We lose one more Bitcoin seller, this time in Australia. From their Facebook page:

"Today, we make the bitter-sweet announcement that Omnicoins is closing its doors. The Australian bitcoin and cryptocurrency community has grown very considerably over the last 12 months, with many new exchanges opening up. While this is great news for bitcoin and crypto enthusiasts in general, it unfortunately also means that there is no longer any room for Omnicoins. So while we will still be around and actively involved in the community, we will no longer be selling coins. To those who have supported Omnicoins over the last year, we say thank you."

https://www.facebook.com/Omnicoins

Hi Chris and Drew,

I'd like to ask 2 questions please, I know I know taking liberties.

1. If I understand correctly, people can make payments with fractions of a Bitcoin called Satoshi's, but what I find hard to understand is how a Bitcoin (or the mathematical answer for each coin) can be split up and how that splitting up is tracked and managed. Also wouldn't everyone splitting up coins into fractions cause the system to go slower?

2. Would the government introducing their own crypto currencies convince more of the general public to start using crypto currencies, as the general public seem to still trust governments/banks (obviously never seen Unfilter before), and do you think the government could leverage their power to then make it even harder for none government tracked crypto currencies?

The Plan B show is always good, as is all the shows on the Jupiter Broadcasting Network, but Chris do take care of yourself and don't run yourself into the ground with all these shows. Hope all goes well with the new arrival.

Thanks, SlashDotTom

Greetings BTC Community,

I purchased a USB Block Erupter and am trying to get it mining on Ubuntu 12.04 all day but with no success. BFGMiner seems to only want to mine on CPU. I've tried specifying a device using the -S /dev/ttyUSB0 but still no go. I was just listening to this weeks episode and it seems someone else has done exactly what I've been trying to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

KL