Hello Everyone
I created mtgox on a lark after reading about bitcoins last summer. It has been interesting and fun to do. I’m still very confident that bitcoins have a bright future. But to really make mtgox what it has the potential to be would require more time than I have right now. So I’ve decided to pass the torch to someone better able to take the site to the next level.
MagicalTux has already contributed a lot to the bitcoin community and in many ways he will be better at running the site than I was. He has much more experience with web programming, system administration and integrating with banks and other payment processors than I do.

Everything will still work the same as always for the time being. But expect a lot of positive changes after he takes over including:
Automatic (and free) funding from Euro accounts.
Automatic ACH deposit and withdrawal.
Margin trading.
Interface redesign.
Lifting the $1000 a day withdrawal limit.

Thanks to everyone that has supported mtgox so far. Can’t wait to see BTC hit $10!

I can still be reached on the forum as "jed" or through fivegrinder.com

We now have a European bank account so can accept deposits cheaply from the EU. email for details.

Is anyone interested in adding or withdrawing money on mtgox with paxum? They seem better than LR.

I just added the ability to add buy and sell orders to the mtgox Dark Pool.

The dark pool allows you to buy or sell large quantities of BTC without moving the market.
You can mark any buy or sell order with a value over $1000 as being in the dark pool.

Orders in the dark pool don't show up on the order book.

More info here: http://mtgox.com/support/darkPool

Can someone point me to code somewhere that determines if a string is a valid bitcoin address?

I'm in the process of making a real time chart you can order from. It still has a ways to go but it shows data much nicer than the old charts so I'll go ahead and post a link: http://mtgox.com/trade/test

This probably doesn't work in IE.

Finally got some LR in my account.
Sorry it took so long.

Would anyone be interested in Trading BTC/USD on margin? Like how trading is done on most forex sites?

Hi as a lot of you know mtgox recently switched to using LR as a payment processor.
The problem is I have a bunch of cash in my bank account that I need to convert to LR so people withdraw their mtgox USD. I'm trying to buy a bunch of LR on exchangezone but the process seems like it will take a couple weeks. So if anyone is holding LR could I buy it from you with a bank wire or ACH?
Thanks for any help.

You can now send and receive BTC and USD from other Mt Gox users. This means that people wanting to get USD into Mt Gox just need to find people that want to get USD out of Mt Gox and then trade USD by whatever method they can agree on (Paypal, LR, AlertPAy, Cash etc)

I'm hoping a few people will try to do this formally the way LR has exchangers. There is a merchant API so it should be easy to automate if you want. Please email me if you are interested and need help getting set up.

Anyway use this thread to list offers to buy or sell mtgox USD.

Has anyone dealt with these guys before? good, bad?

Well PayPal decided to drop our account because of too many chargebacks. The funds in there now are frozen for 180 days. So we can't do any more paypal funding or withdrawing. 

But not to worry... I should have another payment processor set up shortly.

I'm also calling them on monday to hopefully get things unfrozen faster.

Anyway sorry guys, but don't worry things will be sorted out shortly.

There are a lot of threads out there collecting bounties and trying to raise BTC for various projects to promote bitcoins.
I just created a site that I think will make this process easier.
It allows people to form groups. These groups have a fee to join which goes into the group treasury. The group members then vote to determine how to spend the group treasury.
Basically it allows you to form a mini-democracy.

It is still in alpha so a lot of things don't work correctly yet. But the basic functionality does.

Anyway check it out and let me know what you think: http://FiveGrinder.com

Occasionally bitcoind will not respond to RPC I'm calling it from php and I get this error:

Warning: fopen(http://127.0.0.1:8332) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

It happens a lot locally on my windows machine and less frequently on my linux server.

Anyone else have this problem?

I made a Bitcoin payment button for my game and thought I might as well make it generic so anyone can use it. Basically if you paste this snip-it of code into your site then you can start accepting Bitcoins.

More details are here:
http://mtgox.com/merch/about

Let me know what you think about it and if you have any questions.

I mean an image. You know a nice one that people can put on their checkout webpages.

Hi it would be really nice if bitcoind could be configured hit some URL or run some shell script anytime it gets a transaction in with over a certain number of confirmations. It would be nice if it passed this script the label,address, and amount.
This would make writing any kind of payment processing much nicer. It would make it event driven rather than having to poll bitcoind all the time.

I'm looking for someone to act as a market maker on my exchange in order to provide better liquidity. You would have to always hold both a buy and sell order near what you thought the current bitcoin rate should be.
Please email, PM, talk to me if you are interested.
Thanks!

Hi Everyone,
I just put up a new bitcoin exchange.
Please let me know what you think.
https://mtgox.com

If I'm taking bitcoins as payment on my website how many confirmations should I wait for before accepting the payment?