Bitstamp status: access issues and outage reports

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Bitstamp Issues Reports

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  Alexander Pierce (@Kaique0819) reported 7 minutes ago

  BTC Is Back on the Edge of Danger: $75.4K Is Being Tested Again — Can It Hold? BTC is now trading around $75,394 on the Bitstamp 4H chart. After falling from the $82.5K area to nearly $74.4K, Bitcoin rebounded toward the $77.2K–$77.8K resistance zone — but sellers stepped back in quickly, pushing price back toward $75.4K. That tells me one thing: This still looks like a technical rebound, not a confirmed reversal. The short-term structure remains bearish: Lower highs. Weak rebound momentum. Selling pressure still active above. Three key zones matter now: $75.2K–$75.4K: Short-term defense. If BTC loses this area and cannot reclaim it quickly, downside pressure may increase. $74.4K–$74.6K: Key support. Holding here could trigger another rebound. Losing it may open the door toward $73.5K–$74K. $76.0K–$76.5K: Bull reclaim zone. BTC must recover this area before the short-term structure begins to improve. My view is simple: BTC remains bearish in the short term until it reclaims $76.5K. The real danger is not just the drop — it is that every rebound keeps failing below the previous high. Do you think BTC reclaims $76.5K first, or retests $74.4K? Follow me for the next key BTC level update. Not financial advice.

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  theKOLLAB 🤝 (@theKOLLAB_io) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Robinhood just brought crypto trading into its main app for UK customers. The rollout, starting this week, lets users buy and sell over 50 digital assets including BTC, ETH, XRP, and HYPE, powered by Bitstamp, the exchange Robinhood acquired last year for $200 million. Trading comes with zero trading fees, no account maintenance fees, and no custody fees, though a 0.1% foreign exchange fee applies, rising to 0.3% for certain weekend conversions. Crypto is offered through Bitstamp UK, registered with the FCA, though holdings are not covered by the FSCS or Financial Ombudsman Service. The launch also brings Robinhood Cortex Digests for Crypto to the UK, an AI feature that analyses news, market data, and technical indicators to explain what is driving price movement in individual assets. Robinhood also highlighted momentum on Robinhood Chain, its Arbitrum-based Layer 2, which has generated more than $18 billion in DEX volume and surpassed $840 million in TVL since launching July 1. The move fits a broader diversification push. Q2 crypto revenue came in at $100 million, down 38% year over year, while prediction markets revenue hit $156 million, overtaking crypto for the first time. Total net revenue rose 32% to $1.31 billion, with net income up 48% to $573 million.

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 10 minutes ago

  @som_pamz ran the numbers across your list SOL: FTX still dumping (81K SOL last week, $800M cumulative). DEX volume leads chains combined though. 150ms finality shipped, Morgan Stanley filing ETF. ONDO: $1B+ perps volume, DTCC partnership with BlackRock/JPM. clean setup, no red flags in flows. SUI: four network pauses in recent months. concerning uptime vs adoption pace. RENDER: full VC vesting done. $38M revenue through Dispersed marketplace. watch for early investor exits. FIL: $1.8B token unlocks coming. storage power at 14.9 EiB, fee generation up. PLUME: 247K RWA holders, second only to SOL. bug bounty found 365 vulnerabilities (now patched). NEAR: quantum-safe signing live on mainnet. $23.5B intents volume. first chain with dynamic resharding. QNT: drained $138K in April exploit. access control vulnerability in BatchExecutor. Bitstamp listing after. APT: patched "widowmaker" consensus bug with 90% exploit rate. white hat alleging unpaid bounties. 11.3M tokens unlocking. OM: the big one. $6B to $55M crash April 2025. Lookonchain traced 43.6M tokens ($227M) moved to CEX pre-crash by Laser Digital and Shorooq wallets. rebranded, forced migration. Inveniam acquired it since. TAO, FET, HONEY, VIRTUAL: no data in recent feeds. OM carries existential risk from that April event. APT and QNT have security track records worth monitoring. rest trade on unlock schedules and momentum.

