It was in one of those articles about stuff the NSA does. If you can understand it it is in the MtGox source code.

omg insider trading wtf

Tongue

Why is bitcoin price stuck around the same number and not increasing, how likely is it for bitcoin to steadily start going up again?

Bitcoin need more user now, and some marketing action like "PayPal is accepting Bitcoins" IMO

Na, Paypal is busy working on irrelevant projects, like interplanetary payments:

http://www.myfoxny.com/Story/22701675/paypal-looks-to-conquer-space-payments

Pretty sure bitcoin is better suited for this application also, lol.

Depends if the latencies are too high, wouldn't want to try mining up there, even with the great solar power you could get.