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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  Joe Blackman, RH ACGM® (@JosephBlackma1) reported 23 seconds ago

  @NatalieHarr21 we're sorry to hear about the ongoing issue with your Bitstamp account. As Robinhood acquired Bitstamp, our teams are aligned on support. Please DM with your case/reference number so we can escalate and assist directly. We'll get this reviewed ASAP.

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  Kim Tech (@KimTech_) reported 2 minutes ago

  🚨 warning : #Bitstamp is reportedly blocking withdrawals and ignoring support requests ❌ Avoid making any further deposits and remain vigilant. 📩 Contact trusted, verified experts if involved . #CryptoScam #QuotientX.

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  Tony Christodoulou (@LT_TonyDiamond) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp is holding my assets hostage. •Account previously verified •Allowed to deposit & trade •Mid-position they demanded new docs •I complied •Now over a week: no access, no withdrawals, no timeline That looks a lot less like compliance and a lot more like forced market exposure.

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  Zahra K. (@zha_kh) reported 4 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp Issues with withdrawal. Is this exchange now fraudulent??

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  Mark Elliot Crypto Recovery (@mark_crypto) reported 6 minutes ago

  If you come across this website #Bitstamp with a fake token introduced by these Asian or United States ladies, do not invest or trade in the platform. It is Fake. If you already invested send me a report now and you unable to withdraw yours send me a direct message now #vicBitGo

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  West (@asu_maro39) reported 11 minutes ago

  Trading conversations tied to #HQIExchange and #Bitstamp continue spreading warnings about blocked transfers and unresolved cashout delays. Quiet support can be requested directly.

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  Josh Fuller (@JoshFul74150960) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp @BitstampSupport Hi — I requested account closure and data deletion over a week ago via support ticket #2259522 and haven’t received confirmation. Could someone please help finalize this? Thank you.

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 12 minutes ago

  @CryptoGui @wsouza86 @SonicLabs not dead, but down 93% from ATH with team departures isn't great recent bitstamp listing and x402 integration show they're still building, generated 10k revenue last month bleeding hard but still has a pulse

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  𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐖𝐀𝐕𝐄 ⚡️🌊 (@Shockwave_App) reported 16 minutes ago

  @projectpips @Bitstamp It's not fake (it's a screenshot), it's a glitch.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 16 minutes ago

  @HopefulofNFTs @lookonchain The details largely check out based on Arkham Intelligence and Lookonchain data. The whale accumulated ~154,076 ETH since 2017 at ~$517 avg cost. Recent deposits: 40,251 ETH (~$124M at ~$3,083/ETH) to Bitstamp over 2 days, leaving ~26,001 ETH (~$80.16M). Profits from prior sales exceed $100M, with potential for more if remaining is sold. On market impact: Whale sales can add pressure, but ETH hovers ~$3,080, below 20-week MA (~$3,200 per charts). Thread replies note support at $2,800-$3,000.

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  CRYPTO RECOVERY FIRM🧑‍💻 (@RECOVERY_POST) reported 19 minutes ago

  @JonathanTDobson I can help you get your staked funds off Bitstamp, all you need to do is message me privately you don't need to pay any upfront fee

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  ابو يوسف (@metat7es) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp Hi Has the Bitstamp platform been shut down in Kuwait?

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  David tin (@Davidtin564527) reported 25 minutes ago

  Last chance to buy $wecan before 🚀🚀🚀 Uniswap and Bitstamp ****** Dear Wecan Community, We’re excited to announce that the $WECAN token will soon be listed on Tier 1 centralized exchange. This marks an important step to expand access to our ecosystem. (wecan group)

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  AbsChud (@abschud) reported 25 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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  MR○Crypto (@RIESSBLOG) reported 27 minutes ago

  @RobKeibler I use Bitstamp for analysis. I know what you mean, the charts are completely broken.I use Bitstamp for analysis. I know what you mean, the charts are completely inaccurate. Basically, I use TradingView for everything. I look at several exchanges.

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  SalamAndr (@FX1000ren) reported 28 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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  GRIFF BLOOM 🪖 (@Griff_Bloom) reported 31 minutes ago

  @FX1000ren @FX1000ren No access, no replies that’s absurd. Message @Chain_Encode for help with Bitstamp account issues.

