I just discovered that there is someone who has taken all my bitcoins + sold the last to move money from one account to another.
It all happened Thursday 28.07, I've been on vacation and have only just logged into my account now to see if it had bought for $ 8 which I had set it to
All my money is gone and so is my bitcoins ..
What the hell is happening to the safety of MT Gox ...
I've now lost $ 4000 because of their incompetence.
F. ...! I'm getting tired of it.
I don't see how it's not entirely your fault.
Who keeps money on these sites anyway? Paypal is owned by eBay, can be sued, located in the USA, used to transfer millions a day, I wouldn't leave $10 sitting in my paypal account. So now you talk about these fly by night 3 month old Bitcoin exchanges owned by god knows who, running from god knows where, and you'd leave $1000s sitting on there? Why?
I move BTC to the exchange, sell it, move money out. Takes about 30 minutes. I'd never leave .1 BTC or $1 sitting on any of these sites. It's just laziness. Not to mention leaving money on there while you go on vacation. If I left for a week, in my mind it's 50/50 is MtGox is alive/up when I get home. Nothing with them shocks me. I trust them an hour at a time and that's it.
Stop using these two bit hack job sites as banks. They're not banks. Your money isn't safe. There's no recourse if the money disappears. It's not a fucking bank. Stop using it like a fucking bank. If MtGox just decided to zero out your balance for shits and giggles, there's NOTHING you can do. So why exactly did you trust them to secure your money while you were on vacation?
Bitcoin wallets, exchanges, any site related to BTC, is not a real bank, it's not secure, don't expect them to act like a bank. Grow up, make better decisions and stop crying on a public internet forum it's embarrassing.
If he's a day-trader, it's entirely necessary to keep funds in one's account. At least $$$ funds. The bitcoins can be transferred in and out easily enough, but dollars or other currencies often take days.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect an active trader to move funds in and out of their mtgox account every day. MtGox SHOULD be secure. If they are not, then we should stop using them.