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  ricky (@toothpick5894) reported 6 minutes ago

  okay this one is insane with databear being at 3mil! Bitstamp the official cat for bitstamp which is RH crypto exchange only at 6k holy ****. 0x6d958e201ee6f54b7c64c7df1d5a2ea84d716c4d

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  FastX Exchange (@fastx_co) reported 6 minutes ago

  1. Robinhood is bringing crypto trading into its main UK app through Bitstamp, alongside an AI-powered crypto news widget. The saved lead has one independent confirmation. 2. The market leaned defensive: BTC -1.9%, ETH -2.6%, with 5 assets up and 10 down. LINK +2.4% and HYPE +1.5% led the eligible movers; ADA -4.6%, ZEC -3.8% and XRP -2.9% lagged.

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  Christian Vanégas (@Chriz_van) reported 11 minutes ago

  Hello, we understand your concern about withdrawal access. Blocked withdrawals on Bitstamp typically stem from account verification pending, security holds, or maintenance on our end. Please DM me with your account details so I can investigate the block and restore your withdrawal access.

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  Onur 🍌🦍 (@0xc06) reported 12 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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  XForceGlobal (@XForceGlobal) reported 16 minutes ago

  @AKMCrypto85 you do know this was an error on the exchange, lmao - it skipped the entire orderbook. And it's bitstamp.

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  The Fonz (@cryptofonzie) reported 17 minutes ago

  @bitstamp UK withdrawals not working again as usual Customer Support will not give a straight answer

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  The Fonz (@cryptofonzie) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Bitstamp Hi what are you going to do that’s any different to the phonecalls i’ve made and unanswered complaint email? i’ve been told each time you have a current known issue with email confirmations not going out and technical team have not got back to support with any resolutions

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  NoDi.eth Powered by Claude🖤 (@1flynard) reported 29 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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  DD❤️DOGE/🕊️/ 买美股上WEEX (@DD____) reported 31 minutes ago

  @CrisTMcrew Bitstamp down 45% hurts.

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  0xPeter (@not0xpeter) reported 34 minutes ago

  its almost as if all the corpo mercenaries and tourists who ****** up crypto have moved on and are now ******* up ai anyone ever wonder why all ai products suck now? ai companies hire religiously from US cexs the same people responsible for leaking millions of users info at coinbase the same people responsible for creating dogshit casinos like kraken, gemini, and bitstamp these people dont give a **** about you, the products their building, or the world all they want to do it collect their paycheck and vest their RSUs

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  GL Charts (@glcharts1618) reported 37 minutes ago

  bitcoin:native BTC/USD aVWAPs update - Bitstamp. See previous post. At that moment, we could not have a bottom confirmation yet. Price was at the point where it was seeing the first reaction from the 2026 VWAP. In the meantime, price made another low below 60K, followed by an aggressive move up. It looks similar to what happened in 2022. It is just an interesting similarity, which still does not guarantee the bottom as long as price does not reclaim 83K as support.

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  The Fonz (@cryptofonzie) reported 38 minutes ago

  Again @bitstamp UK withdrawals not working as usual Customer Support will not give a straight answer

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  Harb (@Harb07950864) reported 41 minutes ago

  Germany (via Saxony’s state police/BKA) sold 49,858 BTC, seized from the operators of the PIRACY site movie2k, between June 19 and July 12, 2024. Average sale price was ~$57,900/BTC, netting roughly $2.89 billion. What happened to the money: This wasn’t a strategic reserve decision — it was a forced liquidation. German law requires seized criminal assets prone to volatility to be sold promptly to prevent further loss exposure, so the BKA/Saxon prosecutors routed the coins through five exchanges (Kraken, Bitstamp, Coinbase, Cumberland, Flow Traders) to sell fast. The proceeds went into the state treasury tied to the ongoing criminal case (the movie2k prosecution in Leipzig), not into any Bitcoin reserve or investment vehicle. Germany’s government wallet now holds Zero BTC (not interested) #Bitcoin

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  Rahul K (@iamrahulinc) reported 41 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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  Dr. Nas 🇦🇪 (@Nas_UAE_Dubai) reported 42 minutes ago

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