I think there might have been a misunderstanding. It does not look like they are simply asking how to sell them, but how to set mt.gox to list the coins if the value goes below a certain threshold. For instance if the price drops below 10 us dollars it would automatically sell his coins at that price, but while it is still at 20 dollars they do not want to list them for 10. It is only when the price drops that they want to be able to automatically dump their stock in bitcoins.

Well, I think that that was sort of the goal of this post. One way to do research is to ask people who know. While one could wonder why the sky is blue then do research on the nature of light and its interaction with air and magnetic fields and all the other things that might possibly be a factor, it seems far quicker and easier to just ask someone who knows the answer already. In a more similar example like finding out where to get a good mechanic. You could locate every mechanic in your area dig through all of their records, set up a watch outside their house to learn what sort of person they are, torture them to extract every bit of information they have, etc. Or you could ask your friends and other people who have used mechanics in your area who they prefer. Most people go for that second option for obvious reasons. It is a lot easier to ask someone and tends to get decent results as long as they are a trusted source of information to you.

If you know of complaints about all them it might be helpful to list with complaints come from each and how trustworthy the source of the complaint is. They can decide what is important, but part of that is actually getting the information. I think that was at least part of the goal here. They wanted to hear what people had to say about them as well as how people judged them so that they could make a better decision. I think that there is a significant advantage to a business that has been around for a while and has a large customer base. They have more to lose by doing their customers harm than someone who has not been around as long. That may be one indicator for you to consider.

While the preference might be for peaceful solution it does not always work. I am sure a great many of us wish we could talk out all of our differences and come to an agreement about things. The thing is that even two perfectly rational people may not agree if their assumptions are different. While part of me would love for use to be the better people there is a part of me that feels that restricting ourselves and refusing to use the tools of our enemies is unwise. They would not hesitate to do everything anonymous does and more and I see no reason why anonymous should feel compelled to follow the rules put forth by their current target. It would be like playing checkers against someone who was constantly making up new rules that only you had to follow.

Okay, I am attempting to wrap my head around this and here is where I am running into issues. Trading cards and other collectible objects tend to get some of their appeal from what they are. Baseball cards had the stats for the players, MtG had a game attached to it, vases are pretty and hold flowers well, old toys are neat, coins are pretty and have historic value, etc. What you are producing only makes people want it because of its rarity which is honestly where a lot of collectibles get the vast majority of their value. The thing is that there is going to be no reason to collect it other than bragging rights and potential trading. Basically its only value is as a currency. Without some sort of hook to get people interested in it for reasons other than trading you are effectively just making a currency.

It just occurred to me I misunderstood part of it. If an actual asset was created, such as art work or a piece in a game then that would put it more in line with the other things. I was thinking that people were just creating assets in a sort of ethereal way and generating ownership. Basically assets 0-1000 exist and a collector is attempting to get ownership of one of each or all of the 1s or whatever. New assets are created forcing collectors to constantly update their collections. Sorry, my misunderstanding.

I want to link my Bitcointalk name with BTCJam's. Verification code: d28767a0-fa1a-438e-a330-71b62fc382e3

I know that this does not answer your question, but I am going to say it before the others do. ASIC is going to make your miner non profitable. If profit is your goal you are going about it wrong.

I really like the idea of being able to transfer bitcoins with one's phone. You make a deal with someone pull out your phone and send the merchant their money and are on your way. Or your buddy needs a few bucks you simply touch your phones together and send it over like that new song you downloaded. I could see smart phones and simular devices taking over for wallets full of credit cards and cash soon.

I do not think it is the currency that does it. It is the distance and the view that the other guy can take the loss. For instance people would likely return the money to a small shop, but if the cashier at some major chain gave them extra change they might be less inclined to mention it. They might still avoid making it public knowledge, but they are less likely to correct the mistake. The feeling is that the corporations can take the loss without even feeling it where little old you gets significantly more satisfaction out of the same money. I think part of it is also that they are faceless. People feel less bad about the suffering of strangers than they do people they know. It sucks to know that people are being evicted from their homes. It really sucks to see your friend kicked out of his home. I am not saying that it is right. I am just saying that that may contribute to the issue. The nature of digital currency may contribute to making the other person more of a stranger, it is not the currency itself that creates the problem.

Well that was what was unclear to me. I was not sure if he had been sitting at 6000 blocks hours now or if he had been working on it for hours now and he still had 6000 blocks left. One means he just has to wait. The other might indicate a serious problem.

Okay, this may not be the same problem you are having, but I know when I first downloaded my bitcoin client it took days to sync. Even now it takes hours if I do not keep it running for a few days. Basically I am suggesting that it may just be a matter of time. If you are sitting at the same point forever in the amount of blocks it needs to download then you may have a serious issue, but if progress is just slow going it might not be that big of an issue.

I think that a lot of people just get worried about miners attempting to use old designs when they are going to prove a losing proposition for those attempting to make money doing it. I honestly think that he was attempting to look out for your best interests and advise you that if your plan was to make money that was not the way to go about it. I would also like to hear the answer to your question as it is still valuable. Even if the rigs no longer produce the profit they might once have the intellectual puzzle of how to get the most out of them is still interesting. It is like wondering how to make the best wind up clock. Sure we have much better things out, but it is still interesting to think about. Unfortunately I can not really give any useful information on the topic. I hope that someone comes by to answer and I wish you luck in your endeavors to work on it.

Well, that is both some what worrisome and somewhat reassuring to hear. One of my concerns was that people are not always great about backing up their files and if enough people fail to back up the wallets and their computer goes down you may end up with a great deal of money just sitting around outside of the system because they can no longer get to it. The ability to at some point in the future bring that money back into circulation seems like it could get rid of that problem. The part that worries me is that those same people could also get into active wallets and take money that was not lost. I may be horribly misunderstanding something and be horribly off base with this statement. I am new to this and have only seen a few videos and what not, so I am no expert.

The idea of an exchange running out of money seems a bit odd to me. The way I understand their operation they either collect fees, which means they get paid no matter what. Or they buy lower than they sell getting the value from the mark up. Either way as long as there is action on the market they make money. I doubt that there is any shortage of action on the market and a major player like them is unlikely to have cash flow problems at this point, so it is not even that likely that a run could be produced on either side of things. It does seem like it would be more of an attempt by someone to scare flighty customers away from them and on to other exchanges. I would not put too much stock into the claim. Also, on a somewhat unrelated note. Thank you for the explination about where the name came from. That was neat and I did not know that.

If they screwed up and credited you for each attempt to send coins instead of waiting for them to be confirmed by the network it might be possible. Improper coding of a site can do weird things. I am sure that they will eventually figure out their error. My concern is what happens to you when that happens. I would suggest withdrawing the coins, so that they can not be taken away when the site figures out that they were credited in error.

Well, if you are looking to get people to pay with bit coins you might want to advertise on the various sites that give out free bit coins. Those people are likely to have them. As for getting people to use bit coins as opposed to other payment methods you might consider pushing the fact that they can be gotten for free from places or even a discount to encourage their use. Another thing to consider, if you have control of such things, is making bit coin the default option when people go to order. Put the prices in bit coins in larger bold text in the adds with the other values in smaller text. When they go to check out make the bit coin option pop up in the ordering stuff so that they have to actively choose something else. Do not do it in such a way as to make it hard to chose something else, but make sure that they are reminded that bit coins exist. They may navigate past it a dozen times, but each time they will get more and more used to seeing it. They might eventually get curious enough to look into it and join the bit coin using community. No matter what, if they get used to seeing it it will become more accepted in their minds as a normal thing and that makes them feel more comfortable using it.