I have an unlimited 3G plan with Verizon Wireless for my smartphone, and this made me curious. Verizon has a nearly identical throttling policy: http://goo.gl/RIXbF

Actually, you'll have to wait almost 29 years on average to get any bitcoins, since a successful bitcoin block creation mints 50 BTC at a time. If you want to see bitcoins added to your wallet on a regular basis, you'll have to join up with a mining collective, such as DeepBit.

I agree entirely with the sentiment of this comment, if not the coarse language.

I think another issue here that I haven't seen anyone mention at my level of filtering is this: How rude! Are we really becoming so ungracious that we can't appreciate someone's effort to give us something. If we really don't like it, still thank them, hold onto it for an appropriate amount of time, then re-gift, sell or give to charity.