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Title: What's the deal with the closed withdrawal?
Post by: fatnlovelyfred on February 12, 2014, 04:21:02 AM
BTC-E and some others have closed withdrawal, what is happrning?

What do you think is going to happen next?


Title: Re: What's the deal with the closed withdrawal?
Post by: Sonny on February 12, 2014, 04:24:49 PM
Probably related to the issue of tx malleability (not really a new problem).
FYR: https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=418 and https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=422


Title: Re: What's the deal with the closed withdrawal?
Post by: yatsey87 on February 12, 2014, 04:52:53 PM
BTC-E and some others have closed withdrawal, what is happrning?

What do you think is going to happen next?

Many exchanges went down due to an attack so they closed as a security prevention.


Title: Re: What's the deal with the closed withdrawal?
Post by: fatnlovelyfred on February 13, 2014, 03:52:58 AM
Well, it's part of the way it works I guess - with so many pros you get some cons inevitably.


Title: Re: What's the deal with the closed withdrawal?
Post by: kroleg on February 26, 2014, 07:14:54 PM
for many exchanges the only thing they can do to keep the security prevention is to go down after an attack