bitstamp closed for?

[Inotanewbie]

You can hope they will return them, but very likely you won't receive back all of it. If you can get back 88% then consider yourself lucky.

Is anyone setting up a secondary market in Stampcoins, like the one that was set up for Goxcoins?  This means someone buying up Bitstamp accounts at a discount. The account holder gets, say, 75% now, and the buyer takes the risk of collecting.

I am not sure this would be a good idea. I am on the fence as to if the goxcoins exchange was a scam or not. The fact that the operator of btc/goxbtc exchange shut down and prevented people from trading after gox shut it's doors made me somewhat suspicious

[Nrcewker]

Simply they got Goxed

Some thieves goxed them about 18.000btc's, that's why they re off.

Smells like second kerpeles incident.

18,000BTC is just a little part, their ceo said "the bulk of our bitcoin are in cold storage, and remain completely safe"
how many BTC on bitstamp actually?

[Nrcewker]

certainly you are not, bitstamp closed for the loss of 18,000BTC, we should look for another exchange to do trading,  such as btc-e lakebtc kraken

5million dollars is unable to defeat bitstamp, we just need to find a place to rest, lakebtc is good