Not sure why bitstamp question comes up with such vehemence.
Maybe @JJG is using their APIs?
Once Bitstamp would be consumed by Robinhood, there would not be such entity, called Bitstamp, like there is no AOL anymore.
At that point it could become awkward...js.
For myself...the world is wide open...use whatever, as long as it is accurate.
You believe that we should just "use whatever" within this thread?
How are we going to know the BTC price reference if the members are not saying their BTC price reference within the context of their post and they are just spouting out random BTC price references?
Sure we could have some proposals regarding what to use as our thread BTC price reference (or have more than one BTC price reference (like we had the three for a period in the past).. although there is something nice about having one..
And, in spite of a bit of whining from some members about the purchase of Bitstamp by Robinhood, I still don't see any actual way that Bitstamp is yet broken merely because they were bought. The criticisms of Bitstamp regarding who bought them surely are not invalid concerns, especially since we know how various entities can be manipulative (which Robinhood has already shown some of its colors in the direction of fucking around with clients and showing favoritism. at least that is what it seems they did).
I recall a few years ago that some of us were concerned because Bitstamp had been sold from European ownership to some Korean ownership.. but then apparently the Korean owner died recently which might have been part of the motivation that Bitstamp had ended up recently getting acquired by Robinhood..
And, in any event, there likely is some desire from active members in this thread to have some kind of a representative exchange and/or price reference location that we use in these here parts... .. and again Bitstamp is not yet broken as a BTC price reference (no evidence of that, yet).... so I am having some difficulties understanding why we would just change it without some level of consensus or signs of some kind of a need for such change (such as Bitstamp being broken)... Change for the mere sake of change, without any actual evidence of an actual problem, just out of preemptive fears? that seems a bit much doesn't it?
Edited: a bit, for clarity and flow
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