[kough]

They aren't frontrunning their customers. Their whole brand is being the one trustworthy option in a world of scammers; they already make a fuckload of money off of transaction fees, no reason to throw out that trust and ruin their cash cow. It's just a scaling problem, turns out it's hard to make Ruby on Rails handle their needs.

[throwaway12351]

They could be doing it to make up shortfalls in their own BTC holdings relative holdings promised to customers, either in actual quantity, or in price actually acquired vs. price paid by the customer.

[j_s]

& MongoDB