More generally than MtGox, that's the favorite trick of a lot of new on the block banks, to be delighted to accept black market money, and then to be ultra leery of giving it back out again. If you study prisoner's dilemma (game theory), you'll say the bank has played a "Defect" move. The best policy in most cases is an algorithm called Tit-for-Tat. This is where you just stop Cooperating with them. i.e. stop doing business there and move it to elsewhere.It sucks that your money is under lock and key. However this is a valuable lesson to you :1. Diversify. The guys at Intersango didn't do this either, they relied on 1 provider to send them cash as electronic credit, MetroBank and they lost a lot more than you because of it. 2. Don't use the Tor network with MtGox. (I know you know this, just pointing it out to the others because it's probably the most common reason for account freezing), you should route your Tor traffic via an ip address you know wouldn't be used by anybody else. It is seriously bad luck that somebody else was using your VPN for MtGox.It's hilarious actually that reusing an ip address leads to an account being frozen, you surely can't scale that up without interruptions in service for everybody, I mean ipv4 space is limited and ISPs have to continually recycle the same old ip addresses with DHCP they assign to you.It has frequently come to my attention that English and Japanese share a common characteristic, not all, but many of them. That's that they think of running a business as essentially adhering to a series of fixed rules. They are in the habit of continually kowtowing to authority, even when completely unnecessary. I attribute this, literally, to their countries becoming more socialist over time. Yes, I consider that a character flaw. I think their ancestors would be abhorred by this generations weak minds. Pro statist socialists are some of the most stupid people I have ever meet in my life, it would be a pleasure to purge them from the earth. It is difficult to adhere to a principal like NAP when faced with such thinking. /pinochet pine--tldr: MtGox is a piece of shit platform. If you all stop doing business with them, than we can kill their market share stone cold dead. Maybe you can make a thread to encourage people to take a Do Not Use MtGox pledge or something. You could call yourselves the AGoxs or something (sounds like a pokemon!).