http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comment ... e_stopped/
Bitstamp BTC withdraws have ceased for about 9 hours - all just "Waiting to be processed".
Previous recent transactions that made it to the blockchain are 'unconfirmed'. Not necessaril Bitstamp fault but because they have used an unconfirmed transaction as an input and until that transaction is confirmed everything is being jammed up. Sadly there is no fee on that input transaction so you will be waiting as long as it takes for some miner to process it (currently 14+ hours).
E.g. Bitstamp wallet address; https://blockchain.info/address/3G8sLGQ ... B9emkgCSD2 is spending an unconfirmed input with a zero fee on transaction "045c99288d4a5ceb7f8f0a5bf361db4dec92682824d968f7609e98e02410aaf2"
so for the sake of an unconfirmed 1.5BTC transaction a withdrawal of over 3,900 BTC is unconfirmed waiting on it!