@a grue.: The idea is that they are non duplicable credits that can not be traced to you, and can be safely traded for real goods.

@brodiemac: no company involved.

@septentriones: A: there is no sign up its anonymous

@RaindropBebop: Buy some good graphics cards and you can mine $50 a day from one machine.

Baby eating atheist here, so no dice.

I have been using bitcoins for quite some time now, and i know the details of a lot of this. Feel free to ask questions and i will do my best to answer.

@Worf: So your saying inflationary currencies, that encourage me to do anything but save my money are somehow any better? What do you think got the US into so much debt ? too much saving?

@SkipErnst: So has everyone else, get on the bandwagon of hackers that have taken a crack at this. So far its been bulletproof

@Camwow13: I have a friend mining on deep bit now (pooled mining) so instead of getting 50 btc every month or so he gets about 1 btc a day, and yes he has exchanged them for real money.

@Ben Mordecai: the master transaction record would record the payment on every computer using bitcoin. You would just have to give them your public key and anyone could see that you made a transaction from one of your public keys to the public key of the buisness, it would be better than any receipt because it would…

@wanderingrabbi: You just have deflation, your money gets more valuable, and theres no signup, one of the biggest things about bitcoin is anonymity.

Figures, huge article yesterday about how this problem was unfixable and terrible, and now nothing more than a foot note when its fixed in a quick, competent manner.

recursive chair is recursive

@TomXP411: I think that software patents should be not idea specific but code specific, anyone can use the idea the just can not steal your exact implementation.

@Tony Kaye: one word, sideloading

Ios only? Is there a version for android?

@TactakillChewy: I do not mind being tracked, it just needs to be made clear what data is being collected and there needs to be an opt out thats all.

And i agree with this, but i do not believe it should be law, as it dictates what people can do with their property. In an ideal wold i would like to see the "vote with your dollar" approach to forcing content providers to agree to these terms, unfortunately, as i learned long ago, people are far too apathetic or…

Put a true crypt container with a hidden volume inside of a video file and you have something that would be unreasonably unlikely to be suspected, and even if it is you just put all the real data in the hidden section.

@aec007: In this case i can see where he is coming from, net neutrality would dictate what network providers can do with their property and their connections by forcing equality they are taking some of the property rights of the network providers away.