Sites which allow for the conversion of Bitcoins to various world currencies as well as alternate crypto-currencies.
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Traditional VC investment vs. bitcoin IPO
There are few bitcoin "stock exchanges" trading mainly BTC mining company pass-through shares, like
https://btct.co/
https://bitfunder.com/
We are planning to get investment for our ...
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Exchange bitcoin <-> webmoney using webmoney serivce
I know a guy has bitcoin and I have webmoney (wmz), so we want to exchange but we don't trust each other so I have 2 questions :
Does Webmoney allow ecurrency - ecurrency exchanging ?
Can we use ...
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What is the best way to purchase Bitcoins quickly?
What is the best way to purchase Bitcoins quickly? I don't want to wait a month.
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What happens if Bitcoins are sent to a wrong, randomly generated address?
I am new to Bitcoin and I confused creating a New Address for receiving and sending payments.
Here's what I did:
Generated a random Bitcoin Address (using www.bitaddress.org)
Created a New Address ...
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understanding how exchanges “store” bitcoins
I understand that securing your bit coins is basically about protecting the private keys for your addresses. This makes sense from my past dealings with public/private key encryption. How do exchanges ...
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Does an exchange of only virtual currencies fall under FinCEN regulations?
If a business only exchanges between say bitcoin, litecoin and namecoin. No fiat currencies. Does it still fall under finCEN's regulations?
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What is the definition of a P2P exchange?
Bitcointalk member BTCLuke suggested the following six criterion for a P2P Exchange:
A P2P Distributed Exchange MUST:
Be without any central points of failure, since a government or two WILL be ...
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How do I exchange a cryptocurrency with another?
I have a bunch of litecoins and want to exchange them for bitcoins. What's the easiest way of doing it, without having to sell LTCs first and then buy BTCs?
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How are parts of Bitcoins traded? [duplicate]
I understand how whole Bitcoins are traded (each coin has its own identifier, this identifier is associated with a wallet), though I do not understand how it is possible to trade parts of a Bitcoin ...
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Understanding trading history
On BTC-E, you can see the recent trade history for the different currency pairs. For example right now you see these recent trades:
14.05.13 01:27 Sell 112.75 USD 4.77859 BTC 538.7860225 USD
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Is there a reason why MtGox is based in Japan?
I was wondering why MtGox is a Japanese company. The founder was American, and the current owner is French, so is there a special reason why Japan was attractive for them?
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Where can I buy Litecoin?
I know Litecoin is sold on btc-e, but I'm wondering if anyone has compiled a list or knows of other exchanges selling the currency?
Update: Here is the list of exchanges currently selling Litcoin
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What happens if an exchange's order book has only Market Orders [closed]
If a bitcoin exchange offers Market Orders, let's suppose there are X buy orders at market price, and Y sell orders at market price (no limit orders):
How are these matched and at what price, since ...
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Is it possible to exchange bitcoins into PayPal credit?
I'm aware that PayPal's terms of conditions do not allow for purchase of virtual currencies such as bitcoins, however, is it possible to sell bitcoins and receive PayPal credit in return? MtGox allows ...
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Selling BTC from BitMinter
I have started mining with BitMinter.com and am nearing a complete bitcoin. I have searched for hours for my account/wallet address so I can move bitcoins from BitMinter to an exchange. I can't seem ...
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How can I send a bank wire from X to buy bitcoins?
I want to have some bitcoin too, but I am currently living in Morocco, so where can I change my Dollars and Euros to bitcoins and still can use them worldwide? is there a market for that
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Who gets BitCoin transaction fees
Whenever I send BitCoins from one wallet or one exchange to the next there is always a fee... it makes sense with the exchange sites, they are just collecting the fee so they can make a living... what ...
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Storing my bitcoins on an offline computer
I have a mac that I never use, would storing my bitcoins on a wallet on that laptop and then only connecting it to the internet when I am ready to transfer money be safe? Is there any reason not to do ...
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VirCurEx - Balance vs Available Balance
So I have a VirCurEx account and I moved 1.5 BitCoins over to it... After the transaction was complete (like a day ago) I was checking and the website said "Balance - 1.5" which is correct but then ...
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Will I pay BID price or lowest necessary amount?
I was wondering about how ASKs and BIDs are matched:
Say I set up two separate trading accounts on mtgox.
On my first account, I offer to sell 1 BTC for 1000 USD
...Nobody will buy it (at current ...
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Is there a market for converting my foreign currency and coin into bitcoins?
I'm a coin dealer and I have large ammounts of foreign coins (Euro, British Pounds, swiss francs, Japen Yen ect.. I was wondering if I could deposit those coins into my bitcoin account/wallet?
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What happened to bitcoin-24? [closed]
As per subject. It has been down for some days, apparently due to bank problems of the owner(s):
Our Service is momentarily not available.
1. All funds (EUR, USD, PLN, GBP & Bitcoins) are ...
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How can I use Bitcoin to send a remittance payment to someone non-technical?
The existing remittance methods such as Western Union are pretty straight forward for the recipient ... after being notified, show up at any agent location, show ID and/or give a secret code and ...
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following coins between blockchains
Question: is it possible to further obfuscate ownership/origin of bitcoins by trading it for another cryptocurrency at an exchange? (as it is easier to do this for large amounts than it is with cash)
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Is Ripple's distributed exchange scalable?
This question asks about the scalability of Ripple in general, and has an ok answer.
However, it doesn't mention the distributed exchange built in Ripple. How is its current/future architecture ...
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Which exchanges still support USD account-to-account (A2A) transfers?
