I try to imagine this number. 75k accounts in 1 1/2 months and the following consequences.
The rise of created accounts is nearly the same as the exponential price gain of bitcoin in the last weeks.
(despite the drop today)

I'm really stunned by the way this whole experiment is gathering (i still see it as that, because imo the "real" big players are still not in the game and that time will come sooner than later)

I can't wait for the future of bitcoin and what (senseless?) attempts the governments and financial regulators will start to put it behind bars.
The comparison is perhaps kind of naive (i'm just a cgi artist, programming is not really my strength)
but if they really try to ban bitcoin with laws, is it possible to handle the bitcoin system in the same way the piratebay is secured?

Because the only other possibilities would point straight towards a kind of "regulated" (as said if that is even possible) sideway currency integrated into the existing market or bitcoins could only be traded via tax havens (which is perhaps kind of logical because in europe there's a beginning chase for tax refugees and these countries already are the shelter for most betting companies for example).

Perhaps i miss the point or I'm wildly speculating right now after my third cup of tea and 4th cigarette 
but it could be that with the ongoing obsolescence of fiat money, tax refugees really start turning to bitcoins in the future (only as the price rises. right now bitcoins are not the best possibility to transfer such large amounts of money). For tax havens it's much more easier to get some servers running and trading bitcoins instead of doing the old phantom company style and trying to blur the money flow.

...it's kind of sad in a way but bitcoin could become more and more attractive for tax refugees in combination as a eventually side playground beneath existing stock exchange for exactly those speculating assholes who were the reason in the beginning that bitcoin emerged...
(otherwise these pricks could have greater interests in bitcoin as a nonspeculative currency because it's not fluctuating. Perhaps that evolves to a possibility for the little man to finally outwit them and profit on their destructive behaviour towards the society)

oh bitcoin where will your future lay....

it's funny that every bigger step of humanity has always these two faces of a coin in its ecosystem.

but compared to the developement of the internet as it is today in times of partially senseless overregulation in fear of probably pushing the next possible revolutions at a certain point like during the Arab spring, I'm confident that somehow the whole idea will find its way over the centuries.
(It always has! And perhaps no matter what kind of money is put into bitcoin in the future, the more the better.
It's goldrushtime and I hope that hype can regulate itself over the years with a following prosperity for everyone)

uh kind of went off- topic on this one  , sorry for that and eventual grammatical disasters, don't bash me, I'm just a fascinated overslept excited newbie starting to get into the think tank (perhaps some operator put my post in a "mysterious future monologue"-thread)

.....where were we

ah...

back to mt. gox

sorry for copy and paste from the senior forums, but just wanted to throw in this statement with impressing numbers from mt. gox facebook page (35 min ago):
https://www.facebook.com/MtGox

I'm curious about the coming months with 75k traders throwing their money on the market, in combination with the big impact on the media and the current situation in europe.
(Slowenia seems to be the next shaky candidate and cyprus perhaps have to sell their gold reserves)  
looks like the rough times have just begun.

Hello there,
it's my first post so please no bashing for some dumb newbie questioning.
I'm relatively fresh to bitcoins, started watching the market for 2 months and went in three weeks ago.
And damn was it a rollercoaster ride until right now!
Just have to state that I'm not in the game because of quick wins with speculation but for longterm investment, since the pensionsystem in germany is going down the drain
and I have some deep faith in the system of bitcoin as a resource (as which I see it now) and hopefully someday a real everyday currency.
but I should get to the point:

so I'm watching the mt. gox chart right now being manipulated by some bots for nearly three hours
and I'm amused by the line crawling up and down like a caterpillar in search of the next branch.
Fortunately I read the forums (thanks for all the information here and the relaxed behaviour with such attacks) and I'm holding strong to my few coins (first thing I learned  ).
There's one thing I simply don't understand:

Why do the guys at mt. gox not just simply pull the plug, shut down their market
and take some time for figuring out what to do about it?

The longer this goes on the more the market is disturbed by this stuff. (or is it self regulatory and by the next morning everything's okay again)