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It all comes down to your electricity bill as time and internet bill are really constants (unless you pay for usage).  If it costs you $100/month to run your mining rig then you need to make more than that in whatever your mining to make any money.  At bitcoins difficulty you won't be able to mine past what it would cost you.  You're best bet is to mine an alt coin which is easier and hope it goes up in value.

Bad news like China is already factored in so that won't affect it anymore.

People have spare money again now after the holidays to invest. 

Too much invested to let the currency die so people see a great value in it and buy which drives people on the sidelines waiting to see which way its going to go to jump back in.

Just my take on it.

Go with coinbase.com.  They are an american company and you can hook it up to your bank account so it's much easier.  It took 4 business days for the transaction but if you have a visa card and attach it you can get it instantly I think.  Once you have your bitcoins you can send it off to any exchange.  Took me about an hour to transfer from Coinbase to BTC-E.  Coinbase and BTC-E are both at 744 as of writing this (BTC-E use to be always cheaper).  

It took me several hours to get mine transferred but it did eventually get there and haven't had any issues since.  Like someone else said, you can try coinedup for DOGE as they have no trading fees but they are having growing pains as their site can be slow.

I'm new as well and would like to join the lotto.  Such an amazing site, learning so much.

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