oh! bitstamp was down ? and is Up again
Never knew :-/
Though it's good to see a exchange which came up good

They lost a few coins. Nothing to make them go under, though.
They lost coins ? or the users?
First they lost the coins and because they lost coins, they lost some users too. They are tying to get earn back people's trust by providing them with 0% fee trades and they said that no one will loose his money.
Okay! Quite good incentive they took there , so to keep their customer's . At a time where
BTC is much volatile , we can't afford to see one more Mt. Gox