Well, you could compensate them for helping move these separate chains along...

Also - yes, if the whole network upgraded you could make Bitcoin be like Litecoin.

Just a fork of p2pool - not a totally new chain. 

To give non-early adopters a chance, why not create a fork of p2pool that goes like this:
I have a pathetic amount of khash/sec. Now, some other miner has 1GHash/sec.
The system generates new blockchains - like p2pool - every day or so, and the pathetic people mine on the low difficulty blocks, and the powerful people mine the higher ones - until eventually we hit bitcoin difficulty level, and everyone is rewarded. Rinse and repeat with a new blockchain. This way, much more people can mine and power the network, get something out of it, and everybody's happy!

What do you think?

You may want to lock this thread - the button can be found somewhere at the top or bottom.

HOW did you "import your wallet"? Pywallet? Bitcoin RPC Sync?
And a heads up- Enable 2 Factor Authentication on your blockchain account. Mine recently got hacked and I lost my precious bitcoins 

Sorry, what? The transaction shows this on my end...

Hmmm... A Node.js exchange, where the system matches up sellers and buyers automatically (while taking a small fee)...
Oh yes, and make it open source

Surprise! All our wallets have been hacked. Bye bitcoins 

Yes, I can confirm being hacked. Well, I have 0.1 BTC in Pyramining, so I just need to hit the owner up for that.

No, because all my BTC's been stolen and I need to withdraw to a different withdrawal address.

Yeah, well I submitted my wallet pass to his API...

Yep. 

https://blockchain.info/tx/c84f9ea080b9e6aad84af6daa7c6b018c62caf9615aa583ccfe5ead6228b3f7c
https://blockchain.info/tx/b79bba28fcfd40e44008ba95ba0087733fab3bfa73c75236efd0d3ab84266f5d
Bye bye bitcoins  

Well, my bitcoin story is over.

SUSPECTS:
Logik - because I used his API


I got 0.01 left in a secret address of mine. I was so stupid to keep those keys *facepalm*
Now I gotta go and find ANOTHER bitcoin... oh great. Well, I guess I'll just hold on to my dear 0.01   (stored in a paper wallet)
Well, don't really know what to do now... (well, I could change my password)
"We offer 2 password auth" useless.
IP (probably): 204.11.50.131

New address: 1Daj3ig755TPZUXhnKATDXPrtRWJs8PCRw

Who's to say we're not in cahoots already? 

Wait a second, I'm the one making bots... He makes APIs.
Well, I'm not going to stop you

*cough cough* Logik's mobile client *cough*
Find thread in this board

Just been offline for ~5 minutes, and 500 Internal Server Errors are bombing all over the place.

Yep, I can confirm that SSL error.
Also, the recent 5 mins of downtime!
Please fix this, theymos!

Updated.   Also reword: est - ETA

Presenting...

The forum is wanting a /r/bitcointip-esque tipbot. Well, here the project for that bot is! (I hear a 300 BTC bounty is being offered. Is that still valid?)
This bot is written in Node.js, with a Java SMF API by Logik. It will use the forum account Whiskbot, recently created.
Thanks to the author of kapitalize for the plugin! (Not decided that we will use this yet)


The bot will use either node-bitcoin or kapitalize.
It will take commands via PM (maybe post) and respond via PM (maybe post)
Is there a way to create (via an API) blockchain.info accounts, or private keys + addresses? It is undecided which one we shall use.


~ A node.js module is currently being developed - waiting for Logik to reply.
✓ Authentication is working.
~ PM commands are still under development (API implementation completed - just needs an actual bot)
- Post commands may be implemented, if the community requests.
- Maybe theymos can implement an interface for the bot, like /r/bitcointip's. It will just use PM (maybe public tips), and planned commands to add are:
TIP <user> <amount>
GETBALANCE
EXPORT
HELP
DEPOSIT