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It is anyone's guess. The MtGox developers have been far from transparent about their current roadblocks. The MtGox BTC price will continue to fall the longer this charade continues. The other exchanges will likely rebound once MtGox is out of the press. MtGox has deviated too much to be relevant in the fast pace of Bitcoin trading. No rational consumer is going to trust them going forward.

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Could this be a plan to drive down the BTC price on MtGox, let the MtGox admins buy out their entire supply at bargain prices and then they can manually transfer their coins out? They might be able to make enough profit there to cover the losses from the hack, depending on how much they lost.

No rational consumer is going to trust them going forward but new consumers who might not know the history of MtGox might not know any better.

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