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Only 2-3? Please tell me your secret!

This kid is 18? And people trusted a million dollars in untraceable money to him?

1) What about gold then?

2) The Silk Road bitcoins were confiscated by police just fine. In fact Bitcoin is in some ways easier to trace and therefore confiscate. If the cops can trace a transaction to you they just apply some rubber hose cryptography.

Happened to me, more than once.

You sure seem to have a horse in this race

They ordered drugs from him on Silk Road, that's how they got his packages.

Wait is this satire? I can't tell.

We don't know this for a fact. There are quantum annealing algorithms for factoring numbers.

Things have changed since 2010.

These are memristors.

It has a ten digit market cap, how is that not prospering?

You didn't even click the link did you

The main problem is that the waiting list is currently almost a year. If you order a miner today you won't see it until 2014.

I'm willing to bet that N is a single digit.

What a waste

Actually it does show your own comments as [dead]. Or at least it did for me a month or two ago when I tried it. It's how I found out I was dead.

This is from a different computer. My main computer is now useless for HN. Old account here: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Devilboy

My old account: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Devilboy

Not sure what happened.

Dead comments cannot receive replies.

Set your 'showdead' to on in your profile page and go back to look at your comments. They'll show [dead] next to them. Alternatively log out and see if your comments are still visible.

I'm in that situation. Somewhere along the line I said something that annoyed a mod and now I can't even create a new account - it's instantly marked 'dead' automatically. Must be either a cookie or perhaps my IP is banned.

Yes Australia runs a SIGINT collection point for the NSA, at least since the 90s.

This is how it works. The prosecutors identify a person they want to target and then they work out what charges they can bring against them. Not the other way around.

Yes they've published proof. Also check this for more recent news: http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/05/d-waves-quantum-optim...

D-Wave does have a factoring algorithm. See the comments from D-Wave here:

http://dwave.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/learning-to-program-th...

"We do have a factoring algorithm that I’m going to do a series of blog posts on"

There are always ways of getting USD for your coins, even if you have to sell them on eBay or whatever.