Last time I checked BTCe had no bank account listed themselves. I always sent to Mayzus (sp?).

500 US$ million is more than 2 BTC million at actual price. I remember MtGox scammed only 850k BTC but at the price of the time it was 450 US$ million so quite similar in value. Not sure how to rate impact since MtGox affected more adopters than this Hong Kongese 'exchange' (it apparently affected only 30 people).

The intermediary bank of my bank refused sending money to BTCe since August last year.

Bitstamp has weathered some storms, so I wouldn't write them off just yet...where one stodgy old banker closes a door, a younger slicker smaller bank says c'mon down, we'll be happy to take your money...green is green.

In fact, small banks that truly "get it" are going to start realizing they would be better off using bitcoin to transfer funds between their own banks than the overly costly systems we have now (like ACH).

They were 'too big to fail'.

Not true.  People get fucked, then they get fucked again.  It is like lambs going to slaughter.  They never learn.  Nearly everyone will be sitting there thinking: 'this time, everything will be OK  -  right?'  And the next moment all their money is gone.  Don't you remember how many warnings there were for Gox?  Nobody moved.

If solvency is your concern I would pay more attention to the withdraw side. 

Banks are probably starting to ban Bitstamp coz they "know".
Remember how it started with Gox, when "Dwolla" stepped out, and over the following months one bank after another stopped cooperating with them.
Warning signs!

Exactly. They didn't close it. Yet So they're still in profit.

GET OUT ASAP OR GET GOXXXED!

Yes, but would it be published if they were closed? I find that odd...

For folks saying their profit is lowering/no profit... For me, they seem to be doing good, they would have already shutdown if they weren't having HUGE profits

As for maintenance... Well, 24/7 maintenance, what's better than that?!

The amount of miners in just one facility is already huge, let alone 6. I wonder how would they keep up with the maintenance of so much devices. And the heat generated would be huge with the increasing difficulty and dipping prices, the chances of profit are lower now.

Thanks to Vice we saw a bit of life in China, but the video is a bit confusing. In the intro they say that the mine generated 4050 BTC in November and the owner of the miner says that they generated ~100BTC per day which would equal to ~3kBTC per month. Either they run into a big loop of luck or something is wrong.

If we assume the fork is needed to maintain a healthy ecosystem; (and the math dose point in that direction) then how do we stop the blocks from filling up with spam and how do we maintain a network of independent miners if fees are going to drop below a single cent per transaction? And how on earth can we kill off the 1MB chain, because even if it takes the 1mb chain a year to recover it will still hold the true title of the "original Bitcoin" and that is 99% of why Bitcoin has rained as the supreme leader in a sea of alt-coins.  

And I recommend the name of this thread be changed to "Bitcoin's 1GB to 20GB Fork" because its clear 20mb is the bear minimum requested by Gavin it was a compromise to get the ball rolling but he wants a lot more then 20MB.

Of course everything is about money. Exchanger runners don't give a fuck, they are there to make profit.