Who said it was simple? MtGox isn't #1 because of the quality of their site/engine. It's liquidity. It's a chicken/egg argument. There are plenty of market leaders who are poorly run. They remain market leaders for a number of reasons. You have this naive business paradigm that the biggest site is clearly the best, clearly well run, otherwise they wouldn't be number #1! Sadly in the real world, where real people live, that's not always true.

Apology not accepted. You should learn to control your nerd rage. It's offensive. The fact the lag continues after 3 years does open up new questions. It's clearly a fixable problem given the money they have. Why they won't bring in outside help to fix it is troubling.

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Do you know what ad hominem means?

Instead of addressing the topic, you called me retarded .

Also, I never defended the MtGox trade engine.  It is harder than it looks, but mostly from a regulatory standpoint.  I agree their system is crap and could easily be improved upon.  But, instead of finding out the truth you make assumptions about me that lead you to believe I am of low intelligence.  I'm just tired of hearing the same shit repeated over and over.

They are still there, while plenty of others were taken down by hacks, regulations, or plain arbitrary decisions from banks.
They are also located outside of USA. Which, in my book, is an advantage.

Does liquidity play in their favor? Sure.
However, I would argue that this is only a small advantage.

Another exchange, with the same characteristics as MtGox (except the liquidity), could probably
take a good chunk of the market by offering smaller fees.

No, I addressed the topic, THEN called you retarded. That was a totally separate issue.

But the key point is why don't they fix it. I personally think they're insider trading the fuck out of the exchange which is why they keep running their home-brewed POS engine. Because they don't want someone else coming in and knowing what they're doing. In 2011 you could just say they're new, growing paints, etc.. But now? It's highly suspicious they refuse to address the problem. Call fucking IBM/Oracle, break them off 500k, pretty confident they'll fix it up within a month. As sloppy as Oracle can be, they still have some of the best DBAs on the planet available 24.7.

The fact they've made more money this year then all of last year, the trade engine is still a mess, brings up more and more questions about their credibility. It points to something else going on besides "it's a complicated system".

Liquidity is a huge advantage. Have you been on the other exchanges? People do offer smaller fees.

Why was Internet Explorer the #1 browser for so long? Because they were better? Being bigger, being the market leader is a huge competitive advantage.

My point wasn't that MtGox sucks. It was more about my suspicion on why they haven't fixed the trade engine. It's not money. It's not because no one can fix it. They have 25M plans to be legit but there's no way they've made 25M. Unless of course they've been running a shady exchange, which also explains why they don't bring in outside help to fix the trading engine (or why it lags in the first place, because that creates more places they can inject trades).

You seem to be having a nice conversation with yourself.  Please post louder, I can't hear you:

Market is flat even on the weekly chart.

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg180zigWeeklyztgSzm1g10zm2g25

note: higher weekly lows for 4 weeks now...