A personal rant:
MtGox's massive success has had an absolutely crushing impact on the BTC price and newcomer confidence, possibly setting back investor / consumer confidence by months or years.
Currently: Mtgox trading engine lag: 45m 44s
^ This is after their upgrades !!
As far as I'm concerned, MtGox has totally sealed their own fate... even if they do launch their new site which is faster and better ~ with new competitors coming on, as a matter of principle I will never be using them again.
You should be thankful for their bullshit "50x improvement", because think what'd have happened without that: 45 minutes 50x = over a day. Isn't the
newly improved lag a sight?
Let's just hope that next time MtGox lies about it they "improve" by 1000x while not doing anything at all. Bigger numbers = greater success, right? Who cares if they're made up.