vladimir is right of course, and also the power companies.

mtgox and possibly the pools.

I still don't think I understand what you mean. Why do you use graph mode if you don't want the graph? At least I have to add the --graph parameter to get the graph. Perhaps git log --pretty=oneline does what you want?

That too many bitcoin supporters wear tin foil hats and understand a lot less about economics than they think they do.

No, he doesn't (unless it was implemented in the last 12 hours).

It all makes sense if you understand that origin/master (on gitorious) is the "real" master, and master on your local and remote machine are two different (local) branches that is just connected to the remote origin/master branch. The branch names on those machines could be anything, "master" is just a default. When you commit to your local machine it all goes into the same branch, so there's no need to show it as a tree. Then you merge them into origin/master with push. When you pull on the remote you merge the changes from origin/master into the local branch called master on that machine, so it makes sense to print it as a tree.

I have read quite a lot of research papers about road accidents, but I haven't seen any research that supports or dismisses your claim. What I notice however is that the speed I need to "stay awake" is increasing as I get more used to driving at a certain speed. In the beginning even driving below the limit would feel very fast, but now I can be 20% above and still be bored. No matter how alert the speed makes me, higher speed leaves less time to react, so at some point it would be better to be bored.

Anyway, the number of deaths is usually what is targeted, not the number of accidents. Above about 55-70 MPH (depending on the kind of accident) the chance of dying in an accident starts increasing significantly, so naturally it is more effective to lower the speed.

How did you expect it to look?

Any progress on long polling? If not having it causes 1% more stale shares, it's 250 BTC lost for the pool in the last 13 days.

It is what you want it to be, just like Bitcoins.

If that were true, gold would have next to no value.

That's why it wouldn't run full throttle all the time. With enough nodes there's no need to.

The only price I have seen is $36 000 for a 100 000 node botnet. If done carefully most of the owners wouldn't notice that the client is running, so it can still be sold or used for something else when your done.

An attacker would obviously use a botnet in an attack, not build a new system. If it uses the node's GPUs as well, one of the larger botnets could probably easily overtake the bitcoin network.

The decrease in hashing power came before the price fall, and it came because the "mystery miner" who pushed the difficulty to 76k disappeared. The hashing power is now not quite as high as when I wrote the first message, but it's higher than it was, which means that next time the difficulty will increase. All you have to do is look at the numbers at http://bitcoincharts.com.

A price increase for BTC will make more people buy cards to mine, but when they've bought them they will continue mining unless the price decreases very significantly. In addition there's the natural increase from people upgrading their cards for gaming, but also using them for mining.

I don't know about the others, but in Hong Kong they all issue Hong Kong dollars, which is pegged to USD. They are not allowed to issue HKD if they don't have the equivalent amount in USD in deposit. Also all the notes are printed by the same government owned company. That doesn't leave much to compete about.

That's just wishful thinking, the next estimated difficulty is 89086 right now.

Next change will be closer to 90 000, and it will happend around April 4.

In theory there can be many currencies, but in practice it will most likely be a case of winner takes it all, because using several different currencies requires a lot of overhead. People will end up using the one everybody else uses as long as there aren't any really siginficant advantages from changing.

This is also why bitcoins are almost only used by libertarians so far. For everybody else who don't care about the politics it's just more risk and more work than using normal credit cards or Paypal.

It was really bad timing with that Slashdot article for those who have been mining all the time. We had been mining at a high difficulty for more than two weeks, and when we're finally at the end there's a flood of new miners. This means the decreased difficulty will be probably be used up in less than 10 days, and then it will go even higher than it was.