Tokyo - JAPAN - February 07, 2014
Dear MtGox Customers,
During our efforts to resolve the issue being encountered by some bitcoin withdrawals it was determined that the increase in withdrawal traffic is hindering our efforts on a technical level. As to get a better look at the process the system needs to be in a static state.
In order for our team to resolve the withdrawal issue it is necessary to temporarily pause all withdrawal traffic to obtain a clear technical view of the current processes.
We apologize for the extremely short notice, but as of now all bitcoin withdrawals will be paused, and withdrawals in the queue will returned to your MtGox wallet and can be re-intiated once the issue is resolved. Customers can still use the trading platform as usual.
Our team will be working hard through the weekend and will provide an update on Monday, February 10, 2014 (JST).
Again, we apologize for the inconvenience, and ask for your continued patience and support while we work to resolve this issue.
Best regards,
The MtGox Team
This is very good news in my opinion. Finally they stop the ongoing pilling-up of errors, stop the flood of errors coming in and also the flood of requests such as mine like "please refund my stucked bitcoins to my mtgox wallet" and by stopping these floods, they can actually deal with the problem/s.
So to me, this looks reliable and I hope for the best for all of Gox users and Gox themselves.
Good luck guys,
Ah - what a load of crap PR release.
"by some bitcoin withdrawals"
Lulz yeah it may be some but but current count is STILL 4159
Half an hour ago it was ... 4153 ... man they are really chewing into that backlog ... oh wait, it went up 6
It's been going on for 2 months or more and they suddenly realise - oh shit stop everything and fix it? ...
Edit: reading it a second time ... yeah they want you to have your withdrawn coins back, and have nothing else to do but trade them so they make more trade fees ....... all weekend ...