people should have been able to get their assets out within minutes after it happened. and trading would have resumed with barely a blip, somewhere else.
Why, so the people who had hacked other people's passwords could grab tons of BTC and trade somewhere else? There were hundreds of accounts with unsecured passwords cracked within hours, 10% of them probably had 1 or 2 or 10 BTC on it. I had what I always considered a secure password and mine was hacked after a day. Yeah, it F@&ked the markey, but freezing it was the best thing they could have done.