If you know the proverb "A watched pot never boils", it also applies to Bitcoin generation.

Don't go checking for generated blocks. Then, occasionally, when you least expect it you will be delightfully surprised to see a new block maturing.

Or even where they went to university. For words that can be spelled either way, Oxford University (and Oxford Dictionary) uses -ize and Cambridge uses -ise.

Until World War II, -ize was standard for the UK, but in the past 65 years the use of -ise has become more common.

Anyway, Satoshi is very careful about hiding his identity, so I expect his choice of -ise or -ize is deliberate and does not reveal any information about him.

I offer to buy your bitcoins for €0.67 each. Let me know if you're interested.

You would need to send the coins first, but as you can see from the forum's List of honest traders I have had many successful trades.

Theoretically, perhaps, but it's implemented with 64-bit integers, so as soon as that last "1" drops of the right-hand bit, the mining reward will be exactly zero forevermore. This won't happen within my lifetime though.

The darkest pool of all is outside of MtGox. It is in people's minds. People have thoughts like "if the price rises another 10%, I might offload my bitcoins".

These thoughts will never be displayed at any marketplace, but they are part of the future price destiny.

There's no point worrying about MtGox dark pools when they make little or no difference compared to unvoiced thoughts and emotions.

I don't accept that an offer to trade can harm others.

Let me know if you're ever on a working holiday in Lancashire!

MtGox has no formal terms of service, so they are acting on the traditional basis that "possession is nine tenths of the law". I think that's a good thing. At this point in the evolution of services such as MtGox, they need to be able to act rapidly and somewhat arbitrarily, in order to establish what will become policies in the future.

There is a school of thought that "There are no rules until they are broken". This was traditionally the way discipline was handled at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and it seemed to work well. By contrast, nearby Phillips Academy Andover had rules for everything and produced alumni such as George Bush (senior and junior).

In time the Bitcoin economy might become more formal, but I think we should encourage pluralistic solutions built around mutually-agreed arbitration systems. This will of course include commercial (paid) arbitrators, but I also like the idea of some kind of "jury" or "council of elders" to give opinions on bitcoin disputes.

Wouldn't it work better to link the bitcoin address to their email address rather than needing to use a nickname?

There's nothing wrong with dark pools. The way a free market works is that you decide what it's worth to you to buy or sell, and if the market can match you up with someone else then you both transact to mutual advantage.

Why should people be forced to advertise their intentions in one specific way? That wouldn't be very free.

Anyway, dark pools at MtGox make little difference. Even if MtGox didn't support dark pools, there will always be people dealing outside of MtGox (e.g. #bitcoin-otc, or private trades) so you can't have perfect knowledge of other people's intentions anyway. There are always parts of any market that are unavoidably dark.

I'm also looking to buy BTC for EUR or GBP bank transfer. I'm paying a couple of percent above MtGox rates. Send me a PM if interested.

For what it's worth, when I compiled wxWidgets under Fedora 12, it worked by exactly following the instructions in file build-unix.txt, except that I had to do the whole thing as root (not just the make install step).

I haven't compiled it under Fedora 14.

You need to stick with the static libs, else you're on your own. You can install them from package boost-static.

I'm now using Fedora 14, but when I was using Fedora 12 I was able to compile bitcoin using boost-static-1.39.0 as described here:
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1334.msg22412#msg22412

Hey UK people, I need to buy some BTC in the next 10 days (to cover an option that I sold), and would like to pay by UK bank transfer. I'm prepared to pay £0.57 per bitcoin, which is well above the MtGox rate, for any quantity from 100 to 2000 bitcoins.

Anyone interested? Reply here or send me a PM.

I offer 390 Euros by bank transfer. I will pay the bank charges.

But as you are the newcomer here, I will only do this if you send the coins first. You can check my ratings at #bitcoin-otc and in the "honest traders" thread.

A self-signed certificate is not wrongly configured.

But mainstream browsers do react in a way that tends to cause panic amongst mainstream users. If the browser just said "This certificate is self-signed. Your session is encrypted, but the certificate doesn't vouch for the identity of the website" that would be fine.

Unfortunately, browsers don't work like that, so it probably is worth buying a commercial cert. I'm happy to contribute to the cost.

PM sent.

It's secure for the issuer, because there's also a checksum printed on the card. But it's not so secure for the layperson, who depends for security upon buying the scratchcard from a trusted vendor. As these scratchcards are not widely used as money, that's good enough.

Photocopy the invisible ink bitcoin bill, and spend it. When the new owner tries to redeem it, they discover that the invisible ink is a lie.

This is not directly defrauding the issuer of the bills, but it would bring the system into disrepute.

I expect someone will sell you bitcoins for PayPal if you're willing for the seller to leave the coins in escrow for six months while the PayPal payment matures.