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So people are STILL attempting to defend MtGox.
1 - This is not the first major theft they have had.
2 - The have been guilty of manipulating the market on several occasions.
3 - There is no legitimate justification for why their exchange, and only their exchange averaged a 15-20% higher exchange rate than actual value.
4 - They have been having financial and legal troubles for over a year.
5 - Caught up in legal issue with the US for not being registered to do money transfers.
6 - USD withdrawals have not been working for 9 months, despite finally clearing up their US legal issues 8 months ago.
7 - Problems with other FIAT withdrawals started several months ago too.
8 - They have never been fourth coming about anything that has ever happened so far.
9 - Gox has been processing transactions after only 1 confirm. The single biggest failure of following protocol there is.
10 - The blamed a false issue for missing coins and halting BTC withdrawls going on nearly a month ago. They never should have been looking at TXID's for anything. They are not a receipt. Transaction Malleability can NOT propagate the network, those transaction will never confirm. TM can only be successful when a live person who does things incorrectly is conned into sending duplicate payments. If people at Gox weren't brain dead, and not ignoring all bitcoin network protocol, they could have verified that every so called TM had in fact been paid out the first time, and locked the accounts of people attempting to pull the scam on them.
11 - They got a so called fix from a 3rd party that would prevent the so called TM issue and allow them to continue to misuse the bitcoin protocol a while ago, yet still never turned on withdrawals, instead blaming other issues like relocating to another building over night because of security issues (that never stopped deposits or trading).
12 - Site is down without warning. BS leaked documents of starting anew without Mark. Nearly 750,000 BTC missing. This is floating on top of ALL the other problems.
It is obvious they have been a ponzi scam since at least last year. Anyone who is willing to continue to defend them are really quite blind to the truth.
Even on the off chance that they throw Mark out, start all over with new CEO, new staff, new system, new website, new image, the real point is that they SHOULDN'T. Gox is a stain on bitcoin. It has been for years. It has done nothing but hurt bitcoin's perception and value, and anything that is related to Gox in any way, shape or form, no matter how small will do nothing but continue to cast a cloud of doubt over the exchange and bitcoin.
Gox simply needs to die, totally and completely.