Bitstamp Shows Higher Bitcoin Price Than Mt. Gox

Bitstamp Shows Higher Bitcoin Price Than Mt. Gox

The price of bitcoin on Bitstamp has increased to above the level listed on Mt. Gox. Japan-based exchange Mt. Gox is notorious for showing a much higher USD bitcoin price than its competitors, but this has changed over the past 12 hours. At around 05:30 GMT today, Bitstamp recorded a price of $717.98, compared with $714 on Mt. Gox. Mt. Gox then overtook for the next nine hours, but the Bitstamp price has been almost consistently higher since around 14:15 GMT. Bitstamp CEO Nejc Kodrič described this occurrence as "weird" and suggested it could be to do with the problems his company's site....


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