Just pathetic. What's even more pathetic than the lag in transfers and today's total clusterfuck is the fact that the co-founder is a moderator on these boards but not even able to give at least some sort of brief life sign explaining what the heck is going on (despite being active and constantly logging in here today, last one 8 p.m.).
I can't facepalm my face enough for such an unprofessional conduct of business.
God, I'm longing for the day some real players step up with a reliable, professional exchange and stomp these amateur exchanges to the ground. You'd think with a market cap of 8 billion the time for serious business has come. But nah, let's just run our exchanges like drunken apes. So frustrating.
I'm also not happy with the communication of Bitstamp. A short note on twitter is the least they could do, even if they can't fix the problem immediately.
That said, you're maybe not entirely fair about the "all exchanges are run by drunken apes". A major reason for exchange downtimes appear to be DDoS attacks. The sites don't handle them well, true, but then again, which (non bitcoin) sites do you know that *do* handle DDoS without downtime? The effect is just more spectacular in our case because traders tends to get twitchy when they can't log in and trade.
