FWIW, I got abe up and running natively on Mac OS 10.9. It was painful, OSX doesn't like python... I lost a weekend, if anyone wants a discussion of how and what I used to get the binaries compiled give me a shout.

Abe through MySQL allows me to directly access the database using Mathematica for data analytics.  Very nice tool.  Thanks John!

BTW, where is the data for the number of bitcoins in circulation? I can't seem to find the correct db location.