So just me trying to use some common sense, can someone tell me, where does gox gets its money ?
Who is depositing cash on their site to buy bitcoin when there is a 100+usd premium compared with other xchanges?
I used to think the same thing, buy apparently dumb people are gonna be dumb. I know several newbie's that recently decided to get themselves some bitcoin through MtGox. Why? Simple. They don't care to do any research whatsoever, and MtGox is like a brand-name.
One of them lost his funds btw. Either his account got hacked into, or he was scammed by Gox. (He did not have 2FA.)
Edit: By the way, Gox told him to take it up with his local police, which is obviously a bad joke as we're situated in Europe.