Thanks a lot, PStone. It worked.

Hello everyone, I'm new to bitcoins and I'm trying to use bitcoins for the first time.  I used my blockchain.info wallet to directly buy a BTCPak.  The server returned that there were no paks available, but it took my bitcoins anyway!  Now I'm out $1000.  So far no response from blockchain.info support, but it is a Saturday.  I came on to this forum to talk to DBordello.  He seems like a pretty upstanding fellow, and I hope he can help me.  I saw his postings here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=64805.0

Google turned up at least two other people who had lost their money the same way.  I hope BTCPak is not a scam, and I can get my bitcoins back.  Anyway, wish me luck!

Hi forum,

I am currently using bitcoin-qt from bitcoin-0.8.1-linux.tar.gz.
I am wondering why my data directory ".bitcoin" has a size (du -sh) of 9.7G, while the current blockchain size is only 6445 MB, according to http://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size .

What's the size of your data directory?

i can't understand what the difficulty mean, when you mine, setting this value to high is better?

How long dose it take for me to be accepted as a normal user?

I have already been here long enough to witness one scam... dose that mean I win?

Just saying hi from Australia! BTC