How can you make the value a constant when it is a limited currency?

Binding bitcoin value to any currency destroys half the point with bitcoins.

What is so wrong with the current system?

The economy will fail anyway this fall.
I mean we can't know for sure but the last finance crisis seemed just like foreplay...

I don't have a lot of knowledge in economics, so I'll let someone more educated discuss this...

Sweet, that's really good to hear.

Now, any speculations if/when the market will get healthy again?
I'm hoping for somewhere before the next difficulty. I haven't ever invested in bitcoin so I hope that everything turns out just fine, which I actually believe as well.

If avoiding taxes is illegal then how can you vote for both 3 and 5?

You can still purchase psychoactives by using bitcoin.
Silk Road might have been the No. 1 site for purchases of the kind but since the RC-market* has flourished the last years you can just buy a virtual visa through bitcoinpayout for example and then order some RC that's both legal and cheaper than street-drugs.

*RC = Research Chemical, a psychoactive substance that has not yet become illegal. Often poorly documented (side-)effects and therefore cheap. Commonly purchased from web-shops.

Correct me if I am wrong but I thought escaping taxes was illegal?

Well, that seems like the side of bitcoin we would like to promote!
I will check it out

Since bitcoin has gotten known by some as "The anonymous currency for hackers, drug-(ab)users and criminals." I'd like to create a poll on how many actually have a drug/crime-related use of bitcoin.

I don't know what you think of actually creating a poll like this, I guess it could be a bad idea if the results get taken too seriously. Like "5% of bitcoin users do drugs!" or "3% of bitcoin users are criminals. Bitcoin should be made illegal!". For those with sophisticated thinking we know that this poll means nothing, attention gets drawn by the name of the topic. Perhaps only drug-users even read the thread. Well, I will try to come up with a good topic-name so that hopefully doesn't happen.

And then I wonder, am I really the only one interested in this?
I remember a thread in the mining sub-forum where the poll was something like "What is the better use of electricity?" and at least 3 options were available. They were something like "Bitmining", "Growing weed" and "Both". I recall "Both" being the most voted on.

I guess this is not especially strange, no one voted for just "Growing weed" but seriously, this is the bitcoin forum, who would not vote on bitmining?
The thread quickly led into a discussion about what was the most profitable but I don't remember the outcome.
Sadly, I can't find the thread with the search function. Is it possible that the thread could have been deleted?

Anyway, I would really like to have as many people as possible participate in this poll.
I'm probably going to nerd-rage on my F5 when I've pressed post. I really find this interesting!

Edit:
If someone notices any faulty grammar in any of my posts, please tell me! I'm from Sweden and Swedish is my main-language but since I barely passed any of my Swedish-classes throughout school and prefer a language globally used I'd rather learn proper English (which classes I've always aced somehow).

If you think you will get anything from this you must be stupid...

Life sucks, don't be a bitch about it because it won't ease your pain.

Edit:
Are you joking!?
http://blockexplorer.com/address/1138Aco7WWP2XMrJBY22m7gRLHCmeqj3Bf

Edit 2:
Look at the timestamp...
18:39:21
Thread wasn't even created then...

I'd like to know this as well.

Since difficulty constantly rises and pools control more computing power than ever before the BTC/computing power will go down and so will the $/computing power if exchange-rates stay the same or lowers.
I was just wondering if the pool owners could re-program their system so that the computing power can be used for bruteforcing?

If it was possible they could just pay off all the bruteforce computing-power with the equal amount of BTC/share without the miner knowing a thing.

So, could this lead to a scenario where it is possible to buy bruteforce computing-power?

How does bitcoin diminish financial privacy?

If CIA hooks up their mainframe to mine bitcoins. We are all fucked, big time.

Thanks for explaining, well written.

I have thought of this myself, it seems that every time the BTC-value explodes it begins to decrease slightly in value over the next hours.
It is pretty logical since if you notice the value of BTC has raised 50% the latest 24h and you already consider selling, you sell as soon as you think the raise is about the end, which could increase value further. But when everyone who is interested in selling BTC has done their business, the value goes down slightly.

I have a feeling about being totally wrong here... Please correct me or confirm I have a point.
Now that I think of it, this seems wrong... Correction please!

Or we simply start trading bitcents?
I can't come up with a good abbreviation though.

If Windows outperforms Linux (especially if by a factor of 10!) you are doing it wrong!
My first guess was that you are CPU-mining, but that wouldn't make sense with 0-3% usage...
Have you installed the latest GPU & OpenCL-drivers? How high load has the card? Is there a significant increase in temperature?

Well, you can solve this by setting the lowest memory-clock possible (or close) and then restart afterburner, it will then have a new clock-spectrum for you to use. This new one should reach down to 300, if not, repeat.
I'm not sure if you have to patch the afterburner settings file for this to work, there is a thread about modifying the settings file somewhere on the forum but I can't find it since the search-engine seems broken...
Maybe you did what I wrote above without knowing what caused the "glitch" yourself?
Oh, the other day I wondered why the core- & memory-clocks fluctuated when idling
Thank you for the knowledge!

Difficulty does only good. It increases BTC value and promotes common sense so that miners don't become too greedy.

I mean, bitcoin mining can not exist without difficulty. Because without difficulty, BTC value would probably just drop all the time.

Your display driver can crash so badly that a reboot is needed but permanent damage should be impossible with any type of underclocking.

For every thread on the first page of this sub-forum the higher chance that morons will wake up and realize what has to be done.

I thought it would be nice to have a thread where we can compare the pools pay-per-share.

I'm just thinking of how to calculate this since difficulty is rising so we can't use the total payout/total solved shares.

Any ideas?