Writing to a placeholder node would, though.

I don't see any reason why a similar cryptocurrency, or even another blockchain (am I talking out of my ass here?) couldn't compete against the current Bitcoin blockchain. Back before legal tender laws and the creation of the central bank, private mints were in competition with each other. Perhaps another system has some features Bitcoin doesn't, or for whatever reason gains hold of a niche. This is not a bad thing in any case. Especially if any competing currencies have decentralized transactions and non reversibility like Bitcoin, trading would be extremely simple. Perhaps even completely transparent. They could easily exist side by side.

Ah, I was not aware of that. I thought bitcoin had to be running in server mode in order for the m0mchil's client to function. Also, I notice now that I indicated the wrong username and password in the command line for the client. That should be that of your pool worker account.

Took me a while to figure out too. First, set up an RPC user/pass in your bitcoin.conf:

# You must set rpcuser and rpcpassword to secure the JSON-RPC api
rpcuser=Someusername
rpcpassword=Somepassword

Then start bitcoind.exe or bitcoin.exe -server

I think poclbm.exe has a command line argument of --help which displays all other arguments.

From the top my head, you should start it with parameters something along these lines...

poclbm.exe --host=mining.bitcoin.cz --port=8332 --user=Someusername --pass=Somepassword

Welcome to the pool!

We don't make things here, we buy them from China.

I like your translation idea. Maybe an automated service... buyer names their price, seller translates. Service compares translation to Google translate to ensure it's not complete rubbish. I see two options... buyer cannot see full (or any) translation until after payment, or it's assumed that buyer will pay up even if they now already have the translation.

Another thing that comes to mind is using Bitcoin for micro transactions to facilitate distributed internet services. For instance, is there such thing as a distributed web server? If not, there should be. If so, you could pay individuals to host your content in a way that would make it much more difficult to censor. Similar to what kiba mentioned for file hosting. Distributed encrypted wallet backup?

Damn you. Now I'm hungry AND want to travel.

BitSleep, the new distributed sleep currency, coming soon!

Thanks for the information, I will look into it and look forward to your further analysis. I appreciate what you're doing!

New user. 5850. <3 slushpool. 3.99 BTC confirmed so far, and I found my first block today.

edit... Btw Slush, I like the new additions. It's cool being able to see how much reward I received from prior blocks. When the donation feature goes live, will it track that as well? It would be cool to keep a running total of how much has been donated. Keep up the good work!

S3052, would it be possible to break down these analyses/charts for someone without specific knowledge in this area, or at least provide a link to some information that would help me to understand them?

Thanks.