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I wonder how Mt. Gox dares to spend their time creating this (which is nice by the way) instead of solving their withdrawal issues and finishing their new tradi

I wonder how Mt. Gox dares to spend their time creating this (which is nice by the way) instead of solving their withdrawal issues and finishing their new trading engine integration, which is pissing off many of their customers. The only reasonable explanation is that they have given up on decreasing their churn rate and instead they are focusing on acquiring newbies into their platform. Actually this is kind of sad...

lubos 13y ago
Do you honestly think that any programmer who works on Mt.Gox core product would have anything to do with this simple static information site?
- bernatfp 13y ago
  No, but I guess this affects the public image of the company. My understanding is that any serious company with issues of this magnitude would solely focus on sorting that out first and doing nothing else than that.
  - bobbles 13y ago
    Throwing more programmers at a problem is not a real way to actually solve that problem. This argument is similar to those people asking things like 'why does india care about protecting animals when they cant even feed their humans'. Solving one problem does not mean the other problem isnt still trying to be solved.
yapcguy 13y ago
A friend copied an e-mail that MtGox sent to them today: <snip> Dear MtGox Customers, Thank you for your patience during an incredible year for Bitcoin and MtGox. We’ve not been able to communicate as we may have wanted, but we’ve been working tirelessly in the background and we’re looking forward to even more progress in the coming weeks, which we’ll be announcing soon. We have four developments that we are proud to announce today: Introduction of the MtGox OTP Card Increased limit for SEPA withdrawals from Poland A modified trading interface Trade with no fees from Bitcoin Black Friday through Cyber Monday ... Additional Points: To increase the speed of Bitcoin transactions, we will now require all Bitcoin transfers to pay the standard 0.001 BTC network fee. The fee will be charged separately from your balance.
- jellicle 13y ago
  So.... every Mt. Gox transfer now costs USD $1? And may cost USD $2 tomorrow?
  - kronholm 13y ago
    Yep
  - bernatfp 13y ago
    For what it's worth, at the moment any bitcoin transaction is required to pay a 0.0005 BTC transaction fee in order to make sure it's gonna be included by miners into the blockchain.

lubos 13y ago

Do you honestly think that any programmer who works on Mt.Gox core product would have anything to do with this simple static information site?

bernatfp 13y ago
No, but I guess this affects the public image of the company. My understanding is that any serious company with issues of this magnitude would solely focus on sorting that out first and doing nothing else than that.
- bobbles 13y ago
  Throwing more programmers at a problem is not a real way to actually solve that problem. This argument is similar to those people asking things like 'why does india care about protecting animals when they cant even feed their humans'. Solving one problem does not mean the other problem isnt still trying to be solved.

yapcguy 13y ago

A friend copied an e-mail that MtGox sent to them today: <snip> Dear MtGox Customers, Thank you for your patience during an incredible year for Bitcoin and MtGox. We’ve not been able to communicate as we may have wanted, but we’ve been working tirelessly in the background and we’re looking forward to even more progress in the coming weeks, which we’ll be announcing soon. We have four developments that we are proud to announce today: Introduction of the MtGox OTP Card Increased limit for SEPA withdrawals from Poland A modified trading interface Trade with no fees from Bitcoin Black Friday through Cyber Monday ... Additional Points: To increase the speed of Bitcoin transactions, we will now require all Bitcoin transfers to pay the standard 0.001 BTC network fee. The fee will be charged separately from your balance.

jellicle 13y ago
So.... every Mt. Gox transfer now costs USD $1? And may cost USD $2 tomorrow?
- kronholm 13y ago
  Yep
- bernatfp 13y ago
  For what it's worth, at the moment any bitcoin transaction is required to pay a 0.0005 BTC transaction fee in order to make sure it's gonna be included by miners into the blockchain.