I responded to you guys, but I have to go out for a few hours now. If you pay, it's locked it.

Potential customers are not just current users. I think it's a great idea and now is the right time.

No, that's not what the confirmations mean. The first confirmation means that someone put your transaction in a valid block. The second means that someone worked off of that block and found another valid block which doesn't explicitly contain your transaction, but is an endorsement nonetheless. I think you should see 4 confirmations now.

It's just a coincidence that you appeared to get 2 at once. The average time between is 10 minutes, but those two only had 11 seconds between them.

How have you not learned this stuff yet? 

http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/

It's been a while since a block was found. You will get your confirm eventually.

It could conceivably happen, but the large majority of typos will result in an invalid address. For example if the 1 is not at the beginning it will not send. But there are more checks, some kind of checksum digits (at the end? I dunno). Also there are many valid lengths, can't remember the exact range.

On a more serious note my post count just passed the year and difficulty will exceed the block number for the first time since block 0 sometime soon (two or three resets?).

I can predict the difficulty at Block 102960 with awesome accuracy. I'll give 10-1 odds and you win if I am off by more than 1.

Small amounts welcome, I'm only looking for $800 total and was going to just do Coincard, but figured I'd see if I could cut out the middleman and help buyers bypass limits.

I'll take offers that save me a little over coincard for people who have at least some rep here. I can sell MTGOX USD too.

You can buy what's visible for $50k, but everyday lately $50k sells and there's $50k more waiting.

There are dark pool asks and there are people willing to buy and sell at some price who just haven't declared yet.

Yes it can go down. At the drop to 50 it will likely go down.

There are different kinds of forks. A block chain fork almost definitely sucks. Forks of the software that use the same protocol and interact fine are a good thing. They make the network more robust and lessen the potential damage of a bug in one of them.

This is pretty bad logic. People are going to want to try the software before they trust and pay you anything and even then they will start small. There are lots of sites I'd send 5BTC to, but not install their software.

I'm not saying trust can't be built, but it's a process and at least a little harder to get people to download.

There is a default rule set and since most people are using it that's what you need to pay to get in reliably. It is not a hard 'rule' though.

That's right. If someone copies your wallet.dat they can spend your coins. If you lose it then you can't spend them, no other file matters. It's all public info that you can get again.

If you like the buffet model you can probably make it work eventually, but you've got to realize that in the beginning people are doing you a favor by posting their stuff on your site. Later once those early auctions (which end up selling low because you don't have much traffic yet) are drawing buying eyeballs then you have something sellers will be willing to pay for, captured eyeballs.

You are on the right track with the discounted registrations, but you are still trying to get people to pay to whitewash your fence. Heh, maybe a bad analogy since that worked well for Tom.

If it's really about spam one thing would be a small deposit, like 2BTC. Say "Deposit is forfeit if you post really crappy stuff", but nicer.

Yeah, there is still the problem of figuring out which addresses to put on the list.

As was said fees will have to be higher for coins on the list, how much higher depends on the risk of defying the regulator. Which seems really really unrisky unless the regulator has complete access to all your stuff because you could just not mix payouts of blocks that contain blacklisted tx with your legit mining income and use that money for non-official expenses.

Hmm, I guess it would easy to auto-blacklist the address that the fees are paid too also, but that just means you pay more fees when using that money. Interesting, that means that the blacklist fee will have to be higher than otherwise since the fee coins will also be worth less. I don't think that leads to an explosion, but it seems like some kind of math problem.

Huh, and couldn't you screw the regulators up by sending token amounts from black addresses to random addresses containing lots of coins? If they don't auto blacklist the whole large amount then you can use that to launder black coins. If they do then you jam up corporate balances and such with dirty bit pennies.

In order for a transaction to be "unwritten" from the record an amount of work equal to all hashing done after the tx is recorded must be done.

So it's useful in the sense that you are making Bitcoin balances and transactions more secure. It is not useful for anything else.

The way to think about it is that it's more efficient than gaurds, guns, walls, vaults, etc.

There is a reason that 'useful' work can't be used, but I can't articulate it at the moment.

This would have been good 2 days ago, but really we just need a straight bitcoin site or 5.

But seriously someone show me something with potential and I'll pay and help the bit I can (consult I guess) for an equity share.

Yes, this plus the option to get a code from a site or phone app would be sick.

Get on bus
Use droid to get code
Arrive at ATM
Get cash
Hookers and blow