At this point why don't the current owners just sell the company to some new people so they can move on and work on other things.  The new guys can deal with the US gov't and bang their head against a wall all day long.  There are people in the world who are masochistic enough for this task.

The current owners did some things that appear were intended to evade compliance with US laws and/or regulations, whether one agrees with these or not at this point does not matter.  Most likely like as was the case with Square in Florida they, the corporation, will have to pay a bunch of fines. 

IF things get resolved at the federal level then they will have state AG's lining up to slap 6+ figure fines for flouting state regulations.  We are talking about years, not weeks...

People who think to make a profit wire BTC to MtGox and sell there. This gives MtGox a steady supply of BTC. And they will hold your cash for 6-8 weeks before a payout (at least in EUR).

The SEPA queue is just below 5 weeks now.  Don't think it has been up to 6, at least not since June.

Its official no money to leave US after Nov.17^th. Deposit will you can.

"You doubt"?
What are you talking about?

Yup.  Capital controls.  Now I remember another big reason why Bitcoin grabbed my attention so forcefully back in 2011.

  http://iranian.com/posts/view/post/22646

I have to take exception with this article's:

  "The bottom line is that banks think your money is their money and..."

The reason that banks think that is because it is true.  Technically and legally.

Banks can use the money that the depositors gave them in more or less any way the see fit though they have to abide by certain restrictions.  The reason Glass-Stegall was repealed was to relax those restrictions so they could gamble depositor's funds on derivatives at 50-1 leverage and such through their investment banking wing.

Worse yet, as I understand things (potentially tinfoil-hat things but maybe not) the derivatives counter-parties are top tier creditors and get made whole before bank depositors in the event of a bankruptcy.  The rational is that it halt a chain reaction of institutional failures...or so the story goes.

I've also heard that the way 'they' will get around the FDIC issue is to convert deposits into shares in the bank (as a non-option.)  Then FDIC is under no obligation to save the 'investors' as the bank craters.

Who knows how much truth there is to this stuff.  It seems entirely possible to me, however, and I actually have more confidence in Bitcoin than I do in my bank deposits and I hold more value in Bitcoin than I do in banks at this point.  By a wide margin (though in fairness this is primarily attributable to the rise in BTC valuations.)

There is a misspelling in the letter.  It says "Thank you for using Chase" where it should say "Fuck you for using Chase".

Just two types of their entry level business accounts.

i tried to withdraw 8 btc from mtgox this morning and now 8 hours later the transaction still hasnt being processed. 

is anyone else having this issue recently? bitcoin withdraw was always near instant for me usually only takes 30 mins or so.  I submitted a ticket to mtgox also

Creating these compliance requirements would be the natural and logical way to implement capital controls.  In the initial phases of implementation, at least.

Another equally valid hypothesis is that the 'powers that be' are simply trying to stop the next terrorist incident or whatever, and taking the cheap route of passing the costs off to businesses (who in turn pass them off to customers.)

Both hypotheses are worth consideration as we watch events progress.