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The traffic is such that having a coinurl.com banner on there earns about 0.2 BTC per month, hence the reserve price.

i.e. around 450 uniques per day

Put your banner on bitcoindifficulty.com for a month - Ranked #2 in Google for "Bitcoin Difficulty" searches behind en.bitcoin.it.

Starting price 0.2 BTC  - auction will end in 7 days according to this post's timestamp on the forum.

Please note: 10% of the auction proceeds will be donated to Pieter Wuille (sipa).

I think it just tries to spend the OLDEST coins first, not sure if that means it's specifically trying to send the cheapest transaction.

I'll just leave this here again anyway:  Explanation of bitcoin transaction fees

Almost everything on 48hourslogo.com appears to be "spec work", and yet it always looks highly professional.

http://www.48hourslogo.com/project.php?id=19109

I can recommend fiverr.com for this kind of work by the way.

+1 Was about to post.

I'm only guessing but I suspect this sweep isn't 100% foolproof. Is it done via some kind of cron job? If so, is there a window of opportunity (say, 10 minutes?) for a thief who also has your private key, before the Mt Gox cron rolls around again and does it's "automatic" sweep?

Yes, but at the point when that tx is being constructed, the change address doesn't have it's 0.001 yet so it can't be counted as part of your wallet's balance.

The author of the article is better at explaining all this stuff than I am - That's why I got him to write it - But I'll certainly pass your comments along.

First of all, the change is not coming back from the 'vendor'. The change never reaches the vendor in the first place - the transaction is generated within your client and the change is sent from one of your addresses directly to another of your addresses. The vendor only gets the amount you intend to send them - the purchase price.

So
2.999 BTC - to vendor for purchase
+
0.001 BTC - change (directly from your wallet into another 'change' address in your wallet)
+
0.0005 BTC - transaction fee (caused by having a low output - the 0.001)

These three amounts add up to 3.0005 BTC which is more than you have in your wallet, so the transaction cannot proceed.

Please read this: http://bitcoinfees.com

Detailed article by a long time forum member here.

I wouldn't put anything like that to DVD without TrueCrypt.

Actually, TrueCrypt containers are just about the only thing I would ever consider burning to disc these days.

There is no "progress" as far as I know. It's completely randomly checking hashes until one of them matches what you've asked it for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_challenge

I'm not sure what this has to do with the price of bitcoins though.

I didn't exactly "sell" any but I picked very good timing to load more money into my Namecheap account, that's for sure!

Inversely proportional to the amount of remaining hair on your head?

My small mind is having trouble imagining this version of reality

If not in 'current dollars' then adjusting for inflation is not going to help you.

You forgot Namecheap just announced they are accepting Bitcoins now.
http://namecheap.com

That's a top 1000 Alexa site with a big bitcoin logo on their home page.

That's new! Wasn't there an hour ago.