Now that Mt. Gox no longer offers MTG USD redeemable codes, what other exchanges offer these vouchers / redeemable codes / coupons?
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What is currently the fastest way to buy a large amount Bitcoin?
I want to purchase on the order of $10k of Bitcoin in USD. I can't seem to a find a way of accomplishing this in less time than multiple weeks.
I've been looking at the major exchanges, and it seems ...
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Why do the price of bitcoins vary wildly?
â–¼ mtgoxUSD 95.0000 108.452 -12.404% 2428892
â–¼ btc24EUR 67.5047 89.036 -24.183% 348160
â–¼ btceUSD 82.9900 106.794 -22.289% 277286
â–¼ bitstampUSD 75.9900 109.320 ...
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How does operations goes from exchange to miners?
How operations from exchange and other ways of transferring bitcoins goes into 'system' (mining people)?
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How can we trust big exchanges? [closed]
After reading the question
What are ways a BTC Exchange could steal from its customers, and how can they protect themselves?, it would seem that you can't really trust the big exchanges (or anyone) ...
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What exchanges offer trail orders?
Trail orders are extremely useful, much more so than simple stop loss orders. Are there any exchanges that offer trail orders?
Using a trail order, the stop price would track the market price as long ...
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Could there be a “run” on Mt Gox? Does Mt Gox use my balance for other purposes behind the scenes?
It's conceivable that Mt Gox would re-use the outstanding balances (USD or otherwise) in other investments (BTC or otherwise).
How much liquidity does Mt Gox have in BTC and Fiat dollars in case a ...
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What are ways a BTC Exchange could steal from its customers, and how can they protect themselves?
Mt Gox is the dominant Exchange that handles BTC to USD conversions. Given the recent spike in price, and that Mt Gox is the primary exchange that publishes this price, it's conceivable that a second ...
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Do US based exchanges need to file as an MSB with FinCen?
What other legal requirements are there and what are the costs of compliance?
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How did short positions work on Bitcoinica?
I'm trying to find information on CFDs and exactly how Zhou Tong utilized them to short, but am coming up dry.
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Bitcoin HEISTS: Has USD, EUR, etc ever been stolen from an exchange?
Many bitcoin exchanges allow users to store two balances: one in bitcoin and one in a fiat currency like USD. This is convenient because it allows one to trade in and out of the bitcoin market ...
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Bitfloor's “average price” for buys
When you buy bitcoins with USD or other currency on Bitfloor, it quotes you an "average price" per bitcoin and says the "actual price may vary" once the order is completed.
The "average price" stated ...
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What database technology do Bitcoin exchanges use? [closed]
I wonder if they use a relational database like MySQL or do they opt for a NoSQL like CouchDB or MongoDB.
The Bitcoinica source code reveals that they used a MySQL database.
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What are the risks of keeping USD in an exchange account?
Bitfloor, mtgox and others allow me to keep a balance of both btc and usd that is not being traded. So the usd is apparently in the hands of the exchange company rather than at my bank. This is an ...
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Why should I keep my coins in an exchange? [duplicate]
If I have 1BTC in a wallet anywhere, which I bought at mtGOX for 20USD, and now that 1BTC is worth 130USD on mtGOX, I can simply send my 1BTC from the wallet to mtGOX and withdraw to a bank as USD and ...
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Is there a way to estimate the price based on the blockchain?
Suppose I need a rough estimate of the current value of BTC in USD, is there anything in the blockchain that could be used for that? For example, is there some kind of correlation between block ...
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Best (current) method to buy BTC in the UK?
I'm in the UK and am desperately trying to get onto this Bitcoin bandwagon before the whole thing collapses, but it seems like there are no decent ways to buy from the UK. There is an international ...
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Is anyone taking advantage of different prices across exchanges?
Say I have funds on two exchanges. Whenever the price of bitcoin is higher on the first one, I sell on that one and buy on the other one.
Is anyone doing this or has a program that does this? Is it ...
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Are the Mt.Gox markets for different currencies completely separated?
MtGox supports multiple currencies. Usually referred to as f.e. mtgoxUSD, mtgoxEUR, ...
Now, MtGox has different market depth listings for it's different markets and keeps a separate price for them.
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Has anyone here used bitcoins to swap dollars for pesos in Argentina?
I've seen some chatter online about using bitcoins as a workaround for Argentinian currency controls (see below) and I'd like to speak to people who have actually done that, whether it means ...
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Exchange rate of limit orders with a positive interval
Consider some exchange, e.g. Mt. Gox, with just two users, Alice and Bob. If Alice places a sale order limited above 90$, and Bob places a buy order limited below 110$, at what rate will the exchange ...
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How are per-day statistics computed on MtGox in the middle of the day? [duplicate]
MtGox trades 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Yet charts show daily charts and volume stats, especially intraday, when does the trading session begin and end on Mt. Gox, for reporting purposes? Also, ...
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How can I buy Bitcoins in the UK now that Blockchain.info has suspended its deposits?
After blockchain.info suspended Pingit, I have no real alternative to buying BitCoins - My GPU is not good enough to mine Bitcoins, but I'd like to have a few or may millibits in my wallet for ...
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Whats the easiest way to go from BTC to GBP? Paypal solution?
Is there anyway of being able to transfer bitcoins to pound sterling to a paypal account at all? I struggle to find any solutions in this area so that I can make regular conversions. Even just to a UK ...
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So exactly what is the value of a Bitcoin in relation to the American dollar?
Ok, if I want to buy something that is $8 in American dollars and use a Bitcoin that is worth an odd value in American dollars...like $17 for instance. Then what happens? I end up with a deciminal ...
