About 6 months ago (when Mt Gox had some other issues with people's money) I said:
> If you trusted a company that started out trading Magic: the Gathering cards with a significant amount of your money, you probably need the lesson you are going to learn from this.
And was mocked/dismissed. It's disheartening to me the blind spot that otherwise intelligent people have when it comes to BitCoin and BitCoin related businesses.
Probably because what they bought the domain for was utterly irrelevant to their competence or complete lack thereof.
The enemy is stupid the overcredulous decision-making of ideologues and the incompetence of people who want to handle your money. Adding more dumb information just confuses the issue.
Most of the replies you link to were just pointing out your comment was incorrect, or that judging tech companies based on their name isn't a particularly good approach. I don't see anyone defending MtGox's competence or business practices.
I pulled my money out of MtGox about 6 months ago... unfortunately I'm still waiting for them to process the wire transfer I requested, and this makes me suspect I may never actually see that money.
> If you trusted a company that started out trading Magic: the Gathering cards with a significant amount of your money, you probably need the lesson you are going to learn from this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6264666
And was mocked/dismissed. It's disheartening to me the blind spot that otherwise intelligent people have when it comes to BitCoin and BitCoin related businesses.