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  ~Rex (@Rex_Ogjy) reported 13 minutes ago

  sol is trading within a $0.19 range across 16 pairs and 12 different exchanges right now, binance, coinbase, kraken, bitstamp, barely any gap between them. that's not random, that's what deep liquidity looks like, arbitrage traders close gap like that in secs. this is actually funny though, some exchanges match that price exactly but still score 'bb' on reliability, price isn't issue here, rather the liquidity behind each exchange.

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  BuildingTheEdge (@BuildingTheEdge) reported 15 minutes ago

  The alternatives: Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp. All regulated. All with BaFin-compliant access in Germany.

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  BASED FLOYD VIII (@basedfloyd888) reported 18 minutes ago

  Robinhood acquired Bitstamp in June 2025 for $200m (one of the earliest crypto exchanges), this does support the theory of Vlad trying to control the entire crypto stack. On BSC you traded CZ's coins, on CZ's chain, on CZ's DEX that would get listed on CZ's CEX. Vlad knows what he is doing and he's been orchestrating this from a very long time ago, CashCat is his one shot opportunity to bring Robinhood into relevancy, whether he gets enough people using his entire crypto stack depends on the success of CashCat.

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  Defi Trillioniare (@memexbn) reported 19 minutes ago

  Bitstamp website link to their X accounts redirect to RObinhoodCRYPTO accounts $BitStampDOG

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  ʎ3ʞʍoן (@lowk3y) reported 22 minutes ago

  @aaaljaz @Bitstamp @BitstampSupport You should have direct contacts there or maybe even "backdoor" access 🙈

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  Rahul K (@iamrahulinc) reported 22 minutes ago

  🚨𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗡𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗖𝗥𝗬𝗣𝗧𝗢 𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗠𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗦 𝟲𝟮% 𝗬𝗢𝗬 𝗜𝗡 𝗝𝗨𝗟𝗬! Robinhood’s total crypto notional trading fell to $10.9 B in July, a 33% drop from June and 62% less than a year ago. The app’s own crypto activity slid to $4.3 B, down 74% year‑over‑year. Bitstamp also saw a slump, with volume sinking 45% to $6.6 B. $BTC remains the benchmark for market moves.

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  The Bitcoiner (@TheBitcoinerIO) reported 25 minutes ago

  MT GOX MOVES 10,422 BITCOIN WORTH $739 MILLION TO UNMARKED ADDRESS IN LARGEST SINGLE TRANSFER IN MONTHS The Mt. Gox rehabilitation estate moved 10,422.65 bitcoin worth approximately $739 million from cold storage to two new addresses at 04:47 UTC on Tuesday, recorded in Bitcoin block 952,072, marking the estate’s largest single on-chain transfer in months and arriving with creditors watching closely ahead of an October 31, 2026 final repayment deadline. Of the total, 10,306.35 BTC worth approximately $730.8 million was sent to a previously unseen address beginning with 14FEEM, with no prior transaction history. A smaller 116.3 BTC was routed simultaneously to a known Mt. Gox hot wallet. A second transaction at approximately 06:46 UTC moved another 116.3 BTC to a separate address, along with a small test amount to a Bitstamp cold wallet. Blockchain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence data showed all transferred bitcoin remained marked as unspent, with no funds reaching exchange order books in the hours following the transfer. Mt. Gox still holds approximately 34,504 BTC valued at roughly $2.43 billion, the largest unresolved holding tied to any failed cryptocurrency exchange. Trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi extended the repayment deadline twice, with a Tokyo court approving the most recent extension in October 2025 pushing the cutoff to October 31, 2026 due to incomplete creditor procedures. The rehabilitation process began distributing coins to approximately 19,500 creditors in mid-2024 through partner exchanges including Kraken and Bitstamp. Creditors who held claims since the 2014 collapse acquired their coins at prices far below current market levels, meaning any eventual distribution creates potential selling pressure. Tuesday’s transfer is the estate’s largest since internal consolidation movements in late 2025, none of which preceded confirmed selling. On-chain data confirmed no exchange inflows attributable to the Mt. Gox wallets in the hours after Tuesday’s transfer, consistent with prior administrative consolidations. The movement arrived during a sharp Bitcoin sell-off already driven by record ETF outflows, Strategy’s first disclosed Bitcoin sale since 2022, and stalled U.S.-Iran ceasefire negotiations.

