Has anything fundamentally changed with Bitcoin in the past 72 hours? The last time I checked, MTGox was signing up 20,000+ people a day, and our biggest problem was that people can't get coins fast enough.
The infrastructure build around bitcoin has been tested and found lacking. Arguably this is a good thing, this is something that most certainly can be overcome with technical solutions. Hell I've allready lost count on how many new exchanges are being developed and how many new merchants started accepting bitcoin this week alone. These are great times we are living, alltough it may not seem like it if you cannot see beyond the current exchange rate. Which in itself is nice, what other investment has seen this much gains in just slightly one one quarter ?