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The question is which exchange to use. They differ a lot. Using MtGox will just further promote MtGox as 'the' exchange, which is bad.

[mtgox] Bid: $114.82000, Ask: $115.00000

[btflr] Bid: $115.07000000, Ask: $118.77000000

[btc-e] Bid: $107.909, Ask: $107.3

Moreover, BTC isn't the only hot new digital currency out there.

It's quite possible a currency with better technical support by vendors/exchanges could overtake BTC as the premiere ecurrency.

So what? It would show both...

no, no it doesn't

what needs to happen first is for bitcoin to stop dropping and going up like crazy.

This needs to happen