Gox sold their coins and goxbux for tulips.
I had you until "tulips"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
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Gox do not have the realcoins and realcash to match everyone's goxcoins and goxcash.
Who does the trading fees go to?
Seriously though if GOX died off it would be a good thing. They're a terrible exchange with terrible service and terrible support. I had to wait 5 months to withdraw $1000 from my gox account. I never received the money, i just gave up waiting after 5 months, cancelled the withdrawal and moved to bitfinex.