i know because my withdrawn coins did not appear in the blockchain 8 hours ago - so i opened a ticket with support and began asking friends to withdraw a small amount of coins as a test - 8 of them did - they are in 4 different countries - none of their withdrawals showed up in the blockchain either - and bitstamp support stopped responding...

if you don't believe me, try withdrawing even .2 btc and see what happens.

9 people have their withdrawals fail to appear in the blockchain and support does not say anything over an 8 hour period...?