Money laundering means you don't properly report transactions.  Conspiracy is when you work with someone to do that whether or not you actually perform the act yourself.  Of course it is all accusations at this point.

It is not interesting at all, it just shows some of the idiots that are involved with The Foundation and how they don't live in the real world.  You also now have Vessenes and his bankruptcy issues.  The judge is accusing him of trying to deceive the court.  I tried to bid on the mining rigs at issue but they refuse to give me specs or a picture after I questioned some of their ridiculous claims that they made to the court.

The Foundation needs to be dissolved ASAP so legitimate companies can form a reasonable organization.

Yes, the current Foundation should dissolve and the legitimate players can start a new one without being saddled by the historic acceptance of criminals that you see in today's Foundation.  This forum should be abandoned by all legitimate players before the admin get arrested for running an unregistered business, tax evasion, money laundering, conspiracy to commit fraud, etc.  That way the legitimate players can move forwarded and not be saddled by some of the idiots who have been permitted to run wild and cause all this damage.  I would include Alydian/Coinlab in that if you read their latest bankruptcy case.  The judge is accusing them of all sorts of things.  

Hopefully Theymos, BFL, TradeFortress, and the members of the Foundation who are involved with them will be next.

It is now for sale for $1.2 Million

http://sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=4k.com&tracked=&partnerid=&language=us&origin=homepage

email sent

PenDrives.net, ThumbDrives.net domains
0.5 BTC for one.  Both for 0.8 BTC.

You must also transfer these out into your registrar which means you will need to pay a renewal at your registrar of choice. 

Yes you can because you can control which nodes you connect to if you want.  You can start Bitcoin-QT with options to connect to specific nodes and only those specific nodes.  Most users probably just connect without those options but you can do it pretty easily. 

Nobody is "supposed to" do anything.  Bitcoin can be used by anyone any way they see fit.  They have the ability to use different addresses if that is what they want to do.

Yes.  If the price goes up/down some people may turn on/off mining equipment due to the profitability and electricity costs so it may indirectly affect the difficulty.

I ordered before the thread got going and I didn't look that close.  Usually I check a little closer.  I try to order all these things from Bitcoin vendors and so far I have never lost out.  I ordered all kinds of stuff like caramels, hot sauce, vanilla extract, a bunch of stuff from conscious cookery, neon signs, etc.  I just ordered a wood engraved wallet and one of those aluminum engraved wallet cards.  if I lose out on this then I will live with it.  He is using Coinbase and had to be verified so if I don't get delivery it will be reported to them and they will have to file a Suspicious Activity Report with FinCEN.  Not that anybody is going to do anything over a $30 ticker but at least there will be a record.  I sent him an e-mail and asked for a delivery date.

 I see some Android tablets as low as $35.  I can't believe the number of ticker apps.  I am putting together a list at http://bitcointicker.com/.  So far I have over 50 iPhone ticker apps and I am not done with that.  I have a few Android ones up there but there are probably at least that many for Android.

is there a delivery date for these?

I am mad a Coinbase for spending time contacting Snoop Dogg, blogging, and doing interviews where they pretend everything is alright.  I think they are just immature guys who got in over their heads.  I have been trying to discuss these issues with the venture capitalist and angel investors who are funding these people and the so-called DATA group.  they are completely unreceptive to any discussion of customer service or customer experience.  People who raise these issue are seen as trying to take down the people who are doing good things for Bitcoin.  In a way they are correct because without these crappy services there would be no services at all.

If you read the blogs and tweets of the investors you almost never see customer service issued mentioned.  All you see is discussions of how much investing capital they received. http://cdixon.org is involved in the latest funding round.  If you want a call back you will probably have to say you are representing Snoop Dogg. 

thanks, I bought it.

I also have USBitcoin.com

A wallet is a collection of Bitcoin addresses and it contains the private keys (unless it is a watch-only wallet).  People normally encrypt the wallet file to protect it.  If you had a copy of that wallet file you could try to break the encryption.  That depends on the type of encryption, length of password, etc.  there are services that crack these wallets and I assume they use tools like John the Ripper.

If you see a Bitcoin address on the blockchain and you try to find the private key randomly most likely the sun will burn out before you find it.

I can't make heads or tails of the part about the mining difficulty of different proof of work algorithms.  ASIC miners can only do hashes, they can't generate Bitcoin addresses if that is what you mean:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1_Bitcoin_addresses

Try NO.  Of course you have created a taxable event when you trade Bitcoin for giftcards.

See this link for some info:

http://www.bitcointax.info/

The basic idea is "Bitcoin Me" is an introduction to new users who have not used Bitcoin and want to get started.

The overall strategy is to help decentralize some of things that are going on in Bitcoin.  Namely, a small group of people are controlling bitcoin.org/bitcointalk.org, and the Github repositories.  I think some of these people are irresponsible for a number of reasons and I think there is too much control centered around this small group.  Nobody involved with bitcointalk.org/bitcoin.org will have any say whatsoever and I purposely chose people outside of Bitcoin to work on the project so they have an objective view.  I view Bitcoin as a technical solution that can be used by anyone of any political persuasion or for any reason.  I do not agree with the people who have political motives, have attached themselves to Bitcoin, and claim that people who use Bitcoin agree with their political view. 

More on bitcoins.com

http://www.domaininvesting.com/story-behind-bitcoins-com-domain-name/

I believe the story goes that Satoshi gave bitcoin.org/com to Sirius or Theymos but it is all kept under privacy so it cannot be verified.

I just acquired bitcoin.me which I think is the next best alternative.  I have hired a professional ad agency to assist me with setting it up.  coming soon...

No, when you rebuy there is no capital gain/loss until you sell again.  If you sold up high and rebought you still need to come up with the cash to pay your taxes on the gain you realized when you sold.