable to the inherent security issues android phones suffer from?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57598603-83/google-confirms-android-flaw-that-led-to-bitcoin-theft/

one of the trust factors... i don't know the nicknames you writed, but of course trusting only reg date is not a good idea. You can't beat all scammers, but you can reduce scammers in your community by taking some steps in managing of community

Reg. date is one of the trust factors.

I prefer the "Hidden" option.  It can be seen from the comments in the trust system that when someone gets negative feedback they often give back negative feedback.  The private option would stop the tit-for-tat of -1 votes.

Another option could be to publicly show the votes from each of the member groups.  This way no one can tell who voted for whom and it would help stop people gaming the system using socks.  For example, the following distribution would look a little suspicious:

member123 [+5]
Brand New:   [+10, -0]
Newbie:   [+0, -0]
Jr. Member:   [+0, -0]
Member:   [+0, -0]
Full Member:   [+0, -0]
Sr. Member:   [+0, -0]
Hero Member:   [+0, -5]

( I know of at least 1 user that regally hacks the forum so I am sure there are more )

Calculating pi is not really a useful purpose. It has been calculated to 10 trillion (10^13) digits already. Practical use of increased accuracy in even the most precise applications is completely gone after 30-40 digits.

edit: Additionally, the whole idea behind crypto-currency is to have a task that is hard to perform, but easy to check. Finding a block that has certain properties when hashed is very difficult, but once found, it's simple to verify that the result is correct (just a single hash-operation on the found block, which is very fast). There is no way to verify whether the 28389283751th decimal of pi is really 4 or whether i'm just cheating (unless you have a table with all digits, in which case a miner can just use that).

There's a reason why hash-functions are used for all crypto-currencies and simply throwing out the "useless hash-computations" and replacing it with something else isn't going to work.

The basic principle of Proof of Work scheme is - hard to do the work and easy to check that it is done right. There is no easy way to check that newly discovered digits of PI are not just taken from the air, so it will not work.

Oh a happy note:  I'm now a true 1% owner of ixCoin. I finally bought just over 200,000 ixCoins.  I can't believe it took me over 2 weeks and bidding as high as 15,000 ixCoins per Bitcoin to finally get that many coins.

So I feel sorry for anyone trying to buy any real amount of ixCoins - this coin can pop so hard and fast that people will think it's Bitcoin 2.0.

Now it just needs some interest.  And I need more Bitcoins to do the same thing with a number of different coins.



Edit:

I'm adjusting my theory based on the massively liquid nature of an ETF compared to the rigid illiquid nature of Bitcoin which is only worsened by the archaic and unestablished exchanges which host the sales of Bitcoins.

My $1,000 price target for Bitcoin seems quite small the more I think about it, given Bitcoin gets its ETF.  $5,000 and potentially as high as $10,000 is absolutely probable and should actually become a reality given there has never been an ETF more liquid than the underlying asset which is represents, the way the case is with Bitcoin.

This will be like the carriage driving the horse - nobody knows how volatile and how high it can go but given the media Hype I'm expecting and the mass adoption which should quickly follow combined with investors and hedge funds piling on at the same time and then add the illiquid nature of purchasing bitcoins and you've got a perfect storm, a perfect scenario for the mother of all bubbles and the frenzy I've been saying will drive everyone to alt coins.  I would definitely be a big buyer of options if such an ETF comes out, the way I predicted it will.