Fakeman:

If it is still counting accepted shares, then I would assume it should still be keeping up. I don't know for sure though.

Sukrim:

The volume is in MNC. Although considering this is still a relatively new market, it is growing super fast. The next difficulty jump is going to be huge. Over the past three hours, an average of about 35 blocks have been found each hour. That mean it is running at 5.8X the desired block creation rate. This would indicate that we should expect a 580% increase in difficulty if it was based off just this time span. I think the actual number may be smaller, but still a triple digit increase. The number of NMC flowing into the system will decrease by the XXX% after this jump. This makes me think that the price will see an increase around that time, but as we all know price doesn't necessarily follow the difficulty. Personally, I wouldn't think of selling until that point. I've actually been moving more BTC from MtGox to bitparking to buy up as many as I can before the difficulty jump. It's a gamble, but if I'm right, it should be a nice return.

-SteveA

edit: fixed my math.