At least I have 250 BTC left that I can sell... or wait, I'll just stash them in a few wallet.dat, put it in online storage and in USB stick drives and External HDD etc etc in a bank vault, and in a few years I'll dig up up

If it makes you feel any better we're probably heading for a substantial drop in the near future.

a lot of people who bought at the 1$ ~ 1.10$ high regretted it until the sudden jump to 3$

Yeah, don't worry about it... if you think it'll get to $20 this year like I do, you'd still do well buying at $5.

Um, how the heck are we supposed to chart this thing when one guy with a fat wallet can wreak havoc on the price?  We need more people trading to level out the influence and psychological factors. 

Is there any way to estimate the 'Bitcoin population' meaning the number of people using Bitcoin? Perhaps a char t of the number of people running the Bitcoin client or the number of addresses holding >5 BTC ? I understand this information would not be perfect but I wonder if spikes in the Bitcoin population would be a good leading indicator of rallies.

Corollary to that is that the BTC value is too low if one fat wallet can move it around so much ....

The number of bitcoins is not to going to change hugely (well not anytime soon) .... so only thing that can change to smooth out 'fat-wallet' fluctuations is the value .... upwards, get it?

I am not sure what type of donations he is getting; but I would very willingly pay a privilege (1-3 btc a month?) for more frequent updates that were private to his subscribers.

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