So a bunch of babies who can't stand up and be a man and pay for their charges is ruining it for all of us. Well played jerks - you beat the system and 'won'.

while the tying up does not help to buy goods and services with BTCs, we can use it to our advantage:

BTCs is the BEST INVESTMENT !!!

Just look at the rally over the past 3 months +1000%

I am going to buy more now!

idev: your funds won't be tied up for 180 days. I only kept a portion in paypal for this very reason so as soon as I have another payment method you can withdraw your gox USD again.

Good to know that not everything is in paypal.

However, will you begin to charge for mtgox services? It would be comforting to know that mtgox can keep running after some catastrophe. I mean, you are fronting all the risks for providing such a liquid market.

it would be good to have some options to add funds established FAST, as the BTC price is rallying again and I want to buy more

Irony?  The rally was primarily on Mt. Gox, and you can't get any money in to Mt. Gox to buy BTC for.  And what happens to your funds if the current rally was financed by fraud and Mt. Gox loses?

If I were mtgox, I would freeze all BTC bought with PayPal money for at least 180 days.  The current rally was obviously driven by one or very few individuals who didn't care much about the cost in USD, and why care if you buy with stolen money?  It doesn't make sense to buy the market up from 0.06 to 0.09 in a few seconds, when you could buy the same amount of BTC for much less by spreading the bids over a few hours or days.  There is always a robot or two which continously pushes the asks back down, along with traders who try to find a sweet spot between different asks and bids.

Buying BTC is also the only way to get money out of mtgox.

I wouldn't read too much into the rally if/until it's matched by other markets.

mtgox, I would warn you about the following scenario:

The PayPal scammers will wait 30 days, withdraw their BTC, and only THEN will they do a chargeback through PayPal.

Therefore, you probably need to block BTC withdrawals for longer than 30 days, for BTC bought from any PayPal address that has not previously had a successful PayPal transaction.

twobit: I can't issue checks anymore since I no longer live in the US.