I think it is better to keep bitcoin unregulated. So it mature itself naturally and evolve itself over time as the time goes on.

Looks interesting. Is there any runner up prizes after the 1BTC promotion?

I have a laptop that hardly heats up. However, with mining, I can begin to feel the heat. It uses up your laptop computational resource.

Why does it say 0.5502605BTC in the thread title? Do we actually get paid that much?

From their site:  A ripple is a unit of the native currency that exists in the Ripple network. A ripple, also called XRP, is a digital currency that cannot be duplicated or falsified.

I also want to know what happened if someone edited their balance? It won't get enough confirmation to get through so it won't be in the transaction block?

Hey buddy, I have a flame in my name too! Ha.

Looks like we need to wait 4 hours and have 5 posts before we are allowed to prison break.