[mmichaels1970]

The scuttlebutt I have heard so far is that gox was running forked code on their exchange that was too far outside being readily able to be fixed for “the bug”.

I heard the same thing. From what I gathered Mt. Gox, as one of the first and largest exchanges, was running on code that was much more proprietary to their exchange. While other exchanges are based on a much more standardized code base.

If there is a bug with the bitcoin protocol, the other exchanges are more readily able to incorporate any patches and updates, while Gox would require much more of their own source code rewrites.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Interesting, don’t you love tech projects that go live before their time. No doubt they were warned, but disregarded the warnings. It may well have been sabotaged from the beginning.