Neither I nor anyone else draws the line.  The market draws the line.  If at some arbitrary limit, the choice of miners to transmit or not transmit certain transactions cramps the style of the people using the currency, there will either be a hard fork or (more likely) some miners will begin to accept those transactions.  After all, a hard fork that is adopted by enough people will damage the value of the blocks they generate more than they save by refusing to transmit small transactions.

This isn't a slippery slope, because there will be pushback if that number does not get consensus (in fact there already is some pushback).  The line might even be drawn before this 54 μBTC value, if enough miners reject it.

You seem to think you have the right to demand that the miners do something for you for free.  It costs as much to transmit the same number of bytes whether it is for a 1000 BTC transaction or a dust transaction that does nothing except benefit you, for whatever reason you want it, and otherwise just clutters up the blockchain. 

Why should your nearly worthless transaction be entitled to the same consideration in getting into a block as one that actually benefits the network in general?

Those are just addresses.  Multiple addresses could belong to the same person, and it is possible some of those larger addresses are businesses addresses held by the larger exchanges.  (I haven't gone through and looked at them to see if they're "famous" other than having lots of BTC.)

It's somewhat more interesting to know who actually holds BTC.  The Winklevoss Twins are probably the most famous previously wealthy BTC holders, but it's possible others, like Kim Dotcom or even more old school businesspeople like Bill Gates have some number of them.  People like that would prefer to acquire a quantity clandestinely, when the price is low, then reveal themselves as heavy BTC investors just because their name alone would drive the price up.

Why would there be any need for taxes in such a situation?  If possible, we should engineer a situation like that without waiting for an imaginary zillionaire to do it.  It may be possible technology fixes our basic needs situations some time within our lifetimes, leaving humanity free to pursue greater goals.

It's more likely we'll fuck it up somehow, though.

If any miner does include it, it will be.  So if there is a market for such transactions, they will be included.  And yes, you can send whatever transaction you like.  It doesn't mean you can force anyone to confirm it.

Indeed.  Since when is GitHub "hidden?" 

I also note Gavin is participating on the legitimate tech thread, just not this troll thread.

Metoocoins are increasingly annoying.  Few of them have any likelihood of ever amounting to anything, and to the extent they don't add anything new, aren't even useful as experiments.  A new altcoin should have at least some new feature that gives it at least experimental value.

As it is, we're just getting Derpcoin, a new Herpcoin variant, that you use to. . .do what, I don't know.  Annoy people, apparently.

It's also for trolls, so they can make troll posts and then delete responses they don't like.  I wonder whose idiotic idea this was.

Not to mention fellow scammers like Luke-Jr.  Conveniently scheduled to scam the betters on the betsofbitco.in bet.

The nested quotes in this are a bit confusing.  I didn't write the directly quoted text.

However, I'm not sure such an order would be enforceable through the method used for domesticating a final judgment.  I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be.  I'm not sure if there would be some alternative.  My guess would be yes, but I'm not going to go much further than that, because I don't think a court in either the U.S. or Japan would grant such an order in the first place.

So far as I can tell, Gox is still operating and solvent and freezing its assets would just bankrupt it (making it unlikely any judgment could be paid).

I know what I have in my pockets.

Hard to do that when in many cases, they are the ones with the monopoly of force we call the government, and are wrecking the world we live in with their insane policies.

And yes, I know you mean stupid people here.  But stupidity kills, and not just the stupid.

Because price is stagnant.  People trade in high volumes when they're either exuberant that the price is going up or panicking because it's going down.  People are just adopting a "hold" position.  If the price starts fluctuating a lot again, there will be more volume.

What a shitty scam company.  I'd suggest to anyone that if you want to post your experiences with this scam operation here, you do it under another name.  You might want to be able to sue these scumbags at some date in the future, such as either after they ship or when they default and run off with their stolen money. 

In either event, their illegal misconduct has probably cost you money you could sue over.  But they probably cover their ass a little bit with their new "involuntary refund" policy.  So if for whatever reason (such as having waited almost a year already) you don't just want to refund now while they're still offering refunds, you shouldn't let them know of your dissatisfaction in advance.

Wait until you get your product.  THEN sue them.  Or whatever other means of revenge you can figure out.  It's possible, of course, that if you get the device early enough and it works well enough, their customers will be somewhat mollified, since so far as I can tell, the people with pre-orders want nothing unreasonable.  They just want what they paid for a long time ago.

Josh responds by pissing in their face.

What a complete piece of shit scumbag.

My guess would be anywhere from 6 to 18 months, peaking at anywhere from $500 to $1,500 USD.  With a crash to a bottom value of anywhere from $200-600.

The expected value of solo mining versus mining in a pool that takes a cut (or can in theory steal your BTC) is actually higher than that of pool mining.  However, with pool mining, the variance in results is smoothed out.  You are very likely to get paid steadily.

However, with solo mining, anything you mine is your own, and no dishonest pool or third party can simply steal your BTC.  You might make nothing for a long period of time, or you might get way more than your "fair" share of blocks.

So it all comes down to your tolerance for risk.  If you need steady income from mining to keep your lights on and your rigs running, pool mining is the way to go.  If you just like certainty, pool mining is the way to go.  If you would rather maximize expected value and it doesn't matter terribly to you if you quite possibly don't get any blocks at all for a period of time (and if the difficulty increases during a bad spell you might miss out entirely on a profit opportunity), then solo mining is no more a waste of time than pooled mining.

Okay.  I'm going to create a coin that is limited to a number of coins equal to the complex number, i - 1, divided by zero.

Gambling, mostly playing poker, and selling when I need some money.  I don't buy, although I probably will buy some on Coinbase at some point just to up my sell limits.  I'm in no real hurry, though, because I have yet to exceed or even get near exceeding them.

Yes.  Lots of new nicks showing up I've never seen before.  Still a fairly high churn rate.

Bad play.  Often, pegging currency to the value of another currency, without regard for its inherent value, leads to a dramatic devaluation at some point when the market refuses to continue going along with the fiction.  A cascading series of economic failures resulted from the Thai government's insistence on a fixed exchange rate with the U.S. dollar, leading ultimately to the 1997 Asian currency crisis.