bitstamp-btcusd-minute-data

Provenance research notes

Research date: 2026-08-29. Detector regime-v1. Sufficient-liquidity period starts 2013-03-01, making this the start of the review window.

Publication floor: 60 minutes, after corroboration or explicit review. Duration selects candidates; it does not necessarily publish a public row.

OHLCV cannot distinguish no trades, omitted minutes, fills, or downtime. Official announced windows often sit a few hours before the observed zero-run on the same UTC date.

DST on the corrected UTC grid was checked across US and EU transitions. It creates no missing UTC minutes and no hour-long zero-volume run from a timestamp discontinuity.

Corroborated (URL reference on the sidecar)

Observed UTC Evidence
2014-02-02 09:01–11:12 Official scheduled unavailability 09:00–12:00 GMT+1
2014-07-11 04:16–06:14 Official scheduled unavailability 06:00–08:00 CET
2015-01-05 09:13 – 2015-01-09 21:05 Hot-wallet hack; CoinDesk + Ars Technica
2019-07-25 09:17–10:29 Official scheduled platform unavailability from 09:00 UTC
2020-04-25 19:58 – 2020-04-26 00:45 Official downtime report: matching engine 20:00–00:30 UTC
2020-08-26 10:04–11:52 Official scheduled unavailability from 10:00 UTC
2021-04-14 08:02–09:39 Official Bitstamp post, 08:00–10:00 UTC maintenance
2021-10-20 08:02–09:04 Official scheduled system-wide maintenance 08:00–09:00 UTC
2022-01-05 08:02–10:27 Official scheduled unavailability from 08:00 UTC
2022-05-11 08:04–09:14 Official scheduled unavailability from 10:00 CET
2022-07-27 08:02–09:09 Official scheduled unavailability from 08:00 UTC
2023-03-23 10:04–11:54 Official scheduled unavailability from 10:00 UTC

Reviewed, no qualifying evidence (reviewed_unconfirmed)

Unexplained silence / possible data-quality, not proved outages.

Excluded remainders (not published)

Liquid-period runs that overlap a Statuspage window. The remainder stays in the ledger as excluded.

Official notices without a 60-minute zero-run

These are not written as scheduled_maintenance (Statuspage remains that flag’s source) and did not produce a published 60-minute unexplained zero-run.