MtGox Resumes USD Withdrawals
The largest Bitcoin exchange, MtGox, has announced that they are resuming USD withdrawals around the world, putting an end to two weeks of hiatus. A long backlog of withdrawal requests had been accumulated over the period, so it will take over a month before processing times finally return to normal, but MtGox expects that the main disruptions are now....
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Gox's troubles have instilled very little confidence from the Bitcoin community. MtGox has taken the first steps toward resuming normal operations today, as bitcoin withdrawals have slowly been resumed following last weeks "malleable transactions" public-relations fiasco. Early Saturday, MtGox announced scheduled maintenance with the intention of reinstating withdrawals. Following the maintenance was a 24 hour observation period to monitor MtGox's systems as a whole. It appears for now that this fix was successful. Additionally, we are anticipating MtGox to be subjected to a very large....
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This altered photo of Mark Karpeles uploaded by /u/MorXpe on /r/bitcoin shows how some MtGox customers feel right now. A large chunk of the Bitcoin community has been ready to give up on MtGox for more than a few months, but the question still remains as to whether they are insolvent, incompetent, or just bad at public relations. While there is no need for a debate over whether or not this exchange has had problems in the past, there is little proof that Mark Karpeles and the rest of the staff over at MtGox are actually fraudsters. Although MtGox bitcoins are still being sold at a....
MtGox, a Bitcoin exchange that used to have over 90% market share in the industry and still remains one of the top three Bitcoin exchanges today, announced on Friday that they would be halting BTC withdrawals as a result of unspecified internal technical issues, and promised that they would have an update by Monday. The Bitcoin price dropped 10% partly as a result of the news, and conspiracy theories abounded about what was going on inside. One Bitcoin user travelled from Australia to hold a protest in front of the MtGox offices, and even had a conversation with MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles - a....
Bitcoins are selling for under $500 on MtGox for the first time since November. Prices on the other exchanges seem to be holding steady for now, but MtGox simply cannot catch a break. People are already selling their MtGox bitcoins for “real bitcoins” at a discount, and Roger Ver has publicly stated that he’s one of the buyers on the other end of that trade. If you discount a small blip during December, this is actually the first time MtGox has dropped below $500 since the middle of November. People have been talking about the “end of MtGox” for almost a year now, but the exchange is still....