Quote from: Bruce Wagner on May 01, 2011, 05:02:21 AM

OBVIOUSLY.... No one I know will have anything to do with btcex.com any more. Everyone I know is boycotting it and spreading the word about it's ill intentions, statements, and actions attacking the Bitcoin Community.

I don't think that btcex.com owner is the pure evil for bitcoin community. You blame him that he is the guy that started the DDOS of his competitor in order to get more customers to his own exchange, but this does not look so to me. For me it looks like he was care about what he think better for bitcoin economics rather than his own profit.

From what I can see from his posts:

He is almost the only guy in russian community that maintains a kind of bitcoin economical activity. He offers his coins to translate wiki pages to russian language, for writing scripts, discuss developing any other services.
It does not look like he concerns very much about the profitability of his exchange service. Most rates are 0 and he also encourage other people to start their own exchange services.

I decided for myself that I will continue using his service as long as it suits my needs.