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  MIKS (@MIKS_ae) reported 21 seconds ago

  @Tekeee that $180k wick on Bitstamp is almost certainly a stale-quote artifact or thin-orderbook glitch, exchange data feeds occasionally produce these phantom spikes

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  Banana Republic 🦧 (@Monkeyiobe) reported 3 minutes ago

  EUROPE JUST ANNOUNCED ITS CRYPTO REGISTER GREW TO 294 LICENSED FIRMS. TWO MONTHS AGO, EUROPE HAD 3,167 CRYPTO FIRMS. The MiCA licensing deadline on July 1 didn't grow the European crypto industry. It shrank it by more than 90%, and the count climbing back toward 300 is regulators counting the survivors. That's the Game: consolidation dressed as growth. Three US-listed names are the biggest winners of what got cleared out. Coinbase now holds one license covering all 27 EU states and roughly 450 million people. Robinhood inherited the same access through its ownership of Bitstamp, one of Europe's oldest exchanges. Circle is the only major stablecoin issuer licensed for both its dollar and euro tokens. Binance holds no valid MiCA license. Tether never applied, and licensed exchanges have delisted USDT, pulling an estimated $185 billion of the world's most traded stablecoin off the regulated European market entirely. We read "294 licensed firms" as a healthy, maturing industry. It is a market that just lost 2,873 competitors in eight weeks, and three American stocks were standing closest to the door when it happened. Check whether the crypto stock in our portfolio is one of the three names now holding a legally protected head start on 450 million customers, or one of the thousands that quietly stopped existing in Europe this month. 🍌

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  Jiří Čech 👑 (@Depotys) reported 5 minutes ago

  Hello @Bitstamp, @BitstampSupport I'm not receiving any withdrawal confirmation emails today, even though login notifications are arriving instantly. Is there currently a known issue with your email dispatch system or withdrawal processing? Thanks! #bitstamp

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 5 minutes ago

  @dharmjack01 RE just had its TGE today with listings across Binance, Coinbase, OKX, Robinhood, Bitstamp, KuCoin. CB Ventures took a strategic position. price hit 53 cents earlier. the setup: onchain reinsurance is a $1T market that hasn't been touched. they're offering reUSD at 7% native APR plus 10% in RE rewards. Season 2 incentives running through December distributing 3.5% of FDV. sentiment is bullish short term based on the exchange blitz and RWA narrative momentum. tokenized treasuries just hit $14B onchain, regulatory frameworks opening up for institutional capital in tokenization. bull case: first mover in onchain reinsurance, institutional backing is clear from the listing coordination, competitive yield attracts stablecoin liquidity, perfectly timed with RWA trend that's actually delivering numbers bear case: reinsurance regulation is complex and global, smart contract risk on real world claims, needs massive capital to scale, token could see volatility from early exits despite the listings can't give you price targets. the valuation question is tough this early with limited market data on FDV and circulating supply. structural read: the coordination of those listings on day one of TGE plus CB Ventures backing shows serious market maker support. but success depends on regulatory execution and actually managing real world insurance risk onchain. the yield mechanism needs to prove sustainable under claims pressure.

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  Lola (❖,❖) (@LolaSt1400) reported 6 minutes ago

  ROBINHOOD BRINGS ZERO-FEE CRYPTO TO 🇬🇧BRITAIN Robinhood launched zero-fee cryptocurrency trading inside its existing UK app. The move bundles digital assets with stocks, options and futures for British users. - Over 50 assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and Hyperliquid run through Bitstamp UK Ltd acquired in 2025 - Full FCA registration landed on July 31 2026 after meeting anti-money laundering rules - Robinhood Cortex Digests for Crypto uses generative AI to explain price moves in plain English - The service went live in August 2026 US traders got zero fees first. The UK now receives the same model plus AI explanations built in.

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  David Miller (@David_Miller166) reported 11 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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  Wietse Wind - 🪝🛠 Xaman® + XRPL + Xahau (@WietseWind) reported 11 minutes ago

  @SpadesHQ One of the reasons has been years of lacking good convenient user friendly onramp and offramp. People trade between stable / fiat representation and other tokens, for that to work people need to be able to get their stables on and off the network. Bitstamp and Gatehub existed (latter still does) but onramp and offramp was slow and hard, and thus liquidity low. These days we have RLUSD (somewhat better onramp and offramp but still relatively inconvenient) and USDC (useless from convenience perspective) and a lot more liquidity thanks to AMM.

