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How can we see the entire value of all the BitCoins? (if we assume that the price of MtGox is the price). I want to know in order to make a new article on www.italkcash.com about the BitCoin mania and I want to put a LOT of facts down to stop some of the confusion among people online.

http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ has both the total number of blocks and the total number of Bitcoins in existence, which is (# blocks) * 50.  Multiply that by the current price.

Obviously the final result will change every minute, as the price changes and the number of blocks found increases.

http://bitcoinwatch.com/ has this number in a few currencies available.

There is in fact .00000001 less bitcoins in existence then displayed on bitcoinwatch because someone intentional created a block with a reward of 49.99999999 bitcoins. The network only checks to make sure that you don't reward your self extra bitcoins.

Which block was this?

124724
http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000004c78956f8643262f3622acf22486b120421f893c0553702ba7b5 (http://blockexplorer.com/block/0000000000004c78956f8643262f3622acf22486b120421f893c0553702ba7b5)

Thank you. And interesting.