I fantasize that Satoshi will release these coins in a democratic way (sms? mike hearn's passport thingy? facebook?)  when the time is right, thus giving the dollar a death kiss

I support bitcoin because of the efficiency it will generate. As income will be easy to hide, the states will have to adapt their complex tax codes to simpler ones based on assets. All contract law specialists, record keeping monkeys, asset ownership procedures and the like will be wiped out and their functions re-written. You wil not need stock, forex, bonds brokers firms. States will not be able to dictate what you can buy or if you want to gamble.

I want to be right. And rich

Check Ecuador. They were using US Dollar for some years now, and they survived

How difficult could it be to attach a keylogger to his computer while he is out for a frappuccino?

In the end it turns out that AML laws are good for bitcoin. At least for its price.

Of course you have to buy them off-exchanges. Ask Snowden, he might know a few bitcoin kings.

"My coins were stolen and the thief keeps sending me computers and appliances to my home, I don't know how to stop him"

They will.  They might not care about bitcoin, but they are dead serious about being big players in cryptocurrencies and the IRS regulation applies to all cryptos.

My theory: One of the three letter agencies will be in charge of crypto and will receive funding and make sure cryptos never go away. All happy. Source:my ass

The ruling applies, but other coins might be easier to hide

I don't think so. Maybe he took ideas from other people but I think the original client was programmed by just one person.
Software architecture reflects the team structure and the client was a monolithic beast -> One person-team.

loop:
deposit btc
withdraw btc
generate a new txid for the same transaction
get the new tx mined before the original
hope SR system has a bug and keep your balance intact if the original tx is not mined
go loop

The graphic should show what happens if Bob does not receive the wire transfer and they agree to cancel the transaction. I guess in that case a "rollback transaction"  is necessary (input: deposit 1.2, output: Bob 1.1 , Alice 0.1) right?

I understand that kind of attack from a government, specially one with enough opacity in their decisions and technical skills.

Corporations are much more complex. Somebody will have to justify the money spent, decisions are to be made, corporation decisionmakers will argue is an illegal move (it certainly is if you use the hash power for a double spend), other drones will suggest other uses for the money. Is not so easy to propose something like this,at least today.

An individual can do it but it will not be rational, since he can earn much more money by simply mining with that beast.

if he is listening: Please use some coins to control the price swings.

same for me!

What about adding a non-dictionary word like your your screen name in some forum, your email address, nospaced phrases like "tooyoungtodie", you can even remember them more easily than "thyme" and "relish"

I'm not a fan of brainwallets for myself (I have a lousy memory and also I could die at any moment )
I ended up using bitaddress random generation, BIT38 and print.
But returning to brainwallets:  What about using 12 words from dictionary and one word that makes sense for you (like DeathAndTaxesRules ) but is not any dictionary

With the cost of mining being dominated more and more by the electricity bill, I started thinking in embedding miners in these appliances called "electric heaters"  (see pictures http://goo.gl/VC4YNx ), and then sell them at a discount price (bitcoins mined to my address) or full price but with the ability of sending the bitcoins mined to any address. These heaters are not the typical HVAC units that use heat pumps but simple "electricity burners" that are very inefficient. The people buying these would waste the energy anyways.

The miner should be some tiny linux computer such as a raspberry PI with a GPRS modem and an array of bitcoin ASICs that will be insulated and submerged in the oil that these heaters use.

Some numbers:

A heater typically burns 2KW

Assuming a heater stays on for 8 hours a day during 3 months = 720 hours

Asic efficiency 1.73 GH/s per KW  (Black Arrow Prospero X-3)

Total GH/s ~  1.73GH/s x 2KW  ~  3.5 GH/s

Earns x hour ~ 1.48 USD / 24 ~ 0.06 USD  (today)

Earns x year ~ 0.06 * 720 = 44 USD

GSM bill x year ~ 60 USD

So if we are not taking into account the capital expenditure we are almost even. Give one year more and prices of ASICs and all electronics will fall, bitcoin will probably raise and we are on the path to profit.

First, you have to ask who is "the government". Big corporations, capitalists and other criminals including several lawmakers and politicians from all countires in the world sent billions to tax havens for decades. Now the FED and the governments are raining their parade by printing zillions and blocking capital movements. Bitcoin could be seen as a new "haven". And these guys were able to convince DC that wiring money to a dubious corporation in "Cayman Islands" is lawful, I don't doubt that they can lobby DC and Berlin in favor of bitcoin, even if bitcoin is bad for the government is good for the elites that run the show.