Yeah, I think he was looking for skillz more like this:

This one is updated quickly:

Spoilers:

-Bitcoin is still an illegal currency,
-It is too much of a hassle,
-It was created by a lawyer who needs a lawyer,
-Super-cryptologists can embed secret messages in the bitcoin "code" using other people's computers remotely, and the IP addresses used are easily traceable for anyone who wants to look,
-In a world where you have a moderate stack of cash to plunk down, you can get a whole law firm's undivided attention and a one-day trial in a well decorated courtroom with a jovial judge and no jury when charged with a crime by the federal government.
-Software coders are fidgety asian dweebs who would proclaim they love a snoopy lawyer they just met.

and
- when you are accused of giving a bribe, you get ineptly questioned by a pretty investigator at whatever location you specify, instead of being woken up at 3am by g-men with guns.

Completed! I'll post the address in a month or so after I am done, just to ensure goofballs don't send it any money now.

I drive down the road, and think it is cool when I see another car like the one I am driving, since they are rare. Nobody else cares.

If anything, fees are far down, from .01 to .0005 in the client on low priority transactions, and with many large users opting to not pay anything, just because they can. Also previous clients would send your bitdust and bitchange as a fee, now they don't.

Picking a higher fee in your own client no longer carries the same spirit of "donation" and "encouraging the network" since 90% of transaction fees just go into the pockets of pool ops, who already have decided their profit cut from the miners.

A pool miner doesn't have and doesn't need to have the Bitcoin blockchain, so that's not a source for you.

An improvement will come with more network connections - if you properly setup port forwarding in your internet router device, to forward port 8333 to your main Bitcoin machine, you can get more than eight connections to other nodes.

If you user profile also shows four hours actively logged in, then it will just take a bit for the forum software to update your status.

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Well, in the words of bulanula, "IMHO if you are naive enough to give so many BTC to these scammers you 100% deserve it !"

By the way, don't bother to read his posts yourself unless you are a masochist, they are the most brain damaging trolling you are likely to experience. Reading them is like being bitten to death by snails.

Satoshi Nakamoto isn't made up from random letters, both are proper Japanese names, about as common as a "James Jones" might be in English.

Exactly, the account "poppyh" wanting "their" money returned is a sock puppet account, previously only used to request more "free bitcoins" in a thread one minute after registering: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51395.msg612638#msg612638

Note the other lie-in-wait sock puppets in that thread requesting free bitcoins, like "The King", "Wikarus", also never to be used again either until there was another thread giving away bitcoins: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57286.msg682852#msg682852

Probably (edit: undoubtedly) all sock puppets of bulanula who also posted earlier in both those "free money" threads; "Thank you mate" from "poppy" vs "got it mate" from bulanula. Also look here, bulanula sees the opportunity to scam the poster and logs out of his account to log into the sock puppet.[/img]

Worthy of XXXXX scammer marks all around.

casascius' block looks good, paid!

If you want to identify the payout source, you can follow the payments backwards in block explorer, eventually you will find the original block that generated the coins, and that block may be in a pool's "found block #" stats page, or be identifiable if there's another "who found the block" site around like pident.

I think a possibility is a pool screw-up. If the pool had a database index problem or some glitch where a bad address field made the payout script use the previous user's address, someone's payments could be sent to someone else's address in the pool. The true owner of the pool account who hasn't been getting their payments should be able to look at their pool account history and verify the amount and time of every missing payout. If more detail is needed, the pool op could help.

That would be great, if not "touched" on the net. You can PM me the address and I'll check'r out. I think I can trust you with my BTC

For instruction and how-tos, screenshots, etc, I wish to have a payment of 1 BTC sent to an address I give you, but from an untouched generated block, one where the payment address was only used in the generated block and will never be used again, ideally one that generated exactly 50BTC with no earned fees (although this may be hard), and maybe even no transactions (nearly impossible?). It should be sent to me with no transaction fee. This way I get 1 BTC and the change will be 49 BTC. Older generates are better if you have many to choose from, and old will guarantee decent priority with no fee. Do what you want with the 49 BTC, but sending the remainder to a mixer or an exchange's one-time deposit address would be recommended since it may be closely examined by the curious in the future.

Desired procedure:

1. Identify the address and generate block that meets my needs, let me review and we agree it works (I'll pay 1 BTC first if your rep makes it likely you own the block generate you claim),
2. Export the private key from your wallet
3. Import it into a fresh Bitcoin install with new wallet (different machine or VM),
4. Set transaction fee to 0 in client, (do not send with fee),
5. Verify 50 BTC balance in block are still unspent,
6. Send the address I give 1 BTC, this Bitcoin gets back the change (ideally hit send right after new Bitcoin block)
7. Send the wallet's 49 BTC balance somewhere else in one payment after six or more confirmations.
8. Sometime after you've got your 49 BTC out and I've got the 1 BTC, delete the Bitcoin data directory and/or wallet so addresses don't get accidentally used again.
9. (optional, but if needed to remove any doubt) Delete the generate address from old wallet so it never gets accidentally used.

I can do step 3-8 with your private key, but I don't expect someone to essentially loan me access to their 50BTC for a while. I don't have near that much in BTC right now myself, and don't think I would "buy" a private key that could be remotely zapped either.

If you screw it up majorly sending and the data doesn't fit my purposes, I'll send you back the payment to whatever address you want, maybe to try again if you have more generates. If it's good, you get 2 BTC (or 1 BTC more if prepaid).

I'm not in a huge hurry. It's not a big bounty, however, after making mature example payments to be used for publication, I will later publish details of the addresses and simple payments for the community to be used for learning and screenshots, probably including some private key(s) (although I would put a MtGox sweeper on any private keys disclosed to discourage people from sending more money and causing any confusion). The typical instruction that the payment address may be useful for: "how coins are generated", "how to follow coins on block explorer", "how to import private keys", "see wallet balance (no money needed)"; "watch confirmations and balance as spending blocks are received", "try to double-spend already spent coins", etc.

PS: A possible feature for Bitcoin experimenting useful for more than just me: a 'pause' button on block downloading or a "stop downloading at xxxxxx block" option, while the client otherwise operates normally.

The Bitparking merged mining pool also has a minimal interface. It used to be purely address-based when it was namecoin-only, but with merged mining you now have a user name (still with no password, and mining/payment addresses that can't be changed).