I have my Bitcoin Core client up and running almost constantly but from time to time, when I need more resources, I disable inbound connections by removing the relevant port mapping on my router. It may or may not be relevant that my router does not support UPnP but I have it enabled on the client.

I check if I'm actually reachable with bitnodes, and it says I'm visible or not depending on the port mapping settings so everything seems to work as expected.

However, even when I am "invisible" to the network, I receive inbound connections. I generally end up with one or two of them, always with a IPv6 address: how is that possible?

[Bitcoin withdrawals are once again fully automated]

15TH FEB., 2014
Bitcoin withdrawals are once again fully automated
Dear Bitstamp clients, After rigorous testing, we have restored fully automated processing for Bitcoin withdrawals. Unforeseen incidents like this DoS attack against an edge case in the Bitcoin protocol are to be expected with such a young technology. The core protocol remains sound and the world has seen how these incidents are addressed by the Bitcoin community. Every challenge that is successfully overcome is a milestone that allows the world to grow their confidence in Bitcoin. We recognize that for many of clients the inability to make withdrawals may have been stressful and we are thankful for your patience and understanding. Best regards, The Bitstamp team

Incapsula error page for me.

For my fellow EU folks, today the important milestone of 10 €/BTC was reached.

I've read the various guides about this topic and searched around the forum but I'm not sure the information I found are reliable with the new bitcoind client. So, I encrypt my wallet, store a backup copy somewhere else, but I'm not sure what to do when restoring it. Should I still delete wallet.dat, blkindex.dat and blk0001.dat, restore wallet.dat and let the client perform the whole block scan again? Does the program still know that the wallet is encrypted? Or should I encrypt the new wallet.dat with the same passphrase again before restoring the old one? Thank you in advance.

I've seen in other threads that in the last few weeks SEPA transfers at MtGox have been pretty slow, but my transfer landed on their account more than a week ago, and I still can't see my balance updated. Anyone else whose transfer took that much?