Yes, all that's happened is a bug that completely halted trading at a financial service managing millions and millions of dollars worth of assets.
At every point in the sad journey of Mt Gox -- from expertly storing passwords in plaintext (EDIT: actually it was unsalted MD5 hashes, but still, jesus christ) to this awful business of freezing the entire exchange -- the bitcoin community has fallen all over itself to forgive and excuse them.
How much is too much? You people should be calling for someone's head on a damn platter.
You left out the inability to keep a trading engine running under modest load after two years of lost opportunity to fix the problem. Turns out most of those "DDos" attacks on Gox were simply their customers wanting to trade at modest to moderately-high Bitcoin volume (aka low volume in traditional exchanges).
Yes, all that's happened is a bug that completely halted trading at a financial service managing millions and millions of dollars worth of assets.
At every point in the sad journey of Mt Gox -- from expertly storing passwords in plaintext (EDIT: actually it was unsalted MD5 hashes, but still, jesus christ) to this awful business of freezing the entire exchange -- the bitcoin community has fallen all over itself to forgive and excuse them.
How much is too much? You people should be calling for someone's head on a damn platter.