Because it is bartering? Who said it isn't?

Perhaps it's just the forums, but I feel like there's a lot of negative vibes coming from BTC right now. 
I've following Bitcoin and mining for a while but never bothered with forums until recently.  Is this common amongst forum-goers or is it really just Bitcoin in general?

bring back the newbie section.. ppllaasse

satosi made bitcom... tis lgit

The point of increasing difficulty is to s..l..o..w down the collective network hash rate. The frequency of completed rounds should get longer because more shares have to be completed to finish an entire "block" which still only pays say 25 BTC + transaction fee. Most pools reduce the BTC paid "per share" to continue dividing the 25 BTC among the increased number of shares. If you don't increase your miners hash rate or your "collective" hash rate of miners contributing to "your" pool worker - you will see a small reduction in number of shares you earn per given time period as well as a reduction in total BTC earned for each "share" of your work - each time the Network Difficulty increases.

According to
http://bitcoinity.org/markets/list?currency=ALL&span=24h

China has 71% of the volume for the last 24 hours

huobi is responsible for 67% and btcchina for 4%

Well huobi volume of 327,309 BTC for the last 24 hours seems way too big to be trusted?

What's the deal this time?

You must have really powerful hardware in order to solo mine these days!!!

It's does happen from time to time: https://blockchain.info/orphaned-blocks

Orphaned blocks happen because of how the Bitcoin network reaches consensus on the blockchain. Because there is no central storage for it, every Bitcoin client stores its own version. It can be the case that a majority of nodes have one version of blockchain, but then a smaller minority have another, with two more fresh blocks. After the majority notices that it no longer has the longest blockchain, it will switch to the other one. This can happen when two miners produce blocks at similar times.

Note that blocks only contain transaction IDs. No money is lost during this blockchain reorganization*, because the transactions that were in the orphaned block will be nevertheless included in subsequent blocks.

*actually, the 25 BTC reward from the orphaned block is lost, so the mining power of miners was wasted in that case.

I make new bitcoin mining calculator.
If you have any ideas? write in comments!

http://aleks1k.github.io/bitcoin-calculator/

UPDATE: Add support for Litecoin, Dogecoin and other coins

A lot of the trolls on CNN's comment section were gloating yesterday, but we are having the last laugh, when you think about it the Lehman Brothers or Bear Sterns of the crypto world folded yesterday...and nothing happened. In fact BTC and other alts are rallying because of it. If Mt Gox were a major US bank, we'd be having fed policy makers locked behind doors for days on end figuring out how to bail them out and arguing if we don't do anything, bitcoin could suffer a "Catastrophic" collapse.

I am convinced '08 was nothing more than a big lie to steal trillions in wealth from middle-class Americans with fears that if we don't bail out the big banks, our whole economic way of life is on the line. I think had we gone over the cliff and let these big banks failed we might have even seen a major market rally due to the free market correction.