Bitstamp vs MEXC.

We don't hand out safety verdicts — we keep a sourced record. The current Reliability Score for Bitstamp and MEXC is stated above, each dated to the day it was last written. The score compresses documented withdrawal reliability, proof-of-reserves practice, regulatory standing, security history, support quality and maturity into one number, with every negative data point dated and sourced, and older incidents decaying over 24 months.

The component-level basis — which incidents, which licences, which proof-of-reserves cadence — is one click away on each exchange's page. Read the dated record for Bitstamp and MEXC there before weighing the one-number summary; the score is a compression, not a substitute for the sources behind it.

Full sourced basis, incident by incident: Bitstamp · MEXC.

Bitstamp publishes 0.30% maker / 0.40% taker on its base tier; MEXC publishes 0.00% maker / 0.05% taker on its base tier. On the brochure, MEXC looks cheaper — but the published fee is only one part of the real cost. The other part is the spread your order actually crosses in the live orderbook, a number that exists on no fee page. The cards above measure it for the same $1,000 Bitcoin buy on both exchanges, timestamped; the ranking can flip between measurements as books move.

Where an exchange publishes a fixed BTC withdrawal fee, the live cards include it; where no fixed number is officially verifiable, the total honestly excludes withdrawal and says so — some exchanges instead pass the live network fee through and disclose it at withdrawal time, which is a data point, not a gap. For your own size and asset, the live comparison recomputes everything in real time.