Is the wallet encrypted? Where in the filesystem is it stored?

Countermail looks good. . . and they accept Bitcoin. . . any opinions as to whether they are secure?

I listened to Peter in the video and it's definitely "they've" not "we've." Peter is just saying that FinCen has been going after those who are ignoring its interpretation of the law.

I believe Patrick Murck works both for the Bitcoin Foundation and for CoinLab.

We should designate a weekly open-air meeting for bitcoin trading in every city and town:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/a-push-for-a-bitcoin-buttonwood/

Yes, please put this on the website. . . It is very helpful.

Looking at the "penetration" of bitcoin by country, I'm surprised at how low Japan is on the list. I would think that the technophilic home country of MtGox would find the Bitcoin story interesting, especially given that it was created by "Satoshi Nakamoto."

And the new quantitative easing (money-printing) policy of Abe's government should give Japanese a strong incentive to look into hedges against inflation, such as Bitcoin.

I could get used to "millies" and "mickeys". . . although they sound a bit like street names for illicit substances.

I agree. Switching to mɃ from now on. I suggest we just call these "millibits," which is easier to say than "millibitcoin".

(I finally figured out how to type the "B with bar" character in OS X Mountain Lion--need to go to System Preferences/Language & Text/Input Sources. Then scroll down and select "Unicode Hex Input" and select "show input menu in menu bar."  Then go to the input menu selector icon in the menu bar, choose Unicode, and hold down the Option/Alt key while typing "0243".)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323809304578429142650304564.html

Nothing new to most readers of bitcointalk, but a nice piece on Gavin that portrays Bitcoin in a positive light.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is a "Bitcoin Supernode"?

It looks interesting, but the paywithbits website lacks basic info, like how to fund your wallet. . .

http://www.grubhub.com/ is another great food delivery service in the US with thousands of restaurants in many different cities.

I've written to seamless.com (a food delivery service very popular in New York City) a few times requesting that they accept bitcoin as a payment method. They said they'd look into it. If you'd like to register your interest in this, write to suggestions@seamless.com.

I've been playing around with Ripple over the past day. It's an amazing system and I think I see how it could help revolutionize payment and also create a decentralized exchange. But one concern I have is about privacy. If my wallet will eventually contain information about everyone I "trust" and how much I "trust" them, I don't want that becoming public. Who would have access to this information?

The paper backup contains no information about the # of bitcoin in each address. It only encodes information to recreate all current and future private keys and public addresses. Armory uses "deterministic wallets," meaning that any time you recreate your wallet from a paper backup it will generate the identical sequence of private keys and public addresses.

Any bitcoin you add to your wallet will appear in a wallet restored from a paper backup.

I'd like to use a 3D printer to print QR codes for private/public keys in the center of some opaque solid plastic object that would have to be broken/cut in half to reveal the codes.

More durable than a paper wallet and could be hidden in all manner of innocent-looking 3D structures. . . .

It seems to be working for me on OSX 10.8.3. At first, after double-clicking the app, it didn't appear to be working. Then I control-clicked on the "python" icon in the launchpad and selected "show all windows". . . Armory then started up.