Bitstamp was founded in Slovenia in 2011 by two university students and moved to Luxembourg in 2016, where it became the first exchange licensed as a payment institution in the EU. Bitstamp USA obtained a New York BitLicense in 2019 after a three-year wait, and the group holds a MiCA license in Europe, an FCA registration in the UK and a Singapore license. On June 2, 2025, Robinhood closed a $200 million acquisition, and the exchange now trades as Bitstamp by Robinhood. It lists a little over 100 assets and serves more than 100 countries.
It is deliberately conservative. The coin list is short and large-cap. Compliance is strict enough that document requests and locked accounts are the dominant theme of its reviews, which average around 1.7 out of 5 on Trustpilot. Its last major security incident was the January 2015 theft of about 19,000 BTC from a hot wallet, after which it rebuilt its infrastructure and has run clean since. It is custodial: your coins and dollars sit in Bitstamp's ledger until you withdraw them. It does, unusually, publish a 24/7 phone line.
Anytime Capital shares the phone line and little else. It is an American money services business serving customers worldwide, with a storefront on Piedmont Road in Atlanta, an office in Miami's One Biscayne Tower, and nine ways to pay, including cash and same-day wire. Coins are delivered to a non-custodial wallet you control, and it is not an order book. The crypto is the same. The shape of the company is not.