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Re:500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash by vrotaru on Sunday June 19, 2011 @03:56PM (#2671686)
> central entity with overarching authority exerts its will over the market

MtGox certainly is not central authority. If you stop being their customer, they will have just to live with that.

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Re:500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash by kingkilr on Sunday June 19, 2011 @04:20PM (#2671775)
> If you stop being their customer, they will have just to live with that.

That's precisely the theory behind free governments the world over, to wit: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed". Except we all know in practice there are barriers to withdrawing consent from the government, just as there are surely barriers to leaving a market.

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