I expect to start acquiring bitcoins soon by selling some stuff on a Bitcoin auction site. I may hold off for a few months before I try to convert any to dollars or euros; my real interest in Bitcoin is to use it as an alternate currency for buying and selling, not to speculate on currency shifts. (No interest in channeling George Soros here.) When I do, I hope that there will be more choices, and that Mt. Gox and the other existing sites will have either cleaned up their miserably inadequate security practices or gone out of business.