I've participated in lots of forums and I've never seen newbie restrictions this draconian before.  It's not like forum spam is unique to bitcoin.

1. I am Trust-Who verified (www.trustwho.com). If I get into the trading of BTC, is information like this something I would want to provide to the potential buyer? I understand the premise of remaining anonymous, but if it helps -- then is there any reason not to provide it?

2. I run a restaurant--I cannot, for the life of me, come up with a way to accept BTC in any way(except possibly as a delivery fee?) for any service/food item provided. With the exchange rate changing so frequently I feel that it would do more harm than good to constantly have changing prices for every item on the menu.

Anyways--I'm very interested in developing some new concepts to help bring BTC to life. I feel that I know the restaurant world sufficiently, so if anyone has any kind of idea I'd love to know to bounce 'em back and forth!

3. In this restaurant I have a storage room that has an entire wall empty. This room is in a completely separate unit we just recently acquired, so none of the power drawn would be taken from the restaurant. I might be completely off as to what mining rigs are, but I feel like the wall has enough space to set up a station of sorts with rows of mining rigs. Just a rack (or racks) of rigs the same way that multiple server boxes would be set up. I've read that people are stretching available power output at their homes, and I didn't know if this could at all be  potentially profitable. I was thinking perhaps I charge electricity usage + either a small cash or BTC value for the housing.

That idea is in the very beginning stages though. I have no idea if it would be legal at all, or worth it for both me and the person who would have the rigs, but I would LOVE input.

Had just two more things that I cannot wrap my mind around. Primarily because I don't have much experience with code, but also because I'm just a moron:

4. I don't get transaction fees. From what I understand, eventually it will cost more to mine BTC than you get from bounty, so transaction fees will be charged, with the miner getting the fee. How is that assigned though? If I'm mining, am I just randomly presented with the opportunity to build the block, and if the person is offering my accepted fee then its just transferred to my account? Perhaps I'm completely missing something, but it's confusing!

5. As much as I try, the mining is stumping me. I'm simply trying to set up some CPU mining just to experience it and possibly join a pool to get SOME BTC generation at least. CPU Miner (http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=1925.0) is what I have been trying to use but I can't figure out where to drop the code, since the address it tells me to put it doesn't exist on my PC. Even if I did find the right location to extract it to, I have no idea where to go from there. I'm very sorry if this is the umpteenth time having this explained, I just cannot figure it out.

No wonder Mt.Gox gets DDOSed all the time. I'm thinking about joining the attack. They still keep closing my tickets without reading them.

Sorry. I just corrected two typos which might have been misleading. What else is not clear? Or am I too short?

The idea is that Mallory is doublespending on a massive scale - sending a different transaction to EVERY participant in the net. He will win the longest block, assuming he has the largest mining rig.

Thanks all for your replies. I was going to "cash out" most of my bitcoins. I thought, I'd just money transfer the whole thing away. But later found out that I can only do that at 1000 dollars a day. I've opened 7 calls with mtgox, but everyone of them gets closed automagicly, without any human looking at them. They have some other issue and assume every trouble-tickets is logged because of that.
I do hope someone here knows an other e-mail address or something so I can contact them more directly. Please PM me if you do.

If propagation is 1 minute, then 10 minutes was a good guess.  Then nodes are only losing 10% of their work (1 minute/10 minutes).  If the CPU time wasted by latency was a more significant share, there may be weaknesses I haven't thought of.  An attacker would not be affected by latency, since he's chaining his own blocks, so he would have an advantage.  The chain would temporarily fork more often due to latency.

allinvain, firstly sorry to hear about this theft.

This is theft, and on a major scale, so I suspect it would be best to call the RCMP or other appropriate law enforcement.

We always hear about how BTC are really just pseudonymous. This case will be a good check on that. Hopefully it will be possible to track down who did this and put them behind bars.

I predict.... no change at all.

Hi

Can I start a topic here and request to move it to the appropriate section once I am no longer a newb?

A newbie who can't post in this forum has identified that the address your coins went to is a donation receiving address of LulzSec:

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=17386.msg223015