The problem is not that the computer is going to act like a stove and start the cardboard on fire via heat transfer, but that if the computer happens to catch on fire, it's going to spread easily via the cardboard.

Take it from someone who's seen a lot of bitcoin mining accidents in his day.

You selected July, not August.
August 3rd: Search volume goes up (as price happens to fall)
August 4th: Price rises (as search volume happens to fall)
Again, the day after higher search volume, the market seems to have reacted.

This is a search volume graph, not a financial graph. The market lags a day behind heavy news and search traffic. Price may shoot up on a day that search volume falls. Do you have historical daily prices saved somewhere? I do not recall if btc price fell significantly on the 4th.

...possibly something I'd consider making some day...

What would be essential subjects / events that would go good in a scrapbook? So far I've got:

Events
Gavin visits CIA
Senators target silk road, citing bitcoin
Allinvain's loss
Gox hack
Bitomat fail
Dwolla reversals
MyBitcoin's ... whatever it turns out to be
Meze Grill brick & mortar exchange
BitCon in NYC

Community
Massive mines like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLt8Se3vVNg
We use carrots
Brain damaged miner
DEA mine raids (so far unsubstantiated)
ASCII art embedded in block chain
Buttcoin
Laszlo's pizza
Bitcoin Police
UABB

Ways of showing addiction
BitBills
Tattoos
Bitcoin custom license plate
Metal bitcoins
Dude who made weird videos in a coin costume

BTW, if you're unfamiliar with anything here, look it up, it's part of our history.

The markets tend to go up the day after heavy news and search traffic. I had noticed a week-long trend of increased searches but the market had been staying even, so it was to be expected that it would make a strong move. If you were following search trends during the last couple of weeks where price was very stable but drained a few cents every day, search volume for bitcoin was remarkably flat.



http://www.google.com/trends?q=bitcoin&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=0

Well, it did when this post was made:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/jdd2b/rbitcoin_has_reached_5000_readers_speech_inside/

and then a few jokers decided to drop it from their frontpage so it wouldn't have 5K anymore.

Anyways, everyone who isn't following the bitcoin reddit should do so. Let's get it back over 5000 asap.

choose either bitcoinfinancial.info, bitcoinsecurity.info, bitcoininvesting.info, or bitcoinmoney.info

Bitcoin: An African finance revolution?

http://www.africanbusinessreview.co.za/money_matters/bitcoin-an-african-finance-revolution

Please tell me these replies are as fake as the article 

d9000, you have a great eye for aesthetics, and your camera work is excellent. What did you use for the pics?

Geesh, your website looks KILLER too. I know that's a template but do you do design?

Pretty sure that thread is the #1 viewed thread of all time on here. There aren't any competing bitcoin forums with traffic even close to what you get here, so it's gonna happen. Shame, but whatever.

let you play minesweeper

act as a heater

blow hot air at you

act as a paperweight, coaster, or bookshelf

lull you to sleep with its hum

act as a conversation starter to anyone who dares enter your mineshaft

Well, I'll be ...

I'm actually not allowed to, by way of a contract!

Thanks. The funny thing is before I sent it to the editor it was even longer! But he probably knows better than me what the attention span of the average internet person is nowadays.

It's not your normal financial FUD though. It's a take on our unique culture that I wrote for Slacktory - kind of like a roast of our community on a late night TV show. You can thank me later for stopping the difficulty from going up much.

http://slacktory.com/2011/08/bitcoin-mining-fun-loss/

I took an irreverent look into our unique culture on Slacktory:


http://slacktory.com/2011/08/bitcoin-mining-fun-loss/

Good luck, no ill will here. I think the 10 btc min increment is a little high though. Maybe cause it just started.

Haters: All the people who got BTC at .01 - are they supposed to sell now for around the same price they bought it at?
If this flusters you, using the same ratio, you would even react negatively to them trying to sell at $1 per coin right now.

It's not what you paid for it then, it's what others will pay for it now. Sorta like antiques.

Maybe sales of big names should stay on Sedo so no one gets exposed to the reality of pricing.

I'll try this once more at the same price, but now it's cheaper in USD!