I just mean that generally in this thread people pick a fight easily about some completely nonsense, my remark was not focused solely on you two.

Just the Russians closing their doors and leaving with your BTC a la Sheep Marketplace style. Or someone closing their bank account etc... with the same results, without any known person or company to follow. People bitch about Gox (and for good cause) but there's a reason that it's the only place where all of the big whales play at and every other exchange follows. Even after stopping all USD withdrawals, and a month SEPA withdrawals they're still like #1 (or so) exchange, think about it

I just sold off a decent amount that I bought @ $721 for $770 on btc-e.

Looks like a pump and dump is coming given the trends over the last few hours.

I expect a rise over the next week for sure, but I don't think it's going to begin right now.

bitstamp, low fees, trust, less lag etc. all there and you don't have to deal with marks goxxing

Thanks.  So nothing in particular.  Just the same worries as the others.  

you don't have to trade much to get 0.2% fee on stamp and i would not send major portion of my btcs to btce, but yes you're right maybe there are some give and takes

Its more likely we will travel down the Bid side > 30000 BTC than going up to 900 that only takes another 7,000 (counting the fake ask walls ~4,000 without)  Fun to watch either way, though your arguement makes me want to deposit all my bitcoins and sell them before they are worthless, I think I shall be sufficient just to buy more next week when the funds arrive.  Slow usd/BTC usd needs to hurry up

Do you know if there have been any accounts of this sort of thing (people's money being stolen by the exchange), or is the concern that btc-e will just up and leave some day?

I'm not calling DaRude an idiot, but Derp...