They didn't tell in the news here that there was a fire fight. I had a similar idea as how it went with Sadam Hussain, but I guess you can't compare them in that way.

Sure it's great they got him, but I'm still wondering how this can be called justice... How I read the news is that he was executed by the US army (together with a few others). Not taken into arrest, have him shipped to the US, given him a fair trail and let him rot in prison if found guilty. If this is true, his rights as a human were taken away and that would make the US not much better than himself. To me Bin Laden got the easy way out and I would not be happy with this type justice.

Agree... if I only had a bit more time and knew how to code ruby I would have offered to buy the service over from him. And the ruby coding wouldn't even be such big problem. Time, time, time...

The PGP wasn't IMHO not really a big problem (never knew that that was required). The site owner told me he didn't like running it. In the end it took weeks to get reply from him.

Your GPU is calculating to get a hit with a specific size of hash. If you get the hit, transactions get incorporated/fixed into the network. You get paid for that. What you're selling is a service (computing power), which costs electricity and hardware for you.

Neh, this is just correction. The question is where it stops. $2.5 is a nice bump on the way down, but I wonder if that holds it. $1.6 has been mentioned as one of the supports (together with $3, but we're past that).

Or throw it into a hidden network (tor, i2p, etc). Make the client to connect to the server in the hidden network.

Question is if US people are going to use it. MtGox also accepts USD bank transfers, so you will have to compete with them (and MtGox being US based they have an advantage in that respect).

Ah.. just what I thought.

You could however turn it into an organisation that also does lobbying and that kind of stuff. With the shares having a way to submit ideas and votes on proposed actions with all the shareholders.

The bank seems interesting, but why should I buy shares for the alliance? Sure, I want bitcoin to succeed, but having 2500 shares within the alliance... what does this arbitrary number mean? Can I vote for things or so?

Those are investments. If you're pretty sure you can get a good income from them you can use your savings for that (personally I wouldn't use 100% for that, but that depends on the situation and I think you are in a better situation to determine that ).


True, only shacks are expensive here as well. My wife didn't want to live in a shack for another 4 years with me having a good income. We bought a house for the minimal mortgage (20 years with 5.2% interest fixed and subsidy for the first 5 years). This is very conservative mortgage, but I wanted maximum certainty .


I'm 28, PhD student, paid back all my student loans and except for the mortgage no debts, 20k on a savings account/in stocks but some of that has to go, because we have to do some restorations on our house.

LOL

Why? No plans for the future?

My parent learned me to save money if I wanted something and never buy stuff that is on loan (for a house is the only exception). In the end you ALWAYS pay more. Also stuff can break, having some money on a savings account allows you to buy a replacement (again without requiring a loan).

Mail the admins.

Savings account? I guess it was empty anyway.

Is there BTW a rule how often bots should poll the API maximum?

Miners, who have to pay their electricity bills

Great! How many got crushed in the mail (just curious)? They should take about 2 weeks to germinate under glass.

I don't have any web-of-trust, but you can mention me in the honest trades topic.

@bitdragon, did you also receive yours?