LOL

You do have to wonder how it is possible to continue existence when costs are so high. I doubt the various trading fees are enough to be sustainable. As for costs, I heard some numbers a while back that were amazing - $10k/month just for DDoS protection? And who knows when it comes to the rest of the infrastructure.

I dug around I'm my old IRC logs, but was unable to find another bit of information that I am sure I remember hearing - specifically that all employee salaries for this year had been set aside already before the beginning of the year. I don't remember whether that set aside amount included infrastructure costs though.

That information is outdated.

Prove it by substantially disrupting it in such a way that it can no longer function, and then I will believe you. Otherwise, provide suggestions for improvement.

From the bitcoinarmory.com website:


Although I believe etotheipi is planning on changing that.

I don't like your definition of decentralized. I think you should align it more with what is achieved in practice with p2pool, and indeed with bitcoin itself, and then make whatever statements you have to say.

Not that it is relevant to this topic, but...
Hosting is provided free by MtGox, from what I understand, same as with the en.bitcoin.it wiki.
And you can ask to be whitelisted in the noob forum.

Probably a combination of impatience and incompetence.

BAMT should work fine, but if it doesn't just crack windows and use that.

The daemon is already useable by external GUIs, and is also much more stable when performing that task. Take for instance the Armory client which uses bitcoind in the backend. There are others as well.

You don't have to have the GUI to run the daemon; indeed you shouldn't even need to look at a single line of QT code at all.

If you want absolutely no variance and a steady payout, https://mtred.com/ offers zero fee PPS payouts. I also recommend http://eclipsemc.com/ and http://ozcoin.net/ as reliable pools with zero fees and a DGM scoring method. To maximize returns, you could probably go with Clipse, since GPUMAX might not let you have an account right away. Always remember to set at least one failover pool in your miner configuration, and if your mining software doesn't support failover pools, I recommend that you switch to cgminer.

LOL touché

Because they are grandfathered in; if they go edit their sig, they will find that the images have been erased and can't be had back. When theymos decided to ban sig images, he didn't want to go erase all existing images, so they just get erased when the sig gets changed.

Interesting. Yubico's free cloud authentication is tempting, but if it has this kind of flaw it is probably best to run your own auth server the same as MtGox is doing. But that means you also have to issue your own Yubikeys.

I've always wondered why Yubico would offer the auth service for free; it seems to me that if they wanted to be competitive and make a quick buck, they could just be a lot cheaper than Symantec VIP, but still have a steady revenue stream from a subscription model.

Can the new address type be used for regular transactions, or is it limited to multisig transaction types only?

Good question. There is a donations ticker that shows contributions in red as they come in in real time, but I don't know if there is a history of past sessions anywhere. Perhaps some of the girls on reddit could tell you, or you could grab the bitcoin address of a few performers and look at them after a while.

Problem is you can't use them here... Images in sigs are disallowed.

Could you elaborate on the "as most people use them" part? As far as I know, it uses one full AES block, and contains fields for the serial, an 8 hz counter, and some other things.

FTFY 

Since you are using mtgox and pricing things in USD, you should try out their BBCode button creator and let us know how well it works.