That the market would explode.

There's no additional benefit to *most* people in Amazon taking Bitcoins. Their paycheck is in dollars, their bank account is in dollars, their credit card...you get the picture.

I mean, it would be useful for people who *have* Bitcoins to be able to spend them more places, but what reason is there for me to convert my dollar to bitcoins, to buy goods...I can buy in dollars?

Especially since by the time a major retailer might be on board, mining your own bitcoins will be pretty much a dead end for most people.

I very much doubt this. I mean - why?

The appeal of Bitcoin is the anonymous, quasi-secure nature of the thing. Why do you need that for Amazon.com? That the government may be interested in your picking up 'Python in a Nutshell' or the Dark Knight on BlueRay?

Why not use your U.S. dollars and their stable prices, versus holding funds in a fairly unstable currency?

Bitcoin will take off when it can do something the Dollar/Euro/Pound can't more easily and conveniently.

Man found dead from exhaustion and dehydration: Are bitcoins to blame?

I think a more polished trading platform would be extremely welcome, if we assume the entire Bitcoin ecosystem doesn't come crashing down.

I'm certainly not married to Mt Gox or any other service.

Indeed. I'm extremely skeptical of dedicated mining hardware being profitable unless the price of Bitcoins starts trending up again in a major way.

It's pretty clear to me that unless you have the following things on your side:

1. Free cooling and electricity
2. A reason to have the gear *besides* mining

It's not worth it. I've got a miner running because, well, I bought a decent graphics card for games and other GPU computing projects. By the time most people (including myself) were even faintly aware of Bitcoin, the productivity from production was already pretty shot.

Honestly, I doubt any commercial gambling site will sign on for awhile. Perhaps one run by the same kind of idealism that fuels BitCoin, but I cant imagine most businesses not feeding off the Bitcoin ecosystem who will accept its volatility.

ClamAV has a Mac version. Trivial googling will bring up the proper site.

So I wouldn't mind being Whitelisted. The reason I registered is to post some configuration questions on the Phoenix thread, and I'd rather they be there than cluttering up the newbie forum.

Basically, fishing for advice on the proper setup for a Mac Pro that's not a dedicated miner. I've noticed some oddities with what seems the gestalt advice, and what I'm seeing and well...I wouldn't mind faster speeds.