This is what the Mt. Gox website said on its front page until last week:
You can quickly and securely trade bitcoins with other people around the world with your local currency!
Sadly, I think many people trust such marketing claims, partially because they assume the people behind the site know what they are doing, they assume the laws of a developed host economy like Japan are strong enough to prevent companies from making false claims (even while the market itself is unregulated), and, most importantly, they want to believe it will benefit them.
You can quickly and securely trade bitcoins with other people around the world with your local currency!
Sadly, I think many people trust such marketing claims, partially because they assume the people behind the site know what they are doing, they assume the laws of a developed host economy like Japan are strong enough to prevent companies from making false claims (even while the market itself is unregulated), and, most importantly, they want to believe it will benefit them.