BOOM! 

In Blockchains user settings, there's an optional  tickbox for blocking all attempts to access your account from TOR IPs, I guess to reduce the chance of getting hacked via TOR. In mine it defaulted to un-ticked, but could yours have gotten enabled by accident?.  Have you tried logging into your blockchain wallet via a normal IP?

Unless of course they don't know about it.

ie, do a trade based purely on trust of the person alone. That is, agree to pay the person via paypal a certain amount, but send the payment just as a 'gift' , not some formal transaction, like you would sending money to a family member, then just hope and trust that the other person pays the bitcoins to your address, the conversation of which is totally independent and outside of Paypal.
But you have to put a lot of faith in the Bitcoin seller to actually send those Bitcoins, otherwise you've just given away money for free.

When I read the topic title I thought this was going to be another story of someone that bought a load of bitcoins when they were worth $0.10.
I wouldn't really classify buying one Bitcoin at 60 euro and the profit on just that as life changing yet, but every little helps right?

As others have said, don't put all your eggs in one basket at this stage, only invest what you can afford, its still relatively early days in the Bitcoin timeline and there are important decisions still to be made coming up that will affect its future in terms of mainstream business acceptance.

I'm a huge fan of Bitcoin too and really hope it does takeoff, at least become as big as Paypal as an option for buying goods online. Try not to get too excited though and swept into things. Approach with caution and expect a few mini bubble crashes along the way.

That's a none issue, as the price increases, instead of Bitcoins all prices will be displayed as mBTC, or millibits. Then if one assumes that Bitcoin quite literally took over the world as some global currency, then 1 cent = 1 satoshi and equivalent of $1 would be a uBTC or microbit.
It's not like all prices would be shown as decimal points of full BTC. In fact they might even give the new divisions brand new names to replace millibit and microbit.

Same problem here, article seems empty, if i click on another article on same page like "Currency Wars: Will Bitcoin survive Big Brother?"  that and the others display fine, its almost like someone deleted it.

Yup its back up again now, musta just been server issue, jolly good!

Those of us noobs that use free bitcoin faucets will obviously know about the inputs.io disaster of late, but now coinbox seems to have gone down as well, the website that collects tiny fractions of bitcoins from other faucets to send to normal bitcoin address in a bigger lump.

I'm hoping its just some server down issue and not another hack attempt.

http://www.coinbox.me/

You put ALL of your funds into an online wallet that is completely seperate to the main blockchain?!? :O

I'm still a total noob to the Bitcoin world, but even I know thats incredibly risky. I was using inputs.io for collecting from free faucets only.
Still, I guess you just didn't realise the implication of this and read stuff about it being secure so fair enough, I hope you get refunded, good luck.

And you are correct in saying that he gave NO indication on the inputs website whatsoever that there had been a hack, there was nothing at all on the news/blog page about it. I only found out from going to free inputs type faucets and reading a text message on there that it had been hacked, which then lead me to check here on the bittalk forum which confirmed this. I managed to get most of the funds I had in there out in time.

You've learnt an important lesson here, do LOTS of research when shifting a large amount of funds to a new account, a painful lesson, but a good one.

That's what I'm leaning more towards too, that we'll have another big drop in the not too distant future, then it will restabilise and continue on its upward ramp.

I think the more recent increases have been down to both larger investers taking bitcoin seriously, along with main stream media picking up on Bitcoin once more, with the stories like the ATM machines in Canada (which I hope to see in the UK very soon!).

I was lucky in that mine wasn't affected, but still decided to take the decision to transfer most of my funds into another wallet. It's also a little dissapointing that nothing was and is mentioned on his news/blog page about the incident, wanting to sweep it under the carpet I guess.