I saw it. Could anyone confirm that they can still send/receive BTC transactions though, and that this it the problem on blockchain.info itself?

According to blockchain.info, the last BTC transaction occurred 59 minutes ago, and the last block was found 1 hour and 3 minutes ago.

What's happening??

Thank you for the answers, bushstar!

I have one more question though - you said "Feathercoin is going through the process of becoming a registered trademark so that squatters can be dealt with through the courts is needs be.". How can a decentralized network/currency become a registered trademark?

I had a few questions, and sorry if they have already been answered:

1. Why the downloads from http://feathercoin.com/ and http://www.feathercoinwiki.org/ are different in size? That obviously means, they are not the same files, so one of them must be fake/outdated. If it is outdated, why hasn't it been updated or removed?
2. Why http://feathercoin.org/ redirects to http://yacoin.org/ ?
3. What is the difference between feathercoin client and feathercoin daemon?

1. I was right (read two posts above) about a guy asking for his wallet to be "brute-forced" having a sinister agenda (while many called me crazy and paranoid... well, who is the "crazy" one now?).

2. Why in the world would you pay me 80 USD just to get me to stop talking? It is reasonable to believe, that you have an agenda too.

3. You said that "If it was $800 or $8000 then you may have a point."... well, user "keystroke" confirmed that he/she received 0.001BTC in a similar transaction, but it was a different transaction than the one in which I received it, that means there are MANY such transactions, and that means that it IS $800 or $8000 or even more spent, and that means that even YOU agree that I DO have a point.

Actually, I was RIGHT.

Look at this message from "binaryFate" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254422.20:
"For everyone to know: acs26 just replied to my PM, giving me a link to download is wallet.dat. Which happends to be only a windows executable starting with "wallet.dat". You propose to help and then...  Sad
As a side note to you acs26, you're really dumb trying to trick someone like that. Because when claiming you have such technical problems, you have significant chances to reach somebody not using windows (I'm on linux and don't care about your .exe), and anyway very significant chance that the person is not a moron as you might expect."

So, I was right when I warned everyone that it was a fake post, and that the poster had some sinister agenda.

To get back on topic again: who would be willing to spend 80 USD to probe 1000 addresses?

If someone has skills in tracking transactions, it would be interesting to know, who is behind this. It may be nothing sinister. Or it may be a government preparing for a mass "money laundering" lawsuit.

Liar.

Here is the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/e631eba8669d07f4be996886cf03902e2e16e55805ad702ca1348b514d4f456f , you only sent to 3 addresses (the one with highest BTC amount probably belonging to you).

I really don't understand what your motivation is trying to trick people.

No one spends 80 USD to probe addresses if they don't have an agenda behind it.

^{You told me to "take my medicine", like I am supposedly addicted to some medicine (drugs), which I must take.}

I agree. Then the question is: who would be willing to spend 80 USD to probe 1000 addresses? And there may have been more transactions like this, so a lot more than 80 USD could have been actually spent.

Took me 15 seconds of googling to find some examples:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/drunk-man-arrested-for-gi_n_227955.html Drunk Man Arrested For Giving Away Money In Spain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGtxzNSHfu4 Man Gets Arrested For Giving Away Money
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Aipf3wz0o Man Arrested For Feeding The Homeless!?

And will you please stop insulting me? If you have a different opinion, but don't have any arguments to support it, it will NOT make your opinion more valid simply because you keep calling me a drug addict/paranoid. I am neither.

Was that sarcasm? Giving away 10 BTC to promote your business to people on the same website as you, is in no way equal to silently scanning the blockchain and sending totally random people 10 BTC.

Consider this real world example:

If you had a launch party for your business, and then gave away presents to people who attended your launch party, everything would be fine.

But if you went to the street, and began to give away dollars to random strangers passing by, you would be arrested in 30 minutes, and charged with "conspiracy to cause social disorder" at best, or "terrorism" at worst.

Better to be paranoid, than an idiot. So your hypothesis is, that someone sent 0.001 BTC * 1000 = 1 BTC = ~80 USD to random strangers just "for lulz". Seriously? SERIOUSLY?

The hypothesis that it was done to probe and track addresses actually makes a lot of sense, but it is also scary, because if that is true, then it means that someone is willing to spend ~80 USD just to be able to potentially track ~1000 of bitcoin addresses.

