This thread is stupid. As if satoshi could or should prevent people from forming foundations and then decide who can and can not join those foundations.
Bitcoin is fine, Gox and it's users are temporarily putting a bad taste in everyone's mouth. In time this will pass and Bitcoin will be better off because of it (if people learn to make better choices when it comes to picking an exchange and how they use it).
Yes, this is true. It is probably going to be a slower recovery than we all hope after the media gets through pounding into everyone's head how "the number 1 bitcoin exchange in the world imploded, costing investors millions..."
Headlines will be something like that... In the grand scheme of things, this is more than likely just a small bump in the road, but it's a painful one for a lot of people...