I can deal with the nonlinear tick even if I do not like it.  This is somewhat analogous to the CME Nikkei 225 contract.

I wasn't aware any question had been directed at me.  If one was, it probably shouldn't have been, because I don't have access to any more information than you do.  "Not that I think you have an agenda or anything," was admittedly a fairly immature way for me to say, "you obviously have an agenda."  That's fine though, so do I, although it is not "hyping Mt. Gox", but merely to do what little I can to counteract the misinformation and character assassination that seems to be spreading so rapidly with regard to all parties in this hacking matter.  Based on what I've seen of the behaviour of these parties, I do currently side with Mt. Gox, but that could change very quickly as the facts come out.

I was trying to point out in the post that I quoted that the question "Is it going to be (another) 6 month till MtGox resolves&explains the current situation?" is meaningless.  There is no sense in which Mt. Gox has been unresponsive for six months, so I don't know how you came up with that arbitrary figure.  If you are referring to the amount of time since the accusation you linked to was originally made against Mt. Gox, your apparent expectation that the matter should be entirely resolved by now is simply unreasonable.  Mt. Gox has issued many statements on the matter, the last of which said that it was likely going to court and for this reason could not divulge any more information.  Court proceedings take a long time.  What more could they have done by now to satisfy you?

The idiots on this forum tolerating it are akin to religious fanatics, as you say.

So let me get this straight:

1. The market for Bitcoins on Mt. Gox crashed.
2. No explanation for this crash other than a "hacker did it" and our "auditors" had access to our site and somehow has a need for a DB of user/passwords. No mention of who the auditors for "privacy reasons" (which is a load of bullshit as no auditor-issuer relationship for any capital market transaction requires non-disclousure)
3. Failing to directly talk to the community on Bruce Wagner's interview and instead have an uninformed intermediary speak because "Mark's English is bad".
4. Coming on here, providing vague details ONLY after their hand is forced by "Kevin"
5. Threatening to rope in the FBI.

... and yet dozens of you are lining up to heap praise on "the professionalism" Mt. Gox is showing, offering reasons why they shouldn't be ridiculed for failing to provide the most basic security implementations, making excuses for why Mt. Gox isn't elaborating more on who's coins were stolen, and labeling anyone a troll who dares to point out the obvious incompetence of this company?

This sort of behavior is akin to that displayed by religious fundamentalists. And that's really what most of you are. Bitcoin is some sort of religion for you and Magical Tux is your fucking omniscient and untaintable prophet.

placing all your money on $0.01 buy orders

I sure hope too, will make it easier for us.

um.. he IS the exchange

I can make an educated guess but dont take it as the absolute reason.

The hacker knew of the $1000 equiv maximum withdrawal daily limit and got access to a huge account (people arguing it may actually be mtgox aka the whole exchange account) and then proceeded to use half the funds to crash the market value down to 0.01 per BTC.

The hacker clearly didnt understand that the withdrawal is based on daily(or weekly, not 100% sure myself) weighted price thus when he crashed it down with half the BTC in the account he figured he would be able to withdraw the maximum of the remainder which would be 100 000 BTC except this failed miserably because the weighted price afaik were around $4.50 so he could withdraw a maximum of ~222 BTC.

This is my understanding as to why we are fortunate enough not to have lost 100 000 BTC with the crash withdrawal.

The interesting part however is that kevin seems to be the only person who gained a large purchase >260k BTC out of this which in itself makes it suspicious since thousands of traders were actively trading at that point and simply going with the "he was the lucky one" argument also doesnt fit.

It indicates Kevin logged in 10 minutes after the sell-off began and put in his buy order for 0.01c - now one could assume from that either:

A. He had inside knowledge and could even be involved in the scam (and could even know the hacker)

or

B. It was pure coincidence he logged in at the same time and just happened to put in his 0.01c buy order which didnt exist prior to this login and he knew nothing about what was about to occur

Now if I was a gambling man, which I am, I'd put my money on option A.

so either hacker is pretty dumb or some info is missing here.