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  ابو يوسف (@metat7es) reported 12 minutes ago

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

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  CCN - Crypto Citizens Network (@CCNCitizens) reported 12 minutes ago

  🚨 🇪🇺 The EU’s MiCA deadline is just 2 weeks away. • Only 210 of 1,200+ crypto firms with pre-MiCA registrations have secured full CASP licenses — a conversion rate of just 17%. • Kraken, Coinbase, Bitstamp, OKX, Crypto. com & Bitpanda are licensed. • $USDC & EURC are MiCA-compliant. ❌ $USDT remains outside EU-regulated markets. After July 1, unlicensed firms must either get approved, shut down, merge, or leave the EU market. 🚨

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  Equity Ledger (@equityledger) reported 15 minutes ago

  $HOOD Two segment anomalies justify a paragraph each. Crypto 47% YoY is consistent with industry data, not company-specific weakness. Coinbase's TTM EPS is −53% Robinhood's crypto print is mechanically the retail cycle. The interesting nuance is Bitstamp: $42B in institutional notional in Q1 vs. $24B in retail-app notional. Robinhood now has an institutional crypto venue embedded in the consolidated print, and it carries lower take rates than the retail app but accumulates volume that does not depend on the retail cycle. Over the next 4-6 quarters, as institutional volume normalizes higher (sticky once on-platform) and retail volume mean-reverts off cycle lows, the consolidated crypto line should de-cyclicalize. That is a slow, multi-quarter pattern, not a one-quarter print event. Event contracts +320% YoY at $147M is the most important new line item in the print. This is the lineal successor to crypto in the Robinhood revenue stack. The infrastructure (Rothera DCM) is launching mid-2026 with HOOD as 45% owner of a CFTC-licensed Designated Contract Market. That changes the economics from "we route to MIAXdx and pay a fee" to "we own the venue and capture the spread." If event contracts annualize at $600M+ in 2026 (current Q1 run-rate × 4 = $588M, with seasonal Q3-Q4 typically higher), they replace 50–60% of the crypto revenue lost since the cycle peak, and they do it on infrastructure HOOD owns. The market currently treats this line as a curiosity. In two prints it will be one of the top two narrative drivers.

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  Sparky (@SparkyAyaka) reported 23 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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  Vadim (@vadim_web3) reported 26 minutes ago

  Look at this: Known CEX balances currently hold ~4.89 BILLION $POL - ~46% of the circulating supply. Meanwhile, low-IQ onchain detectives monitor 5M, 10M, 15M POL transfers to exchanges, draw red circles around them and scream “SELLING 🚨”. Unfollow and block these idiots. They’re not doing analysis. They’re farming content and your attention. A CEX transfer alone is an extremely weak signal of selling. Why? Because almost 5 BILLION POL-equivalent is already behind the CEX wall. Onchain detectives can see POL entering a CEX. They cannot see what happens to it after that. And no, this does NOT mean 5B POL is sitting on order books waiting to be dumped. CEX balances represent an entire financial industry: customer & institutional custody staking market makers liquidity exchange inventory team/company balances internal settlement and plenty of activity we simply cannot see From the wallets I can currently identify: 4.894B POL-equivalent on CEXs 1.710B POL staked 3.184B POL-equivalent outside staking So ~35% of identified CEX balances are demonstrably staked already. POL can move to a CEX without being sold. POL can also be sold without any new onchain transfer to a CEX - because billions of POL are already there. That’s the blind spot of “onchain detective” analysis: once assets enter centralized infrastructure, onchain data stops telling you what is actually happening economically inside it. Top identified CEX balances: Binance - 1.257B POL Coinbase - 1.192B Upbit - 983.9M Kraken - 202.2M Crypto com - 115.7M Bithumb - 110.6M OKX - 99.6M Bybit - 95.0M Bitpanda - 94.6M Bitstamp - 93.4M 38 CEXs tracked. ~4.89B POL-equivalent identified. Keep that scale in mind next time someone draws a red circle around a 10M POL transfer and tells you what it supposedly means.

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  Dr. Nas 🇦🇪 (@Nas_UAE_Dubai) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp Worst support service. Don’t use this exchange

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  theKOLLAB 🤝 (@theKOLLAB_io) reported 29 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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  Alen B (@AlenBarb) reported 32 minutes ago

  @KyTosta @TheBTCTherapist Bitstamp is this true? Help a guy here? Sorry to hear that bro, so far i had flawless experience with them, i cant say that about binance and coinbase