Introducing The Exchanges: BitStamp
Disclaimer: BitStamp has previously run ads in an edition of the Bitcoin Magazine print edition. This article was written independently of this fact, and the author was not aware of the fact at the time of the article's writing. Bitcoin exchanges are one of the most important parts of the Bitcoin ecosystem. For those of us who are not lucky enough to....
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Anyone in the Bitcoin community who has looked at charts for longer than a few minutes has noticed that traditionally, Mt. Gox's price tends to be higher than the other exchanges. In fact, in the past months, it hasn't been uncommon to see a different of $100 USD between the two Bitcoin exchanges (with BitStamp being the lower of the two). Today, the prices per Bitcoin on the exchange are just about equal, with the price on Mt. Gox being about $767, and $767 on BitStamp. In fact, the price per Bitcoin at BitStamp has surpassed the price at Mt. Gox today. The amount was rather insignificant....
See also: our "Introducing The Exchanges" article on BitStamp. In the year since the site first launched, Coinbase has come to be one of the most important and influential companies in the US Bitcoin economy. The company was originally founded by Brian Armstrong in the summer of 2012, and started out with a simple mission: make Bitcoin as easy to use as possible for the masses. At first, the company offered little more than basic merchant tools and a Bitcoin wallet. Even still, however, Brian Armstrong's past as a fraud-prevention engineer at Airbnb earned the company credibility, and in....
CoinTelegraph’s test series for exchanges continues with a report on using Bitstamp as an entry level user to see how its user experience matches its reputation. The test is part of a practical report following publication of our exchanges reviews series earlier this year. As Bitcoin becomes more and more appealing to mainstream consumers, it is likely that more will need to use an exchange in order to perform various transactions. As such, we wanted to see if the five leading exchanges from our review really are equipped to deliver a user experience which is easy and enjoyable to navigate....
Bitstamp, one of the largest exchanges for the digital Bitcoin currency, said it would resume trading later on Friday after suspending operations because of a security breach on Sunday, Reuters reports. Damijan Merlak, one of Bitstamp's two Slovenian founders, told Reuters in an emailed message on Friday: "Trading will resume during the day today." On Wednesday, Bitstamp had said it expected that trading could resume within 24 hours and added that customers would not lose money because of the breach and that security would be increased. The next day Bitstamp stated that they were testing a....
Bitcoin exchange BTC-e has confirmed it is processing bitcoin withdrawals. Bitstamp has revealed it plans to start processing its customers' bitcoin withdrawals again later today. The exchange halted bitcoin withdrawals earlier this week after it was discovered a bot had launched a massive DDoS attack on a number of bitcoin exchanges. A tweet from the BitStamp this morning read: Bitstamp & Bitcoin core developers have implemented a solution that passes our preliminary tests and audits. News: http://t.co/azGqiX4hqL. - Bitstamp (@Bitstamp) February 14, 2014. Bitstamp issued the following....