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I moved all my bitcoins over to BitStamp (https://www.bitstamp.net/ https://www.bitstamp.net/) earlier today. MtGox has always felt a little unreliable at mult
by dgreensp 14y ago
I moved all my bitcoins over to BitStamp (https://www.bitstamp.net/ https://www.bitstamp.net/) earlier today. MtGox has always felt a little unreliable at multiple levels. They sound earnest in their post mortems, but it's hard to tell if they are sufficiently competent with web technology to be doing what they're doing.
- BrokenPipe 14y agoyou did very well. mtgox doesn't deserve to the first and probably not even the second largest exchange.
- lucaspiller 14y agoI moved to Bitcoin-24 (https://bitcoin-24.com/ https://bitcoin-24.com/ - mainly EUR), they seem pretty popular and have no fees for trading.
- tomp 14y agoBitstamp is no better. If anything, the (comparatively) low trade volume makes it very dangerous. Yesterday, I put in an instant (market) order at about 5pm. It was fulfilled in about 2 hours, for $50 dollars less than the price was when I put it in. I would expect for market orders to be either fulfilled or canceled immediately, not linger pending for 2 hours.
- SEMW 14y agoMarket orders are relisted every ~10mins at the market price until fulfilled. If you want to sell at no less than some $X, that's what limit orders are for. You used a market order when what you wanted was a limit order; that's not Bitstamp's fault (unless the fault is in making it clear what the difference is, but IIRC they do explain in the FAQ).
- knowaveragejoe 14y agoBitstamp was down for a large portion of the crash yesterday as well.