Yes, I am just finding my feet in the cryptoworld. Thanks for your understanding.

I was looking at coinbase but just came across this: http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-06-13-bitcoin-wallet-coinbase-now-seizing-accounts-of-americans-total-ripoff-accounts-vanish.html

Are there any reliable exchanges?

I am considering Coinfloor.


Update on my Kraken situation....
Tried again as advised and it worked. Now says sending.
So I guess I wait 5 days before I start getting pissed off again right?  

Waiting since 9 days for SEPA withdrawal (on hold), ticket answered but without success. Anybody has a good idea what to do else? 

What a sh!tty response... Not surprised Kraken have much larger customer base and doing much better than Bitstamp!

too bad that your are "legendary" and you don't know much about the financial business. it's ok but try to refrain yourself...it's embarrassing

you and many others seams to be brainwashed , shills, ignorant or kids. I don't know which one...  i cannot find other explanation when you see the facts but you keep going with non-senses

is a kraken a little laggy today?

People only care to comment when they have something to complain about, so in contrast let me share my experience, which is so far positive.

Lvl 1 verification: 4 days
Lvl 2 verification: 5 days
Lvl 3 verification: pending after 10 days (the only thing I'm not satisfied with)

Ethereum deposit: immediately when you get 30 verifications (cca. 15 mins with mist wallet default fee)
Adding a bank account: instant
1st SEPA bank wire withdrawal: 2 days
2nd SEPA bank wire withdrawal: 1 day

The trading interface is intuitive, I've never set anything by accident. I could withdraw a trade order that was partially complete, and the remaining funds were available for trading again in a matter of seconds. Sometimes the screens take 10 seconds to load but I can live with that. I advise people on using 2 factor authentication, that way you're less likely to get hacked.

All in all I had no issues with Kraken and it's my primary platform for trading.

I assume you followed the instructions telling you to include the deposit reference number with the deposit? If so, then I would talk to you bank and explain that the reference number didn't come through. They may not have any suggestions for how to prevent this, but they may be able to recommend a different field to put the reference number in or something like that. Unfortunately even if everything is done correctly with your bank there can still be problems with the reference number not coming through on our end (sometimes the correspondent bank that the payment gets routed through will drop this information for example).

whats the matter with kraken atm?
Cant buy or sell due to website freezing when placing orders

I've been having a hell of a time trading. As said, I've seen orders in the book that I try to sell or buy from and they don't go through. I even just had a limit buy order in that showed up on the book, then a minute later a big sell came and pushed right down through my limit buy order. Then I see my limit order is gone and was never even filled. It's like they have those fucking bots jumping in front of you at all times, then when it's not going to work out for them they cancel your shit.

Some problems with funding, deposit & withdraw.
"Feature Disabled
This feature is not currently available."
What's happening?