That dump lasted just long enough to move the Coinbase buy price, right exactly when I was about to buy anyway, so I managed to get them at $115.23.

This is why I've been saying Stamp isn't a real competitor to Gox. Stamp simply doesn't have the bid depth. You can't sell large quantities without causing lots of slippage.

stamps has been known to be slightly more volatile than gox 

speaking of bitstamp... has anyone noticed that they added a new deposit method called AstroPay apparently it works for some of the latin america countries

has these logos, not sure what some of them are:

I don't think the dump with an ongoing (still) DDOS attack worked though. Price is filling in and people are not panicking it looks like.

Not sure what is going on. But something weird is in the air. Rumors of something big at GOX happening and now someone trying to crash Stamp?

I tried to do the same thing but I refreshed before I bought and the price jumped back to 19.90. You lucky son of a gun...LOL

False.
http://blockchained.com/depth_mtgox.png

Do you have a source for the rumors?

Aaaand it's gone.

Gox's new trading engine and all of the upcoming exchanges (ex, Coinsetter) are completely unnecessary given the total volume on all current exchanges.

Prediction: 4-5 months from now, there will be at least a dozen new exchanges, most averaging about 1,000 daily volume. This "fracturing" of volume will ultimately result in lots of smaller and consequently more easily manipulable exchanges. Gox will still maintain the lead with 5,000 daily volume on the very busiest days. But, Gox too will be primed for manipulation given lower volume and depth.  

Prediction 2: 1 year from now, after enough reports of manipulation and investors getting ripped off, the SEC steps in and requires exchanges to monitor and put in place restrictions to stop blatant manipulation (or at least make it much more difficult/risky). Bitcoin gradually drops in value to almost nothing as the community realizes the price is and always has been driven by whale-walls.