"Market cooldown, order placing suspended until 2013-04-12 02:00:00 UTC"

[zoolander]

So now they decide to do this, not after yesterday's 1 hour lag? What fucking joke these guys are..

Second that

Thirded. WTF.

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[TomRado]

Come on guys, they made a few Mio$ yesterday. Well deserved money You wouldn't have taken it?

They should come back up with an absolute trading fee like .001Btc if they can't handle the traffic. It's an ugly solution but it would calm things down i guess.

[herzmeister]

but people can still withdraw their bitcoins and sell at another exchange right?

so it's not the Central Bank of Bitcoin.

[tlr]

Confirmed on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MtGox/status/322355614414147588

"Trading is suspended until 2013-04-12 02:00am UTC for market cooldown. Once back trading will be also faster."

I guess MtGox thinks they're the shit and can save us from ourselves?

[coined]

the other exchanges will stay near gox price, even if it froze for a week. I hope the don't though, maybe this is chance to break away from gox

[nwbitcoin]

I just bought 1 BTC for $100 - thought it was xmas - especially as localbitcoins is using MTGox prices as its guide!