Well said, grinder.

With Bitcoin, I would add one more reason to diversify, and that is because the absolute security of wallet.dat file cannot be 100% guaranteed.

But then you will end up finding aliens, which are not as useful as bitcoins.

I got it to work by using "ruby ./bmc" instead of "./bmc".

I also got this message when installing using Nefario's instructions, but I guess it's nothing to worry about:

You can get 0.05 coins for free from the Bitcoin Faucet. That's enough to set started experimenting with Bitcoin.

Seriously, if the BlackMarketClient requires messing about with dependencies, it's not going to take off.

I love ruby as an elegant and powerful programming language, and if I was developing for a ruby project I would willingly install all this stuff. But these dependencies are not appropriate for someone who just wants to run an end-user application.

ATI is going to wonder one day why the 5970 sold like hot cakes.

And by helping Bitcoin to get established you may find that you make more concrete change to the world than you ever imagined!

Just to bring my post back on-topic: I wonder when the first mainstream church will start accepting Bitcoin donations. There will be no turning back for Bitcoin then!

If I had a penny for each homeless gambler who had made their decisions based on that "feeling".

I have ruby 1.8.7 but not gem. Any idea what Fedora package contains gem?

If you're going to switch, there's no logical reason to wait until you get another block before switching.

The work your miner has done so far counts for nothing. There's no "partial work" that you would lose by switching to a pool now rather than later.

You have the same chance of generating a block if you have never mined before, or if you have mined for a month (with or without generating blocks). Your past mining history doesn't affect your future chances in any way.

The site seems to function quite well, however when editing my question I get:

You have to design an ad first, so that you can select it when you set up your campaign. If you don't have an ad (of the correct dimensions for the site that you're advertising on), the screen that you see is quite misleading. It should say "you can't advertise on this site until you have created an ad of xxx by yyy pixels".

PS: Please don't advertise on Quezi.com, whose readers are not your target market.

Will you be selling any 1 ounce gold coins? The smaller ones just have too much overhead to be used as an investment. I don't own any gold (except for my wedding ring), but I would like to buy an ounce sometime.

Have a look at the "examples" directory that got installed with your ATI SDK, and you'll get a feel for the breadth of applications for these boards.

Also, don't forget, if the difficulty rises too high you can probably sell the GPU card second-hand and get back half what you paid for it. That might be enough to make the venture profitable overall.

I just sent him another 10.

But maybe it's time to reduce the payout to 0.03 coins.

Thanks Mahkul. The transaction was successful for me too, of course. I've rated you positively with my other ratings.

It's unintuitive that the search button only searches the current sub-forum. A search for "Commodity" from the box above this article won't find the discussion.

Some discussion is here:
Definition of a Commodity & Are Bitcoins a Commodity?

You're absolutely right.

Interesting subject for a first post (unless you're that Jed, of course).

Satoshi is Ben Bernanke, who has been putting his "Plan B" in place for when the SHTF.

Satoshi is actually Midas Mulligan, a wealthy banker who mysteriously disappeared in protest after he was given a court order to lend money to an incompetent applicant.