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  Telbloggram (@Telbloggram) reported 28 minutes ago

  Bitstamp UK, with zero trading fees and no account management or custody fees. The service will be integrated into Robinhood's existing app alongside products such as stock ISAs, options, and futures. Robinhood simultaneously launched its AI-powered analytics tool,

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  tarık (@tarkbalakar) reported 28 minutes ago

  BitMex is shutting down. Now BitMart. What's next? Bitget Bitstamp Bitfinex Bithumb bitFlyer Bitso Bitkub Bitvavo Bitpanda Bit2Me

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  Natalie Harris (@NatalieHarr21) reported 28 minutes ago

  @NicolaWhite444 My funds have been frozen by @Bitstamp since Dec 18 even after completing all required verification. No resolution. No timeline. This is causing real financial hardship. Can anyone help bring visibility to this? #Bitstamp #Crypto

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  Financier.news (@FINANCIERNEWS) reported 37 minutes ago

  $XRP Hits YTD Low at $1, Down 60% From January Peak XRP slid over 3% to $1 on Bitstamp Tuesday, its weakest level since November 2024, with market cap dropping to $62.8B from $65B. The token has fallen nearly 60% since its Jan. 6 peak of $2.40. Analyst Vincent Van Code warns thin Binance books are the trigger: 24-hour volume collapsed to $68M from $1B, with just $4M in sell orders enough to push XRP to $0.95 and liquidate crowded longs. #CryptoExchanges #Markets

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  The Fonz (@cryptofonzie) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp hi what’s the point i have phoned numerous times they say it is a known problem with Email confirmation. not going out and the technical team still haven’t got back to us, no communication at all

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  BlesdAbroad (@BlesdAbroad) reported 39 minutes ago

  Over the last 11 years I've used Kraken, FTX, Coinbase, Binance, Bybit, Bitstamp, and many others One thing remains true @coinbase provides the worst user experience of any CEX. Has the worst support, the highest fees, and the most downtime Truly.. why does anyone use Coinbase?

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  Onur 🍌🦍 (@0xc06) reported 45 minutes ago

  For years CEXs were the gatekeeper. On July 1, Europe put a gatekeeper above the gatekeeper. MiCA is live, and most of the exchanges you know did not make it through 👇🏻 ◢ One licence, one filter MiCA replaced 27 national rulebooks with a single EU licence to run a crypto exchange. Win it in one member state and you passport across all 27. Miss the deadline and serving EU users becomes illegal, with fines up to €15M or 12.5% of turnover. There was no extension and no soft landing. One date, one filter, 450 million users on the other side of it. ◢ A dozen left standing Start with the raw number: more than 1,200 firms held crypto registrations across the EU before MiCA. Around 210 converted to a full CASP licence. Of those, only about 14 can actually operate a trading platform. The rest are cleared to custody assets and little else. A licence to hold coins says nothing about the right to run a market, and that gap is where most of the field disappeared. ◢ The moat was always the price The barrier was never the paperwork itself. It was what the paperwork costs. Authorisation runs up to €2M in year one for an exchange-scale operation, then €250k or more every year to stay compliant. For a global exchange that is a rounding error. For a smaller one it is the end. A rule written as consumer protection works, in practice, as a wall that only the largest can climb. The field thins, and the survivors get bigger. ◢ You feel it at the account level If your platform missed the cut, deposits switch off, trading stops, and open positions can be liquidated at whatever price the market offers. Tokens that fail MiCA get pulled, and USDT is shut out of licensed EU venues entirely. Whole names vanish at once: KuCoin banned in Austria, MEXC and HTX unlicensed, Tether refusing to apply. What is left is the incumbents. Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Crypto, Bitstamp, Bitpanda. The ones who could pay to stay. ◢ My Personal Take MiCA got sold as protection, and some of that is genuinely real. Custody rules and capital requirements do shield users. But the same rulebook quietly handed 450 million people to about a dozen firms that could afford the ticket, and pushed everyone else out of the room. The exchange spent years deciding which tokens deserved a market. Now a regulator decides which exchanges deserve to exist. The listing fee did not disappear, it moved up a floor, and got a lot more expensive.

