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by jack_trades 4812 days ago
Talk about putting up a shingle and calling yourself an exchange.

The clamor from the crowd that they need to do better PR gets me chuckling the most. They are fairly transparent about their lack of technical expertise, hinting at major issues in their understanding or seriousness of what they are doing.

When one noisy person tells you how to do your job and you know they're wrong, whatever. Brush it off.

When a fistful of redditors are telling you 15 different ways that you should be doing your job and it's pretty easy to show that they understand the problem domain and issues better than the team... that's a big problem.

I guess people hope MtGoxs new trading platform scales better, but that is not the sort of thought/wonder to be having when you are about to press submit on thousands in trades.

Bitcoin. Currency like kids and potato cannons. What could go wrong? Fire it up!

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"Bitcoin. Currency like kids and potato cannons. What could go wrong? Fire it up!"

You highlight the weakness in MtGox and then by analogy suggest the whole platform is similary amateuristic.

the bitcoin protocol itself is solid, tested and has some very smart people working on it.