To be short : "We will hold your BTC for a while."

"Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox said customers can take out cash “as normal” and it’s working to resolve technical issues that prompted it to halt withdrawals of the digital currency."

"Can take out cash "as normal".

"...halt withdrawals...".


Wot?

These 2 statements directly contradict each other , don't they?

According to Gox's statement the issue seems to be wider than I assumed - I.E it has potential of affecting other exchanges.. it might have already did - perhaps the hacker/s exploited other exchanges using this "bug" and MTGox is "just the first exchange to notice and take actions"... Hopefully that is not the case.

In any case, it seems to be fixable and it seems to me that users will get access to their Bitcoins on MTGox in a a week or maybe more. But who knows

we are waiting our usd since 4 months now

I agree it's not the best service, but then again, I'm not crying "SCAM" and "they be running with yer moniez" 24/7, like a lot of other people who have the same amount of information available like I do.

I made a few thousand Euros over the past 3 years through them without any problems (nothing like the hundreds of thousands like some people here claim, I simply would not trust such a young market with a bigger portion of my savings. Be aware of the risks). Yes, I had to wait for my funds lots of times. Yes, my funds always arrived sooner or later. Yes, I was still better off trading with them, compared to other exchanges.

If the BTC foundation is not able to fix the maleability issue found by MtGox today within 1y, well it is a big opportunity for the LTC as it appears that the LTC dev team fixed plenty of bugs for bitcoin last year.

No it is not, the  major problem with btc is not technical. The problem with btc is it’s concept : decentralised and anonymous philosophy, that some people loved but will always dislike governments. For a simple matter of popularity btc will be the last crypto currency with those characteristics to fail .  

Lulz - so which is it?

1) Bullshit

2) One of the retarded devs fucked up bitcoin with a transaction handling change some time in the last ... year or 2?
I would be VERY surprised if Satoshi made that mistake in the original design.
Sounds way more likely to be a dev fucking it up ... as per usual.
Bitcoin has been a hackjob for a while now, that people seem to value at over 10Billion dollars ...

I vote for number one. Since Gox is the source of this "problem" I think the problem lies with their heads.

Or they could be embellishing the truth, and be the last to update their wallet to solve this bug that has been known for a while, as they admit.