Wow, so the fact that you heard from a friend that a french business did something dishonest once, and because Mark is French, there he must be doing something dishonest. this is incredibly racist. go back to your room.

Not my intention to sound racist - I actually like French people (can speak french myself), have vacationed in France on many occasions, and think the croissant is a genius invention.

Just stating a business anecdote - and I did mention that it is unrelated and perhaps Mark should not be penalized for that. But the french do have a different cultural mentality and reality - or more permissive way of thinking in which secrets are very common in interpersonal (business?) relationships. Extramarital relationships with multiple mistresses are considered normal and there is even a french term for a "5-to-7", meaning time with your mistress after work between 5pm and 7pm before heading home to your wife. Perhaps the best example of this is the french president who left his long-standing wife for another woman and recently cheated on her with a younger french actress. Even this is not shocking in french society, but it has at least ruffled some feathers elsewhere...

Sorry, getting off the point. I'm sure Mark has treated many early customers/supporters very fairly and for that he deserves their loyalty. But he has been dishonest with recent customers over the past few months by not disclosing the serious problems in a timely manner and instead maintaining a wall of silence, cancelling fiat/bitcoin withdrawals, while still encouraging highly unethical internal trades designed to profit Mt.Gox primarily. If this is considered honest behaviour, then his new Gox.com will attract gullible new customers - good for him in that he gets yet another chance...

We can all hope that this "leaked" document was just a PR field test and that he "magically" finds a way to restore a good portion of the missing bitcoins via Gox.com next month.