What's the deal with the closed withdrawal?

[fatnlovelyfred]

BTC-E and some others have closed withdrawal, what is happrning?

What do you think is going to happen next?

[Sonny]

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

[yatsey87]

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.

[fatnlovelyfred]

Well, it's part of the way it works I guess - with so many pros you get some cons inevitably.

[kroleg]

for many exchanges the only thing they can do to keep the security prevention is to go down after an attack