Just a nice looking site to show prices etc, I have the logo design already. A BTC checkout would be nice but not necessary. I need a site to show the main site and some subpages for info, contact details etc. It needs to look good anyway... 2 languages would be nice but not necessary

I need help to create a site for an anonymous remailing service. I accept packages and letters and have my own logo, I just need a site for the site, Cryptomail. I accept packages and forward them, I just need a simple site that seems legit and shows all the info. My business is to accept packages and to forward them, anonymously.

Would be cool to invite all the gamers mine for a while and invite them to donate the BTC to something nice...
Speaking of demo parties, there was a Bitcoiner at the last Alternative Party and many were interested in the concept, the old school demo people are quite crypto-anarchist snyway

A very good place to promote Bitcoin! Now I'm sure I'll come this year to check it out

I think it's best to have these logos currently in use as they're fairly standard, as not to confuse anybody. I think they look good enough, I mean I don't think the € sign is a masterpiece but that doesn't take away my confidence in it (which I don't have too much, but for other reasons). We're not selling fashionable accessories to graphic designers or something like that, and the common BTC user should not have a problem with these graphics we already have. They're at least as good as PayPal's or VISA's.

I was excited even I heard about Phantom but I doubt we'll see it usable in a reasonable time. The project needas some funding!

The first issue arrived in Finland today. Ordered on May 5th so it took a while but it's great except th proofreading

Whoa, I'd get fined here for posting such a thing : )

I don't think anybody has, but at least where I live I would bet it applies. I used to sell Bitcoin and after a blog emerged about buying drugs online my sales increased sixfold. Also I otherwise knew about some of the customers that they were going to use the BTC on SR. The whole Silk Road thing is huge, I've overheard at least a dozen back of the bus conversations about Silk Road but only one on Bitcoin. Here's how it is in Finland and I don't believe it is an exception. I might be wrong, of course.

(edited to replace a few more dots that were supposed to be spaces. It just might be impossible to write a message on this phone. Looking forward to thought recognition technology [though it seems to be already too easy to post messages on the Internet])

Of course this is biased, most BTC users use it to buy drugs off Silk Road and I doubt the majority don't hold Ph
Ds. Anyway this is probably a good selection of the people interested in Bitcoin itself

I'm in Finland, paid for my order on May 5th and still have not received it. Takes awfully long for them to send it.

What is your status on Mt. Gox? I'm mainly asking because I want to know how many have really sent them the notarized documents with an apostille they're asking for. If you are trusted, did you do it voluntarily? Was the notarization costly or problematic?

I had my account Verified as soon as I started exchanging more since without sending that picture of an ID and a recent utility bill they won't accept euro bank transfers.

I started selling Bitcoins locally for easier and faster access and after about two months and maybe just two thousand euros exchanged later I had my funds frozen and they made it clear that I cannot access my funds without having sent them the notarized documents.
It took me a while because I felt a bit bored with them but then I decided to try. Well, I found that the nearest public notary was close, to the city center and a 5 minute walk. I got to the office where I first got a copy of my proof of residency for 5 € (Mt. Gox says a utility bill will be fine but they won't notarize those here in Finland, if no one's signed those etc, so I had to get that. I  then go to the notary who was available without waiting. I got a copy of my driver's license (1 €), had both documents notarized (4 € per page so that was 8 €) and apostilles for both (2 times 11 euros). So the price for the process was 36 euros which I think is reasonable (could have saved one still if I had photocopied my driver's license myself). But as they were made it was revealed, after a bit of thinking, that they could not add the required expression "Notarization for the purpose of Mt. Gox" because the form of the document is tightly regulated.
So I went home thinking this is the best I can do and contacted Mt. Gox to explain that the notary couldn't add ithe expression they wanted, wishing they'd accept them anyway.

The next day I got the answer: they will accept if I can provide a notary's statement about that the expression couldn't  be added. So, back to the notary's office. They were again puzzled with this request and finally the notary concluded that she was unsure about this and had to discuss this. The next day an older man calls me and explains that he has to think about this in the spirit of the law. A couple of days from that, I get a call that they can add the expression in the documents in the "Use" field and that they thought Mt. Gox's request was well-based. Good thing I didn't just send the documents as I would have had to spend another 36 €... Now I just exchanged the documents for new ones and didn't have to pay anything. About 1 hour extra time needed for this as I was in the city center.

