Bitstamp status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Bitstamp reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

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Bitstamp Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Nadi (@nadiia0x) reported 3 minutes ago

  Amazing service by @Bitstamp… Deposit was made on December 1st. I submitted all the requested documents and the next day received confirmation that everything was approved and my funds were available. In reality, I still can’t access them.

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  Parcero (@Onei_Designer) reported 6 minutes ago

  @upshift_fi @Bitstamp Hi @upshift_fi , why APY is down to 6.95% on Resolv USR yield ?

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  Jim Turvey (@TurveyBets) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp I’ve been going back and forth with your customer service for a week and they won’t answer a simple question for me. Can I please connect with someone who can answer my question! This is an incredibly poor user experience so far

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  The Fonz (@cryptofonzie) reported 7 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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  FM (@PastaBeanFras) reported 12 minutes ago

  @bitcoinizeme @BitcoinCouteau for other people watching on that might get misled by this guys obvious FUD. This is a Bitstamp issue. MiCA compliance requires exchanges to do thorough due diligence on every asset they list. 1....

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 18 minutes ago

  @cryptlogis down 99.6% from ATH despite landing Binance Alpha, Coinbase and Bitstamp listings in the past week listings didn't save it

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  Binance Customer Support (@BinanceHelpDesk) reported 19 minutes ago

  @bitminti @binance @Bitstamp Hello, Binancian During a routine upgrade, withdrawals on Binance were briefly paused for about 3 minutes. The issue was quickly resolved, and withdrawals have since resumed. Any pending withdrawals were processed within a few hours. Any doubts, DM us LS

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  SalamAndr (@FX1000ren) reported 22 minutes ago

  @stef_mulder I know 7 people who have blocked accounts at Bitstamp and 6 have already asked the CSSF for help, now the CSSF is handling it, people no longer have to deal with it, now the office in Luxembourg is handling it.

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  Natalie Harris (@NatalieHarr21) reported 25 minutes ago

  @JohannKerbrat 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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  AbsChud (@abschud) reported 26 minutes ago

  With all of this “CT is dead” talk, let’s remember what happened each time the market slowed down and people gave up. Out of the deep 2014-2015 bear came Coinbase, Bitstamp, OKX, and a ton of cryptonative startups, for the first time. Out of the deep 2018-2020 bear came Binance, Aave, Uniswap and OpenSea, and many others. Out of the 2022 bear came Bybit, Solana, Jito, Raydium, Pendle, Pudgy Penguins, and many others. Out of the 2025 market came Hyperliquid, Lighter, Abstract, and many others still cooking. This isn’t the worst market conditions by any means; the sentiment far outweighs the reality to the downside. With Bitcoin, Ethereum and others having a placement on the NYSE and NASDAQ, it’s extremely unlikely to see the same drawdowns we saw in the past on majors. Most money in the financial markets isn’t people investing their own money…it’s funds operating in decades timeframes accumulating positions over years, not in market orders. It is true that the easy times to rotate are over for now. But the real builders have just begun. And the real capital rotation has just begun.

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  Natalie Harris (@NatalieHarr21) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp Do not recommend Bitstamp to people. They are not a good company. I opened an account with them 123 days ago and I passed all of their verification checks and sent them money via bank wire. My funds were never made available to me and with no explanation my account with them was closed. I am still waiting for my funds to be returned 70 days later. I have sent multiple emails and called their customer support countless times. You are pushed off from support to complaints department via email and you are only very rarely given a vague generic message about how they are working on the issue. Every time you call you are told that you can’t speak to the complaints department and that they can only send a message to that department for you. If you plead then they will escalate the message. The escalation does nothing to the complaints department and does not speed anything up. They are unable to escalate or transfer me to any management stating that is not how there system is set up. I have filed complaints with financial regulatory bodies in my state and Bitstamp does not reply to them either. Robinhood will not help stating that it is a Bitstamp issue. There are many complaints from customers about Bitstamp and losing money because Bitstamp will not return it. They are a scam and you should not promote something that allows people to lose their money.

