Nobody is banning anything in Germany.

With bitcoin.de there's at least one completely regulated exchange in Germany where users can even connect their account to an official German bank, albeit a small one. Additionally, people have already pointed out that Bitstamp is licensed in 28 EU member states through Luxembourg, thereby making it entirely regulated in Germany as well.

This is just a Coinbase move who apparently didn't have a license to operate in Germany in the first place.

Thank you for this. Enlightening stuff! 

obv 4 the lulz

haha, nice one. that's the spirit!

Yea, just realised they ain't working in another thread. What's up with that?

Excellent attitude! Round of applause just for you.

History in the making! Hello mom!

If I were you, I would definitely wait with a decision.

As pointed out Mt. Gox is quite a fail when it comes to withdrawals, which is basically unacceptable. Not sure if those withdrawal issues only affect fiat or also Bitcoin withdrawals. I think if your plan is to buy and hold and there are no issues when it comes to coin withdrawals at Gox, then you can go for it. If you plan to get fiat out again in the near future, you obviously should look somewhere else.

However, Bitstamp is currently also going down the drain. Massive lags for 24 hours, deposits are not being credited to accounts since last week although they've reached their bank and since these issues emerged there was just one vague statement from them on Monday, complete silence from that point onwards though shit got worse and worse.

So yea, I think both exchanges are having severe issues and wouldn't really recommend either of them, that's the sad truth.

Edit: The minute I wrote this, Stampman decided to give a life sign, stating the deposit issue has been resolved (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38711.msg3652288#msg3652288). Can't confirm yet because I'm still waiting for my tranfers from last week. I'll update if that changes.

Exactly one week now.

Still SEPA transfer in limbo, so much for "We expect this issue to be solved and be resolved tomorrow or the next day".

Oh, and thanks a lot for the transparency and open communication!!! FUCKING A!!!!

Yesterday evening, small amount, took 4 hours to reach my wallet but it's there.

Apart from that, commission rate also suddenly back to 0.5% and 30 day USD volume = 0 for me.

And of course, SEPA transfer from last Wednesday still not in my account.

Overall, pretty epic. NOT!

Of course, there's no real protection against a large DDoS. If this is causing today's downtimes, no hard feelings because of that (though communication is still pathetic).

However, I don't think DDoS had and still has anything to do with the delay regarding wire transfers since the middle of last week.

The site was running smoothly back then, still more and more reports came in complaining about SEPA transfers not being processed into Stamp accounts. That in combination with today's event just doesn't leave a good impression, i.e. me as a customer is definitely losing trust in their operations. I don't think I really have to explain how important customers' trust is when it comes to attracting mainstream interest and catalysing Bitcoin growth.

I'm quite new to Bitcoin, invested the first time at the beginning of this month. Currently, another batch of my money with which I wanted to buy more coins is somewhere in limbo and not where it's supposed to be, i.e. in my Stamp account.

I've already planned to further increase my investment in Bitcoins beyond that limbo money (basically quadruapling it). However, now I'm of course extremely unsure whether I should still use Stamp in order to get coins for that kind of fiat on the one hand. On the other hand, I'm also pretty unsure about the general development of Bitcoin when exchanges just can't get their act together, meaning I'm starting to ask myself whether I should really invest that much money if this is the current state we're in.

I'm just serving as an example. I think lots of people start developing such doubts when stuff like that goes down, and obviously this will have quite a negative impact on the overall development. That's also part of why I'm pissed and referring to the exchange operators as amateurs - not just because I'm concerned about that limbo money and because I've missed out on a lower price per coin (which I would have gotten if transfers would have been processed normally), but also because all these exchange issues severely hurt the overall development imo.

And certainly keeping your mouth shut if your whole exchange goes south for several hours doesn't really help scattering some of these doubts and getting some trust back.

On a sidenote: At least my coin withdrawal was processed roughly an hour ago, still 4 hours after my request.

I do. Requested a coin withdrawal roughly 3 hours ago. Not arrived yet.

Furthermore, also a wire transfer somewhere in Limbo. According to my bank already reached Bitstamp's bank last Wednesday.

Failstamp at its best.

Just pathetic. What's even more pathetic than the lag in transfers and today's total clusterfuck is the fact that the co-founder is a moderator on these boards but not even able to give at least some sort of brief life sign explaining what the heck is going on (despite being active and constantly logging in here today, last one 8 p.m.).

I can't facepalm my face enough for such an unprofessional conduct of business.

God, I'm longing for the day some real players step up with a reliable, professional exchange and stomp these amateur exchanges to the ground. You'd think with a market cap of 8 billion the time for serious business has come. But nah, let's just run our exchanges like drunken apes. So frustrating.

Still waiting over here. Come on, guys ...

Because these amateurs aren't able to process SEPAs properly. I wanted to triple my stash of coins before the weekend, now we're already at the point where I would only be able to double it with the same amount of fiat. God knows what little fraction I will get in comparison once they finally get their s*** together and find the kindness to process my transfer that's due since almost a week. So fkn annoying I can't even enjoy this ride although I'm already holding a decent amount of coins! Thanks a lot, Stampards!

At least this whole f*** up by those apes made me even more enthusiastic about Bitcoin's future since a transfer of those is usually just a matter of MINUTES - not god damn WEEKS! -___-

Guys, stahp! I'm still waiting for my wire to go through to Stamp. That's so freaking annoying. -.- WHY NOW?!?!?!?

Guys, what's the matter with the delay of SEPA transfers lately? I've wired more money in the middle of last week and yet it still hasn't been credited to my Bitstamp account.

Obviously, I'm not the only one. Complaints about dragging transfers can be found all over this forum and other sites and the current order book just looks ridiculous with bids for 800 coins.

What is the problem? Why does it suddenly take way longer to credit these transfers?

I'm missing out on a lot of serious profit here and will definitely think twice about where to send my next batch of money, especially since there's no official communication whatsoever although this is obviously quite a big issue currently.

Yup, would BJ a hobo to get them that cheap.

The signs are everywhere, this is happening people!