Today MtGox – one of the biggest exchanges – published a press release stating that they’re temporarily pausing Bitcoin withdrawals.
For more news you’ll probably have to wait until Monday, February 10, 2014:
Our team will resolve this problem as soon as possible and will provide an update on Monday, February 10, 2014 (JST).
I didn’t endorse MtGox in public, but that’s mainly because they’ve been in control of the vast majority of the Bitcoin market for a long time and this caused some trouble for them and the Bitcoin community.
However I do trust MtGox to do the right thing and I will definitely support them in case they are in trouble.
I have chatted with Mark Karpelès (current CEO of MtGox) online several times – even before he became the owner of MtGox and he’s definitely not the kind of person who wants to cause this kind of inconvenience.
MtGox is also a founding member and major supporter of the Bitcoin Foundation – and this foundation is paying Gavin Andresen to maintain the source code of the Bitcoin client*.
*I’m referring to the first Bitcoin client – developed by Satoshi Nakamoto.
February 07, 2014 at 10:23PM
