WOW! What a smart system! Thank you for the explanation! Makes perfectly sense.

I've been playing with this beta version (0.5.7) a bit yesterday. Please help me understand this password protection feature! It seems like when I open a wallet that I created with 0.4x, and add a password to it, this beta version does a backup of my wallet, plus one password protected version. Now, there is no point of having a wallet password protected, while at the same time I have an unprotected (backup)version floating around in the same folder(?). So, which file(s) do I need to move to a saver place, if any, to have only the password protected wallet in my working folder? Or maybe I misunderstood the whole principle? BTW, I'm on Kubuntu, if that makes a difference, and yes, I have multiple backups at save places. ;-)

What are your experiences with bitme.com? Would you recommend them? Any tips & tricks?

Thanks!

Not that I'm impatient, just wondering, since I'm new to this whole BTC thing:
How long does it normally take for free Bitcoins (or fractions thereof) to show up in one's wallet?

At what interest rate?

Hi,
I'm a bitcoin-a-holic! Actually just trying to understand the game ... ;-)

That's I'm wondering too ...

Got to start somewhere, somehow, right? ;-)
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Thanks!