Updated 11:00 AM Eastern US: Andreas Antonopoulos notes on Twitter that . He also expects Mt. Gox to resume withdrawals soon.
Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp is today resuming withdrawals, days after announcing they would be stopped temporarily due to a DDOS attack affecting multiple exchanges that took advantage of a known transaction malleability issue known to developers since 2011.
“A denial-of-service attack caused us to suspend the processing of Bitcoin withdrawals. Bitstamp, with help from the Bitcoin core developers, has implemented a solution that passes our preliminary tests and audits,” Bitstamp wrote on their . “After additional testing, we plan to enable Bitcoin withdraws later today.”
The BTC-e exchange hasn’t made a formal announcement, but is also expected to resume withdrawals today, according to bitcoin news website .
Meanwhile at Mt. Gox, withdrawals are still stopped, and a man from London even flew out to Tokyo to confront the exchange’s CEO Mark Karpeles about the matter:
Certainly, it’s a good sign that the major exchanges are resuming business as normal.
The latest price per BTC at Bitstamp was $642, as of this writing.