*MOD just kicked us off the front page....looks like they did not like where this was going
[Note see EDIT 1]
I do not like the way Gox make their excuses which is basically
"We were doing so well, we opened too many accounts, and crashed our trade engine, causing panic sell and also alot of you could not trade even if you wanted to."
Gox know full well that adding 20K or whatever accounts a day is going to cause an issue, without scaling, they know and in-fact claim of their front page they hand 80% of BTC transaction.
Gox is so worried about market share rather than slow things down and do it right they keep holding out everything is ok and thus all suffer.
Gox's of this world cannot burn it both ends....and must realize their duty of care and what is or is not reasonably foreseeable.
https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130411.htmlis more or less an admission of guilt while being smug..."ho ho" were so great we screwed over our own system, which we made and knew was under stress...
Look forwards to your views.
I for one thing that we collectively can and must send a clear message that BTC is not to be FU__D with.
[EDIT 1]
Gox now has come out with it all a bit to late and with a pitiful "no" trading fee's for 48 hours compensation. That's small compensation to people who have missed out on trading already
Trading is halted until 2013-04-12 02:00am UTC to allow the market to cooldown following the drop in price. Read more details on the support. Additionally trading fees will not be charged within 48 hours of trading resuming (until 2013-04-14 02:00am UTC).
and this is not for a market to cool down but because their trading engine is broken
[EDIT 2] Lets get this together then, and engage some US council, any recommendations? also we need an escrow for donations and an address who's a trusted escrow around here? I know anon136 does some escrow