MtGox? Safe?

[108.50]

Whatever you use, make sure you know what you are doing and take care (e.g. long secure password, secondary authentication etc)

[erikspoon]

i had a good experience with Mt.Gox
good responsive customer service (for something) but the do take their time in letting you get your money out of there

[CapnCrypto]

I've been happy with MtGox so far, the support was quite helpful for me. I think they've received a lot of negative feedback because they were targets of DDoS attacks. It's going to happen when they're doing the majority of BTC trades (which is probably not ideal).

[tumak]

+1 for MtGox

Their infrastructure may not be the top notch, but they appear to funnel a lot of money and energy into having everything by the books.

DoS attacks are temporary, getting shut down for not playing by the government rules is pretty permanent.

For everyone screaming bloody murder because it means centralized exchange must be government regulated to survive: Rather than settling for smaller, shady exchanges, better wait for truly decentralized exchanges to show up.

[bitsandcoins]

I would not be surprised to see MtGox shut down like all the other BTC exchanges. For this reason I will buy BTC again $5.

[psylence]

Mt gox not gonna go down ... i hope

[bitsandcoins]

It's not about whoÄs gonna go down.
It's about who will be shut down by authorities next.

[Avalon_user]

ist not safe

[deadweasel]

ist not safe

do not keep $ or BTC on any exchange.  immediately move it to cold storage.

you can use it, but not as a wallet or bank account.  only as a kiosk for buying/selling BTC.

[Two Bit]

fairly 

[alexh]

Mtgox is probably safer than all the other markets/exchanges, just because of their size.

[soonerjoe]

ist not safe

do not keep $ or BTC on any exchange.  immediately move it to cold storage.

you can use it, but not as a wallet or bank account.  only as a kiosk for buying/selling BTC.

Good advice.  Get your money/btc in and out as quick as possible.

[killerbread]

About as safe as you're going to get.

[anti]

I'll trust the Russians over the Japs... anytime

Given the amount of media coverage for russian versus japanese crackers, I trust the japanese. In addition, Russia won't hand out criminals afaik. So in case they are charged or convicted only in other countries, there's probably no way to legally punish them as long as they stay in Russia.

[Saka]

MtGox is about as safe as it gets with regards to bitcoin in general. Notice as MtGox goes down, Bitcoin goes down. If your primary concern is safety of personal information, I don't think you've got anything to worry about. If MtGox were compromised, I'd imagine it would be a newsworthy headline.

[barbs]

MT Gox is bleeding at the moment though :0( can't log in, and right at the high of trading.

[Yorky]

Mtgox trades on trust so I presume it's safe. If stories started coming out about people being ripped off then it would lose all of it's business extremely fast.

[madddog911]

They are down again now, get used to it.

[onyoko]

Japan isn't known for overzealous finnacial control