Bitcoin exchange rates being influenced by media reports and rumours probably these people wouldn't have wanted a bad press for Bitcoin.

I agree that this will bring major attention to Bitcoin "money transmitters" and the risk of problems for them has now gone up a fair bit. Don't necessarily agree they will be forced to close. It's even more of a possibility now though.

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How is this even remotely a conspiracy? How could professional exchanges be responsible in any way in the Gox debacle? Since when and who mandated the Bitcoin Foundation to protect Bitcoin users from doing business with incompetent amateurs if they want to? I really don't get your point.

Magic: the Gathering Online eXchange had already lost my confidence when they skewed up big time back in April 2013. As far as I'm concerned,  since then I never traded a single coin or penny with them. Obvious is obvious.

I don't buy this nonsense. How can something as obvious as gox's insolvency, which people have been worried about for a year or so, be a conspiracy? More FUD. The joint statement sounds very reasonable and is an appeal to common sense. Unlike this thread lol

Ey OP, stop spreading FUD. Europe promised nothing.

That's pretty elementary.  Besides their own incompetence, MtGox's difficulties have always stemmed from two causes:  regulation and hackers.  And there is plenty of reason to believe that the ultimate source of both of these are one and the same.  Regulation exists to create barriers to entry.  Licensed exchanges would obviously have the help of their host governments, just like any other international industry.  And host governments would get their pay-offs and kick-backs in return.  Killing off MtGox, dividing up the loot and cartelizing Bitcoin exchange would be a profitable endeavour for all sorts of people.

The Bitcoin Foundation has been a fairly shady organization from its inception.  Karpeles was pretty much always paying the bills, but there's no telling who was actually in charge.  It started out by working in secret, on their private forum instead of public forums like this one.  Besides kowtowing to regulators and investors, it's been a mystery for some time what their purpose has been.  But now we see the fruits of their effort:  core developers are calling for regulation and limiting Bitcoin in subtle ways;  board members are suing each other, regulators start issuing these ridiculous edicts and "warnings," seizing bank accounts and arresting Bitcoin traders;  financial industry insiders and shady investors with unknown agendas start coming out of the woodwork, having apparently been working behind the scenes for a while.

It's pretty obvious that there is a huge constellation of interests at work here, and most roads lead back to the US.  Just follow the money.

Please do so in the appropriate altcoin forum.

In the land of yakuza it should not be hard to get someone disappeard like the bitcoins.

I am not in gox but I would gladly contribute to this.

People should not get away with this. The justice system will not do anything because they are happy as it is.

We need to give a real statement. A hard one too so that people will be warned that we are not to mess with. We didn't came from one fraudulent system to another.