First of all: "Is MtGox dying?"
Well, duh! It's been dying since May/June and I have the impression that everyone in their right mind left at that point in time.
Following the MtGox price and spread on charts was interesting and relevant to market movement at Bitstamp/BFX many months after that. Then volume declined to the point where it's no longer worth looking at it. It's like Kraken and Bitcoin-central now, those are there and people trade there but the price movements have zero influence on the high-volume exchanges (which are Bitstamp and BTCE).
My humble opinion is that MtGox is no longer dying, it's already dead but someone forgot to turn the lights off so it looks alive.
With Bitcoin withdrawals now stalling as well, the "can get Bitcoins but can't get dollars" effect that produced the spread is reduced.
What are they even trading over at MtGox now?
mtgoxUSD for mtgoxBTC and vice versa? Perhaps it's fun or something but I don't quite see the point in trading one kind of worthless IOU for another worthless IOU.
Withdrew 0.2 BTC on the 29th just to see if it's working; it was processed in a matter of minutes. Tried another one on the 31th, 0.05 that time, it was processed in minutes as well. Small TX seems to do the trick.
Now I only wish my SEPAs would come through...
