I'm running on the Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz, how shall I get the file to you?

ahm, let me correct myself: on the quad core linux, I went from ~4400 with svn trunk @ 119 to ~2400 with the patch... not exactly what I hoped for after the success in OSX.

Had to manually patch, as I'm not using git for bitcoin and 'patch' doesn't munch this format, I guess. Anyway, got almost double speed on the OSX side, (i5 2.4, now ~2400 from ~1400), but my linux on Q6600 quad 2.4Ghz was pumping ~2500 with 0.3.6 (from source) and now, with the patch it's... ~2400. Need I tweak anything to take advantage on this?

I'm very much new at this and still struggling to understand the full technical scope of BTC, leave alone the social and financial implication, but nonetheless this multiple linked currencies idea seems very interesting in making the system somewhat more resilient to government intervention, as multiple parallel networks could exist.

But the one thing I don't understand is how the 'destruction' of one currency work on the exchange for another... wouldn't that imply a central 'wallet' holding those blocks? Isn't this kind of hard to achieve using the distributed p2p approach?

I know an 'institution' trusted by all involved parties would probably need to exist, but that institution would, in effect, hold *all the negative balance* of transactions made between currencies, only as positive balance... or am I missing the point completely?

On which poker sites do you have chips available? I usually play poker on bwin.com, but only play money. I could see myself spending the whole BTC production for the past 2 weeks (that's 50 ) on that, though.