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If you live in the Chugoku region, we might be able to meet up and trade.

I transferred JPY to MtGox's SMBC account from my Shinsei Bank account and it was converted to USD using the Google rate. I then bought BTC at the going rate minus 0.65% in fees to MtGox for the exchange. Shinsei give me 5 free domestic transfers a month so that didn't cost me anything. Keep an eye on TradeHill. They are coming up with some alternatives too.
Get an account with them and use my referral code for a discount on the exchange fee they'll charge you.
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It's gone. The wallet is the money as far as you're concerned.

So the bitcoin address deepbit has on record for you is the one you have on your Bitcoin application's main window? Or it's at least one of the ones in your address book under the receiving tab?

I wouldn't think the CIA has much in the way of supercomputers or crypto ability. That is much more the purview of the NSA which is many times the size of the CIA anyway.

Yes. Getting those funds is all about having the wallet and has nothing to do with the client. Imagine sending that wallet to a friend who doesn't have the client and then destroying your copy of the wallet. Your friend would then get those funds and they would only need to install a client to manipulate them.

You're right that Unity is the problem. Logout and back in with KDE or something else. I've used Xubuntu and Lubuntu from the beginning and they both work with the GUI client.

Absolutely good advice here. Ideology alone is a poor way to choose friends. Some of my best friends are devout Christians but I can't think of any other anarchists I'd really want to spend time with. Most anarchists I've met and can think of are humourless dicks. Chomsky anyone? They have plenty of good solutions for a better, more just world but it's the redneck BBQs I'd rather be at.

Don't use the web GUI. Go to the BACK UP tab in the standalone application interface. Just below the SHARE tab there should be a button that says Advanced. Press that and it will bring up a file browser that allows you to select whatever parts of your filesystem (eg AppData) that you want to back up. If you want to sync a particular folder between computers, you have to make sure it is getting backed up first. Just don't sync your wallet like I did.

Great. I wasn't encrypting uploads to Dropbox because I never had a reason to but since I started using Bitcoin, I figured switching to SpiderOak would make encryption unnecessary. Is encryption still essential with SpiderOak? They have no access to unencrypted customer data.

Thanks man. Thank you all for setting me straight actually. I'll cancel the sync and go back to using them as separate wallets. I hope cloud backups aren't as ill advised at least.

Shit. I hadn't thought of that. I've been running Bitcoin on 2 laptops side by side from the one wallet backed up and synced with SpiderOak. I haven't had any problems yet although I was anticipating one when I initiated the sync. The second wallet was the newer one but didn't as yet have any transactions. I half expected it to become the new wallet and I would lose the old one with the transaction record and .01BTC balance. Instead, the old one got transferred to the second machine which was more than I'd hoped for. The strange thing is that on the first restart, while watching all the blocks download again with the second client, I noticed they they both had the same Bitcoin addresses on the main screen. However, since then, they have remained different but still show the same transaction records and Address Books with the exception that the newer client has 1 extra Address in its Address Book.

22BTC is worth over 160USD on Mt. Gox at the moment.

Cool. Just placed an order. I doubt anybody living in my part of the country has even heard of BTC except through me though.
Let's see how it goes though.

Your site doesn't seem to handle Yen.

I'm in the market for BTC. I live in Eastern Hiroshima Prefecture though and would prefer to meet in person for at least the first exchange.

They didn't. Not even close. Government at every level but the Federal government most notably have enormous unfunded superannuation liabilities. The coalition government was a disaster for Australia especially with their pumping of the real estate bubble and welfare for the upper class and elderly.