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  BuildingTheEdge (@BuildingTheEdge) reported 34 minutes ago

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

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  Iso Ledger (@JamesDula82) reported 35 minutes ago

  Privacy coins didn't lose because the technology failed. They lost because it worked. Monero does exactly what it was built to do. Every transaction hidden by default. Sender concealed. Recipient concealed. Amount concealed. Ring signatures. Stealth addresses. Confidential transactions. The architecture makes transaction transparency technically impossible — that's not a flaw in the design, that's the entire point of it. ZCash went further. It built zero-knowledge proofs — a cryptographic system where a transaction can be mathematically verified as valid without revealing a single detail about who sent it, who received it, or how much moved. The most sophisticated financial privacy technology ever deployed on a public blockchain. And that's exactly why both of them are being quietly buried. Here's what the new financial architecture requires above everything else: an auditable trail. The FATF Travel Rule — now law across 85 jurisdictions — requires that every crypto transaction above $1,000 carry the identity of the sender and the recipient, and that this information travel with the payment through every institution in the chain. The entire framework is built on one non-negotiable foundation: you must be able to see who sent what to whom. The GENIUS Act mandates 1:1 reserves, audits, and AML compliance for every stablecoin issuer. The CLARITY Act defines which tokens get institutional access and which don't. MiCA in Europe is already forcing over 3,000 firms into compliance frameworks built on the same auditability requirement. Every single piece of financial legislation being passed right now has one thing in common. You can follow the money. You must be able to follow the money. A protocol designed to make that impossible isn't just non-compliant. It's architecturally incompatible with the entire system being built. The exchanges didn't need to be told twice. Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Huobi, OKX, and Bitstamp all removed or restricted Monero. 73 exchanges delisted it in 2025 alone. The EU is phasing in full custodial bans on privacy coins by 2027. Japan banned them from licensed exchanges in 2018 and never looked back. Dubai banned them from regulated financial zones in early 2026. They didn't ban possession. They didn't need to. They just made sure no regulated platform would touch them — no exchange listing, no institutional custody, no ETF pathway, no on-ramp. You can still own them. You just can't get in or out anywhere that matters. You don't criminalize the exit. You just make sure nobody can use it. And here's what makes this story darker than most people realize. According to TRM Labs, 48% of newly launched darknet markets in 2025 supported only Monero. That's the association that gets built when legitimate access disappears. The technology didn't change. The user base did. And now every regulator pointing at privacy coins has exactly the receipts they needed. The trap was elegant. Restrict access on regulated platforms, push the remaining use cases toward the darkest corners of the internet, then point at those corners as justification for the original restriction. XRP has no privacy layer. Every transaction is publicly visible on the ledger. That's not a compromise. That's the architecture that puts it in the DTCC patent, in the JPMorgan settlement, in the SEC's digital commodity classification, in the Mastercard cross-border deal. The cage needs pipes it can see through. XRP is a pipe you can see through. The privacy coins built walls that couldn't be seen through. And in a system being designed to see everything — walls don't survive. They just become targets. The technology was brilliant. The timing was fatal. We audit the plumbing 🛡

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  Garrett Graham (@garrett_grham) reported 35 minutes ago

  Scam Alert 🚨 Trading conversations tied to #HQIExchange and #Bitstamp continue spreading warnings about blocked transfers and unresolved cashout delays. Quiet support can be requested directly.

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  BITMINTI (@bitminti) reported 36 minutes ago

  @BitstampSupport @Bitstamp why are your support team outside of US, requesting US greencard and social security numbers? What is your legal base to request these sensitive documents? Please explain. @RobinhoodApp #CryptoCommunity

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  The Fonz (@cryptofonzie) reported 36 minutes ago

  @SparkyAyaka @Bitstamp Hey. no fix here i’ve just tried now 5 days i had some email come through but they no good as timed out from attempts yesteday

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  Brain (@AskGigabrain) reported 40 minutes ago

  @TedPillows That OG whale's been cashing out alright. Confirmed the deposits: about 40,500 ETH total to Bitstamp over the last couple days, worth around $125M at today's $3,086 price. They grabbed it cheap years ago, so this is straight profit-taking from a long-dormant wallet. Still got $80M left in holdings, which could hit exchanges next if they keep going. Short-term, it's bearish noise for ETH. Spot selling like this ramps up exchange supply in a low-volume grind (trading's down 99% from average), and with longs crowded in perps (funding at +0.01%, ratio 2.58:1), it risks flushing some $15M in liquidations if price slips below $3,083 support. We've seen similar dumps cause 2-5% dips lately, especially with the broader market in neutral consolidation, BTC flat at $90,577. But it's not panic territory. ETFs soaked up $140M in ETH inflows last week, building a floor around $3,000, and microstructure's balanced, no big unwind yet. Whale positioning overall neutral, liqs even split. This fits the routine supply shuffle from early holders diversifying, not a regime breaker. Watch $3,083 hold for stability, or a break targets $2,929 quick. Upside needs volume above $46M to push $3,098 resistance. Data leans cautious but contained, no edge for a big move either way right now.

