Man, where are the people bitching about minor missing features they could add themselves?  The conspiracy theories about who "bjornw" really is?  The flamewars about Bitfinex vs Bitstamp vs the Chinese exchanges vs the Fed?  This thread is all just love and appreciation and a whole bunch of excellent hard work.  Internet, you're losing your edge.

Superb site!  THANKS BJORN!

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This is a common MtGox experience.  I believe it's also why the BTC/USD rate is inflated there relative to other exchanges: people resorting to buying back BTC after they failed to withdraw USD!

For the record though, some people do manage to withdraw their USD, including (eventually) me.  I gather there are some banks they have more trouble withdrawing to than others, including Citibank - unfortunately one of the most common intermediaries in transfers from Japan.  Not very reassuring.  I too wish the best of luck to Bitstamp, had only good experience with them so far.

Jacob