Am I paranoid, for pointing out, that even the ddos of mtgox was called "Bitcoin was hacked" in mass-media?
Am I paranoid, for pointing out, how much FUD and anti-bitcoin propaganda is in mass-media?
Am I paranoid, for believing, that since mass-media loves spreading anti-bitcoin propaganda, and has called ddos of one bitcoin exchange as "Bitcoin hacking", that they will also call bruteforcing of a bitcoin wallet as "Bitcoin hacking"?

$20,000 girard perregaux vintage 1945 style 18kt rose gold automatic watch with moon phase and an alligator strap

Sell the watch, buy some gold (real, physical, .999 gold).

This article almost seemed serious, until I saw the words: "[Raymond] Kurzweil is <...> the leader of the transhumanist cult -- a group of insane technology worshippers who believe they will upload their minds into quantum computers and 'merge with the machines,' achieving some weird shadow of immortality (in the same way, I suppose, that a photograph of you makes you 'immortal.')"

Then I stopped reading.

I can bet, that at least some of the technology used to write that article, was invented by the genius Raymond Kurzweil. The author (Mike Adams) is a disgusting excuse of a human being.

It is both sad and scary, that such people as the Mike Adams exist. It means, that a war between neo-Luddites and technically-savvy people is inevitable.

^{I've split this into a separate topic from here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=254489.0}

Event:

I recently received 0.001 BTC to an address, which I didn't even know I had - after some digging, I realized it was a "change" address, which was technically "public" on the blockchain since 2013 May, but which I never ever purposefully gave to anyone.

The only possibility, how someone could have known this address, is to "find" it on the blockchain.

The transaction, in which I was sent 0.001 BTC https://blockchain.info/tx/f6f2e613f6653a3b47f92fd70ff4d1ccc847811294f734a5e9f310c5b9eb063a , also included hundreds of 0.001 BTC sent to other addresses (and a few larger sums too).

I have several hypothesis on why this was done:

1.
Someone is trying to create confusion and scare people, by trying to make them to believe, that an address collision has happened. This hypothesis is reinforced by the facts that:
a) the first 3 answers were "maybe it's a bug", "maybe it's an address collision", "it's definitely an address collision - this has happened before";
b) when I even suggested the idea that this could have been done on purpose, I was immediately called "naive" and "paranoid" and that I "probably won it on satoshidice and forgot about it".

2.
Someone is trying to "launder" his/her bitcoins, and even goes to the extreme of sending some BTC to random people, to better hide the money trail.

3.
Some sort of denial-of-service-attack/network-spamming?
a) I don't think so, because to spam the network you could send BTC back and forth between the addresses that you own, there is no need to send BTC to other people.

To make some things absolutely clear:
1. Address collision did NOT happen.
2. I did NOT use this address anywhere - the ONLY way it could have been found, is on the blockchain.

It's more like a possibility of flipping a coin, and having it freeze in mid air. Or the possibility of all oxygen molecules around you bouncing away from you at the same time, and you suffocating. It CAN happen, but for any practical purposes it is impossible.

I came here, asked what happened, and the first answer was "collision happened".

I did not believe this answer, but is it really so naive or paranoid to believe, that most people would trust the answer, if it was given to them?

Besides, did you even read my post? What satoshidice has to do with anything, if I explained, that this address was never purposefully used? Why would satoshidice send BTC to random addresses? And no, I never played satoshidice or any gambling games, on any of my addresses (but even if I did, your "guess" would still be irrelevant).

_{p.s. offtopic - autocorrect suggestion for "satoshidice" - "dictatorship"}  

WTF are you talking about?

There were articles calling the ddos of mtgox as "Bitcoin hacking" http://www.cnbc.com/id/100615508 Bitcoin Hacked: Price Stumbles After Buying Frenzy

They would absolutely, definitely call wallet encryption bruteforcing as "Bitcoin hacking" too.

Why not? This happened to me, I came here for an answer, and the first answer I got was "collision happened!".

I know that collision did not happen, because I understand bitcoin enough, so I did not believe this.

If there was someone else in my place, he/she may have very well believed that collision happened, after getting such an answer.

Ah, sorry then. My bad