Quote from: CWestermark on February 11, 2014, 10:21:24 PM

Bitstamp and BTC-E is the same crap, and this, the exchanges are sadly one of the weakest spots of Bitcoin right now.

Other than MtGox, how are the exchanges weak spots right now? The exchanges have just taken precautionary measures and stopped bitcoin withdrawals are currently fixing their software so the minor bug becomes a non issue. No funds have been lost. Things should be back to normal within a few days at most, I suspect.

Quote from: CWestermark on February 11, 2014, 10:21:24 PM

Another issue is that Bitcoin still is on a beta release, were bugs are expected. The more value Bitcoin gets the harder it is to maintain and change these bugs.

The more valuable Bitcoin gets the more incentive and money available to spend fixing bugs.

If the other exchanges are back to normal operation within a few days and MtGox is still having BTC withdrawal issues after 2 weeks, then you must agree that MtGox's issues are more than just technical. There is a chance they may be using this bug as a convenient excuse to cover up some larger issue. It is possible they may even be the ones behind the attacks. As already stated, the markets remain skeptical.

Right now however, I am giving MtGox the benefit of the doubt.

Regardless of the above, MtGox are to blame for the havoc in the markets they caused yesterday with the way they handled the announcement. I have written about this in greater detail:

Quote from: blueberry on February 11, 2014, 08:20:39 PM

I think the problem people have with Gox is the way they handled the announcement and also the havoc it caused in the Bitcoin markets afterwards which could have been avoided. Their long-winded announcement went into a lot of technical detail about the transaction malleability flaw. Most traders are non-technical users of Bitcoin and would assume after reading the announcement that Bitcoin was broken. Sure enough, the announcement caused the flash crashes only minutes after release at Btc-e and Bitfinex resulting in millions of dollar losses from panic and margin calls.

This resulting panic in the markets could have been easily avoided had the announcement been reworded differently in a less dramatic fashion. You only need to read the first 2 paragraphs and immediately you suspect some serious flaw in Bitcoin. Less emphasis should have been made on all the details of the flaw, we are not to blame, more emphasis on that Bitcoin is not broken, this issue is not major, everyones funds are safe, we apologize to our customers for long delays etc... The devs were right to say that Bitcoin is not broken in order to prevent FUD from spreading and reaching the mainstream media with damaging articles where average joes would use this as another reason to avoid Bitcoin. Thanks to the devs a lot of the articles out there emphasize that this is a minor flaw and solutions can be easily implemented.

Mark Karpeles may understand technical issues well, but when it comes understanding investor and traders psychology and the huge impact these announcements will have on the Bitcoin markets, he either doesn't seem to have a clue or simply doesn't care (negligence).