Is Mt.Gox hacked?

[Nemesis]

I seriously think something is fucking wrong with their server.

All the buy and sell orders are over place.

And the LAG!!!!

It cant just be volume.

[lucif]

Tux should really consider to do something with it for such huge fees!

[elux]

Vote with your feet.

[arepo]

Vote with your feet.

+21,000,000

[BitcoinAshley]

ITT: Yet another person complaining about gox being made of cardboard; yet still using gox

... Is this like a recurring trend around here? People still using services they are displeased with? It doesn't make any sense to me but maybe I'm just old-fashioned.

[piramida]

Yet another person complaining about gox being made of cardboard; yet still using gox

You may not know it, but Gox unfortunately is the only service around here that didn't run with client's money in the last three years, and that matters more than poor service. However, only up to some limit

[Ichthyo]

Yet another person complaining about gox being made of cardboard; yet still using gox

You may not know it, but Gox unfortunately is the only service around here that didn't run with client's money in the last three years, and that matters more than poor service. However, only up to some limit

This +1

plus, even more, there is simply no alternative to Mt.Gox, when you combine the high volume, the relatively easy availability from any point of the world, the ubiquitous API used by most other services, and the USD/BTC rate, which, due to this dominance, is commonly used as just "the" Bitcoin rate.

And yes, this is a very dangerous situation for the XBT economy as a whole.

[notme]

Vote with your feet.

Keep saying it.  I've been at it for months yet people continue to bitch and moan instead of using a different exchange.

[notme]

Yet another person complaining about gox being made of cardboard; yet still using gox

You may not know it, but Gox unfortunately is the only service around here that didn't run with client's money in the last three years, and that matters more than poor service. However, only up to some limit

This +1

plus, even more, there is simply no alternative to Mt.Gox, when you combine the high volume, the relatively easy availability from any point of the world, the ubiquitous API used by most other services, and the USD/BTC rate, which, due to this dominance, is commonly used as just "the" Bitcoin rate.

And yes, this is a very dangerous situation for the XBT economy as a whole.

All of those advantages, besides the API, are caused by the volume.  If that volume were to move, the advantages would follow, but it is a chicken and egg problem.  Like I've said before, we will likely have to see MtGox broken before we can have 10 replacements pop up and really allow bitcoin to grow.  Many of these future leaders are already with us, but are waiting for the opportunity.  Right now, MtGox and it's shitty reliability are the biggest thing holding back bitcoin.

Edit: And many other exchanges offer solid APIs.

[Anonymailer]

For the API I'll keep using gox as far as I can see for selling, but being in the UK I'm supporting the minor exchanges that support barclays pingit app. Never been so easy to get coin!… when the services are up. time of writing blockchain.info is being upgraded to a better server (emasculating the 'ikkle' mac mini i have running at home) and bitcoinfridge.co.uk was so successful they had to stop till april so as not to fall in to tax regulation