Just want to point out something...
16-Feb-2014 02:36:12 height: 1 difficulty: 0.00024414 tx: 1
17-Feb-2014 02:59:55 height: 2 difficulty: 0.00024414 tx: 1
17-Feb-2014 02:59:58 height: 3 difficulty: 0.00024414 tx: 1
17-Feb-2014 03:00:02 height: 4 difficulty: 0.00024414 tx: 1
17-Feb-2014 03:00:06 height: 5 difficulty: 0.00024414 tx: 1
17-Feb-2014 03:00:08 height: 6 difficulty: 0.00024414 tx: 1
17-Feb-2014 03:00:09 height: 7 difficulty: 0.00024414 tx: 1
17-Feb-2014 03:00:11 height: 8 difficulty: 0.00024414 tx: 1
17-Feb-2014 03:00:14 height: 9 difficulty: 0.00024414 tx: 1
17-Feb-2014 03:01:07 height: 10 difficulty: 0.00024414 tx: 1
17-Feb-2014 03:01:09 height: 11 difficulty: 0.00024414 tx: 1
Block 1 mined yesterday, fair enough (it's a genesis and necessary to incorporate it into the client), but note that "real world" mining from block 2 onwards started 5 sec just before launch.
That means someone had a wallet up and synced, 100% ready to go, at the exact time of launch.
While all the rest of us were trying to find a working pool or wallet for half an hour or more.
Just thought I'd put that out there.