Mt. Gox had retail offices. Everybody knew his name. They even confronted him in front of his offices, all to no avail.
And then we have BTC-E a company that didn't do all the legal stuff,
yet is still going strong and didn't rob people.
my best exchanges are places like
bleutrade.com
useCryptos.com
Let me help you.
Exchanges and developers of coins are not the same thing.
Just like apples and banana's are not the same , they are fruits but not the same fruit.
Just as an Dev and an Exchange have in common they work with crypto, a Dev is not an Exchange and vise versa
Furthermore you should never have all your coins on an exchange, only the coins you want to trade.
Best thing to do is to have an coldwallet stored on 3 different places.
Mark Karples is not the founder/creator of Mt.Gox that is Jed McCaleb also known als the creator of Ripples and Stellar. Makes you think right
But it is a good thing right that we know who Mark Karpeles is, he is probably going to jail and sets the example.
Would be much harder if he was anonymous right
Also I only trade on exchanges where I know who the creators are and fall under my countries juristiction.