This week has demonstrated how one man, who owns a badly run exchange but has a good PR team, can do massive damage to BTC.
Massive damage? I know this is spec forum, but the price remains one of the least important things. It is undeniable, bitcoin is the future.
My point, if you read back 6 or 8 pages (which I wouldn't inflict on you), is that BTC has lousy PR, while Gox is pretty canny at spinning news in their favour. The story should've been Gox's incompetency but instead it became a flaw with BTC.
BTC may be the future but the infrastructure needs improving, fixing etc. And the lessons from this week are the Bitcoin Foundation needs to improve its marketing and PR and deal with criticism head on, swiftly and aggressively.
MK is on the board of the Bitcoin Foundation - hence the inability of the Foundation to do a proper job. If I had a cartoon of an Ostrich with its head in the sand I would pop it in here.