There's one news or the other that is always circulating in the market which is causing enough FUD in people to bring the prices drastically down the hill. Two weeks later, nobody will even remember this Mt Gox anymore, but just the faint memories of a big exchange being hacked in the early days.


This isn't even a possibility to think of because if every case of hack or loss of coins were forked just to delete the lost coins, we would have had thousands of forks by now. Remember that the maximum supply is fixed and forking would bring that number down, again which isn't entirely possible to pull off.