Aren't all stocks pretty much like that?

I can see the idea of being able to get paid with touchless "cash" gaining supporters in some parts of Africa right now...
 
Edit: And by the way, Bitcoin has always been a touchless technology.

Wow, things have really changed, for a 2% change in value to make the news.

I keep seeing this quote:
"Bitcoin sales on Overstock have averaged $15,000 per day, or $300,000 per month. "

Why does Overstock's month only have 20 days?
Is the Internet closed on weekends?

(Emphasis mine.)

We're talking about transactions like this one, right?
https://blockchain.info/tx/091434a679610910f489e9a0e3ffa1341dcb3dccf5a3fe3a21a09031056f4b55

Where do you see the link?

(Emphasis mine.)

This keeps getting repeated but some of these transactions do get confirmed.
https://blockchain.info/address/1SochiWwFFySPjQoi2biVftXn8NRPCSQC

They're auctioning blocs of 3000 BTC.
According to BitcoinAverage, over 78,000 coins were exchanged in the last 24h so it probably isn't all that hard to get "chunks of BTC of that size".
You want 30,000BTC by June 27?
Just buy 2000 a day between now and the auction, shouldn't affect the market all that much.

The only way I see for Mt Gox's revival to work is if they get their 100,000+ former users involved again.

A simple way to do that, is to keep track of how many "lost coins" everyone had (the "goxed" coins) and promise to replace them progressively with real BTC gained from the trading fees.
User's account would show their real and goxed BTC balances separately along with any other fiat or crypto currency.

The goxed coins would then be traded for real BTC, LTC, dogecoin, USD, etc and, trust me, there would be a market for those goxed coins - at the right price.
They'd be heavily discounted at first, like towards the end of the original  Mt Gox, and they would gradually increase in value as people see them progressively getting replaced by real coins.
Some risk tolerant people could make a killing and others would gladly just recoup a fraction of their lost coins.

The new Mt Gox being a completely new company in a different country, backed and run by real capitalists, there would be no reason to associate it with the previous incompetent management.

Coffee grounds?

The "You're screwed if you sign this refund request." form had the Bush street address on it.

They would probably want that one to be valid.

No that can't be legal.
Earlier ToS said we had 15 days from December 31.
Furthermore, that 10 days deadline is not mentioned in the email which links to that form.

We all paid different amounts by different means and at different times (and are thus subject to different TOS).
We all have different records of our transactions with HashFast so it is not really possible to put up a united front on getting full BTC refunds.
If Cedivad, actually sues and wins his case, it will not, by any means, guaranty that anyone else will win their slightly different cases.

But one thing seems to be clear: the end of October delivery date was never a possibility and was actually fraudulent false advertising that affects us all equally.

The damage that that false advertising has cost us is the amount of BTC that we have lost from getting our machines delivered in January (hopefully) rather than October, and can easily be computed^(*) (once we know for sure how fast the machines are, and when the actual delivery occurs).

I suggest that we get together to sue HashFast for that amount (plus punitive damages?).


Cedivad, what does your lawyer think of that?


^(*) I estimate the amount lost due to late delivery to be around 22BTC, assuming overclocking to 500GH/s and an early January delivery.

That could explain their choice of vanity address:
1Nbq2XZaRsKknf5fcT2wTXvBS31PaUWSeX

Hmm, not sure what happened.
Rebooting fixed the problem.
I had to power down and reboot for unrelated reasons and now everything seems back to normal; bitcoin-qt, litecoin-qt and X all just using ~1% of 1 CPU each.

Linux is getting a bit too much like Windows to my taste.

Is it possible to see a recording of the draw?
I was logged in early but the broadcast started late (and ended a bit early/abruptly) and I didn't see the beginning so I don't know if my name actually made it into the hat.

I recently upgraded to Slackware 14.1 (with KDE 4.10.5) and when I launch bitcoin-qt 0.8.5, X windows goes to 100% usage of one core (mouse becomes unresponsive etc) while bitcoin-qt itself uses 1-2% sometimes momentarily jumping up to 16% of one core.

The Litecoin 8.4.1 client causes the same effect.

If I try running bitcoind instead, it quietly sits at 1-2% while X windows stays below 10% CPU usage.

Any idea?

Yeah, except they don't seem to have answered a single question off the long list that you had accumulated for them.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Now officially in.

I was just joking, I have no real reason to doubt that you are still you.
I continue to trust you and value your opinion on this forum.
And if I ever really did need you to prove who you are, I am sure that you could send me a message signed with D&T's PGP key or with a BTC address that I know D&T controls.

Sorry for being off topic and doubly sorry if this lame joke has cast even a shadow of a doubt in anybody's mind.