Heard about this one from a few people lately too. They say it's good. I'll have to check it out.

Empire.

Someone was telling me about a TV show I might like about computer "hackers" / wargames but I can't remember the name they told me. It was something like Lock, Stock and Two-Smoking Barrels but something different.. Hack, Something and Something??

Faucets aren't really a great way to earn substantial bitcoin but I think some people make a good amount through referrals.

Most of the mentions I've seen also tend to feature the Silk Road, as per The Goodwife, Person of Interest and now Eye Candy.

Excuse me if this should go in other section. The latest episode of Eye Candy a series about a "hacker" and stalker the story has obvious references to Silk Road although in what they call "Babylon" you can also buy murder and other things. Bitcoin is mentioned.

No escrow used here I guess?

Watched the latest episode now.. it's getting there.

Altcoins are basically useless except for demonstrating/testing out new ideas or perhaps as a fork if Bitcoin got too corrupted.

Lengthy indeed. I'm reading up on this now - it's seems like a cool feature. I guess it will take time to get into GUI wallets but it's probably common to accidently make a stupid send and be willing to resend with a higher fee.

The two options would be (1) install tor on the same web server where the files are hosted or (2) set up another server exclusively to redirect the content of the web server to users accessing through the .onion address. (1) would be easy I think but you'd need to have access to the web server.

Thanks for the thread. I guess Bitbin.io and Scratchticket are the only ones open to newbies. Not sure if Bitbin is accepting new participants though.

BTCJam has redesigned the site and it looks attractive now, but I've never tried it. Can I trust the ratings system generally?