Bitstamp halted BTC withdrawal

[wobber]

Oh SHIT!

[EskimoBob]

I recall two guys (developers) who were overly confident that this "bug" is bull shit and has no affect blaa blaa blaa.

Self-anointed Masters Of Bitcoin  (aka Bitcoin Foundation) is stepping from one pile of s** to another at alarming rate.

Bitcoin Foundation, how do you comment the situation now?

[Dangolbery]

I don't get spoofing TX-ID's for the whole network. Why not do it just for yourself so you can try and duplicate your coins from an exchange instead.

Doing it network wide is obviously just an attempt at crashing the market so the attackers can buy in. Well that or it's Gox doing it as a little tantrum over the fact they got cleaned out by someone using it.

It's not a real attack and gains very little besides market manipulation, gives Gox an air of legitimacy however.

[Dangolbery]

Actually now i've thought about it i'd bet some btc's that it is Gox behind it.

Gox's entire backend relies heavily on TX-ID and as such they'd have to recode their whole site essentially. So either spend weeks fixing your code or just spoof the whole networks TX-ID's and force others to 'fix' bitcoin code.