Devilboy

It has explicit error handling (via multiple return values) which the authors argue is superior (even if more verbose) because they know from experience that programmers tend to make mistakes forgetting to check for errors in their code. If the error code comes back as a return value the programmer has to consciously decide what to do with it immediately, leading to better code on average.

They sell for $10 million. Is that what you mean?

Sure but that's not the point here. The important thing is that this quantum computer actually WORKS. In 2 years classical computers will be maybe 5 times faster. But this quantum computer will be 1000s of times faster (at these specific problems) so very soon any comparison will be irrelevant.

Bitcoin addresses are hashes, not the public keys themselves. Thus they are safe against a quantum factoring algorithm. If you spend money from a bitcoin address though, the public key does get written to the block chain but to combat this you merely have to send your change to a new address and you'll be safe again.

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"

If the contract is tight, let em sue. Big companies get sued all the time. Who cares.

$10k per hour, $20k if they want anal.

Gotta get paid half up-front man!

Client: Please record yourself doing the job

Me: OK no problem, that will cost an extra $X

Client: Ah actually don't worry about the recording

If the client is 'not worth it' you're just not charging enough. Just work out what your price is and send them a new quote. Don't ever fire a client, that's just silly. Make the client say no.

Every 10 minutes some coins are dropped in a big dark pool and everyone interested in catching them play hungry hungry hippos until some lucky person gets it.

Pics?

Bitcoin miners running on iPhones / iPads won't make any money, you need a decent GPU these days.

Go on any Bitcoin forum and the newbie section will be filled with people wanting to buy Bitcoin with credit cards, usually via Paypal. Some of those will be scammers but not all of them.

Backwards cap? No sunglasses?

Only to other Bitcoin transactions.

This has worked for me.

Someone on Reddit has already recognized the two men, they stayed at a motel where the Redditor works

I don't think it's realistic to expect that to happen any time soon.

Trillions? I think you're being just a little over optimistic about the future of bitcoin here.

Can you detail some of the criticism please? I understand what he's doing and it makes sense to me - and I too believe those blocks identified probably belongs to Satoshi or someone very close to them.

Dexamphetamine

Maybe you could try making backups next time?

The cynic in me thinks the current system is acceptable. Everything is copyrighted forever and everything is freely available on The Pirate Bay anyway.

This is not correct anymore, according to D-Wave they do have a factoring algorithm now.

That's no different to any other currency. Speculators have free range to do whatever they want on forex trading systems.

So?

And two days later you regretted not hoarding the bitcoin instead.

Almost nobody is buying anything with bitcoin. At least 99% of the bitcoin price is due to speculation.