Totally agree,
Sorry Vess, i dont know you. I dont care how exciting you are with bitcoin. I'm trusting Mark , not you.
Nemesis, Mark has sold your info to Peter. Why would trust Mark in light of that fact?
Worse than that. He sold the info and you dont get compensated.
People should support localbitcoins.com rather than letting a few guys have control over all your data.
Mt gox has to expand. If they simply hired someone directly then you would have to trust someone new with your data. So either way you are going to be trusting someone new simply due to growth. It makes sense for them to partition out their company. If bitcoin is going to grow since it is a borderless, stateless money then you don't want a monolithic exchange that is centered somewhere. Partitioned all over the place is a much better idea.