Wouldn't use it otherwise.
Which ties in with my own request from a few days ago...
The last one was almost a year ago (March 2014). Back then, the plan was to do them quarter yearly. That didn't happen unfortunately.
In my opinion, after the recent hot wallet hack, it would seem like an extremely good idea to announce, and then undergo another audit of your exchange, to reassure your customers, and the crypto market in general.
As a long-term customer of Bitstamp, I'd really appreciate an answer from someone in charge to this simple question:
Do you have an ETA for the next financial audit? (That were once promised to be held quarter yearly).
I would also like to know if they are still solvent (by performing an audit from a trusted third party and publishing the results), I don't have any funds in the exchange for now, but I wont send any funds if an audit is not performed ASAP...at this point I personally think that the risk of leaving funds or trading at Bitstamp has become equal or even higher than trading at BTC-e.
Edit: once before the hack happened, the CEO (Nejc kodrič) said that they have a reserve fund to cover the whole hot wallet funds in case they had a problem with it (hackd, lost, technical issues...), but I personally don't think that they had 19000 BTC sitting around just in case... I can imagine 500-3000 BTC but not 19000 BTC