diff --git a/bcinflationchart/bcinflation.pl b/bcinflationchart/bcinflation.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+# 3456789#123456789#123456789#123456789#123456789#123456789#123456789#123456789#
+# bcinflation.pl 20101228 jeffrey paul <sneak@datavibe.net> 
+# 5539 AD00 DE4C 42F3 AFE1  1575 0524 43F4 DF2A 55C2  # please sign!
+
+use strict;
+use warnings qw( all );
+use LWP::Simple;
+use Data::Dumper;
+use HTML::Strip;
+use DateTime;
+
+# thanks to nullvoid for historical block data
+my $historyurl = 'http://nullvoid.org/bitcoin/difficultiez.php';
+my $growthfactor = 1.0;
+
+main();
+
+sub main {
+	my $hist = fetch_history_data() or die "unable to fetch history!";
+	my $block = 0;
+	my $totalbc = 0;
+	my $perblock = 50;
+	my $at = 1231006505; # block zero timestamp
+	while ($block < 1500000) { # arbitrary
+		$block++;
+		$perblock /= 2 unless $block % 210000;
+		$at += 60*10/$growthfactor; # estimate block timestamp
+		# replace with real data if we have it:
+		$at = $hist->{$block} if exists($hist->{$block});
+		$totalbc += $perblock;
+		if ($block == 210000) {
+			print ts2nice($at);
+			die;
+		}
+	unless($block % 21000) {
+			print ts2nice($at) . ",";
+			print $block . ",";
+			print $perblock . ",";
+			print $totalbc. ",";
+			print "\n";
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+sub ts2nice { return DateTime->from_epoch( epoch => shift() )->ymd; }
+
+sub fetch_history_data {
+	my $raw = get($historyurl) or die "derp: $!";
+
+	my $clean = HTML::Strip->new()->parse($raw);
+	$clean =~ s/Block/\nBlock/g;
+	my $out = {};
+	foreach my $l (split(/\n+/,$clean)) {
+		next unless $l =~ /^Block\s+([0-9]+)\s+was.*at\s+([0-9]+).*Difficulty\:\s+([0-9\.]{3,10}).*$/;
+		$out->{$1} = $2;	
+	}
+	return unless $out->{98784};
+	return $out;
+}
+
+1;
+__END__
diff --git a/bitcoin.blockchain/test.py b/bitcoin.blockchain/test.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python2.6
+
+import sys
+import bsddb
+
+bitcoin_dir = "%s/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/" % os.environ['HOME']
+
+def main(argv):
+    d = bsddb.btopen("%s/blkindex.dat" % bitcoin_dir)
+
+    print d.keys()
+
+sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
+
diff --git a/bitcoin.shallow/generate.py b/bitcoin.shallow/generate.py
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+++ b/bitcoin.shallow/generate.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python2.6
+
+import urllib
+import sys
+import json
+import decimal
+
+def main(argv):
+    current = fetch_mtgox_orders()
+
+def fetch_mtgox_orders():
+    url = 'https://mtgox.com/code/data/getDepth.php'
+    parsed = json.loads(
+        urllib.urlopen(url).read(),
+        parse_float=decimal.Decimal
+    )
+    print repr(parsed)
+
+sys.exit(main(sys.argv))