The story of Norwegian student Kristoffer Koch, who managed to find and recover the $27 of bitcoin he bought in 2009, resonated with at least the reddit community, as the Guardian post on the story is the
The lucky winner of blockchain.info’s 10 bitcoin for signing up the 500,000th wallet also reacted:
The funny thing is I had no idea you were running a contest! I used to dabble in Bitcoins a couple of years ago (bought 5 BTC back when they were like £5 each, gutted that I sold them for £6 a few months later once I found out they were £140 each now!), and thought I’d get back into using them, so I signed up for a Blockchain account because it seemed like the most reliable online wallet provider.
In the past few days the price of bitcoin has steadily crept back up above $200. Even Bitstamp is now at $202.65. However, both order books of Mt. Gox and Bitstamp show support in the $180–185 region, according to a BitcoinMarkets redditor.
The weighted average price has crept up from just under $198 to $204.04.