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It would be really interesting if the organizers recorded and tracked the Bitcoins that are distributed in this way using the block chain. It could be a financial parallel to the MIT Reality Mining dataset: http://realitycommons.media.mit.edu/realitymining.html

We are working on a Bitcoin analysis service. This is a screenshot of a tool for following the flow of Bitcoins over time: http://i.imgur.com/3FMKMdR.png. You can try it out at http://www.quantabytes.com.

Your Bitcoin and Dogecoin addresses are mixed up.

EDIT: Fixed now.

Take a look at the contributor's stats for the Bitcoin project on GitHub: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors Gavin Andresen, the lead developer for the project, has removed more lines than he has added.

http://www.quantabytes.com makes Bitcoin analysis simple. It's cool to work on because we know almost nothing about the structure of Bitcoin's block chain and how it is evolving over time.

https://www.bitcoinstore.com

Yes, if anything I'd imagine the Bitcoin price influences the mining difficulty. If a Bitcoin is worth more, miners can invest more in mining hardware, thereby increasing the difficulty.

I like Sneak's Law: Most users cannot or will not securely manage key material (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k4GP3Evh9c @ 23:00).

Many of the presentations from the Bitcoin 2013 conference were uploaded to YouTube today: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUOP0P68GJ3BGjfqoLLnzA...