Comment Re:Bitcoin still seems sleazy to me (Score 1) 161
An exchange (or some kind of moral equivalent) is a logical necessity to have sufficient liquidity for bitcoin to be a currency for normal grownups. Mind you, failing to accomplish such does not necessarily mean that bitcoin is not a "success" by some rational definition, only that it is not really "money".
(FYI: I would bet a large amount of money that MtGox will eventually prove to be an inside job.)