What was the Mt. Gox bitcoin bubble?

[Mickeyb]

I think that the Mt. Gox, helped Bitcoin with the alleged willy the bot and pumping up the price, thus creating the bubble. It has just put a Bitcoin in the press, public, and gave an interest of the world to it. Heck, even if heard of Bitcoin when the price broke $1,000.

On the other side, as much as it helped us, MT. Gox has also shot us in the foot and gave us this negative reputation that we are even today fighting and that we will fight for the long time to come in the future as well.

In the end, I guess that the positives and the negatives of the Mt. Gox have just balanced out.