Quote from: sturle on September 09, 2013, 06:28:48 PM

Quote from: Nagle on September 09, 2013, 06:08:30 PM

Quote from: sturle on September 08, 2013, 07:49:10 PM

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MtGox should however keep an updated information page about the status of withdrawals, queue disciplines and the length and trends of the various queues. Much like the information I have collected from various sources.

If Mt. Gox provided honest figures, the financial press would notice and Mt. Gox would go out of business.

If they provided real performance numbers:
- Total USD, EUR, JPY, GBP withdrawals requested by customers and not yet paid to them.
- Days slowest payment has been in queue for each currency.
- Total USD, etc. owed to customers. (Total deposits)
- Total USD, etc. in segregated customer cash account with bank.
nobody would send them more money.

Some of this information is very sensitive and some is useless. E.g. oldest withdrawal in the queue. If you intentionally DDoS the withdrawal queue by doing many small withdrawals instead of one large, you are placed far back in the queue every time a withdrawal is processed. This is only fair. Some of this is very market sensitive. E.g. total deposits. (Which are in many different currencies, btw, not just USD.) They should not publish this, and if they did it would mean instant death as an exchange. Large investors must depend on MtGox not publishing those numbers. MtGox has very a very strict privacy policy as well. It is important to ensure that no private information can leak out. I can't see any other exchanges publish those numbers either.

The only important number to most people is how long they have to wait for their money if they withdraw today, and how the queue is organized. I have provided the know figures in this thread. It is collected from various sources, and I wish MtGox would make similar information available.

I disagree. I do not see anything wrong with aggregate data transparency as other financial institutions do this already. So, what is your logical rationale for instant death an an exchange providing such figures?