I can only hope that more people have come to understand they were kidding themselves when they decided to join this market via Gox, thinking that since it was the biggest exchange it had to be the most stable and trustworthy. It's clearly not, in fact so far it's had the single biggest destructive role on the evolution of BTC's price and public image, as is usually the case with any overly greedy single participant in any group activity who concentrates too much power in their own hands.
Yet the sheeple never learn. Again and again concentrated power and various forms of authoritarianism destroy things and work against majority interests, yet the majority continues to blindly credit and follow a few big players. It's like we enjoy being slaves, always sucking up to a boss in one way or another.
This!
There's something that people need to recognize... it's that
Gox makes more money during panic sells! They make a % of transactions, so lots of big transactions are very rewarding. That's right,
it is in their best interest to keep the trading engine and servers below capacity so people will freak out after a big player sells 10,000 coins, causing massive volume, lag, and even more panic sells. Gox makes a certain % of each transaction... imagine how much money they made during THIS panic sell vs all the others! A lot more! They've finally got this thing down to a science.
If y'all care about bitcoin, leave MtGox. If liquidity is your issue, then it's a chicken/egg problem. Other exchanges will only have sufficient liquidity after people start leaving Gox due to poor performance. It might be a good strategy (although a little annoying) to use multiple exchanges until one gets the amount of liquidity you need.
