<MagicalTux> le gouv. US veut pas qu'on disclose hein
So all professional GOX bashers from USA in here, STFU until you have a revolution and get rid of your own corrupt gov.
Still think GOX downfall is good for Bitcoin?
Think again. If USA can keep GOX under siege, close down the trade engine, and issue gag orders for people involved; it can happen to any exchange still operating out there.
Despite all the pressure from USA organized crime cell that you call "government", Gox's biggest foe was its management. Mark has to TALK, he chose to f**k with his customers instead - as he always did. It would take just a little bit of PR to resolve things in much better way than that blue ball catasrophe of a CEO did. He deserves anything that comes to him.
Good riddance, I say. Hope we all learn the lessons and also that there won't be "the biggest exchange" again, taking market to the bottom with every crisis.
Read again, as MagicalTux mentioned in French, it was a "gag order", that means no talking to customers.
EDIT (tinfoil edition):
To clarify, if you want a smear campaign to be successful it must be bad enough to make people accept change without questioning, in other words regulation. I think this operation was well executed, lots of people playing into their hands by bashing MtGox.