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I really would like to buy more, but I am unsure if it is normalizing soon (back to 100$) or hiking like gold did last year.

Don't know if we can trust that link at the moment: it's showing the last trade as "an hour ago".

It's right; MtGox has been down/frozen for the past hour (at the time of this post). Bitcoinity is a pretty solid site in my experience.

According to that graph, mtgox stopped responding and they've been displaying the last available price since then.

@mikko speculates that Bitcoin exchanges are getting DDoS'd.

"Database access error, please retry later"

Which comes and goes. I've got in several times in the last hour.