Yep- here's another quote from someone else in the article, the chief scientist of Bitcoin Foundation "The issues that Mt. Gox has been experiencing are due to an unfortunate interaction between Mt. Gox's implementation of their highly customized wallet software, their customer support procedures, and their unpreparedness for transaction malleability, a technical detail that allows changes to the way transactions are identified."
As far as I'm concerned, the quicker Gox is offline, the better. They haven't been allowing USD withdrawals, or delaying by months (basically the same thing). Now you can't even remove BTC. What you're left with is depositing money into a company that will use your funds to run daily operations. Good luck getting any money, real or fiat, out of this "exchange."
Absolutely agree. MTGox has been operating like an amateur lemonade stand. We need a lemonade processing plant; for squeezing those lemons by hand is not appropriate for the level of volume they were processing.
