This is definitely the week of good news...  pushing BTC up...

After Mt.Gox to come to North America, NameCheap accepting BTC, Amazon associating with BitPay...

The latest...

http://pokerfuse.com/features/in-depth/winpoker-bitcoin-comes-worlds-largest-online-poker-network-ipoker-06-03/

Indeed...  probably not until tomorrow  

Contact MtGox with the information, the transaction amount, etc.  MtGox will have your money, so your best bet is with their support team... 

Hello  I'm Eric

I've been following the forum for a while, just registered today.

I'm an electronic, microprocessor, FPGA and software programming freak!  I actually took FPGA boards at work (We have a lot of those telecom systems stockpiled) and managed to custom build a mining rig, 13 cards @ 170MHash/s each, 2.2GHash/s total in a 450 Watts envelope (custom FPGA code on Stratix-II EP2S90, custom hardware to interface the boards to the PC, custom mining software...  well, a lot of hours of fun!).  The FPGA boards (the priciest part) cost me nothing, so that's a big plus.  But the interfacing hardware, custom PCB and components all packaged in a nice looking box do cost me something, but hey, already paid out so far in BTC!).

Of course, I started like many here with an initial investment (fiat to BTC exchange), but I leave up the rest from there to my trusty miners!  

So, that's pretty much the big lines of the introduction to myself  

Eric

It's always possible...  It's crashing right now!  Well...  Let's see how low it goes before bouncing back up

I don't know, I've been having this forum open for at least 5~6 hours and it say I'm only for 3 hours 4 minutes.  So there's probably a timeout indeed

At least many of those first buyers will get their boards from the first batch an be riding the difficulty raise wave, and get back their money quickly enough.  For the other, when difficulty reach over 500 million in a few months (which is fairly possible, there's a nice thread on that on BFL forum, supposing 70K ASIC @ 8GH/s), then it will be unprofitable.

I ordered an SC a month ago too.  Cost me 65BTC at that time.  If I had waited and ordered it today, it would have cost me less than half of that in BTC 

And when it arrive, I'll probably make penny-BTC with the difficulty increase 

I currently took extra telecom cards here at my work with Stratix-II (EP2S90).  The cards cost me nothing, all I had to do is go through the hardware specs of the cards (all available since we designed those!) and wrap it with some custom hardware (which do cost something, but nowhere near buying the FPGA), custom FPGA code and a custom miner.   I currently have 13 cards running at 170MH/s per FPGA, so total is 2200MH/s @ approx. 450W.  At current difficulty it pops out a Bitcoin worth every 4 days (last week it was 1 BTC per 3 days...  damn difficulty raising ).  It also heat up our house a little bit but electricity is cheap here in Quebec (around 7.5cents/KWh).  Total investment is around 500~600$ and it already paid out.

I think the uptrend is due to Mt. Gox wanting to establish in North America

See http://www.forbes.com/sites/saranyakapur/2013/03/05/bitcoin-ready-to-go-mainstream-with-first-u-s-exchange/

Of course, we see speculative prices, and if may well crash, but at the same time, it may well get more public attention, and big investors eventually, so that drive the price nuts.

Thay may be the reason for new high...

http://www.techhive.com/article/2029980/bitcoin-exchange-teams-with-us-banks-to-broaden-service.html