I sent 16 BTC to the address provided by wm-center after putting in an exchange order and entering my LR account number/ How long does it typically take for the process to complete? Will I receive an email notification when the funds have been received? Will the money automatically go into my LR?

Edit: Received! 30 min turnaround. Will be using wm-center again.

Also, I know I promised once 69 more credits were sold I would reveal the credit count (even though I am not required to for any reason whatsoever) just as a show of good faith, I decided to go ahead and show it now.

To date, there have been 225 raffle credits sold.

the price will go up.  the question is just how much and you can't just expect it to be related to whats on the order book right now.  but as Proudhon said, theres alot of money on the sideline that is waiting for something to happen.  as someone who has put in alot of money to Bitcoin i can tell you you can affect the market.  

$85K is a significant chunk of change and the bots can sense buying pressure and will react accordingly to buy the momentum or cover shorts.  you could hurt alot of shorts.  i have.

btw, i put on a short of AAPL this past week.  its at the end of a parabola and now with Jobs gone i can't see a path anywhere but down for the stock.

Just curious, at what price did you get into AAPL?

Omni, you can check http://mtgoxlive.com/orders to see the real-time market depth.

If you would place a market order with your 85k$ right now, you would drive the price up to about 5.02 since this would be the last transaction. After your order anything can happen, since there's a large spread and the market will then decide what happens next.

Well, an immediate buy of ~$85,000 right now -- the price is at $4.80 as I type this -- would take the price to $5.00.  It's unlikely it'd stay there.  There's a chance it could kick off a round of buying and break the correction we're in right now -- there's a lot of money sitting on the sidelines right now waiting for something to happen (I've got a decent chunk of change waiting for the right time).  Of course, there's a good chance the price would quickly come back down.

To answer the question directly, no, an $85,000 buy wouldn't drive the price up significantly.

If you leverage your $85k up using the 10:1 choice at Bitcoinica, you might be able to drive the price up a little bit.
But I wonder if Bitcoinica has so many dollars to lend to you though.

Oh god my sides.

But he's right, pushing your GPU to the maximum possible before everything BSoDs or just crashes is NOT an effective way to mine. It's better to keep it stable. Uptime is key