For everyone who wants to get all the information available using the python script, remove the write calls and add the following:

write("Total paid", my["paidOut"])
write("Total unpaid ", my["immatureBalance"] + my["unexchangedBalance"] + my["bitcoinBalance"])
write("Exchanged    ", my["bitcoinBalance"])
write("Unexchanged  ", my["unexchangedBalance"])
write("Immature     ", my["immatureBalance"])
print "    Khash/s      :\t%.2f" % (my["megahashesPerSecond"])
print "    Shares last h:\t%.0f" % (my["lastHourShares"]/1000)

edit: oops. Last two lines were formatted wrong. Hacked it to be right.

Excellent. Now I don't have to feel bad for taxing the server

Wouldn't it be reasonable to take the graph off the home page, put it on a sub-page and instead show the key numbers?

Yup. You people keep on pumping, we will do the dumping. very much mine   great price
wow

My hashrate improved by about 8% on a Fermi kernel, so I'm not complaining.

Ah, I wasn't paying attention.

Everyone please note that the OP (Les) is one of the few people (or alter egos) raking in all the rewards.

I've been engaging on rugatu a little bit, lately. I think it is an excellent concept, but I suspect that there is a small group of users who are colluding.

Take a look at who is accepting answers. It seems like the user cscoxx and some other users are colluding to grab the rewards. Check out his profile and dig through his history. Note the low quality of the accepted answers that he is involved in. I'm not sure how and where exactly he is profiting (he DOES ask (very random) questions himself, but then goes on to accept extremely low quality answers) but something is up. I hope he's just manipulating the system to gain karma, but right now I'm not sending any BTC to rugatu.

edit: Ugh, note to self: search bitcointalk before engaging in anything related to bitcoin. This issue is not new and has been happening for a long time. I'm removing all my answers and won't come back. Might as well annoy them a little 

You can view the profit graph here.

As long as you see mature coins, we're good.

I think that what he means to say is that the value of a dollar has the potential to halve 

Ah, I see. Fair enough. But the second graph does imply it. If it doesn't happen than the pattern you drew was not a pattern to begin with but merely a sawtooth that loosely resembled past events (again the first tooth does not reflect the data).

I have near zero knowledge of this market and can tell you, your prediction is unwarranted. The first tooth in the zigzag pattern is made up to be consistent with the two following teeth. It is not consistent with the actual data. What remains is the two teeth. Your prediction amounts to "it went up a bit, down a bit more, then up a little bit less, therefore a crash will happen". I will eat my words if it goes down to 200, as you predict.

The first thing I would do check is the power savings settings. You're most likely using windows (the gaming gave it away :p) and I wouldn't be completely surprised if windows doesn't recognize an app running in the console as a priority, given a conservative power savings profile.

Do you withdraw amounts as small as BTC0.0002? You shouldn't do that.

Is there any chance that the algorithm for choosing the coin is shared with the cows for inspection? I often suspect that the choice of coin is suboptimal, but it is impossible to know for sure. The cows have the greatest incentive to optimize the algorithm besides hashco.ws, so why not bundle forces to improve it? Or could that knowledge be abused by a third party?

What I meant was the spread between the asks and the bids. Before the trap it suddenly grew out of proportions, the asks and bids became polarized. It was like a Mexican standoff before hell broke loose.

I have been keeping an eye on the market this week. It occurred to me that the last trap (dec 7th) was preceded by a large spread ($100+). I haven't seen such a spread since then and there have also been no traps since then. Are the traps usually preceded by large spreads? Is there some common wisdom as to what else can cause such spreads?

1. Take the Bitcoin concept without giving credit to its developers.
2. Remove all the features that make Bitcoin successful and call it "web cash".
3. ...
4. Profit?