I'm looking forward to buy a decent amount of BC and hold on to it. I already have an account on BTER . Any good reason why I should NOT buy there?

Mintpal is better IMHO.

Project Accept BlackCoin.

One of the things that make an altcoin important is merchant acceptance. To help with this we want to ask the community to do some footwork. Of course, this is BlackCoin and we will provide you with a prize if you succeed in converting a merchant to a BlackCoin merchant.

The fund is 20,000 BC big, and it will be given out in the following fashion:

500 BC - If you convert a new Brick & Mortar shop to a CoinKite client that accepts BlackCoin
300 BC - For new ‘high value’ merchants that do not yet accept any Crypto
200 BC - For new merchants that either do not yet accept any Crypto or only accept BTC at the moment
50 BC - For new merchants that accept several sorts of Crypto’s already.

These bounties are for the person that converts these merchants, not for the merchants themselves unless they themselves decide to add BlackCoin to their store. However, you can share your bounty with the merchant you add if you wish.

Proof has to be provided in the form of e-mails etc. These can be printscreens shown to Soepkip in the ##blackcoin channel on IRC or in PM here on BTCTalk.

* ‘high value’ means a high ranking in their field, a store that is popular within it’s product group.
* http://www.blackcoin.co/update-2/accepted-here-signs/ ← Signs for merchants.
* http://www.coinpayments.net is the currently the only payment processor for BlackCoin.
* http://www.coinkite.com will support BlackCoin come June 1st!
** ALL SUBMISSIONS ON APPROVAL BASIS **

2800 of 20,000 has been used so far!

Its called sapphirestrike.com i believe.  They were the first to accept BTC, then added BC.

Well, I haven't received an asic payout for today. So maybe we could get a surprise. (Or I got really unlucky)

Did we get a winner for the gfx card or was that not yesterday?

What are the speeds for the asic buy in. I'm fairly happy, but I didn't understand how many gh you get. Its a shame, we could have gone script-asic, (we would be the only real chance for most of us) but it doesn't look too healthy a market.

Not sure what was thought by the decision makers.