it was down for me too and for a few other people.

see this discussion on a different (new) forum http://www.bitcoinforums.net/index.php?threads/price-crash-and-other-forum-down.49/

not sure if it was up for others in the US or elsewhere at the time.

Assuming 7168 Tesla S1070 (the highest Mhash/s Tesla GPU) that would give ~1111 Ghash/s (7168 * 155 Mhash/s)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

About 1/6 of the current network hash rate.

yeah dropped so far they're paying people to take them. where can I sign up

if you successfully mine a block could that be considered like a lottery win? not sure in the US, but where I'm from lottery wins are tax free

sorry, I just did it manually. Not automated and I'm not a coder so not that easy for me to automate it. (yet anyway)

does this work

https://i.imgur.com/nFfYN.png

it's pretty volatile alright.

chart up to 8^th June 2011 - didn't download the data for last few days yet.

large transfer here

http://blockexplorer.com/address/155kHCZstYaosoGRxthF1zsZFVFheVFPLS

lot of the inputs look like block rewards, some from early blocks

maybe bitbills

http://bitbills.com/

You're right. Edited the sig again.

I've changed my forum sig to promote this. Others could maybe do the same to try to get the word out. Part of the problem is that with so many threads most people don't know about this thread or the proposed stack exchange.

going to give this a plug.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=5117.msg74758#msg74758

bump.

getting more necessary day by day.

isn't buttcoin a satirical site on all things bitcoin.  doubt it's true.

Wow, impressive. After the record volume of 2 days ago, it has held up well.

So well in fact that over that last 3 days (8, 9 and 10 June 2011) over 1/3 of the total volume in US$ ever traded on MtGox has been traded. Oh yeah, did I mention today isn't even over yet. MtGox must be raking in the fees.

Updated graph below.

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg1zvzcvztgSzm1g10zm2g25

~$260k - you could buy a house for that.

and to think not too long ago 12000BTC would just get you some pizza and perhaps a drink if you were lucky.

would it be possible or useful to back up everyones wallet somehow in an encrypted form in the block chain such that it would always be an up to date backup and also accessible from anywhere running bitcoin. you would be forced to use a strong password/phrase somehow.

maybe a completely stupid idea. just seems appealing that you could go to any computer with bitcoin on it, enter you're passphrase and voila, you have access to your wallet.  actually just writing this now thinking that this would be pretty stupid as there could be all sorts of spyware/key loggers on an unknown computer.

so, I'm guessing block 170 http://blockexplorer.com/b/170 is the first transfer from one address to another?

had a look at some of the previous blocks (but not all 170) and didn't see any transactions.

I think the title and graph say it all. Shows how astonishing everything bitcoin related has been. And we're just getting started.

try here
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7269.msg106747#msg106747