Crypto’s marketing challenge – Bitstamp is making moves in the U.S.
Ben Pousty is the US Marketing Lead for Bitstamp, a crypto exchange with offices in Luxemburg, London and New York. We talk to Ben about Bitstamp’s new "For All The Ways We Crypto" campaign, the challenges of crypto marketing, Bitcoin’s unit bias issue and more.
Fireblocks to increase security at Bitstamp
The team behind Fireblocks has just partnered with Bitstamp to allow the exchange’s institutional clients to perform transactions with a simpler confirmation and greater security.
The Bitstamp ‘flash crash’ – why robust indices matter
Around 11PM EST on May 16th, a sell order for around 5,000 BTC appeared on the Bitstamp order book. Over the course of the next 15 minutes, the BTC price on Bitstamp continuously fell - skewing the entire market and triggering hundreds of millions in long liquidations. So how did this happen, and what can be done to limit the impact of similar market aberrations in the future?
BitStamp Hack Result of Phishing Attack says Leaked Internal Report
In January, the hot wallet of the popular European exchange BitStamp was hacked and over 5,000 BTC, about $5 million, was stolen. The story quickly made the media rounds, tainting the exchange’s, and Bitcoin’s, start to the new year.
