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.

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...