So finally I got what I needed, but there was a little trouble. Anyway, I now have Trusted status, for 36 euros and maybe four hours of effort. How about you? Were the documents a pain in the ass to get?

Is there any service that lets pay BTC for a phone call or SMS to a real-world phone number?

So how about a little off-topic there, is there a nice way to rent some of your CPU cycles for someone? I think this fits in this topic. Something general-purpose, not just GIMPS or SETI

To add a point and make this thread look more interesting because it has a reply - I think this is the idea, if implemented (that anybody could rent their computer cycles for some value in a cryptocurrency like BTC, for some useful computations), would be the thing that would make cryptocurrencies a really big phenomenon. Big corporations and nations would buy cycles when needed and bring the price up. The Global Computing Network, and hooray for science and technology.

Ah, I see a reply there. Well, SHA-256 sure is well tested but there must be many more things that could be used if we have confidence in something, like Riemann Hypothesis... believing in SHA-256's invulnerability requires a bit of trust too. There must be a group of computer scientists somewhere thinking about this right now, but what should it be.

I'm not a hater, I'm a supporter. Not implying you meant that though.

All right, I agree that Bitcoin is a wonderful and revolutionary idea. But the value it has, everyone understands it has some problems. Yeah, that hash-calculating solution is fine but Bitcoin could actually be valuable. It has it sides that the Bitcoin network does not work for any specific purpose than itself, but I think it could be used for something.

What is the work that miners do? They try to get a suitable SHA-hash from some random block so that it at the average requires a certain amount of work. But this work, this hashing, has no use to anybody.
It is as if I was to lift a rock ten thousand times and then get a certificate for doing it that I can exchange with others (peers could be watching me to confirm that I lift the rock 10000 times and get a little share for the confirmation effort).

Would it be too hard to set the goal of Bitcoin miners to be something different? I could imagine number-theoretic investigations, for example (even finding larger primes would be more useful). Proof of work would be harder, but doable.

I bet there's a lot of scientific/useful computing that could be turned into some kind of a goal like finding a block is. I could very well buy Bitcoins, if I knew the money was going to making progress towards a mathematical conjecture or modeling something suitable.

So, any comments? If people could just rent their computers like that, it would make the computing capacity of the world a lot greater - why waste expensive CPUs and GPUs and what else. Is there any project aimed towards this or reasonable discussion you can point me to?

I am not into chit-chat, but I'd like to have something to say. Right now I'd like to start a topic in the alternate cryptocurrencies section, but can't. I lurk a lot, all the time on my phone almost and could have something to say, really - to those topics that matter to me. I just don't have the time to get 100 posts or how many it has to be to be able to post. I thought 5 will suffice, it didn't. I've been watching Bitcoin before Silkk Road came but forums just aren't my thing.

This is a lot better. I really don't think I would get 50 posts in a year, for most topics I just don't have anything original to say but I'd like to say what I'm thinking when I have something. It's easy to get 50 posts of you offer something and answer questions (or write one-liners such as 'sub') but other people too might have something valuable to say. I can imagine a cryptography expert or a coder for example that have something to say every now and then but just aren't that eager internet people otherwise.

I have been selling Bitcoin for those who don't like to use an exchange for a while. Two days ago I tried to withdraw some BTC but the site told me my account was pending review. I have previously sent ID but now they want it notarized.

I would like to close my account but they say they cannot return my money without the documents. I have a couple hundred euros there do I would not want to leave them there but the notarization will also cost a lot.

I'm aware of such problems with Mt. Gox but I'd like to ask those who have been in the same situation, what did you do? Did you finally pay for the notarization?

Hi there.. a Finnish guy here, interested in Bitcoin for many reasons. Currently selling BTC with bank transfers or cash.in mail since many don't like the exchanges. Also thinking of mining if I get the money for equipment.