Did anyone mention that you do not have to file taxes as long as you do not make over a certain amount? even if you solved 1 block youself, you still would not have made enough to pay any taxes in any state. this also assumes you do not make any money elsewhere.

But the easy solution is to simply "forget" that you made money via bitcoin when the 1st rolls around 

I think the fees should be around .05% or MABY 1%. if you think about it, if bitcoin does ever take off and houses a trillion dollar economy, think of how much as little as .05% would give you. right now at USD14.00 you make about USD700. if only USD10,000 where done in 1 block, you would make USD500. I would have to guess more than 10,000 are done per 10 minutes. and to insure that we get as many transactions as possible, we should avoid internal bitcoin swapping. don't skip the network, you need to help secure it.

if bitcoin were the currency in a trillion dollar economy, then the people for a few hours a day should help secure the network they use. at most it would cost each person a few dollars a month, less than what you pay out your ass in fees that visa and friends charge. as a matter of fact, the sheer volume of cpus out there alone far exceeds any means that a company would be able to buy enough gpus. if only 20million cpus were mining at 1mh/s thats close to 20th/s. if on average people only mined 4 hours a day.

according to steam, the most popular gpu is the 9800, most of them have a hash rate at or above 30, the 9800 has ~5% of all steam users.
the 8800, most have over 20, and many over 30
the gtx260 ranges from 40-70
the 5770, at ~4% gets ~200+

lets do some averaging, shall we.

ill throw in some low end gpus to even it out and do less work.

gts150 lower than 5
8800 25
260 50
5770 210
5850 300
5870 450

thats around 173mh/s per person, assuming they do gpu mining so even if only a million people were to mine, that's around 150 th/s

yes the numbers are half assed, but it does give a small taste of the untapped potential of the average consumer computer. the census says that 44million people have computers with internet access. this is with only 1 million people with less than modest machines that would cost 700-1200 usd. thats only 2% people. only 2% of the US population would need to mine to insure that bitcoin is secure against medium sized threats. but yeah it would be nice to have that hash rate number to see how much power you would need to get 50%+

that can be solved by only paying out when the person has reached a certain amount. they do this now, but if more considerations were taken they would take up even less space.

is it really that hard to understand that windows vista/7 is just a more secure piece of software compared to xp? with UAC, as long as you use it right, and don't let every program run, you should easily be able to stop most threats. on xp this simply did not exist and programs would run almost at will if they got any kind of foothold on the system. its pointless to throw stats out for infections because there are millions of different threats, and many types of threats are polymorphic and are never the same, although this still only counts as 1 threat and only defeats some types of security. again, you cant make stats, since its very difficult to even try to do the stats in the first place. the makers of malware make it this way, they will only try to infect 1 time per ip, they can try to detect VMs and sandboxing, and can detect attempts to monitor how botnets are working. malware is literally at the cutting edge of software design, you simply can not just throw stats out.

I was in the mood so i looked for some good documentaries. heres my list of the ones i think are good, you can suggest any good ones you think, but i will mostly focus on economic ones

Economic:
Collapse*
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
I.O.U.S.A.*
The Money Masters

Other:
America: the story of us*
The Bridge
The Century of the Self
Bowling for Columbine*
Modern Marvels**
The Power of Nightmares
Stephen Hawking's Universe
The Trap
What a Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire


*=Netflix streaming
**=series with only some streaming

I may be wrong, but local port means that's the port they are connecting to me on. and the remote port is the port they are going through on their end.

yes, in the current system if too many people hoard, then the coins are almost automatically considered dead by the community if done for years at a time. then things would cost less btc because there is less of it. im sure a simple algorithm could tell how many coins are "active" based on how many blocks ago they were traded.

yes, i think oracle is screwing or should i say fucking things up. id imagine it would be difficult to switch from mysql because so many applications use it in a non modular way.

I kind of like that idea, but if too many people decided to save BC, then you would get inflation.

also running a psu over 60-80% will make it loose efficiency.

it may be worth the investment to go 80 plus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_PLUS, the power saved may pay for itself over the lifetime of the product.

is it uncommon for peers to use a port other than 8333?

i ask because i used tcpview and saw that very few did use 8333, only 7 use 8333, i also get 60-70 connections



edit: also peers are connecting to me on ports other than 8333?

I like it, what about age limits though, i don't think we need 10 year olds getting stoned.

-The right for the individual to knowingly consume any substance that individual sees fit.
-The right for a 16 year or older individual to knowingly and consenting consume any substance that individual sees fit.

Added your idea to the good ideas.

I think that statement is pretty bold, and partially incorrect. windows is not just some platform you can magically just infect and get someones wallet. using ad block plus and firefox alone will prevent a good 80% of almost all threats from simply browsing the web, ad on top of the myWOT and you have a good free defense, assuming you browse smart and don't click on obvious stupid stuff. 99% of the time the user must click something to compromise their system. linux suffers from similar flaws, except most linux users are smart. and linux does not allow things to run and such, so most exploits cant get in, and the ones that do, will not run because they were made for windows.

although windows is by no means as secure as a properly configured linux machine, but not to the extent you describe.

Lulz Security® is not part of anonymous, just like wikileaks is not part of anonymous. they are all separate entities, although they may have similar goals and ways of working. and anyone who thinks they are simply just some script kiddies, you would have to be wrong in a lot of cases, sure a lot of script kiddy anons exist, but a lot of them are also very good, like the sony hack(s).

then what were you trying to get by not using the bitcoin client on windows.

We said the same thing before the Manhattan project, why is this different, i too am skeptical of the product most of all, but the science behind it is not exactly proven as well. but i am willing to see what they do.

The issue is addressed via centralization, or simply trading in person in your area, or via mail.

I just don't see your idea working.

I would imagine most of the problems she is having is having a router that is not configured properly. so it probably is not even Ubuntu or even the laptops fault.

She is probably the type that allows all her neighbors to download kiddy porn through her connection.

All the cd does is set up the settings on your system and instal bloatware/spyware, in reality shes too retarded to set it up herself.