Congrats to you too! Would you also consider to answer the poll I placed here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=332420.0

It's for anyone that has a Gox account - verified or not.

Congrats! Is your account verified? Either way, please consider to answer the poll question I setup here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=332420.0

Your illustration made me laugh. It's sad, but true. Last night I was chatting with a friend about this. And it dawned on me that it's like people are all excited about trading, but they can't get out. It's just like a bunch of rats racing around in circles inside an empty cage or something. It was so ridiculous, it made me laugh then too.

Perhaps, the answer is built into your question. Those people's money are still tied-up in MtGox.

Maybe it would be faster to open up a Japanese bank account and ask for yen. I hear some people are (sometimes) getting one day turn-around's. I think the bank Gox uses is JapanNet or something like that. I was reading over a white paper last night about it. They seem to be a virtual bank - no physical branches. So, I'd guess one can sign up for a bank account with them online. But the bank website looks like it is only in Japanese. Someone that could get one day turn-around's from Gox could do some seriously profitable arbitrage trading over the market by opening a second exchange account on maybe Bitstamp - if all the fee's don't make it too profit resistant.

I see. What country are you located in?

Sorry to hear about your frustration. I hope it works out. I started a thread after getting gox'd in another way. Sad to see such inconsideration. MtGox is apparently the BFL of bitcoin exchanges.

Sounds like you have a verified account. Can't you just convert to bitcoin and withdraw bitcoin?

I'd give them their 5% extortion fee if they would simply allow me to have my bitcoins back.

I wonder if there is anyone that reads this thread that has an MtGox account they can withdraw from. I'll put up a survey at the top.

JFYI on difficulty. For whoever cares. Last eight difficulty percentage increase, and next estimated difficulty:

29%
32%
29%
32%
27%
41%
46%
30%
12% <-- based on estimated difficulty from bitcoincharts.com

If true, we might see a well reduced jump in difficulty. That would be nice.  

Thanks.

From there. Rule #6 reads [with my bold emphasis]: "6.  Buyer sends BTC to the escrow address.  Once the coins are received in escrow, the manual trading fee of 0.5% or 0.025BTC, whichever is greater, will be deducted from the escrow address."

Just to put this in perspective. BTC0.025 = $10 ... That seems a fair deal for the labor to verify a transaction.

Why would LR et.al. charge more for larger buy/sell transactions? We should be of one mind on this, and working together more - especially for those that actually funded the company. Isn't that profiteering in the face other's difficulty? With this fee structure, LR et.al. would have no great incentive to find an automated & free solution. I apologize if this sounds trivial, but the principle matters. Plus, I saw some hefty transactions on the asks on there (e.g. 500@0.20). If that got filled, LR or whoever would be paid  equivalent of $200 to do for that person no more than was done for another at a cost of $10. Just saying - principle matters. Unless, the escrow person see's it as a risk on his part to handle that amount of bitcoin.

Regarding escrow. It might be late in the game to comment on this (not sure if suggestions were taken), but instead of doing escrow, why not just use the blockchain to verify the transaction between the two parties (buyer and seller)? That would cut out a step, and reduce the risk of the escrow handler sending the wrong amount or sending to the wrong address. All liability would rest on the buyer & seller. All you would have to do is verify a message & the blockchain, then update the ledger/list if those pass verification.

It wasn't a response to anyone about double spending. I posted that for general reading on MtGox. Yet, I think the earlier question about solvency was what triggered me to link it.

Is there a list of people wanting to buy/sell yet?

I have a great idea! Thank me later. LR should keep withholding dividends to pay for new hardware until the end of 2014...maybe even 2015. Think of how much hashing power your bonds will be representing. By that time, you will realize the genius of it, and refuse dividends in lieu of more hardware. It's tough being a mastermind sometimes...again, thank me later.   

I have to agree with you, at least in one sense, that the understanding was that each hardware would be committed to 2 weeks of hashing for buying new hardware. And not contingent upon a whole bunch of other hardware. So, in that sense, if that is LR's intention, it is different than what he communicated or at least what I understood from the communication. It's evidence perhaps that LR's re-investment strategy (a fraction of the 25% deduction) was not sustainable.  The only bright side to this is that it should lead to higher hash rates - whether it will have disproportionately surpassed difficulty to be worth it is another question. However, the bitcoin price is helping a lot though. By nearly tripling in price since most bought into LRM, it means the 25% re-investment is equivalent to 75% re-investment compared to the original investment climate (keeping in mind that hardware costs track fiat/dollars, not bitcoins) - anyone correct me on that if it is a faulty analysis.

Bitmitty, was it you that said you traded using some kind of trading bot?

Though I can appreciate a possible frustration with the topic from you. You call it spam, but people affected by MtGox negatively don't see it that way. Perhaps, you are a successful customer of theirs, some kind of advocate for them or just bored with the topic. Freedom of expression against a large exchanges harmful practices is not spam. The easy fix, for your concern, is don't read threads with subject headings in which you aren't interested (e.g. those with capitalized MTGOX).

Yeah, that is seeming to be more and more true. It's hard to beat the corporate mentality.

That MtGox would freeze an account for fear of AML (anti-money laundering) when the account can't even launder fiat money makes just zero sense. If you put bitcoin in and take it out, you still just end up with bitcoin - no fiat was laundered. And if they are fearing people will use the exchange to obfuscate the history of bitcoin transactions, then that defies common sense. Why ? Other than that who cares, you can obfuscate your bitcoins anyway with easier things like easywallet or bitfog... and apparently dark wallet (coming soon)...and other methods. So, AML really should have no affect any bitcoin-only withdrawals and deposits to accounts.