It doesn't matter if the bid mountain was real, it just matters that people bought the asks. All those bids might have been fake, but the people pushing the price up are real.

I was using Thai time as I am in Thailand. Its 11am here. Yeah I have been damned lucky hitting this. I'm massively up on bitconica:)

Same here.  I joined in August and finally feel like one of the April people

Holy shit!  Bitcoinica is amazing.. already hit 5

I have some dim recollection of him saying something like he did his buy-in at around $2.20.

I could be totally wrong, or thinking of a different person.  Whoever it was (if anyone) appears at present to have 'done good.'  I cannot say that I did since I had been grabbing at the falling knife for half a year now.  But the money I was putting in down in that range went farther, so break-even is coming into focus lately in spite of my relatively poor trading performance and strategy.

haha, people like Nagle were still here back then.  Now it's only proudhon and he's not trolling anymore.

I believe .rewrite is the old wallet, which ideally should be "rewritten" over since it may hold unencrypted private keys as a result of a bug in the 0.4 wallet encryption code. Ideally though if you used the built in encryption prior to 0.5 you should transfer your coins to a new wallet in case the old one has leaked.

Explain?