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  Alexander Pierce (@Kaique0819) reported 43 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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  Alexander Pierce (@Kaique0819) reported 47 minutes ago

  BTC Lost $73K — Is $70K the Next Stop? In my previous BTC breakdown, I said $72.8K–$73.2K was the key level bulls needed to defend. Now that zone has failed. Looking at the latest Bitstamp daily chart, BTC is trading around $71.8K after getting rejected again from the $81K–$82K resistance zone. This confirms the short-term structure has weakened further. BTC is now forming lower highs, losing key support, and showing little rebound strength. This is no longer just a normal pullback inside a strong uptrend. The market is now entering a more serious downside-risk phase. Here are the 3 levels I’m watching now: 1. $71.5K–$72K — Immediate reaction zone BTC is sitting right on this area. If buyers step in, a short-term bounce toward $73K–$74K is possible. 2. $73K–$75K — Reclaim zone This is now the key upside test. Old support has turned into resistance. If BTC cannot reclaim this zone, sellers remain in control. 3. $70K–$71K — Next support zone If the current area breaks, the next major downside target opens near $70K–$71K. A clean break below $70K could trigger a much deeper correction. My view is simple: Above $75K: structure starts to improve Below $73K: sellers still control the chart Below $70K: downside risk accelerates I’m not trying to call the bottom. I’m watching the levels that confirm the next move. Does BTC bounce here — or is the real flush still ahead? Follow me for more real-time BTC chart breakdowns. Not financial advice.

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  Vuori Trading (@VuoriTrading) reported 51 minutes ago

  @febe_92 @GunsRoses1987 That's the problem. Like $BTC made a lower low in usdt charts but in USD-charts (eg. Bitstamp) a higher low. What should we use? And.. many have been wrong. It's been THE hardest cycle ever. Especially for EW guys. There's so much sideways zig-zag mess going on.

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  Accumulation.exe (@FrickenClutch) reported 53 minutes ago

  @vladtenev You already have bitstamp/xrpl/europeanunion/juststartmintingbro. Reach out if you need help.

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  Brian (@KoZmoh) reported 55 minutes ago

  Four “features” I want to see Robinhood ($HOOD) implement @vladtenev @RobinhoodApp International Markets: Open up Europe, Japan, UK, and Canada to US users. Robinhood earns on FX conversion spreads (~50bps), wider securities lending revenue (foreign borrow rates run 2-4x US names), and a premium Gold tier for real time international data and lower fees. Bitstamp licenses + tokenization rails make $HOOD uniquely positioned vs legacy brokers. Forex Trading: Direct currency pairs (EUR/USD, GBP/JPY etc.) with 24/5 access. Robinhood earns on bid/ask spread markups, overnight financing on leveraged positions, and margin interest. Pairs naturally with international expansion, same FX infrastructure, different product wrapper. High margin and recurring revenue. Again can offer lower fees for gold members. Mutual Funds, Bonds, Treasuries: Captures the “safe money” currently sitting at Fidelity and Schwab. Robinhood earns on bond markups and spreads, cash sweep revenue on inflows, and unlocks 401(k) rollover capture (impossible without mutual fund support). This is the single biggest TAM expansion available because most US retirement assets sit in products HOOD literally can’t accept today. Robinhood Funds: Examples “Robinhood Retail Sentiment Index” and ETF that tracks the top 50-100 stocks held by Robinhood users. “Robinhood Crypto and Tokenization Index” ETF that entire crypto economy ($COIN $MSTR $MARA $HOOD) to name a few. Robinhood would make margin on expense ratios.

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  Saul 🌱 (@uptownsaul) reported 56 minutes ago

  As an exchange with such a deep and rich history around the XRP Ledger, why doesn't @Bitstamp support the XRPL version of @Ripple's RLUSD?

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  Zebastian ◘ (@bitlarrain) reported 56 minutes ago

  BREAKING: 5 million Bitstamp customers can now access Zcash. $ZEC