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  Vazquez (@projectpips) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Shockwave_App @Bitstamp That **** fake stfu. I would explain but clearly you not grasping at what im saying…

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  Cathy Breeden -🪝🛠️ @Xaman® + XRPL + Xahau (@c_abreeden2016) reported 27 minutes ago

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

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  Cookie (@kosi_milan) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp @BitstampSupport @RobinhoodApp Your payment methodts dont work. Not paypal not card purchase. Bitstamp app keeps deleting paypal optikn automaticly. What ********?

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  Ignas | DeFi (@DefiIgnas) reported 30 minutes ago

  Ironically, the more 'compliant' the exchange, the more I worry about the problems they'll cause me. Bitstamp bombarded me with extra SoF documents and wallet address verifications. Want to switch to Coinbase but worried it'll be the same or worse. How common are proof-of-wealth / source-of-funds requests on Coinbase these days? Coinbase already closed my account once. Since creating a new one I worry to actually use it. Btw Binance, Bybit, and OKX (before it moved to OKX EU).... not a single issue since 2017. CS is great, no extra documentation requests, just KYC doc updates. But Binance has been shady with their listings, pumps & dumps etc. Not really a fan anymore. Also for fiat in/out, banks probably prefer Coinbase... Is Kraken any better? Their fiat deposit limits are relatively low and they won't raise them for me. Not a great sign. Thoughts?

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  Watchingthis2☮️♥️🌎🍀🔺 (@Watchingthis21) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp Wen can we get access these on Robinhood? I want the lend feature on RH too.

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  Laurent Schaffner (@LoschCode) reported 31 minutes ago

  I'm a customer for over 10 years, so basically since they started, and I'm treated like utter ****. Thank you @Bitstamp I'll post every single day until you unblock the situation.

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  ＣＯＣＯ Ｗ ❄️ (@phy_nhu) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp this feels like a generic canned ad not a real support reply, especially with all the frozen accounts piling up on the thread lol

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  BlesdAbroad (@BlesdAbroad) reported 36 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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  Petr Zahradnik (@ZahradnikPetr) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp And at all, I don't want to write in DM. I want others to know about it, what an anti-customer approach you have.

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  Thomas_Wilson (@AZZZNG1) reported 37 minutes ago

  SCAM ALERT — #Bitstamp Reports of frozen balances and withdrawal problems ❌ ⏳ Act quickly if affected. 📩 DM for expert #CryptoRecovery support. #ScamAlert

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  10:13 (@sixpackostout) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp i implore everyone who is thinking about using this exchange to stop and find another exchange. Bitstamp used to be good. They will lock your account and not ever give you access. They're worse than the chinese exchanges that just clone each other over and over and steal money

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  BuildingTheEdge (@BuildingTheEdge) reported 47 minutes ago

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

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  XRPScan (@xrpscan) reported 50 minutes ago

  @Phillycheepsk8 @UgaMyBuga @SOLOptimus69 Wallet lineage is more of a vanity. Uphold, Coinbase, Bitstamp, et. al. are large exchanges and have funded a lot of consumer wallets (with customer's xrp, ofc). We use activation tree to discover exchange hot/cold wallets. Beyond that, its just something that is good to look at.

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  study bitcoins (@studybitcoins) reported 52 minutes ago

  Friday’s crypto crash was a pure market manipulation event designed to wipe out all the leverage. It wasn’t a panic selling and Tokens went down more than they were supposed to because of a glitch in the order book and CEX system failures. Bitcoin crashed to $102k on Binance but it held $108k on Bitstamp. Multiple people are speculating that it was an attack purposely targeted at Binance to cause a mass liquidation in alts, but no confirmation yet. Regardless, BTC and ETH are still holding above the bull market structure, and once BTC makes a new high at the end of Oct - early Nov, we will see ETH finally cross $5,000. Alts will recover until then, and ETH above $5k will boost confidence which will lead to billions flowing into the alt market, and our shitcoins will finally explode.