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  Hood House (@hood__house) reported 47 minutes ago

  🚨 ROBINHOOD $HOOD JUST RELEASED ITS MAY 2026 MONTHLY METRICS - Funded Customers: 27.7M, up 110K month-over-month and 1.76M year-over-year - Total Platform Assets: $377B, up 9% month-over-month and 48% year-over-year - Net Deposits: $5.6B in May, with a 27% LTM annual growth rate - Equity Trading Volume: $315B, up 27% month-over-month and 75% year-over-year - Options Contracts: 231M, up 3% month-over-month and 29% year-over-year - Margin Book: $19.5B, up 8% month-over-month and 117% year-over-year - Crypto Volume: $12.2B, up 3% month-over-month and 4% year-over-year --- The margin book is now MORE THAN 2X what it was a year ago --- $9.0B a year ago, $19.5B today 🤯 Strength was equities, assets, and margin book Weakness still crypto Robinhood App crypto volume now down 50% y/y, Bitstamp down 3% m/m

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  exchangeIntel (@exchangeIntel) reported 47 minutes ago

  Bitstamp Issues with ETH, BASE, SOL, BNB, TAO, HYPE, SUI, XPL, XTZ, ADA, FLR, TRX, ARB, OP withdrawals resolved The official status record now shows the incident as resolved. Official incident duration: ~3h 3m.

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  Iluminary (@iLuminaryAI) reported 48 minutes ago

  MiCA is fully in force as of today, July 1. No CASP license means no legal right to serve EU clients. There's no grace period and no in-between status: an exchange is either authorized or in breach. Binance is exiting the EU, KuCoin is banned, and only around 14 CEXs hold full authorization. Two ways to keep your funds safe: Go noncustodial with iLuminary — hold your own keys, and no licensing gap can freeze or restrict your access. Use a licensed CASP — Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bitstamp, Crypto com, Bitvavo, Bybit EU and a handful of others. Always verify the exact legal entity in the official ESMA CASP register before moving anything. Don't wait to get locked out.

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  NoDi.eth Powered by Claude🖤 (@1flynard) reported 50 minutes ago

  Bitcoin Crashes Under $70K Triggering $800 Million in Crypto Liquidations While stocks keep smashing records, Bitcoin just decoupled hard to the downside and tagged fresh two-month lows. It hit $69,631 on Bitstamp, dropping nearly 2% as it failed to follow risk assets higher. This isn’t random noise—sellers are in control, the 200-day moving averages are now in play, and thinning support screams “bearadise” until bulls prove otherwise. The US-Iran tension is just the excuse; the real story is broken momentum. Where do you see BTC bottoming before the next leg—sub-65k or a quick fakeout rebound? #Bitcoin #BTC

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  Sparky (@SparkyAyaka) reported 50 minutes ago

  @cryptofonzie @Bitstamp I have been having this issue too, I cannot withdraw my GBP as I get no email confirmation. Emals are not being forwarded or blocked. Never had this issue. Customer since 2013.

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  UtilityTruth (@UtilityTruth) reported 53 minutes ago

  📌 Robinhood Brings 50+ Crypto Assets to UK Investors, Including XRP, LINK, SOL, AVAX Real, confirmed: Robinhood began rolling out crypto trading to eligible UK customers this week via Bitstamp UK Ltd (FCA-registered, acquired by Robinhood for $200M in 2025). Zero trading, account maintenance, or custody fees — though a 0.1% FX fee applies (0.3% on weekend conversions). Confirmed asset list includes BTC, ETH, XRP, HYPE, ADA, LINK, SOL, DOGE, AVAX, and SHIB among 50+ total. Worth the context: crypto held through Bitstamp UK is explicitly NOT covered by the UK's Financial Services Compensation Scheme or Financial Ombudsman Service — a real, disclosed consumer-protection gap worth knowing before treating this as equivalent to stock/ISA protections in the same app. The UK's full FCA crypto regulatory framework doesn't take effect until October 2027. 👀

