Bodyguards are meaningless if there is one party ready to finish him off, where they'll just take the bodyguards down with that fat fuck. It still gives me goosebumps if I think about how I just barely managed to avoid being a Gox victim as well. It was a simple reason that made me not choose for MtGox back in my initial days in 2013, and that was their premium over other exchanges. I went for Bitstamp, and till today I am feeling lucky that I did so. I can't even imagine how people must have felt, and still feel today with current developments in mind. Seriously, I can't understand how this fat fuck still manages to eat and drink with everything he has done. Worst thing of all, is that in certain videos, he still has that nasty grin on his face.
There was lots of tough talk when it went down. All of it was bilge and still is which does slightly surprise me as there must have been some substantial dodgy money, but slaughtering him wouldn't achieve much.
When I first showed proper interest in mid 2013 ish I dismissed Gox within five minutes of googling knowing nothing about cryptoland.
Previous known hack, far off unaccountable land, no regulation, passwords showing up in browser, strange man on beach ball.
I was flabbergasted such a clear shithole was the cornerstone of Bitcoin trading and went to Localbitcoins instead. People just seemed to accept it for what it was which I refused to do.
I do feel bad for anyone who lost out big time, but the flags were very large and very red for a long time before they followed through on their promise.