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  CryptoPirate13 (@Crypto_Pirate13) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Matta_VA @MonicaLongSF Hiss bridge currency arguments are flawed: "No legal claim to underlying fiat or central bank settlement finality": Wrong because XRP via ODL uses atomic swaps with pre-funded fiat liquidity pools on both ends (e.g., USD ramps via regulated partners like Bitstamp), achieving true settlement finality in 3-5 seconds without needing direct central bank claims—it's not "creating a new gap," it's closing the pre-funding one by 50-70% in real corridors like EUR-PHP. "Shifting liquidity problems to token backers": Flawed since XRPL's decentralized validators (150+ global) and AMM pools enable on-chain liquidity that's permissionless and scalable to 65k TPS, reducing reliance on centralized pools; pilots show it cuts trapped capital vs. SWIFT's nostro/vostro accounts, not just relocates it. "Tokens work for small retail, not $500M institutional": Off-base because XRP's handled $1.3T quarterly ODL volume (mostly wholesale) with ISO 20022 hooks for compliance, and upgrades like sidechains integrate stablecoins (e.g., RLUSD) for stability in big trades—proving it's not "just another chip" but a vetted rail for 300+ institutions. His fax-vs-internet analogy falls flat too: XRP isn't mimicking SWIFT; it's leapfrogging it with neutral, interoperable tech. Classic incumbent shade. Scared man. Very scared.

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  AbsChud (@abschud) reported 55 minutes ago

  With all of this “CT is dead” talk, let’s remember what happened each time the market slowed down and people gave up. Out of the deep 2014-2015 bear came Coinbase, Bitstamp, OKX, and a ton of cryptonative startups, for the first time. Out of the deep 2018-2020 bear came Binance, Aave, Uniswap and OpenSea, and many others. Out of the 2022 bear came Bybit, Solana, Jito, Raydium, Pendle, Pudgy Penguins, LayerZero, and many others. Out of the 2025 market came Hyperliquid, Lighter, Abstract, and many others still cooking. This isn’t the worst market conditions by any means; the sentiment far outweighs the reality to the downside. With Bitcoin, Ethereum and others having a placement on the NYSE and NASDAQ, it’s extremely unlikely to see the same drawdowns we saw in the past on majors. Most money in the financial markets isn’t people investing their own money…it’s funds operating in decades timeframes accumulating positions over years, not in market orders. It is true that the easy times to rotate are over for now. But the real builders have just begun. And the real capital rotation has just begun.

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  Ignas | DeFi (@DefiIgnas) reported 58 minutes ago

  Binance is still best CEX from user perspective. Listing choice aside. But truly… - super quick customer support - fast crypto and importantly EUR withdrawals - many chains supported - never asked for additional proof of wealth reports (Bitstamp tortured me for weeks recently) - no weird account closures - low fees Etc etc It’s still the north star for UX for crypto companies.

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  Bitcoinapolis: Bitcoin is hope ⚡️🤓 (@Bitcoinapolis55) reported 59 minutes ago

  @MDBitcoin Yup and the problem will be here as long as all these platforms allow access to ZCASH YET call themselves Bitcoiners. Looking at you CZ, Armstrong, and Winklevoss Winklevoss. Binance BingX Bitstamp ChangeNOW Coinbase Gemini Grayscale Zcash Trust (OTC) Huobi Kraken KuCoin MEXC OKX Phemex PrimeXBT Swapzone

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  Alew (@AlewXRP) reported 1 hour ago

  @WhatSayLew Lewis you are smarter than me, but I have faith you will figure this out lol. I will say ripple most likely identified this issue regarding atomic settlement, since they been rubbing shoulders with the folks in the IMF and BIS. It’s why I think the bitstamp derivatives matters