FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Maintenance Announcement Effecting Bitcoin transfers!
Tokyo, Japan, February 15th, 2014!
Dear Mt. Gox Customers,
In order to implement our solution to the “transaction malleability” issue being
faced by bitcoin exchanges and businesses, we are going to have a 6-hour
downtime on all bitcoin deposits and internal bitcoin transfers in addition to the
current pause on bitcoin withdrawals. Trading will otherwise still be open as
usual.
Maintenance Schedule (approximate):
6pm ~ 12am JST (February 15th)”
The above downtime period is approximate: it may be shortened or lengthened
as required. Once the implementation is complete customers will again be able
to deposit bitcoin, but we will be doing extensive testing before bitcoin
withdrawals are reactivated. We will publish an update on the situation on
Monday .
BlockChain.info have implemented changes to address the malleability issue.
Our solution should work in the short term, while a longer-term solution is being
discussed with the Bitcoin Core Dev team and the Bitcoin Foundation. We are
also discussing this with other exchanges and businesses.
Thank you for your support during the maintenance, and we will update you on
the progress shortly.
Best regards,
MtGox Team”