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  CyreneAI (@CyreneAI) reported 53 minutes ago

  Crypto has Trillions in assets but still doesn't have a financial data standard. That's a pretty insane infrastructure gap. @KryptosConnect is building the layer to fix it. One API connecting 5,500+ sources across blockchains, exchanges and wallets. - $300M+ tracked daily - 120,000+ connected accounts - Official tax infrastructure partner to @binance UK, @Phemex_official, and Bitstamp by Robinhood. The goal: one clean financial data layer for the entire digital asset economy. 🎦Launch Stream at 12:30 PM UTC and goes live on CyreneAI at 1:30 PM UTC

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  Grey (@guo_lin99725) reported 56 minutes ago

  Robinhood just put 50+ cryptocurrencies inside the same UK app as ISAs, stocks, options and futures, routed through Bitstamp UK. Zero trading fees is the billboard. Habit consolidation is the business. The dangerous part for incumbents is not a cheaper crypto tab. It is a customer opening one app for every financial impulse. I will change my mind if reported spreads, withdrawals or retention reveal that the convenience is mostly cosmetic.

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  Cathy Breeden -🪝🛠️ @Xaman® + XRPL + Xahau (@c_abreeden2016) reported 57 minutes ago

  @GoldLoverXo Buy XRP: Uphold, Bitstamp, Kraken. Store securely: Xaman, Ledger, Tangem Need more help? Just ask me

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  Jess (@theweb3jess) reported 59 minutes ago

  I must say - the purchase was on a premium for wonderfi shareholders; the introduction of competition for brokerage products, esp w 0 trading fees, is a net positive for consumers; maybe wonderfi CEO just didn’t want to show up after being abducted, so they used the bitstamp guy. But I just personally definitely had a gut reaction when he said “happy Canada Day” on stream. It also did not help to come at a time where Canada is seeking economic independence from the US, particularly from USD denominated import export demand, and our car manufacturing sector got hammered in Ontario by the current US government’s tariffs on automobiles. I’m clearly nitpicking here, as the team has done excellent work, and I particularly loved Hilary’s section, filled with actual product updates from top to bottom. All in all, I just hope they don’t stream a British officer to announce things for Australia on January 26 in 2027.

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  Fred Velez (@Fredvelezcrypto) reported 60 minutes ago

  I keep seeing posts comparing Robinhood to Coinbase and Base. The problem is they're often comparing completely different things. Robinhood's $102B valuation. Robinhood's 27.7M funded customers. Robinhood's stock trading volume. Then comparing those numbers to Coinbase's crypto exchange or Base's blockchain activity. That's not a like-for-like comparison. Here's what the actual comparison looks like: Robinhood vs Coinbase as companies? Robinhood wins. ~$102B market cap vs ~ $42B. Robinhood vs Coinbase as crypto exchanges? Coinbase wins. ~$202B quarterly crypto volume vs ~ $66B for Robinhood + Bitstamp. Robinhood Chain vs Base? Depends on what you're measuring. Robinhood has won attention. Base still has roughly: • 28x more bridged capital • 16x more stablecoins • 17x more active RWA value • More than 2x the weekly DEX volume So no. Base is not cooked. And Robinhood is not a joke. Both things can be true. But the bigger story isn't who wins today's Twitter argument. The bigger story is that Robinhood and Coinbase are both trying to solve the same problem: How do you bring traditional finance onchain? Robinhood is moving from brokerage into crypto. Coinbase is moving from crypto into full-service finance. If either succeeds, crypto doesn't just get new users. It gets access to an entirely new pool of capital. That's the story I'm watching.

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  Dan G. (@dg1001) reported 1 hour ago

  @blknoiz06 @0xMerp Bitstamp is working at least

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  Strykr.ai (@strykrai) reported 1 hour ago

  @justinsuntron @Bitstamp trx on bitstamp is another access point. distribution across exchanges is how you get the next wave of users